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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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Fast Forward Palestinian refugee receives Spanish citizenship after discovering Sephardic roots
(JTA) — As a British resident born in Dubai to a Palestinian father and Lebanese mother, Heba Nabil Iskandarani had plenty of potential national identities. What she lacked, however, was a passport. A 26-year-old lecturer in architecture at Birmingham City University, Iskandarani has been stateless for most of her life, possessing only a Lebanese travel…
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Community To save Palestinian lives, Jews, Christians and Muslims unite
For the first time ever, Muslims, Jews and Christians in Greater Washington are uniting around a mission of saving Palestinian lives and supporting Israelis and Palestinians who are committed to working together for the benefit of all. Since the beginning of June, our congregations, the All-Dulles Area Muslim Society, Temple Rodef Shalom and St. John’s…
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Fast Forward San Francisco State University president stands behind terrorist Leila Khaled speaking appearance
San Francisco State University President Lynn Mahoney is standing behind the decision to allow a Palestinian terrorist to participate in a university event via Zoom. A university official told the Forward that an e-mail in support of Leila Khaled speaking at a university event did in fact come from Mahoney. In the e-mail, Mahoney wrote…
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Fast Forward Kenosha synagogue vandalized with ‘Free Palestine’ graffiti during protests
Vandals spray-painted “Free Palestine” in front of Beth Hillel Temple during demonstrations protesting the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha early Thursday morning. A reporter for the conservative news outlet Town Hall tweeted a video displaying the graffiti. Other property in Kenosha, including at least one church, also were vandalized or otherwise took damage…
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Community Talk about the conflict by talking about climate change
Joel Swanson’s recent take on the Seth Rogen interview on “WTF with Marc Maron” resonated with me not because I, like Rogen, once had a warped understanding of Israel, but because the reactions from some members of this community are so clearly misplaced, they represent a mass distraction. For one, it seems to me that…
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News Early results show Rep. Rashida Tlaib, staunch supporter of BDS, crushing primary opponent
In a dramatic show of newly acquired political strength, Rep. Rashida Tlaib appeared well on her way to crushing City Council President Brenda Jones in Tuesday’s Democratic primary just two years after scraping by Jones by about 900 votes to win the seat. Tlaib, who in 2018 became the first Palestinian-American woman and one of…
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Food I have always been jealous of the eggplant
(Ed. Note: The Forward is delighted to welcome Vivien Sansour as a regular food columnist. You can read more about Vivien here) The flowers on my eggplants are getting full. I had never taken much notice of how the eggplant flower suddenly transforms into a heavy shell that produces a perfectly purple vegetable, but in…
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