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Fast Forward Israel Slammed For Dismantling $600K West Bank Solar Project
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The Dutch Prime Minister complained to his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, about Israel’s dismantling of solar panels set up without permission in the West Bank thanks to funding from the Netherlands. Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders said on Tuesday in parliament that Mark Rutte had complained to Netanyahu about the move last…
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Opinion The Israeli Right Is Terrified of Peace — And Their Jerusalem Bill Proves It
The man who heads the right flank of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Israeli governing coalition, Education Minister Naftali Bennett, issued on Sunday what amounts to an extraordinary public acknowledgment: that a peace agreement with the Palestinians is possible — and indeed that negotiators had come within “a hair’s breadth” of concluding an agreement several…
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Fast Forward U.N. Forum On Palestinians Is Anti-Israel, World Jewish Congress Protests
(JTA) — The World Jewish Congress protested a United Nations forum on the Palestinians, describing it as “anti-Israel.” “This week, a United Nations body will once again vilify the State of Israel,” the group said Thursday, the first day of a two-day forum at the U.N. headquarters in New York titled “Ending the Occupation.” The…
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Culture In “Shooting Holy Land” Josef Koudelka And Gilad Baram Explore The Aesthetics Of The Israeli Wall
Before the late screening of “Shooting Holy Land” (initially released in 2015) at Anthology Film Archive in the East Village – added by popular demand after a sold out first showing – Gilad Baram, the Israeli director of the film, and septuagenarian Magnum photographer Josef Koudelka, the film’s subject, gave a brief introduction. Koudelka was spritely…
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Fast Forward Arab Israeli Women Sue El Al Over Profiling And Strip Searches
Three Arab Israeli students are suing El Al and Israel Arkia Airlines after the group said they were subject to extra screening and invasive searches due to their ethnicity as they tried to board a flight for Tel Aviv. The women have sought $100,000 in damages in Israeli court after the incident in October, when…
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Opinion Fault Lines Episode 12: Alternatives To The Two-State Solution
What if the Two-State Solution is dead? In the most recent episode, Peter Beinart and Daniel Gordis grappled with the American Jewish millennials who have started to lose faith in the Two-State Solution. The Two-State Solution has long been considered the only legitimate end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but new times are prompting the question:…
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Opinion Why Is One Pro-Israel Group Desperate To Keep You From Watching This Video?
When it comes to Palestinians, the American Jewish establishment is in the ignorance business. The average American synagogue has never hosted a Palestinian speaker. The average “pro-Israel” activist has never read a book by a Palestinian author. The American Jewish philanthropists who fund Birthright send thousands of young American Jews to Israel each year, on…
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Israel News Why Has Israel’s Right Wing Turned On Trump Envoy Jason Greenblatt?
When he took on the position of President Trump’s special international negotiations adviser, with a portfolio focusing on Middle East peacemaking, Jason Greenblatt must have expected he’d come under a fair amount of pressure. But the Orthodox Jewish lawyer could hardly expect to find, five months into his job, that his fiercest critics come from…
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