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News ‘Tantamount to a war crime’: Arab countries slam Israel’s Jenin operation
Arab states decry Israel's latest military operation in the Palestinian city of Jenin – in which eight Palestinians were killed – while calling on the international community to intervene
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News Why did top federation leaders sponsor a conference promoting Israeli settlements?
'Join us, and together we can make Israel great again,' one speaker told attendees at the conference, the sponsors of which included the federations network and its New York affiliate
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News Report: Shireen Abu Akleh, who died a year ago, is one of 20 journalists whose deaths involve Israeli military
The Committee to Protect Journalists’ scathing report notes that not a single soldier has faced prosecution in any of these cases
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Fast Forward This Jewish doctor refused to sign a pledge opposing BDS — so he didn’t get paid
An Arkansas law requires anyone doing business with the state to promise not to boycott Israel
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News They survived a ‘pogrom.’ Now Palestinians in Hawara fear life will only get worse
'Next year, Hawara will be a real disaster,' said Ziyad Abdullah, the owner of a struggling auto parts store in the West Bank town
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Fast Forward 2 Israeli sisters, ages 16 and 20, killed in West Bank shooting
The attack comes on the heels of rocket attacks from Jordan and Gaza, and Israeli counterstrikes
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Letters Halevi is wrong. The fight to end the occupation and protect democracy are directly intertwined
It is impossible to separate the attacks on the judiciary from the government’s plans to annex the West Bank
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Opinion As an Israeli settler, I know our country is far from perfect. Outrage alone won’t change reality
Despite violence in Israel, we cannot stop working toward a better future
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