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John Kerry’s attack on liberal democracy
According to reports, the secretary of state has accepted Netanyahu’s demand that Israel be recognized as a ‘Jewish state.’ I added an important update to this post, see below. Haaretz’s Barak Ravid reported Wednesday that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is demanding that Arab leaders pressure the Palestinians to recognize Israel as “a Jewish State,”…
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Noam Sheizaf
January 8, 2014
The peace industry’s slippery slope
The Left is mobilizing around the process while ignoring troubling signs: the dangerous dynamic of the Oslo/Camp David period is already here. On Wednesday night, as members of the Israeli Knesset were getting ready to vote on a package of amendments that could push the Palestinian parties out of the Israeli parliament, political activists were…
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Noam Sheizaf
August 2, 2013
Why did progressive U.S. Jewish groups oppose divestment?
Despite having an explicit anti-settlement position, J Street and Americans for Peace Now actively opposed the Presbyterian Church’s efforts to divest from companies that profit from the occupation. By doing so, they are standing in the way of the Palestinian stride for freedom. By Naftali Kaminski and Michael Zigmond Undoubtedly, when Peter Beinart wrote his…
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July 14, 2012
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Why I am proud of my work for J Street
By Max Socol In 2010, less than a year after returning to the United States from Israel, I helped establish J Street DC Metro. Like Moriel Rothman, I was deeply disturbed by Cast Lead, which had defined my time in Israel. I felt strongly that an American initiative would be needed for the bloodshed to stop,…
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March 29, 2012
Is someone born in Jerusalem born in Israel?
Is someone born in Jerusalem born in Israel? This question is the subject of a US Supreme Court case, to be heard in the coming weeks. Israeli-American parents of Menachem Zivotofsky, born in 2002 in Jerusalem, want his birthplace to be listed in his passport as Israel – however it is currently listed as Jerusalem.…
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Mairav Zonszein
October 6, 2011
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