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The Schmooze Israel Just Detained The Writer of the Ultimate Arab-Jewish Coming-Of-Age Novel
Israeli author Moriel Rothman-Zecher was detained and questioned at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv this week, before being released and told to think of the conversation as a “warning.” Rothman-Zecher, the 28-year-old author of the novel “Sadness is A White Bird,” was stopped by an official identifying as a member of Shin-Bet, the Israeli…
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Opinion Like NFL Stars, Arab Israeli Athletes Should Take A Knee
Israel’s newly-passed law defines Israel as a nation-state solely for the Jewish people. It anchors Israel as a Jewish, non-democratic state, declares Hebrew as the sole official language, and deprives Palestinian Israelis of the rights to equal citizenship and self-determination. The means that, even though Palestinian citizens of Israel are one-fifth of the total population,…
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Life Israeli And Palestinian Fashion Entrepreneurs Join Forces With Emerging Brand
With Jerusalem’s lush terraced hillsides as backdrop, two designers hunch over a work table strewn with embroidery floss and half-drained coffee cups, discussing how they will construct an embroidered clutch for their latest collection. Although the scene looks like any humdrum snapshot of the production side of the fashion industry, something extraordinary may be taking…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Delegation Will Lead Large United Nations Voting Bloc
The biggest bloc of developing countries, known as Group of 77, at the United Nations has chosen the observer state of Palestine as its next leader, The New York Times reported. Palestine would take over leadership of the bloc starting in January. The bloc often speaks as one voice in the General Assembly and represents…
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Opinion Israeli Democracy Is Just Fine
It’s over: Israel has picked “identity over democracy.” That’s both the premise and conclusion of a recent piece by The New York Times columnist Max Fisher, who sees in the lamentable “Nation-State” law passed last week by the Knesset a rejection of democracy, and an embrace of theocracy and ethnocracy. Fisher writes that Israel has…
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Opinion Why Do Israelis Care So Much About Syrians But Not About Palestinians?
On Saturday night, the Israeli Defense Forces released footage of a rescue operation, in which over 400 humanitarian aid workers in Syria, known as White Helmets, were evacuated by Israel along with their families and ferried through the Golan Heights to safety in Jordan. It’s not the first time Israel has engaged in humanitarian efforts…
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Opinion A Letter To Southern Israelis, From Your Neighbor In Gaza
To Gaza’s Neighbors in southern Israel: Over the last month, you’ve had some of the most sleepless and terrible nights in years, and so have your Palestinian sisters and brothers in Gaza. Shabbat after Shabbat, you had only 15 seconds to shelter your loved ones; meanwhile, many Gazans had no time to escape, nowhere to…
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Community Stop Treating Israel Like A Black-And-White Issue
It’s jarring, frustrating and fruitless the way people determine that all things are either black or white, good or bad, right or wrong. Nearly everyone, it seems, has a side, a cause, an oppressor and a victim. And if you don’t agree — completely — not only are you wrong, but you are also one…
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