The Jewish leader who wants Germans to read Mein Kampf

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Viewpoint: Let Germans read Mein Kampf

Judaism and hip-hop. To some, the word association may seem odd or even contradictory. But an array of young Jewish musicians aims to change that perception. Whether Orthodox, Hasidic or Reform, hip-hop artists performing in the Washington Jewish Music Festival, running until May 21, are fusing the ancient tenets of Judaism with this relatively modern musical genre, one born of American urban culture. Read full article > >

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Mr. Netanyahu, the father of the two-time Israeli prime minister Benjamin, fought for the creation of the Jewish state by lobbying in the United States.

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Benzion Netanyahu Dies at 102

Hollywood screenwriter Joe Eszterhas says Mel Gibson shelved a movie about Jewish hero Judah Maccabee because he “hates Jews”, but Gibson calls the accusation an “utter fabrication”.

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Gibson in new ‘anti-Jewish’ row

Hollywood screenwriter Joe Eszterhas says Mel Gibson shelved a movie about Jewish hero Judah Maccabee because he “hates Jews”, but Gibson calls the accusation an “utter fabrication”.

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Gibson in new ‘anti-Jewish’ row

“Iraqi Immigrants in California Town Fear a Hate Crime in a Woman’s Killing,” read a recent New York Times headline. The article reported that the murdered woman’s family had previously found a note with the words “This is my country. Go back to yours, terrorist,” taped to the door of their Orange County house. Although an ongoing police investigation has unearthed family tensions which may have led to the murder of Shaima Alawadi, the shame and the fear of violence directed at Arab and Muslim Americans is nevertheless very real. I know because I, too, am an Iraqi-American, born in Baghdad and raised here. First, some background. After graduating high school in Baghdad, my father received his medical degree from La Sorbonne in Paris. Returning to Baghdad, he founded a private hospital with an Iraqi partner also educated in Paris. My father was Jewish; his partner Shiite; their nurses Catholic nuns in the then multi-cultural, multi-ethnic Iraqi capital. Following Israel’s creation, anti-Semitism surged throughout the Arab world. My mother fled with me to Europe. Unable to get permission to legally emigrate, my father smuggled himself to Iran in a fishing boat. From there, he flew to Europe, rejoining us, and bringing us all to America. He got recertified here, and would treat thousands of patients in an office off Fifth Avenue.

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Reclaiming My Iraqi Identity

The Israeli minister of defense ordered the eviction of a group of Jewish settlers from a contested house, although the government has signaled support for more settlements.

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Israeli Police Evict Jewish Settlers From Hebron House

The one-state solution posits that the ongoing attempts to forge a two-state solution, one Israel and one Palestine, are a failure and untenable going forward. Following up on my initial piece on this subject, I now turn to the hurdles that would need to be overcome in order to accomplish a single state where both Israelis and Palestinians live in peace. The lines between separate states are blurring, argues Ahmed Moor, a student at Harvard’s Kennedy School and co-organizer of the recent One State Conference . 20% of Israelis are of Arab descent and 17% of the residents in the Occupied Territories are Jewish settlers. Israel is exercising control over Palestinian land and people in the West Bank by the construction of security walls that cleave cities and separate farmers from their land, and by destroying wells or buildings built without Israeli permits. Israeli settlements are expanding in contravention of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prevents an occupying force from moving its citizens onto occupied lands. So, the argument would go, if Israel controls who and what comes and goes in the West Bank and Gaza, exercises the right to build its own structures while destroying those built by Palestinians and maintains a security and military presence within the territories, how do we not already have a single, albeit imbalanced, state?

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Is a Single State the Solution? Tackling the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Part Two

Former Argentine President Carlos Menem will stand trial accused of obstructing an inquiry into the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural centre that killed 85 people.

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Argentina’s Menem in bomb trial

This forlorn wind-whipped rise is not much to look at. It is topped with a set of dingy trailers, a basketball hoop, a water tower and a pair of antennas. But in recent months, the hilltop settlement has taken on great symbolic weight as the focus of a legal fight whose outcome most everyone involved says could shape the direction of Israel. The case came closer to a head this week, when Israel’s supreme court upheld its previous ruling that 49 Jewish families were illegally living here on Palestinian-owned land and rejected a government plan to delay its destruction by three years. Read full article > >

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West Bank outpost at center of Israeli battle over rule of law

This article, written by MJ Rosenberg, appeared on the Huffington Post on March 27,2012 The schedule for the American Jewish Committee conference in Washington coming up in May highlights that Sohrab Ahmari, an Iranian-American, will be addressing the question: “Can Iran’s nuclear program be stopped?” Ahmari has been popping up more and more these days, especially at neoconservative organizations like the AJC.

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Neocons Do Not Speak for Iranian-Americans

Of attacks on French soldiers and Jewish school.

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Al Jazeera Has Video of Shootings

Israel’s Supreme Court rejects a government deal with Jewish settlers to delay evacuation of the illegal West Bank outpost of Migron until 2015.

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Israel court blocks outpost deal

The shooter was once a Catholic altar boy — with a surname that could have been Jewish. His father is white, neighbors say. His mother is Latina. And his family is eager to point out that some of his relatives are black. Read full article > >

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Who is George Zimmerman?

The murder of four at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, the worst act of anti-Semitic violence since 1982, was a tragedy. And yet, there was also an aspect of this killing which, up to now, has been largely overlooked. As the New York Times reported , French President Nicolas Sarkozy “has sent gendarmes and riot police officers to guard all Jewish and Muslim schools and places of worship until the killer is stopped.” Other media, pointing to the same gun being used in other murders over the past week or so, have speculated that the killer may be a serial killer – one whose victims also include French Muslim soldiers headed to Afghanistan. So here is the puzzle. French Jews and Muslims have made common cause against this extremist, even as Middle Eastern Jews and Muslims are at each others’ throats. So whether Jews and Muslims are allies or enemies seemingly depends on the quirks of geography. The same Muslim with whom I, a Jew, am allied in France becomes my fearsome enemy in the Middle East. This makes sense?

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Ending the Muslim-Jewish Blame Game