Palestinian Schools Have a Problemand Are Running Out of Time – Foreign Policy
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When former U.S. President Donald Trump cut off U.S.
Readers Write: Elaborating on the significance of Great Neck adopting IHRA’s definition of antisemitism – Readers Write – The Island Now
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This fall, my hometown of Great Neck, New York was one of several Long Island communities that adopted the working IHRA definition of antisemitism. With a concerning rise in antisemitic incidents in cities across the United States and university campuses, the IHRA definition is an incredibly useful tool to help city officials, law enforcement and academic administrations understand antisemitism, and undermine those who seek to seek to do harm and spread bigotry. A few significant examples denoted by the IHRA definition include Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion, accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group, or even for acts committed by non-Jews, or accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, and denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.
Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin Review: Clash of the Titans – The Wall Street Journal
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In the halcyon age before Covid, I caught a flight to a small town in Germany to see an opera about love between two philosophers.
My Fellow Progressives Are Always Asking Me if Anti-Zionism is Antisemitic. Here’s What I Tell Them – Jewish Exponent
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Oren Jacobson By Oren Jacobson Ive spent most of the last decade focused on grassroots organizing and capacity building inside the American progressive movement. From helping build the largest leadership development organization on the left, to launching a first-of-its-kind organization to mobilize male allies into the fight to protect and expand reproductive freedom, Ive proudly helped elect progressive change makers and pass landmark legislation. Ive done all of that as a Jew who wears a kippah in public, as someone who, statistically speaking, shouldnt exist.
Leaders of anti-Zionist cult Lev Tahor to stand trial in New York – The Jerusalem Post
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But thats the route taken in recent weeks by some 70 members of a small Orthodox sect that has been trotting the globe for more than 40 years in search of a safe haven to practice a fundamentalist version of Judaism one that has led the Israeli press to dub it the Jewish Taliban. cnxps.cmd.push(function () { cnxps({ playerId: '36af7c51-0caf-4741-9824-2c941fc6c17b' }).render('4c4d856e0e6f4e3d808bbc1715e132f6'); }); Lev Tahors choice of Iran is perhaps connected to its espousal of anti-Zionism
Singer who performed at anti-Zionist event wants to represent Israel – The Jerusalem Post
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Israeli-Turkish singer Linet Menashe said that she wishes to represent Israel for the Eurovision Song Contest, despite controversies that the singer had performed at an anti-Zionist conference, Ynet reported on Monday.Solely using her first name as her official stage name, Linet, 46, is a contestant on season 4 of X Factor Israel, a reality TV singing competition that will pick the Israeli representative to the Eurovision Song Contest, Ynet news reported back in April. Linet received harsh criticism from Israeli audiences as a result of this information
