simmons | March 19, 2017
For years, rooting for Team Israel meant cheering forthe countrys national soccer, basketball or Olympic teams. But this month, thanks to their surprising success at the World Baseball Classic (WBC), when sports fans talk about Team Israel, they mean baseball. Played every four years since 2006, The World Baseball Classic (WBC) is an international baseball tournament modeled after the FIFA World Cup.
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admin | March 17, 2017
On March 8, women abstained from work as part of the International Women's Strike a grassroots feminist movement aimed at bringing attention "to the current social, legal, political, moral and verbal violence experienced by contemporary women at various latitudes." But these positive goals were distorted by the inclusion of anti-Israel rhetoric in the platform of the IWS. There are many countries and movements throughout the world that treat women as second-class citizens: Israel is not among them. Yet this platform singles out for condemnation only Israel, the nation-state of the Jewish people.
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simmons | March 17, 2017
Instead of firmly speaking out against the more than 190 anti-Semitic threats and attacks over the past few weeks, Netanyahu has decided to throwthe American Jewish community under the bus of right-wing Israeli fanaticism.
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admin | March 17, 2017
Rod Such The Electronic Intifada 15 March 2017 State of Terror: How Terrorism Created Modern Israel, Thomas Surez, Olive Branch Press (2017) Israels propaganda playbook attempts to reframe the Palestinian liberation struggle as a question of terror, not territory. Thanks to a dutiful media, this effort to portray Palestinians as terrorists has had significant traction among some demographics. But how did terrorism originate in Palestine and what was its outcome, both historically and today
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admin | March 17, 2017
SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER Not surprisingly, the ADL was no outlier. Another legendary Jewish group, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society,almost just as quickly did precisely the same thing
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admin | March 17, 2017
Anti-Defamation League National Director Jonathan Greenblatt . (photo credit:Courtesy) NEW YORK The Anti-Defamation League on Thursday urged the UN to immediately recall a UN agencys hostile and biased that accuses Israel of being an apartheid regime
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admin | March 15, 2017
NEW YORK Two weeks ago the Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour started a fundraising campaign to help restore the graves at a St.
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simmons | March 15, 2017
Palestinian-American women in social justice movements cannot be as visible as other women because they're the target of attacks from 'right-wing Zionists,' the activist says. Liberal American Jews, many of whom are involved in causes for gender and racial justice, have recently found themselves alienated by those movements stances on Israel. That conflict was seen last year when a platform associated with the Black Lives Matter movement accused Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinians and called it an apartheid state
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admin | March 15, 2017
Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump at a joint press conference in the White House A WAVE of anti-Semitic attacks is sweeping the U.S. On March 2, vandals attacked the third Jewish cemetery in less than two weeks, in one case knocking down or damaging 539 large headstones. Since the beginning of 2017, there have been at least 128 bomb threats at 87 different Jewish community centers and schools across the country.
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admin | March 15, 2017
Colonel (Res.) Jonathan Baransky announced Tuesday that he would submit his candidacy for head of the Jewish Home party and contest Naftali Bennett for the leadership position.
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