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Fast Forward It’s Palestinians’ Fault There’s No Peace, U.S. Ambassador Says After Attack
The murder of an Israeli father of six in a drive-by shooting Tuesday night in the West Bank led the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, to issue an unusual statement. “An Israeli father of six was killed last night in cold blood by Palestinian terrorists,” Friedman wrote on Twitter on Wednesday morning. “Hamas praises…
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Opinion I Am Living Under Apartheid In Hebron
I am a Palestinian living in Hebron. I live stateless with no rights. I have no rights to general assembly, no rights to free speech, to due process or to freedom of movement. I get 10% of the water illegal settlers living next to me get. I am not allowed to walk down the streets…
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Opinion Charles Bronfman: Abandoning The Two-State Solution Means Abandoning The Jewish Soul
I’m probably known to the Jewish community as a co-founder, along with my dear friend Michael Steinhardt, of Birthright Israel, a remarkable program that has seen 600,000 participants exercise their birthright via an educational visit to Israel. However, since I was 17 I’ve been involved in the Jewish world. My parents led the way, as…
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Letters Letter: If Two Thirds Of Palestinians Want Peace, It’s Time To End The Occupation
Dear Jane, I am a Philadelphian who has admired your journalism and writing for many years. I read with great interest your piece in the January Forward magazine about your Encounter trip in the West Bank this past November. I agree positive recognition is deserved by Palestinians who dissent and protest non-violently. When you report,…
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Community Ten Commandments For Thinking About Modern Anti-Semitism
In an op-ed for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on January 2, editor-in-chief Andrew Silow-Carroll suggests that defining anti-Semitism is a key question of the moment, but that it’s complicated given the polarization of left and right. Like so much else in politics today, the debate about contemporary anti-Semitism is a dialogue of the deaf waged…
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Opinion American Dollars Must Not Be Spent On Ahed Tamimi’s Arrest
Last month, Israeli soldiers invaded the home of 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi in the middle of the night and carted her off to detention in handcuffs. The teenage activist, from the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, has lived every day of her life under the brutal boot of Israeli military occupation. She has witnessed settlers…
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Opinion Why Is No One Talking About Ahed Tamimi’s Call For Stabbings?
The sight of a young, unarmed woman standing up to heavily armed soldiers will always be a powerful one. This was certainly the case with a recent video seen around the world — that of Ahed Tamimi, the teenaged Palestinian girl who stood against the mighty IDF and was subsequently arrested. Who could resist the…
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Opinion Israel Is Now Jailing Palestinians For Posting On Facebook
Israeli authorities rang in the New Year by turning to a tool of repression fit for the social media age: locking up Palestinians for Facebook posts. On January 1, Israeli military prosecutors indicted Nariman Tamimi, a mother and activist famous for leading the village of Nabi Saleh’s struggle against Israeli military occupation and land confiscation….
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