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It is not within our rights to condemn any means the Palestinians use to defend themselves and preserve their dignity.

In the last few years, many conservative commentators and political figures, including President Trump, have lashed out against extreme left-wing politicians and radical agitators as the “Fascist Left.” Many news media pundits scoffed at this phrase, incredulous at the thought that authoritarian and nationalistic socialists could ever exhibit leftist tendencies. However, many well-known historians would differ. These academicians have identified German National Socialists and Italian Fasc...

Editor’s Note: On Saturday, December 27, 2008, after eight years of continuing rocket attacks on its territory by Islamic terrorist organizations, Israel launched a full-scale military operation against the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip. Officially named Operation Cast Lead, it began with massive air-strikes against Hamas and Islamic Jihad targets, and continued with a ground incursion in which thousands of Israeli soldiers participated. After twenty-two days of fighting, Israel announced a ...

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) “working definition of anti-Semitism” has become a hot political topic, from Britain to the United States. Though the IHRA’s Committee on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial has described it as “non-legally binding,” the working definition is being used by governments, civil society groups, and political institutions as part of a concerted effort to suppress criticism of Israel. The German parliament has recently passed a resol...

Follow Jan. 18, 2021 The term “occupation,” as applied to the West Bank, no longer matches reality there. What goes on in the territories cannot be understood today as being cut off from what goes on in all the areas under Israel’s control. So says a courageous, straightforward and detailed new position paper published by B’Tselem, entitled: “A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid.” In this paper, the Israeli human rights organ...

Those we lost in 2020: Remembering the rabbis, pioneers and innovators   Merlijn Doomernik Meijer and Tedje van der Sluis during the filming of a 2018 documentary film about their marriage. Tedje died April 11, 2020, of the coronavirus. (JTA) - Theres no way to tally all those we lost in 2020, a year when we mourned even our ability to carry out time-tested rituals of grief. Among those who died this year were some of the Jewish worlds most famous and influential pillars in a range of industri...

The 5 Towns Jewish Times December 28, 2020 (JTA) — There’s no way to tally all whom we lost in 2020, a year when we mourned even our ability to carry out time-tested rituals of grief. Among those who died this year were some of the Jewish world’s most famous and influential pillars in a range of industries, realms of thought and areas of activism — from pioneer jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg to moral thought leader Rabbi Jonathan Sacks to Orthodox rabbi Norman Lamm to influentia...

Those we lost in 2020: Remembering the rabbis, pioneers, innovators and family members December 28, 2020 11:46 am Clockwise from top left: Rabbi Dovid Feinstein, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Kirk Douglas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Catie Lazarus. (Getty Images; photo design by Grace Yagel) Advertisement (JTA) — There’s no way to tally all whom we lost in 2020, a year when we mourned even our ability to carry out time-tested rituals of grief. Among those who died this year w...

At the end of November Joshua Leifer, an Associate Editor of Jewish Currents [ JC], wrote an article about the “tragedy” of Jeremy Corbyn. He did not seek the opinions of any Jewish victims of the “antisemitism” witchhunt in the Labour Party. As the first Jewish member of the party to be expelled I submitted a response. At first I was simply ignored and after a reminder, Arielle Angel, Editor-in-chief, explained that it was a lack of resources that prevented them publishing my reply. ...

Tue, 30 Jul 2019 23:04 UTC © Anonymous photographer from the Auschwitz ErkennungsdienstOne of the more worrying aspects of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism is its suggestion that drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis is necessarily anti-Semitic. It is true that, at times, such comparisons can be crude and ahistorical. But in many cases, even where we might dispute the conclusion, it seems far-fetched to attribute it ...