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Protecting Jewish student rights on college campuses

By Melanie Goldberg/JNS.org BROOKLYN, N.Y. (JNS) — It all started when I took out some anti-BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) information sheets at a Brooklyn College-sponsored event last year that featured Omar Barghouti, the founder of the BDS movement. You’d expect that of any student opposed to the speaker’s anti-Israel views. I planned to challenge Barghouti […]

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

French National Assembly seeks recognition of Palestine

PARIS (Press Release) – The National Assembly, France’s lower house of parliament, adopted today, by a vote of 339 to 151, a resolution urging the French government to recognize the state of Palestine as a step to achieve a resolution of the conflict. “The path to sustainable, permanent Israeli-Palestinian peace is direct bilateral negotiations, and not

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Middle East, USA

JNS news briefs: December 2, 2014

Report: Hezbollah intends maritime siege in next war (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Hezbollah has a stock of advanced sea-to-sea missiles with which it intends to impose a maritime siege on Israel if the two sides enter another war, Lebanese media outlets reported on Monday. According to the reports, Hezbollah apparently has an arsenal of sophisticated Russian-made

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Middle East, USA

Venezuelan lawmaker: Zionists, Bushes funded Hitler

NEW YORK (WJC) — A lawmaker of Venezuela’s governing party recently told Lebanese television that Zionists had bankrolled Hitler prior to World War II and suggested that “no representatives of global Zionism” had been killed during the Nazi Holocaust for that reason. Speaking in Arabic, Adel El Zabayar, a member of Venezuela’s National Assembly born

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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USA

Abbas, Netanyahu, Obama all slip in popular polls

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–It would be prime material for a stand up comedian if it was not the reality that could do us all a lot of harm. The current triumvirate dealing with three interdependent national entities, with more than the average capacity to affect wider catastrophes, have all been operating as political caricatures, making

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

How do we transmit culture?

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — “Memetics,” or the study of memes, is a very popular discipline among cultural researchers now, particularly as it concerns new media like viral videos. But no one seems to know what a meme really is. Originally coined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, the “meme” transfers cultural information much the way that

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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

How Israel, U.S. ‘manage’ minority problems

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Overlapping events in Jerusalem and Ferguson, Missouri make it timely to consider one of the most sensitive of policy issues in both Israel and the United States, with emerging similarities in European countries that are no longer homogeneous ethnically. Even the label “managing minorities” will be viewed by some as disparaging, arrogant,

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

Zionism unites Dershowitz, Cruz

NEW YORK (Press Release)– A record crowd of over 1,100 people attended the Zionist Organization of America’s (ZOA) 116th Louis B. Brandeis Award National Dinner on Sunday, November 23 at the New York City’s elegant Grand Hyatt Hotel. Major ZOA donors provided tables for 261 student activists from various universities around the country. Rising Republican star and

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Middle East, USA

Columnist Beinart to discuss Israel here Dec. 15

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)— Peter Beinart, a former editor of the New Republic and currentlyh a columnist for Haaretz, will discuss his insights into recent developments in Israel and the region, the Israel-Diaspora relationship and the changing dynamics around Israel on college campuses at 7 p.m. Monday, December 15th at  at Congregation Beth Israel, 9001 Towne Center Drive,

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Middle East, San Diego Calendar, USA

JNS news briefs: November 24, 2014

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, source of past controversy on Israel, to resign (JNS.org) U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, a past source of controversy due to his statements about Israel, will resign. The New York Times, citing senior U.S. officials, reported Monday that President Barack Obama decided to push for Hagel’s resignation “as a recognition

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Middle East, USA

ADL denounces Turkish governor’s threats against shul

NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Sunday, Nov. 23, expressed outrage at a Turkish governor’s threats to turn a century-old synagogue into a museum — as punishment, he says, for Israel’s alleged actions against Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque. Dursun Sahin, governor of the province of Edirne, said he was turning the 107-year old Buyuk

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