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Fast Forward Israeli Troops Kill Suspect Of Terror Attack That Killed Newborn Baby
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli security forces shot and killed the son of a West Bank Hamas leader suspected of involvement in the shooting attack outside of the West Bank settlement of Ofra that left 7 injured and a newborn baby dead. Four other Palestinian men alleged to have been involved in the attack also were…
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Fast Forward Marc Lamont Hill Of ‘River To The Sea’ Won’t Be Punished By Temple University
Temple University will not discipline Marc Lamont Hill, a political commentator who was recently fired from CNN for sharing a Palestinian nationalist phrase, the Washington Post reported. Hill is a professor of media studies at Temple. At a meeting Tuesday, board of trustees of the Philadelphia university condemned his remarks but concluded his speech was…
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Fast Forward UN General Assembly Approves 6 Anti-Israel Resolutions
(JTA) — The United Nations General Assembly approved six anti-Israel resolutions including two that reject Jewish ties to the Temple Mount and Jerusalem. The resolutions were passed on Friday. The resolution on Jerusalem, which refers to the Temple Mount only by its Arab name of Haram al-Sharif and states that under Israeli administration of Jerusalem…
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Opinion Let’s Have No Double Standards In The Marc Lamont Hill Furor
Author, academic and activist Marc Lamont Hill has been dropped as a CNN contributor because of public comments widely decried as offensive and bigoted. It could be a “political correctness strikes again” story — except that in this case, many usual critics of “political correctness” are on the other side. Hill was speaking at a…
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Opinion What Marc Lamont Hill Debacle Teaches Us About Fairness For Both Peoples
Barely 24 hours passed between the speech that Marc Lamont Hill gave at the United Nations, calling for a “free Palestine from the river to the sea,” and the announcement that CNN had fired him from his job as political commentator for the network. The move came after the Anti-Defamation League and other American Jewish…
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Opinion Marc Lamont Hill’s Jewish Problems Didn’t Start With Bashing Israel
At the United Nations on Wednesday, Marc Lamont Hill was rewarded with enthusiastic applause for his speech that ended with a call for “a free Palestine, from the river to the sea.” But once the news of his speech spread on social media, there was considerable dismay and outrage. The Anti-Defamation League soon weighed in,…
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Opinion Demonizing Israel Isn’t Anti-Semitic — But Marc Lamont Hill Crossed The Line
On Wednesday, Marc Lamont Hill, then a CNN contributor and professor at Temple University, came under fire for a speech he gave at the United Nations to mark the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. The impassioned speech was existentially critical of Israel, and Hill stated that “we have an opportunity to not…
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Fast Forward CNN Fires Commentator For Calling For Palestine ‘From River To Sea’
CNN fired political commentator Marc Lamont Hill on Thursday, the day after he said at the United Nations that there needs to be “a free Palestine from the river to the sea,” which was interpreted as meaning the need for the end of Israel, Mediaite reported. “Marc Lamont Hill is no longer under contract with…
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