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Fast Forward Palestinian Boy Who Lost Family To Arson Attack Sues Israel For $2.8M
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The family of a 6-year-old Palestinian boy whose parents and brother were killed in an arson attack on their West Bank home has filed a lawsuit against the state of Israel demanding $2.78 million in compensation. Right-wing Jewish extremists were indicted in the July 2015 firebombing in the Palestinian village of Duma in…
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Fast Forward Israeli Doctors Warn Foreigners Not To Force Feed Palestinian Hunger Strikers
Israeli physicians are calling on doctors around the world to refuse to come to Israel in order to force feed Palestinian prisoners on a hunger strike. The Israel Prisons Service is reportedly contemplating bringing foreign doctors to Israel to force feed the strikers since the Israel Medical Association barred its members from doing so, according…
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Fast Forward Video Shows Marwan Barghouti Eating In Cell During Palestinian ‘Hunger Strike’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Prison Service released a video which shows Marwan Barghouti, the high-profile Palestinian prisoner leading a hunger strike, secretly eating in the bathroom of his cell. The hunger strike launched three weeks ago with a Barghouti op-ed in the New York Times. The hundreds of Palestinian hunger strikers are calling for…
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Fast Forward 16-Year-Old Palestinian Girl Killed By Israel Police After Attempted Stabbing
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian teen was shot and killed by Israeli police officers after she attempted to stab them. The incident occurred Sunday afternoon at the Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem, according to police. The Palestinian Maan news agency identified the alleged stabber as Fatima Afif Abd al-Rahman Hjeiji, 16, from…
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Fast Forward Why Trump Rejected Invite To Visit Israel On Six-Day War Anniversary
President Trump turned down an Israeli invitation to bump his Israel visit to June to mark the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War out of a desire to seem nonpartisan on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Saudi newspaper Al-Hayat reported, according to Haaretz. Moving the trip was also out of the question because Trump planned…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Says BDS Won’t Solve Mideast Impasse
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders came out swinging against the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel in an interview with Al Jazeera which aired on Wednesday. I asked @SenSanders about Palestine, the BDS movement targeting Israel, and whether he supports a one state solution pic.twitter.com/xOQmxMelFp — Dena Takruri (@Dena) May 3, 2017 Al Jazeera…
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Life Why Linda Sarsour Is So Controversial
NEW YORK (JTA) — One of the best symbols of the current Jewish political divide is a Muslim woman. To Jews on the left, Linda Sarsour is a courageous and effective activist who builds bridges and breaks stereotypes. To Jews on the right and some in the center, she’s an Israel-hating apologist for Islamic extremists….
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Letters Blame Palestinian Leaders For The Plight Of Their People
Jane Eisner recent editorial asks an important question: “Should We Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of The Six Day War – Or Despair? Ms. Eisner, why should we despair? Israel has done nothing wrong. She offered to withdraw from most of the territory she liberated (while, as you note, defending her people from planned genocide) in…
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