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How many Jews need to be attacked in America before progressives speak up?
Perhaps it's fitting that May is Jewish American Heritage Month. After all, despite our success in America and the richness and beauty of our faith and culture, there may be no more consistent part of our heritage as Jews than to be violently attacked, viciously demeaned, and utterly disregarded as we cry out for support. In that respect, some of our fellow Americans have been doing an excellent job marking the month.
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Noura Erakat: Palestinians feel dehumanized - CNN Video
Noura Erakat, Human Rights Attorney and Assistant Professor at Rutgers University, speaks to Becky Anderson about what it feels like to be Palestinian during the ongoing violence with Israel, and her thoughts on Hamas' rocket attacks.
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Israeli airstrikes kill at least 33 in Gaza Strip in deadliest attack so far
At least 33 Palestinians have been killed in airstrikes and 50 injured, health officials in the Gaza Strip have said, in the deadliest single attack since fighting broke out between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas a week ago.
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Tareq Baconi | Sheikh Jarrah and After · LRB 14 May 2021
It is true that many of the Palestinians facing forcible transfer from Sheikh Jarrah settled in the neighbourhood after...
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Gal Gadot Gets Backlash for Comments on Israel-Palestine Violence
Gal Gadot waded into the topic of the current wave of Israel-Palestine violence and, not surprisingly, is receiving some backlash online. The Israel-born Wonder Woman star was trending on Twitter on Wednesday after posting on Instagram the following: “My heart breaks. My country is at war. I worry for my family, my friends. I worry for my people. This is a vicious cycle that has been going on for far too long.
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Stop evictions in East Jerusalem neighbourhood immediately, UN rights office urges Israel
The UN’s human rights office (OHCHR), on Friday, called on Israel to immediately halt all forced evictions, including those in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East Jerusalem, as well as to exercise maximum restraint in the use of force while ensuring safety and security there.
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Palestinian health ministry says nine killed in air raid in northern Gaza after Hamas launched rockets at Jerusalem.
Palestinian health ministry says nine killed in air raid in northern Gaza after Hamas launched rockets at Jerusalem.
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Leading Democrats demand Washington stops Israel's East Jerusalem violence and evictions
Several US Democratic politicians have condemned Israel's campaign to...
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Israel is committing the crime of apartheid, rights watchdog says
Human Rights Watch has accused Israeli officials of committing the crimes of apartheid and persecution, claiming the government enforces an overarching policy to “maintain the domination by Jewish Israelis over Palestinians”.
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Jewish people in support of Professor Miller
Professor Hugh Brady President and Vice-Chancellor University of Bristol Dear Professor Brady, We are all Jewish or of Jewish origin. We view with dismay the vicious personal, professional and political attacks directed against Professor David Miller at the University of Bristol for critical remarks he recently made about Zionism. Professor Miller was speaking at an event alongside notable anti-racism campaigners, many of them Jewish – including Norman Finkelstein and Ronnie Kasrils, a former minister in Nelson Mandela’s government. We are extremely disturbed by the calls from pro-Israel organisations demanding Professor Miller be...
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Israel Gives Vaccine to Far-Off Allies, as Palestinians Wait
The donations will go to nations like the Czech Republic and Honduras that pledged to move diplomats to Jerusalem. Critics say Israel has an obligation to inoculate Palestinians under its occupation.
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Israeli forces leave 41 children homeless after razing Palestinian village, UN says
Demolitions used as a ‘key means’ to ‘coerce Palestinians to leave their homes’
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Palestinian in critical condition after 70-day hunger strike
Maher al-Akhras began his hunger strike after he was arrested and placed into administrative detention in late July.
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Leaks show Chelsea owner Abramovich funded Israeli settler group
Russian oligarch’s firms donated £74m to Elad, who are accused of trying to seize Palestinian neighbourhoods
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Israel's cabinet meets to finalise plans to annex parts of the West Bank
Calls for sanctions are intensifying as the cabinet meets and Netanyahu awaits US approval
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'Inequitable': Pope indirectly criticises Trump's Israel-Palestine plan
Pope Francis on Sunday criticised "inequitable solutions" to the Palestine-Israel conflict, in his first remarks since the US President Donald Trump announced his controversial Middle East plan last month. Speaking at a conference of bishops from the Mediterranean in the southern Italian city of Bari, the pope appeared to give a thumbs down to Trump's plan, without naming it.
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Decades After a Palestinian American Activist Was Assassinated in California, Two Suspects in His Killing Are Living Openly in Israel
Baruch Ben-Yosef, who was born in the United States as Andy Green, and Keith “Israel” Fuchs were named suspects immediately after Alex Odeh’s 1988 killing.
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UN releases list of 112 companies with ties to Israeli settlements
The UN human rights office released Wednesday a long-anticipated report which names companies with ties to Israeli West Bank settlements.
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Israeli Consul General to New York was shocked as at least a 100 students staged a walkout during a talk he was about to give at Harvard Law School
Over 100 students staged a walkout during Israeli envoy Dani Dayan's talk at Harvard ...
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Products from Israeli settlements must be labelled, EU court rules
European court of justice says origin must be identified in decision likely to anger Israel
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