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News WATCH: Trump Supporter Thinks Candidate Will ‘End Zionism’
When it comes to anti-Semitic dog whistles, some Donald Trump supporters are outdoing the campaign. At a Monday rally in Sarasota, Florida, a young man at the candidate’s rally told a reporter with The Young Turks that he thought the Republican nominee would “end Zionism.” “I like Donald Trump as president, and that’s what we…
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Israel News In Israel, Voters Back Clinton — But Just Barely
Israeli voters back Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump by a 37%-to 34% margin, a new poll has found, with supporters of the ruling right wing Likud party bakcing Trump, while Zionist Union voters on the center-left prefer Clinton. A poll released by Geocartography, an Israeli research institute, queried 500 Israelis with a 4.4% margin of…
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Community Why I’m Not Going to College This Year
I just graduated high school with perfect grades, an acceptance letter to my number one university, and what I thought was a sense of what I wanted to do with my life. Yet, to the surprise of many, I am not attending college this year. While my friends were choosing their classes and buying textbooks,…
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News Israeli Ambassador Honored By ‘Anti-Islam Hate Group’
Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer will be accepting an award in New York next month from an American organization that has been labeled an anti-Muslim hate group. The Center for Security Policy, which will be honoring Dermer with a “Freedom Flame Award,” is included in a watch list of hate groups compiled…
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Community Taking Back the Z: Why Zionism Isn’t Just for Right Wing Jews
This past Shabbat, Noam Rotem wrote a thoughtful article in +972, calling for Israelis and Jews to “say goodbye” to Zionism. Contrary to the position of our organization and movement, to Rotem, Zionism is an “empty slogan, used only to grant Jews rights over non-Jews,” and that we should abandon its use as a word…
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Community The Forward’s Responsibility to Expose Campus Anti-Semitism
Last month, The City University of New York (CUNY) released a report by two CUNY-hired lawyers to investigate allegations of campus anti-Semitism. The investigation was triggered by a 14-page letter from the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) to CUNY’s leadership, describing the anti-Semitic harassment and intimidation that students were enduring on four CUNY campuses, perpetrated…
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Opinion Zionists Have Many Jewish Spaces To Call Home. Our Synagogue Needn’t Be One of Them.
As Tzedek Chicago’s rabbinical intern, I was interested in Mira Sucharov’s recent Forward opinion piece, “My Problem With the Idea of a “Non-Zionist” Synagogue,” which explores how the issue of Israel impacts congregational life. It’s an important subject, and Sucharov raises some important questions that American Jewry should address. I was disappointed that her article…
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Community Miko Peled and Progressive Jewish Anti-Semitism
Every time I have a glimmer of hope for the progressive community to get it together about anti-Semitism, something happens to quickly dash it. The incident with Miko Peled, the Jewish son of a high ranking Israeli general, is a recent example. After a brouhaha over his string of anti-Semitic tweets, his event at San…
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