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Fast Forward Sarah Silverman doesn’t have a problem with BDS – under these conditions
In a Jan. 9 post to Instagram, comedian Sarah Silverman made clear her position on the BDS movement: She is “down with it,” so long as it is protesting Israel’s government and its support of the occupation, and not Israelis themselves. “It’s not antisemitism to criticize a government,” Silverman said. “I’m fine with BDS as…
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Community Uri Bar Lev thwarted Leila Khaled’s hijacking; I was a passenger on that plane
Recently, an article in The Forward that caught my attention. It was an article about Uri Bar Lev, a pilot who thwarted an attempted hijacking by Leila Khaled and Patrick Aguerllo. I was a 9-year-old passenger on that plane. The rest of my family members and I have told our story of the attempted hijacking…
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News ‘I live in the moment’: Meet the pilot who thwarted Leila Khaled’s hijacking in 1970 — and her recent university speech
The only pilot to have ever foiled the hi-jacking of a plane mid-air is today 89-years-old with a voracious appetite for books and his weekly regimen of Pilates and Chi-Gong, alongside daily walks through the citrus orchards of the Israeli village where he has lived since he was a baby. Uri Bar-Lev has not flown…
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Community Every map is political — but sometimes the agenda is overt
As someone who regularly wears a kippah you might think my encounters with anti-Semitism would be all about a racial epithet I unfortunately was confronted with on the street. But subtle racism can be even more detrimental than an overt attack, and this experience of racism beneath the surface cuts even deeper than a stranger…
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Community Saeb Erekat: the friend, the negotiator and the politician
Saeb Erekat leaves behind a complex legacy which I would divide into four parts. I knew him for about 27 years. The first legacy was Saeb, the person. I had so many conversations with him. I was convinced on a human level, he definitely wanted peace with Israel. He believed, even if the US was…
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News Iran is using fake Facebook pages to weaken U.S. support for Israel
Facebook removed more than 20 accounts on Facebook and Instagram in October that were secretly controlled by the Iranian government and were aimed at dividing Americans and Israelis around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to weaken support for Israel, according to Facebook and a think tank that studies extremism. The accounts and pages fall under the category…
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Opinion What Saeb Erekat taught me about the peace process
Editor’s note: Saeb Erekat died on Nov. 10, 2020, after contracting Covid-19. This article was originally published while he was in the hospital, on Oct. 23. This is an adaptation of our weekly Shabbat newsletter, sent by our editor-in-chief on Friday afternoons. Sign up here to get the Forward’s free newsletters delivered to your inbox….
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Community A 91 year old Zionist stands against annexation
Recently Prime Minister Netanyahu announced plans to annex parts of the West Bank to Israel—an area in vigorous dispute since the conclusion of the Six Day War in 1967. While the problems between Israelis and Palestinians are deeply entrenched, this unilateral move by Israel’s government is the most egregious in a culmination of Netanyahu-backed steps…
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