Letters From the April 6, 2020, Issue – The Nation
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Comfort And Outrage Needed In Equal Measure | Elana Hornblass Dushey – The Times of Israel
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Some weeks ago I returned from my first AIPAC policy conference and actively tried to evaluate my impressions of the conference that I had been told was just awesome and that I had wanted to attend for years.
Palestinians are good enough to save Jews lives in Israel, but not to be in their government – Mondoweiss
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The political news from Israel really could make you lose your mind right now. A great number of the professionals who are helping Israelis fight the coronavirus pandemic are Palestinian: 18 percent of doctors and 24 percent of nurses and 47 percent of pharmacists, according to Eli Kowaz of the Israel Policy Forum.
Coronavirus, God, and Science – besacenter.org
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SARS-CoV-2 (round blue objects) on surface of cultured cells (AKA 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19). Image via NIAID-RML NIH Image Gallery Flickr CC BESA Center Perspectives Paper No.
Do the right thing, Yuli Edelstein – The Jerusalem Post
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Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein suspended Knesset activities last week in an effort to prevent the new parliament from voting on his replacement.His decisions have been protested and questioned by civil rights groups as well as the Supreme Court and add to a sense that the current state of emergency is being exploited to erode democratic norms in the State of Israel.Israel has been through numerous emergencies in the past, from the War of Independence, through the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and the Second Intifada in the 2000s.What distinguishes us from other countries in the Middle East is that our democracy has always been non-negotiable.
The Labour Leadership Race: What’s Next for the UK Jewish Community? – The Times of Israel
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Over three months after the apparent end of Corbynism, and roughly ten weeks into the resultant Labour leadership race, the UKs Jewish community continues to face uncertainty and be fearful over the direction that the Labour party will take. As it stands, there are three candidates remaining, vying to replace Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour party: Rebecca Long Bailey, Lisa Nandy and Sir Keir Starmer.
