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The National
April 18, 2018
But at what cost, both to the native Palestinians on whose homeland a Jewish state was built and to the moral character of those who settled there? And has it really provided the sanctuary it promised? Those questions should be especially troubling to Israelis in the wake of three weeks in which IsraeliÃÂ ...
Jewish Journal
April 18, 2018
To the contrary, as Jews were claiming their political legitimacy, the forces that have historically haunted our people, the enemies of our community and the emerging opponents of the Jewish state, were reinventing their case against Judaism and Zionism. The seeds of modern anti-Semitism would beÃÂ ...
Forward
April 18, 2018
The leader said that for students who love Israel, it's often better to have the Jewish state be more obscure rather than at the forefront of everyone's mind. In other words: “Make Israel Azerbaijan again.” The vote, lasting from April 11-18, is open to students of Barnard College, the women's school affiliatedÃÂ ...
World Israel News
April 18, 2018
Print Email. WIN's Steve Leibowitz speaks with Israelis and tourists at Jerusalem's First Station asking them how they plan to celebrate the Jewish state's 70th birthday and what they wish for the Jewish state on this special day.
Florida Courier
March 31, 2018
The CBC asked the RJC for help and heard crickets. What kind of fake Black-Jewish relationship is this? And while Israel is kicking Black Africans out of Israel, she is blocking Ethiopian Jews from reuniting with family members living in the so-called Jewish state – which seems to welcome White Jews Only.
Canadian Jewish News (blog)
March 30, 2018
Shai DeLuca-Tamasi is an interior designer and media personality in Toronto. Since 2011, he's been appearing on CityTV's morning show, Cityline. Born and raised in Toronto, DeLuca-Tamasi moved to Israel after high school and served in the Israel Defence Forces. He's an outspoken advocate for IsraelÃÂ ...
Haaretz
March 24, 2018
Israel's values as a Jewish state differentiate it from other democratic states. There are many democracies around the world. Only Israel is not just a democratic state but a Jewish one as well. “The Jewish state” is the state of the Jewish People; it is a state to which any Jew has a right to immigrate – theÃÂ ...
Jewish Journal
March 22, 2018
We are still arguing among ourselves over whether the two-state solution is dead, but here's a question that is rarely, if ever, asked: Exactly when did the idea of peaceful co-existence between a Jewish state and an Arab state first enter the international diplomatic conversation? The surprising answer isÃÂ ...
+972 Magazine
March 22, 2018
Prior to Israel's founding in 1948, the village residents lived northwest of where the village currently stands. Like many Bedouin, they were expelled during and after the 1948 war, and like most Arab citizens of the nascent Jewish state, they were placed under strict martial law until 1966. Bedouin inspect theÃÂ ...
International Middle East Media Center
March 22, 2018
We are not only a democratic state but also a Jewish state.” Finally, voices of protest have been raised over the new draft bill's clause “allowing the establishment of residential communities for Jews alone” (something that even a member of Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid party likened to “apartheid”). But PalestinianÃÂ ...
Mondoweiss
March 22, 2018
Other ultra-Orthodox groups identified with the self-proclaimed Jewish state and integrated into government institutions with their constituents now participating in Israel's parliament. Leading political parties like Shas and Agudat Yisrael have members who are ultra-Orthodox yet ardently support the state ofÃÂ ...
Haaretz
March 9, 2018
Thank you, thank you both, for all that you do for the Jewish people and the Jewish state," he said." [Haaretz; Pic] BUZZ ON BALFOUR -- "Netanyahu mocks reasons behind corruption probes" by Orly Azoulay: "Speaking at the Economic Club in Washington as part of his five-day trip to the US, NetanyahuÃÂ ...
Haaretz
March 9, 2018
The Jewish component in Israel's definition as Jewish and democratic not only hasn't been neglected in legislation, it even preceded the human-rights Basic Laws by more than 40 years. The 1950 Law of Return (another magnificent piece of Knesset legislation) defines precisely what a Jewish state is: theÃÂ ...
Palestine Chronicle
February 17, 2018
Palestinian revolt against the Jewish state is precisely the idea that Facebook is suppressing. Facebook does not only censor what any reasonable person can recognize as “hate speech” or “incitement to violence” against an individual or group — “to keep Facebook safe” as Facebook advertises in its warning messages;ÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
February 12, 2018
“It really bothered me that no other alternatives [to the law] were discussed. The discussion was restricted and revolved around the framework created by the right, which focused on the Jewish State. It lacked mention of a minority group. Our status, our rights. Twenty percent of the Israeli population wereÃÂ ...
Middle East Monitor
December 31, 1999
The Israeli Knesset is fast tracking a “nation-state bill” which opposition groups have denounced as “institutionalising the apartheid regime”. Knesset members approved the final draft of the bill defining Israel exclusively as a nation for Jews. The “Zionism's flagship bill”, as it's been described by IsraeliÃÂ ...
Jewish Chronicle
December 31, 1999
They were rejoicing at the United Nations resolution calling for the establishment of a Jewish state in their ancient homeland, but Benzion Netanyahu, then executive director of the United Zionists-Revisionists of America, had drafted and published a large advertisement in the New York Times titledÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
Many of Israel's founders believed the Jewish state was necessary because the Jewish people would always be under the threat of destruction, others could not be relied upon to protect the Jews, and the preservation of the Jewish people required a country of their own. Or, to put it with typical IsraeliÃÂ ...
The National
February 18, 2018
Yair Lapid, head of the centrist opposition Yesh Atid party, said Israel should recall its ambassador immediately in response to Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki's comments, which he called "anti-Semitism of the oldest kind". "The perpetrators are not the victims. The Jewish state will not allow theÃÂ ...
Palestine Chronicle
February 18, 2018
Palestinian revolt against the Jewish state is precisely the idea that Facebook is suppressing. Facebook does not only censor what any reasonable person can recognize as “hate speech” or “incitement to violence” against an individual or group — “to keep Facebook safe” as Facebook advertises in its warning messages;ÃÂ ...
Jefferson City News Tribune
February 16, 2018
Dozens of people packed into a Missouri House of Representatives hearing room Tuesday evening to testify on House Bill 2179, which would prohibit public entities from contracting with some companies that boycott the Jewish state. The “Anti-Discrimination Against Israel Act” would prohibit Missouri fromÃÂ ...
Mondoweiss
February 15, 2018
The latest study of U.S. Jewish attitudes towards Israel only confirms the trend– Zionism is tanking; there is growing indifference to the idea of a Jewish state among younger, unaffiliated Jews. Here's that survey of over 3500 Bay Area Californians, 96 percent of whom consider themselves Jewish or partlyÃÂ ...
Haaretz
February 14, 2018
"The leader of the Jewish state simply should not accept gifts from billionaires," Bennett continued. "That's not how to educate a young generation, and that's not how we've been educated." Meanwhile, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, another coalition partner, on Wednesday insisted that there was noÃÂ ...
Mondoweiss
February 14, 2018
But remember – the Supreme Court is essentially Zionist, and therefore it is always biased towards the “Jewish State”. Since that concept cannot be challenged in any meaningful way, and since Shaked is actually voicing Zionist ideology honestly and vociferously, one is left with very little meaningfulÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
February 13, 2018
“It really bothered me that no other alternatives [to the law] were discussed. The discussion was restricted and revolved around the framework created by the right, which focused on the Jewish State. It lacked mention of a minority group. Our status, our rights. Twenty percent of the Israeli population wereÃÂ ...
WFMZ Allentown
February 6, 2018
He said there is no “greater privilege” than representing the Jewish state. Dayan illustrated what he believes the creation of the state of Israel has done for the Jewish people by telling a story of his late father, who at six months old in the early 1920's was brought over the border from Ukraine into Poland.
Forward
February 5, 2018
Jewish men gather to watch the funeral of leading spiritual authority for ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel and around the world, Rabbi Aaron Yehuda Leib Shteinman, in the central Israeli city of Bnei Brak on December 12, 2017. Shteinman, who also wielded heavy influence on Israeli ultra-Orthodox politicalÃÂ ...
Haaretz
January 29, 2018
Anyone who is reluctant to say that he wants to live in a Jewish state has to explain why he doesn't want to live in an Arab state. But it seems to me that the explanation of the desire to live in a Jewish state, in addition to having the advantage of honesty, is also a more enlightened explanation, and moreÃÂ ...
Haaretz
January 12, 2018
The forces of the Jewish hard right and the Jewish hard left have united. The Likud Central Committee and the Jewish Voice for Peace have joined the same team, along with other extremist forces on the right and the left. Both are intent on establishing a bi-national state in place of the Jewish state of Israel.
Newsy
January 12, 2018
Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs added that the boycott organizations' goal is "to destroy Israel as a Jewish state" and that no other country "would allow visitors who come to harm the state to enter it." The vast majority of American Jewish organizations strongly condemn the BDS movement. And theÃÂ ...
Israel Today
January 9, 2018
What's notable is that Aziz not only defends Ibrahim and his visit to Tel Aviv University, but goes on to praise the Jewish state itself as a safe haven for all, both Jews and Arabs. First, Aziz turns the table by taunting the raucous Arab students, asking, "Why do you study there? Aren't you traitors, too? Why notÃÂ ...
Jewish Exponent
January 3, 2018
As a result, Israel proper would remain a majority Jewish state with room to grow into most of the West Bank. The Palestinians could have several states: Gaza/Sinai; Saudi Arabia/Palestine, and a northern state across Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and part of the West Bank. All of the inhabitants of the regionÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
January 3, 2018
Jewish identity politics complicate the Palestinian response to the existence of Israel as a Jewish state. Sometimes it seems impossible to address the crux of the matter, the Jewish state Nakba in Palestine, without being subjected to attacks one way or another. On the last day of 2017, I posted a meme onÃÂ ...
TheTower.org
January 2, 2018
The initiative, which was approved by an executive decree last week, marks the largest monetary investment yet by Israel toward combating the BDS movement against the Jewish State. The plan calls for setting up a non-profit organization managed by a board comprised of government officials and privateÃÂ ...
Middle East Eye
January 1, 2018
What Oz says, and is widely believed, is that there is no solution available to Palestine unless there is a sovereign independent Jewish state along 1967 borders as the essential core of any credible diplomatic package. All alternatives would, in other words, not be "pragmatic, practical", according to Oz andÃÂ ...
Toronto Sun
December 23, 2017
But ever since it has treated the Jewish state with open contempt, driven largely by the 22-nation Arab League and the 57 member countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. For example, Israel was blocked from membership in its natural cluster of countries at the UN, the Asian Group, preventingÃÂ ...
Jewish Policy Center (blog)
December 21, 2017
He never mentions Palestinian rejection of U.S.-Israeli and Israeli-only offers of a West Bank and Gaza Strip country in exchange for peace with Israel as a Jewish state in 2000, 2001 and 2008, or spurning of U.S. “frameworks” for talks toward such an outcome in 2014 and 2016. Cohen obsesses over “theÃÂ ...
The Denver Post
December 10, 2017
President Donald Trump's statement on Jerusalem stands with President Harry S. Truman's recognition of Israel as one of the two most significant statements ever made by any U.S. president regarding the future of the Jewish state. Palestinian and Muslim fury reflects both the understanding that their hopeÃÂ ...
Forward
December 11, 2017
In the lead up to the day when David Ben-Gurion read aloud Israel's Declaration of Independence in 1948, there was a fierce battle in the U.S. Administration surrounding whether to recognize the new Jewish State. Secretary of State and five-star U.S. Army General George C. Marshall led a large andÃÂ ...
rabble.ca
December 11, 2017
This could break the impass Israel-Palestine. It doesn't rule out East Jerusalem as capital of the State of Palestine. Much of the "Left" put all the blame on Israel. Many Palestinians must wish that the Arabs (Egypt, Syria, Iraq) had accepted Israel when it was only the 50% that the UN General Assembly gaveÃÂ ...
The Denver Post
December 11, 2017
President Donald Trump's statement on Jerusalem stands with President Harry S. Truman's recognition of Israel as one of the two most significant statements ever made by any U.S. president regarding the future of the Jewish state. Palestinian and Muslim fury reflects both the understanding that their hopeÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
November 21, 2017
Based on that view, it recommended the partition of Palestine into a Jewish state and a Palestinian state, the latter to be incorporated into ...
Jewish Exponent
October 13, 2017
Vukmir said in a statement, “Boycotts of Israel must be fought because they do not just attack the Jewish state. This propaganda campaign is ...
The Japan Times
October 13, 2017
PARIS – The United States announced Thursday it is pulling out of U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization because of what ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
October 11, 2017
BUCHAREST, Romania (JTA) — When the roof of the Jewish State Theater ... The Jewish State Theater had been a major cultural institution for ...
Wicked Local Newton
September 28, 2017
The American Jewish community has reached a great divide, one that will likely lead to a permanent schism within a community which for over ...
Mondoweiss
September 26, 2017
Easy, Jews have been victims throughout history, cumulating in the Shoah, Americans have not. Jews need their own Jewish state where they ...
Middle East Eye
December 31, 1999
LONDON - There is no official evidence that Britain supported the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine through the Balfour Declaration, ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
October 3, 2017
“We expect everyone who talks about a peace process to recognize the State of Israel and, of course, to recognize a Jewish state, and we areÃÂ ...
Wicked Local Newton
September 28, 2017
The American Jewish community has reached a great divide, one that will likely lead to a permanent schism within a community which for overÃÂ ...
