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Opinion The Arrest And Abuse Of Palestinian Children Has To Stop
As a Palestinian human rights defender, I have been arrested by Israel more times that I can count. I have been beaten, stripped and left outside in the cold, and my family has been threatened with violence. During one of my arrests in 2015, I spent five hours handcuffed to a toilet in a filthy…
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Fast Forward New Bill Would Prevent U.S. Funding For Israel’s Detention Of Palestinian Kids
(JTA) — A Minnesota congresswoman has introduced a bill that seeks to prevent the United States from funding Israel’s military detention of Palestinian children. The legislation introduced Tuesday by Rep. Betty McCollum, a Democrat, has at least nine co-sponsors. It would require the secretary of state to certify annually that U.S. assistance to Israel has…
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Fast Forward WATCH: How Jailed Palestinians Smuggled Sperm To Their Wives
A new Al Jazeera documentary details how Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails smuggled semen to their wives in the Gaza Strip in order to have children. Over 32 babies were born to wives of imprisoned men through in-vitro fertilization between 2012 and 2015, Al Jazeera reported. Palestinians imprisoned for security violations are not allowed conjugal…
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Opinion Stop Demonizing Birthright — It Has Every Right To Focus On Jews
Imagine a peaceful future 60 years from now with two states side by side, an Israel and a Palestine. The democratic State of Palestine sits on 95% of the West Bank and all of Gaza. It has a Palestinian majority, but there are also Jews living in towns, formerly known as “settlements,” and they constitute…
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Opinion Why Doesn’t Birthright Believe In Israeli Democracy?
So they will never know Wadeea. This was the thought that came to me as I read the disappointing news that Birthright has chosen to end meetings with Arab citizens of Israel, who make up one-fifth of Israel’s population. Birthright’s official statement explained that “there is a need for further analysis” of such meetings before…
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Opinion A Modest Proposal: All Palestinians Should Convert to Judaism
Now that the dust has settled on the commemoration of the Balfour Declaration’s centenary, Israel still has a problem. It has established a state in what was Mandate Palestine. But it’s struggling to cement its control over the whole of the land, even though, since 1967, it has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into…
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Opinion Israel: Take Note — The NYPD Didn’t Kill Manhattan Terrorist
I watched in horror along with the rest of the world as a terror attack unfolded in lower Manhattan on Tuesday, October 31. A 29-year-old from Uzbekistan named Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov intentionally plowed into bicyclists and pedestrians before finally crashing into a school bus and brandishing two imitation firearms. Over the next hour, fatalities began…
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Fast Forward Kushner And Greenblatt Visit Ailing Palestinian Peace Negotiator In Hospital
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and his top Middle East negotiator, Jason Greenblatt, made a hospital visit to Saeb Erekat, the top Palestinian peace negotiator who just underwent a lung transplant. “They went to visit him to see how he was feeling after surgery and to show support to Saeb, his…
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