This is the Forward’s coverage of Zionism, the movement in support of the state of Israel as a homeland for the Jewish people.
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Fast Forward Which Middle Eastern Airlines Scrub Israel From Their Maps?
Some popular Middle Eastern airlines completely erase Israel’s name off otherwise comprehensive world maps, regardless of if they fly there or not. Why is this? For example, Qatar Airways and Saudia and Kuwait Airways all omit Israel, the Economist reported. Still other airlines take another approach. Egypt Air does include Israel on its map —…
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Fast Forward ‘Punch A Zionist’ Tweeter Quits McGill Student Government
MONTREAL (JTA) — Igor Sadikov, the student politician who called on his Twitter followers to “punch a Zionist today,” stepped down as a director of McGill University’s student government one day after the university’s Arts Undergraduate Society voted against impeaching him. The 22-year-old political science student blamed “interference” by the McGill administration, he said in a statement Thursday…
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Fast Forward McGill Students Vote 22-16 Against Ousting ‘Punch A ZIonist’ Councilmember
MONTREAL (JTA) — McGill University’s Arts Undergraduate Society voted not to impeach Igor Sadikov for his “’punch a Zionist today” tweet earlier this month. On Wednesday evening, the society voted 22-16 with seven abstentions on the fate of Sadikov, also a member of the student legislative council at the Montreal university. Since his original post…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Scuttled Secret 2016 Peace Push With Arab Leaders
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declined a peace proposal presented by then-U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at a secret summit in 2016 with Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi in Aqaba, Jordan, according to a Haaretz investigation. The proposal included the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state and renewed…
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Community The Latest Trend In Zionism? Anti-Semitism.
“The truth,” writes Bernard Henri-Levy in his recent book, The Genius of Judaism, “is that one can now be anti-Semitic only by being anti-Zionist; anti-Zionism is the required path for any anti-Semitism that wishes to expand its recruiting pool beyond those still nostalgic for the discredited brotherhoods.” Is that true, or has the ancient virus…
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Fast Forward McGill Student Leader: ‘Punch A Zionist Today’
MONTREAL (JTA) — A student union leader at McGill University urged people on Twitter to “punch a Zionist today.” Igor Sadikov, a member of the legislative council, posted the tweet Monday, prompting calls for the third-year political science major to resign from his elected post. “This is clear incitement to violence, which should not be…
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Letters Letter to the Editor: Preventing Radical Islamists From Murdering Americans Is a Moral Act
The left’s confusion about what constitutes “morality” compels us to respond to Forward editor Jane Eisner’s criticism of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) because ZOA supports President Trump’s executive order titled “Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States.” Most Americans, according to a recent Rasmussen poll, agree with ZOA: Americans…
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Opinion Women’s March Organizers Should Be More Careful About the Company They Keep
On the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, women from around the country took to the streets to protest the election and rhetoric of the new President. Women met on the streets of their own towns and cities across the country and around the world, and they traveled from far and wide to protest in Washington…
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