Community convenes Sunday for Festival of Jewish Life in Bloomington – The Pantagraph
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BLOOMINGTON Good neighbors make for a good community gathering.
Changing Attitudes towards Zionism among American JewsAn Interview with Zachary Lockman – MERIP
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Zachary Lockman is Professor of Middle Eastern studies and history at New York University and a long-time MERIP contributor and supporter. He has authored a number of books and articles, including Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954, with Joel Beinin (1987),Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948(1996) and Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism(2004; second edition, 2010)
Berkeley Law Faculty Condemn Refusing Zionist Speakers – Inside Higher Ed
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A group of professors at the University of California, Berkeley, Law School signed a statement protesting a decision by some student groups to adopt a bylaw not to host Zionist speakers. We hereby endorse the principle of free and open speech at the law school, the statement reads
Ben Bril: The Dutch Jewish boxing champion sent to Nazi camps by Olympic team-mate – BBC
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Bril was a champion Dutch boxer and Holocaust survivor Sitting in his boxing gym just outside Amsterdam, former Dutch champion Barry Groenteman is reminiscing about the times he used to visit his grandmother. When she was living in a retirement home and he would go to see her, he'd often come across an older man "who was always shadowboxing: in the hall, with the nurses". Groenteman continues: "He'd show me his ring, with the Star of David on it
Nazi sympathizers vandalize small Spanish town once named Fort Kill the Jews – The Times of Israel
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JTA Three apparent Nazi sympathizers have been arrested in connection with a rash of antisemitic vandalism in a tiny Spanish town whose name for nearly 400 years was Castrillo Matajudios or Fort Kill the Jews. For years, the town, which changed its name in 2015 to Castrillo Mota De Judios, or Fort Jews Hill, has been plagued by antisemitic graffiti
Off the wall: What the Jewish man slurred in leaked LA city council recording has to say about it – Forward
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Protestors outside City Hall call for the resignations of L.A. City Council members Kevin de Leon and Gil Cedillo in the wake of a leaked audio recording. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images By Louis KeeneOctober 16, 2022 The most jarring remarks in a leaked audio conversation among three Los Angeles city council members and a local labor leader target a Black child the son of a white council member accused of using the boy as a political prop
"U.S. Jews have to get their act together," says the former president of the United States – msnNOW
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Provided by Salon Donald Trump Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the Faith & Freedom Coalition June 17, 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee. Seth Herald/Getty Images Early Sunday morning, former President Donald Trump fired up Truth Social to express views that many are viewing asanti-Semitic.
Trump: I could "easily" be Israel’s prime minister – Axios
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Former President Trump said Sunday that he "could easily be" the prime minister of Israel in a post on his Truth Social account, in which he also said that Jewish people in the U.S.
Netanyahu memoir: Dems feeling more leftist pressure on Israel than they publicly admit – Forward
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a protest against the Israeli government on April 6, 2022. Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images By Jacob KornbluhOctober 16, 2022 Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu writes in a new book that President Joe Biden pushed him last May to end the heavy airstrikes in the Gaza strip in response to 4,000 rockets fired at Israel because he was facing pressure from congressional Democrats. According to the Gaza health ministry, 243 Palestinians, including 66 children, and 12 Israelis were killed in the 11 days of intense fighting between Hamas and Israel.
Its driven by fear: Ukrainians and Russians with Jewish roots flee to Israel – The Guardian
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A visit to Jerusalems only boxing club is like stepping into the past: the former bomb shelter in a working-class neighbourhood of Jerusalem is a riot of old-school paraphernalia, and a CD of 1970s disco provides the soundtrack for training sessions.
