Israeli peace activist and ex-politician is now a songwriter with a message: ‘Children need to be home’
Stav Shaffir invited Israel's worried mothers to help with a music video about the hostages. The next day, 120 women showed up
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Opinion Fighting BDS Isn’t Courageous. It’s Authoritarian.
In recent attack ads against the nonviolent, Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, politician Stav Shaffir alleged that the group and its work were just like Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump. In an article and online video, she claimed the BDS movement represents “anti-progressive” politics “based on fear and isolation.” As a member of the…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Stav Shaffir Claps Back At Fellow MK’s Slut-Shaming
After two far-right colleagues scolded her for showing her shoulders on the floor of parliament, Knesset member Stav Shaffir administered both a feminist tongue-lashing. “In honor of Women’s Day, two MKs, one a past pimp and the other from a party that prohibits women from contending, scolded me for wearing a dress with uncovered shoulders,”…
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Israel News Israel’s Stav Shaffir Fights To Keep Hope Alive
Stav Shaffir is still idealistic. A year-and-a-half after entering the Knesset, following her co-leadership of Israel’s largest ever mass protests against economic inequality, the 31-year-old redhead’s passion still shines brightly through wide grey-blue eyes. During a stop-in at the Forward Friday while visiting the United States, Shaffir, who is now a member of the Labor…
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Life Stav Shaffir’s ‘Politics of Happiness’
Stav Shaffir at J Street. Screenshot via YouTube. In the wake of the Israeli election and Bibi’s statements on the two state solution, it’s not surprising J Street’s annual conference focused on the fears of what the future will bring and warnings of what will happen if Israel continues on its current path. But it…
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Israel News Is Stav Shaffir, Israel’s Youngest Lawmaker, Ready for a Bigger Role?
In mid-January, Stav Shaffir stood in front of the Knesset plenum, gripping the podium with one hand and pointing at the handful of lawmakers gathered before her with the other. “Friends, my friends on the right, your fear is evident,” she said, in a voice quivering with accusation. “You are simply afraid. You are afraid…
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Breaking News Israel Left Resurgent as Campaign Kicks Into Gear
(JTA) — Stav Shaffir was angry. The 29-year-old firebrand is known for her outbursts, which have gotten her kicked out of multiple Knesset hearings in the past year. But when she rose in the Knesset on Jan. 21 to answer Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett’s charge that she is post-Zionist, her rebuttal went viral….
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News Stav Shaffir, Ex-Protest Leader, Keeps Eye on the Shekels
Having coffee with Stav Shaffir is little different from meeting up with other 20-somethings in Tel Aviv. She rushes into the cafe a few minutes late, glances repeatedly at her phone and complains about high rents and an out-of-touch government. It’s hard, she says, being the youngest woman in a workplace full of older men….
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