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Fast Forward Jews Sue ‘Anti-Semitic’ Airbnb For Scrapping West Bank Listings
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A group of Jewish-American citizens have sued Airbnb in U.S. federal court over the announcement that it will remove the listings of homes in Jewish settlement. The 18 plaintiffs filed the civil rights lawsuit in the United States District Court in Delaware alleging that the internet hospitality company has enacted a new…
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Fast Forward Airbnb To Remove Listings In Jewish West Bank Settlements
Home-renting company Airbnb Inc said on Monday that it had decided to remove its listings in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, enclaves that most world powers consider illegal for taking up land where Palestinians seek statehood. In response, Israel’s Tourism Minister Yariv Levin instructed the ministry to restrict the company’s operations across the country….
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Fast Forward Israel ‘Legalizes’ West Bank Outpost On Palestinian Land
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli court ruled that a West Bank outpost can be legalized even though part of it is built on land that Palestinians claim they own. The Jerusalem District Court on Tuesday based its decision on laws regarding Israel’s market regulation, which allows for illegal property transactions to be when a buyer was…
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Breaking News Settler Youths Injure Left-Wing Activists In Scuffle At Unauthorized Outpost
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Five left-wing activists documenting illegal settlement construction said they were injured in an attack by a group of Jewish settler youth. The activists from the NGO Ta’ayush: Arab Jewish Partnership were taking photographs on Saturday in the unauthorized outpost of Mitzpe Yair, located in the South Hebron Hills. The group said in…
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Fast Forward Jerusalem Announces West Bank Settlement Construction, Angering Left And Right
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli government advanced plans for the construction of more than 1,000 housing units in the West Bank on Wednesday, drawing condemnations from both the political left and the settlement movement itself. Construction on 382 of the 1,400 units will be able to begin immediately, while the others will require several more…
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Opinion What The Left – And The Right – Get Wrong About The Settlements
In the last few years, many pro-Israel organizations and activists have adopted progressive language in an attempt to appeal to millennials and progressives — audiences which they they have lost due to years of promoting a right wing, conservative agenda. They’ve realized that promoting a “fun” Israel without addressing progressive issues is a failed approach,…
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Community In The Jordan Valley, Israelis Harass And Threaten Bedouin Shepherds
After years of reading, writing and arguing about the place, I finally visited Israel and Palestine for the first time back in February, under the auspices of Achvat Amim, a five-month-long educational and volunteer program founded upon the principle that every person has a right to self-determination in the place that he or she calls…
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Fast Forward Booking.Com Used To List Jerusalem As ‘Israeli Settlement’
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The online travel reservation service Booking.com amended its definition of the city of Jerusalem as an “Israeli settlement” following a critical query from a Belgian Jewish newspaper. The Amsterdam-based company acted on Tuesday, a day after Michael Freilich, editor in chief of the Joods Actueel newspaper in Antwerp, asked the firm about…
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