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Opinion I’m Israeli. Netanyahu Is Wrong. He Should Let Ilhan Omar And Rashida Tlaib Visit
This morning, it was reported that Israel would be denying entry to two U.S. Congresswomen, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, who sought to visit the West Bank and Jerusalem — this after Ambassador Ron Dermer said that they would be allowed entry. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has apparently bowed to pressure by President Trump…
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Fast Forward Mahmoud Abbas Ditches Meeting With Visiting Republicans
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas declined to meet with a Republican congressional delegation only a week after meeting with a Democratic group on a visit to Israel. Abbas dropped out of a scheduled meeting in Ramallah with the delegation of 31 Republicans, according to Jewish Insider, leaving the lawmakers to meet with…
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Opinion This Tisha B’Av, We Mourn Injustice In Israel – And Commit To The Fight To End It.
Many progressive Jews struggle with whether Tisha B’av still has resonance when Judaism has evolved so far beyond Temple service. We wonder whether a full day of mourning for Jewish destruction and exile is still called for when we have a sovereign State of Israel and the accompanying reality of national power. But the sages…
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Opinion Why Is AOC Tokenizing A Fringe Jewish Group?
For the most part, American Jews aren’t very religiously observant. Per the 2013 Pew study of American Jews, the single most widely adhered to Jewish practice in this country is the Passover seder. 70% of Jews reported taking part in the year the study focused on. That old saw about two Jews having three different…
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Israel News Netanyahu Will Decide If Tlaib And Omar Will Be Allowed To Enter Israel
Democratic U.S. Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are planning a visit to Israel and the West Bank in the coming weeks, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will have to decide whether they would be let in to the country, over the support they have voiced for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. The…
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Opinion J Street’s Birthright Replacement Trip To Israel Killed My Zionism
I am one of the lucky few young Jews who got to attend J Street’s launched a inaugural trip to Israel, called “Let Our People Know.” Flying into Tel Aviv’s sweltering heat on the first of July, I entered Israel an ardent Zionist — aware of the innumerable issues Palestinians face, yet convinced of the…
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Opinion We Palestinians Condemned A Leader’s Anti-Semitism. Will It Matter?
Last Friday, the controversial Hamas leader Fathi Hammad made some particularly vile comments during the weekly Gazan Return March protests. In the context of calling on Israel to lift the blockade on Gaza, Hammad promised, in the most extreme terms, to pressure Israel with all possible means. He then called on all Palestinians to “slaughter…
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Opinion Does The Palestinian Authority ‘Pay To Slay’ Jews? Here’s How We Palestinians See It
Trump’s envoy for Mideast Peace, Jason Greenblatt, has a peculiar habit. He likes to troll Palestinians on Twitter. He mostly tweets out unsubstantiated claims that reiterate right-wing Israeli propaganda, or insensitive statements glorifying Netanyahu’s rightwing government, whitewashing its systematic assault on the peace process. And of course, there’s Greenblatt’s repeated claim that the Palestinian Authority…
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Opinion Outrage over Nicholas Kristof’s op-ed on sexual assault of Palestinians is missing the point
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News Why do some people think Mike Lawler is Jewish?
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Art At the Venice Biennale, protests, self-mutilation and rage against Israel and Russia. Is anyone left to talk about the art?