Published by Reuters By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) – Leaders of the Islamist movement Hamas swore defiance in a choreographed display of force on Wednesday as one of the most hardline right-wing governments in Israel’s history looks set to take office later this month. Speaking before a sea of green flags in Gaza City’s Katiba
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Published by Reuters By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Legal advisers to Israel’s parliament and outgoing government on Wednesday criticised a bid by a far-right politician to give himself expanded powers as next police minister, warning that his proposed changes clashed with democratic principles. Itamar Ben-Gvir of the Jewish Power party was promised the National
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By Alex Gordon HAIFA, Israel — On March 1, 1881, in Russia, members of the People’s Will assassinated Tsar Alexander II. The murder, to which the Jews had nothing to do, triggered the largest wave of Jewish pogroms in the 19th century due to a blood libel against Jews falsely accused of complicity in the
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Alex Gordon, International, Jewish History, Opinion
(JNS) Sefaria, a provider of digital Jewish texts at no cost, on Tuesday launched its offering of the four foundational texts of the Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidic movement. The newly available texts include a fully bilingual edition of the Tanya, the cornerstone philosophical text of the Chabad movement; a Hebrew version of Torah Ohr, a 19th-century compilation
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish Religion, USA
By Rabbi Ari Leubitz (JNS) Community. It comes in all forms—and it is something we each rely on for support. Sometimes we are born into our community and inherit it from our parents. Other times, it’s a group or connection we grow and build and develop for ourselves. As Jews, we have an instant community
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Opinion, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Published by AlterNet Antisemitism dominates the news. But the media isn’t focused on rising hate crimes, a study on antisemitism in hiring or a presidential candidate and former president dining with a Holocaust denier. Antisemitism is only dominating the news because Kanye West is saying blatantly antisemitic things over and over again. (Really he’s just
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USA
NEW YORK (Press Release) — University of Haifa on Monday conferred honorary doctorates on President Bill Clinton and New York University (NYU) President Emeritus John Sexton at the NYU campus. The University honored Clinton for his commitment to the State of Israel over the years, from promoting coexistence in the Middle East to his close
Published by DPA The right-wing extremist who carried out a deadly 2019 attack on a synagogue in Halle, Germany, briefly held two prison employees hostage and was injured as he was overpowered by other staff inside the facility near the city of Magdeburg. Stephan Balliet, 30, took two prison employees hostage in order to force
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Published by Reuters By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Tuesday to govern in the interests of all Israelis, as religious-nationalist parties slated to join his new coalition pressed ahead with contested legislation. One bill submitted for preliminary parliamentary review could potentially grant Defence Ministry powers to far-right politician Bezalel
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Israel
By Sam Ben-Meir “Anarchism is an aspect of socialism (among many others) that those of us wishing socialism, or some comparable form of resistance, to survive will have to think about again, this time without a prearranged sneer.” T. J. Clark, Farewell to an Idea It is 180 years since the birth of Pyotr Kropotkin
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International, Opinion, Sam Ben-Meir
(JNS) The relationship between Russia and Iran is becoming “a full-scale defense partnership,” warned U.S. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby on Friday. “Support is flowing both ways” as Moscow offers the Islamic Republic “an unprecedented level of military and technical support” in exchange for drones and possibly ballistic missiles to deploy in Ukraine, Kirby
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International, Middle East, USA
Published by Raw Story On Monday, a new report for Business Insider outlined how former President Donald Trump’s controversial Mar-a-Lago meeting with antisemitic rapper Kanye “Ye” West and neo-Nazi livestreamer Nick Fuentes could create rifts in a major right-wing theocratic ideology that has been gathering steam in the Trump and Biden years. That meeting, wrote
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USA
Published by XXL Mag Kanye West‘s continuous hate speech has earned him the title as the biggest antisemite of 2022 from a watchdog organization. On Sunday (Dec. 11), Stop Antisemitism, the “leading non-partisan American based organization fighting antisemitism,” announced they named Ye 2022’s Antisemite of the Year. The news was revealed via the group’s Twitter
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By Heidi Gantwerk SAN DIEGO — As I prepared my remarks for last week’s Town Hall on Antisemitism, once again I came back to the need to balance the light with the dark. It is essential that we pay attention to the darkness surrounding us; that we stay strong and resilient and outspoken. But it
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Heidi Gantwerk, Israel, Opinion, San Diego County