Chemi Shalev (Haaretz)
By Chemi Shalev (Haaretz)
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Opinion How Donald Trump Scared the Jews, Won the Election — and Saved Israel (This Is No Purim Spiel!)
The campaign was even harsher than anyone had predicted. After being told by his advisers that there simply wasn’t enough time to win over enough African, Hispanic or Asian Americans, Donald Trump went for broke, in an effort to secure the 72% of the white vote that he would need in order to stand a…
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Opinion With ‘Jewish Super Tuesday’ Looming, Republicans Take New Plunge Into Deep End on Israel
More than 1.2 million Jews live in the states participating in next Tuesday’s primaries, affectionately dubbed “Super Duper Tuesday.” Some 650,000 of them reside in Florida, comprising about 3.5 percent of the general population, though their electoral weight might be much greater: Florida Jews are significantly older than the rest of the population, with a…
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News Donald Trump Gets Clobbered on Israel by GOP Rivals
After appearing only as an extra in the nine previous engagements, Israel took center stage at the Republican debate Houston on Thursday night. Cast for the first time in a leading role, Israel served as a litmus test to ascertain the devotion of the GOP candidates to cherished conservative principles but mainly as a baseball…
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Opinion Bernie Sanders Rises — and the Ghost of Saul Alinsky Will Surely Follow
Decades before the term was coined, community organizer Saul Alinsky was already exploiting the advantages of “intersectionality,” the contemporary buzzword of social protest. Alinsky, once described by conservative thinker William F. Buckley as “close to an organizational genius,” united groups of underprivileged minorities with diverse grievances in mid-20th century Chicago to form a protest bloc…
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Opinion Widening Rift Between American Jews and Israel on Painful Display at Saban Forum
At a recent Haaretz side session at the Jewish Federations’ General Assembly, I hosted Peter Beinart for a conversation entitled “Israelis are from Mars, American Jews are from Venus.” A month later, our colorful caption was fully borne out by the 2015 Saban Forum, which highlighted the great gap between large parts of the American Jewish…
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Breaking News Abe Foxman Urges Bibi To Dump Aide Who Mocked Obama and Kerry
Former Anti-Defamation League National Director Abe Foxman is calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “distance himself” from the appointment of Ran Baratz as head of the Israel’s public diplomacy (hasbara) department in the Prime Minister’s Office. “No apology or explanation can now repair the damage,” Foxman said. “When Netanyahu didn’t know about Baratz’s statement,…
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Opinion Boehner’s Successor Will Be Pro-Israel. Here’s Why Netanyahu Should Worry Anyway.
Here’s a sure bet: the next Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives will be just as supportive of Israel, in general, and of Benjamin Netanyahu, in particular, as John Boehner ever was during his almost five years at the helm. In today’s Republican Party, unabashed backing for Israel and whatever policy it pursues is…
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Breaking News Israel’s Soccer ‘Win’ May Come With a Nasty Hangover
Former South African cabinet minister and African National Congress (ANC) leader Tokyo Sexwale figured prominently in Friday’s political drama at international soccer’s FIFA conference in Zurich. Palestinian football chief Jibril Rajoub explicitly mentioned Sexwale as having played a critical role in his decision to withdraw the motion to have Israel expelled. And FIFA President Sepp…
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