Israeli Public Security Minister Amir Ohana condemns the “savage violence” after three police officers suffer light wounds during clashes in the mainly ultra-Orthodox city.
Celebrities and political leaders, from 50 Cent to the Israeli Prime Minister, are taking to Twitter to remember the late broadcasting giant, who died Saturday at age 87.
Forum, Jan. 24: The missing context: Palestinians
Published: 1/23/2021 10:00:04 PM
Modified: 1/23/2021 10:00:04 PM
The missing context: Palestinians
It is unfortunate that many American Jews believe that the only context that matters is the Jewish one. Stuart Richard’s op-ed narrative (“Important context that lengthy column omitted,” Jan. 17) is deeply embedded in the Jewish psyche after two millennia of persecution culminating in the Shoah (Holocaust). It is really Mohsen Mahdawi’s Palestinian story that has been the missing context all along.
I have a different perspective, which puts me at odds with my family here and my friends in Israel. First, it is very important to state that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. The last four years have reminded Jews that there will always be anti-Semitism. Being anti-Zionist is to be opposed to an ideology of a strong Jewish nation which has become an occupier.
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Jan. 24, 2021
Officially, the Jewish branch of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) political party has just 24 members. Its co-chair, Artur Abramovych, has a surprising message for Haaretz, though: “You have to know that there are many Jews who vote for the AfD.”
The party has proved one of the most controversial in Germany since its founding in 2013 and is now preparing for general elections later this year by stepping up its anti-immigration platform and railing against the “establishment,” which has been led by outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel for the past 16 years.
The AfD shocked many in Europe when it became the third-biggest party in the Bundestag in 2017, after immigration became the number one election issue following Merkel’s decision to open the country’s borders to more than a million immigrants, mainly from Muslim countries, in 2015.