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Opinion Trump Is Waging War On The Peace Process
In the days after his election, President Donald Trump bragged that he would achieve “the ultimate deal” for Israelis and Palestinians. But on the ground, his Administration has been supporting an ultimate war on the peace process. Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law who has been charged with overseeing Middle East peace, has been unforthcoming with details….
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Fast Forward Israeli, Palestinian Killed In Two Violent Incidents
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli and a Palestinian were killed on Thursday in two separate incidents in Israel and the occupied West Bank, officials said. An Israeli man was stabbed to death in the southern Israeli city of Arad in what police said was “most probably a terrorist attack”. “The investigation is continuing and police…
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Opinion Why Doesn’t The New York Times Mention Ben Shapiro’s Islamophobia?
Now and then—when Donald Trump retweets a video entitled “Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches!” by a British woman convicted of harassing a woman wearing a hijab, for instance—the media notices anti-Muslim bigotry. But often, it remains invisible. In recent years, this species of prejudice has become so pervasive, especially on the American…
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Letters Actually, The Intifadas Were Nonviolent Uprisings, Too
Dear Editor, In your interesting article on P is for Palestine, you described the First and Second Intifadas as violent uprisings. They were also nonviolent. Indeed, Palestinians have long engaged in the nonviolent protest of Zionism, from petitioning the King Crane Commission to engaging in BDS. In the First Intifada, experts in nonviolent, non-cooperation such…
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Life Upper East Side Moms Facebook Group In Turmoil — Over Israel And The Palestinians
The topic of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is stirring controversy in unusual quarters. A Facebook group of moms on Manhattan’s Upper East Side that is known for tense exchanges (along with stroller recommendations, nanny discussions and million-dollar apartment advertisements) is teetering on the edge of dissolution with the publication of a children’s book. And according to…
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Community What The Jewish Establishment Got Wrong About The Princeton Hillel Controversy
Last week, a controversy at Princeton Hillel reverberated throughout the Jewish world. Kenneset Member Tzipi Hotovely, a deputy foreign minister from the Likud party, had been slated to speak about combatting BDS and justifying Israeli settlements. Following a protest from Jewish progressive students, Princeton Hillel decided at the last minute to revoke her invitation to…
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Community Israel’s Most Controversial Journalist Isn’t Finished Fighting The Occupation
A version of this piece originally appeared in Plus61J, an Australian Jewish publication. It’s hard to imagine a more controversial Israeli journalist than Gideon Levy. The Tel Aviv native began his career in journalism as a soldier in 1971, reporting for Army Radio on Israeli politics. In 1978, at the age of 26, he joined…
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Community Northern Ireland Is A Perfect Model For Improving Jewish-Arab Relations In Israel
The field of creating a shared society in Israel, of equalizing and encouraging Jewish-Arab citizen relations, is much in debt to models and concepts developed in Northern Ireland. For the last 20 years, following the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, Northern Ireland has been a testing ground for projects of reconciliation and models of…
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