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Opinion No, That Muslim Model’s Tweets Were Not Anti-Semitic
On Monday, hijabi beauty blogger and model Amena Khan announced that she was voluntarily stepping down from her role in a L’Oreal Paris ad campaign — over some tweets that criticized Israel. In a statement posted to Instagram, Khan apologized for the tweets, which were posted in 2014 during the Gaza War. Her apology and…
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Community Struggling To Dialogue Over Israel And Palestine? Try Poetry.
On a cold afternoon at the end of Fall term, I walked into my college classroom with trepidation. I knew the students well by then: they were intelligent, engaged, and willing to discuss complex poetry and fiction from all over the world. But the reading for that day — a selection of poems by Israeli…
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News When Muslim Albanians Risked Everything To Save Jews From The Holocaust?
TIRANA, Albania (JTA) — Most anywhere else in Nazi-occupied Europe, an encounter with police would have likely sealed the fate of Jewish refugees like Nissim and Sarah Aladjem and their 10-year-old son, Aron. Instead, when the family was detained by police in the Muslim nation of Albania 75 years ago, it was the key to…
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Fast Forward North Carolina Imam’s Sermon Invokes Islamic Text About Killing Jews
(JTA) — An imam in Raleigh, North Carolina, invoked an Islamic text that prophesies the killing of Jews by Muslims during a sermon at a local mosque. Abdullah Khadra made the statements in a sermon early last month, two days after President Trump announced that the United States recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Muslims, Khadra…
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Opinion What Happens To Israel When There Are More Muslims In America Than Jews?
Since the 1990s, American presidents have provided Israel the military capacity and diplomatic immunity to control millions of Palestinians who lack basic rights. Yet, at the same time, American presidents have insisted that Palestinians deserve those basic rights — that, in the words of George W. Bush, “it is untenable for Palestinians to live in…
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Community Ten Commandments For Thinking About Modern Anti-Semitism
In an op-ed for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on January 2, editor-in-chief Andrew Silow-Carroll suggests that defining anti-Semitism is a key question of the moment, but that it’s complicated given the polarization of left and right. Like so much else in politics today, the debate about contemporary anti-Semitism is a dialogue of the deaf waged…
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Fast Forward Muslims Will Replace Jews As America’s Second-Largest Religious Group By 2040
The Muslim religious population in the United States will be larger than the Jewish religious population by 2040, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center. Earlier this year, Pew estimated that are currently 3.45 million Muslims by religion of all ages in America, around 1.1% of the U.S. population. In 2013, Pew…
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Fast Forward Houston Imam Walks Back Sermon Calling On Muslims To Kill Jews
(JTA) — A Houston imam walked back a sermon in which he called for Muslims to kill Jews without specifically apologizing for his comments. Imam Raed Saleh Al-Rousan of Houston’s Tajweed Institute earlier this month delivered what he called an “impassioned sermon,” according to a statement about the speech issued on Wednesday. “I unequivocally affirm…
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