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Benny Gantz is taking Israel back to the future
Gantz has become the face of the Israeli center today: racist, militarist, and committed to the perpetual subjugation of Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line.
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Joshua Leifer
February 20, 2020
Why are American Jews so afraid of one of their own?
There is nothing radical about Bernie Sanders’ views on Israel, yet the American Jewish establishment seems bent on portraying the Democratic front-runner as an anti-Semite.
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Joshua Leifer
February 16, 2020
The Israeli center’s road to endless occupation
'Catch-67' claims to find a middle ground between the left's and right's concerns over the occupation. Its real proposal is to keep the status quo intact.
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Joshua Leifer
January 23, 2020
For J Street, holding Israel accountable is still a step too far
J Street's 2019 conference heralded a new willingness to challenge unconditional military aid to Israel. But the organization was quick to reaffirm the status quo.
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Joshua Leifer
November 7, 2019
Over 100 Jewish scholars condemn Trump admin for exploiting anti-Semitism
More than 100 Jewish academics sign open letter demanding the Trump administration stop exploiting anti-Semitism in order to quash criticism of Israel on college campuses. Jewish academics are fighting back against the Trump administration’s attempts to silence criticism of Israel on college campuses. More than 100 Jewish scholars have signed an open letter to the U.S. Department…
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Joshua Leifer
October 6, 2019
Israel’s one-state reality is sowing chaos in American politics
Until U.S. lawmakers and major Jewish organizations adjust to the current one-state reality, the acrimony that has marked the last several years under Netanyahu and Trump will only intensify. For decades, the two-state solution has been the central pillar of the bipartisan pro-Israel consensus in Washington. Since the signing of the Oslo Accords, every single U.S. administration has been…
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Joshua Leifer
August 26, 2019
Thousands of Jews protest ICE raids across U.S., 44 arrested in NYC
A growing movement of American Jews is mobilizing against U.S. immigration policy across the country. ‘We’re fighting for the soul of our country, for our very humanity.’ NEW YORK CITY — Hundreds of American Jewish demonstrators staged a sit-in at one of Amazon’s flagship stores in New York on Sunday, to protest the company’s ties…
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Joshua Leifer
August 12, 2019
The American Jews invoking the Holocaust to talk about Trump’s migrant camps
In the face of dire conditions at U.S. border patrol facilities, many American Jews are increasingly unafraid to invoke their people’s history to warn against what may come next. Weeks after New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s comments comparing immigration detention centers along the U.S.-Mexico border to concentration camps, reports of dire conditions at U.S. border patrol facilities continue to…
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Joshua Leifer
July 10, 2019
Tapping the ‘hidden spring’ of anti-Semitism in Orban’s Hungary
In today's Hungary, overt anti-Semitism has been supplanted by dog-whistle politics, Holocaust revisionism, and an us-versus-them mentality that has created a rupture between Jewish institutions. And then there is Aurora, the leftist, Jewish activist community defying it all.
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Joshua Leifer
October 12, 2018
Israel’s different responses to Jewish and Palestinian stone throwers
Jewish settlers who throw stones at Israeli forces hardly face serious consequences. For Palestinian stone throwers, the consequences can mean death. In the West Bank, the consequences for throwing stones at Israeli soldiers differ dramatically, depending on who’s doing the throwing. The same act, when carried out by Jews in the West Bank, is met — often…
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Joshua Leifer
June 17, 2018
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