This law discriminates against the Palestinian-Arab citizens in Israel, granting the right to self determination exclusively to Jews in Israel and legislating discrimination against those Arab citizens, who constitute 20% of the population of Israel, in addition to other non-Jews who have..…
The law also declares Jerusalem, undivided, as Israel's capital the language as Hebrew the calendar as Zionist and Jewish the flag of Israel as the flag and Hatikvah as the state's anthem.. ..…
Wrestling with Zion . ), Jews in the United States and beyond have a role to play in the struggle for Palestinian liberation, and in some cases occupy a strategic position, but are in no way at its center. For Jews, as for everyone engaged in that struggle, the task is to work with..…
Trump's Middle East of the century has not been announced, elements of the plan have dribbled out via leaks in the media and from Palestinian leaders. In the latest bit of Chinese water torture, Pres. ..…
He apologized for attending event and distanced from friend, Hajo Meyer, Holocaust and defender of Palestinian rights. Not least, it has double border problem it forces Jews everywhere to be included in its self-definition of the nation., to the title deeds of other territories without..…
The stranglehold, of support for Israel's increasingly right-wing policies towards Palestinian people, and of Zionism, is slipping in American Jewish community, especially when you look at younger generations of American Jews like you and I.. ... Especially with the rise of Trump and the..…
That's why any Jew from around the world can come in become citizen of the state of Israel, even as Palestinian citizens of Israel have less rights and state resources than Jewish Israelis. Jews erases the 25 percent of Israeli citizens who are not Jewish and ignores West Bank,..…
And a shrinking share of Israeli Arabs believe Israel and an independent Palestinian state could coexist peacefully (74% believed this in 2013, compared with 50% in the new survey). Few Jews (10%) say Palestinian leadership is sincerely seeking a peace settlement, while few Israeli..…
Among the small proportion of Jews who say they are on the left side of the spectrum, 86% think way can be found for Israel and Palestinian state to coexist peacefully together, compared with 29% of those on the political right and 46% of those in the center.. ..…
One of Israel's top enforcement officials said Thursday Shin Bet security service would no longer ask detainees at border crossings about their political views and that regulations to that effect would be reiterated to officials at the borders, while defending the agency's detentions and questioning of..…
IN KENSINGTON, in Montgomery County suburbs, this will not have to go down as The Year Jews Stole Christmas. ..…
JERUSALEM -- Jewish settlers shot and killed three Palestinian workers last retaliation for the earlier slaying of two Jews, continuing string of tit-for-tat killings.. ..…
Reproachers tend to focus more on settlements and territory than the thornier issues of sovereignty over Jerusalem’s Holy Esplanade—known to Jews as Har HaBayit (the Temple Mount) and to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary)—and resolving the Palestinian refugee problem. ..…
(Fewer still – 12% – think Palestinian leaders are sincerely seeking peace with Israel.) And just 17% of American Jews think the continued building of settlements in the West Bank is helpful to Israel’s security; 44% say that settlement construction hurts Israel’s own security..…
In January 2009, for example, man of Palestinian descent shot and injured two Israeli Jews, allegedly in response to the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza Strip late 2008 early 2009.. ..…
↩ . . 2 “Fayyad: Jews Can Be Equal Citizens in a Palestinian State,” Haaretz, July 5, 2009 ... See “New AntiSemitic Animated Film Vilifies the Palestinian Authority—PA Security Forces Help Stereotypical Blood-Drinking Jews,” Middle East Media Research..…
The 2006 AJC poll found that while 60 percent of non-Orthodox American Jews under the age of forty support a Palestinian state, that figure drops to 25 percent among the Orthodox. ... Orthodox Jews, by contrast, were more likely to see the Palestinian people as the enemy,..…
While Abbas droned on about his government’s commitment to peace and non-violence as a reason for support from the international community, Netanyahu railed on Abbas for “proudly paying Palestinian terrorists who murder Jews,” referring to the PA pension program for the families of..…
This law discriminates against the Palestinian Arab citizens in Israel, granting the right to self-determination exclusively to Jews in Israel, thus legalizing discrimination against those Arab citizens who constitute 20% of the population of Israel. . ..…
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