Ken Jacobson is a historian and Deputy National Director of ADL (the Anti-Defamation League).
Ken Jacobson
By Ken Jacobson
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Opinion We Need Mahmoud Abbas — But Let’s Not Give Him Carte Blanche
Israel and its supporters are being held hostage by the notion that Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, is all that we have on the Palestinian side and that any successor would be far worse. The right’s response to this is either that there isn’t a hair’s breadth of difference between Abbas and Fatah…
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Opinion Don’t Compare Ferguson and ‘Palestine’
(JTA) — The latest strategy being used by those who make a career of assaulting the good name of the State of Israel is to link the issue of full equality for African-Americans, as symbolized by the word “Ferguson,” with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There is a long history of using legitimate American social justice issues…
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Opinion Why Israeli Arabs Are a Jewish Issue
The leadership of several major American Jewish organizations recently established a task force to improve relations between Israeli Arabs and Israeli Jews and to address the disparities of opportunity and discrimination confronting Arabs in Israel. The task force comprises 50 Jewish organizations and aims to generate awareness among both North American Jews and Israelis, with…
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