Israel

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• SOURCE: Forward
  11/19/2020
  

  Effi Eitam Leading Yad Vashem Disgraces the Memory of the 6 Million

  by Derek Penslar and Susannah Heschel

  "The politicization and radicalization of the institution will rob it of its legitimacy. Yad Vashem cannot fulfill its responsibilities with Effi Eitam at its helm."

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• SOURCE: Jerusalem Post
  11/15/2020
  

  Dozens Of Academics Oppose New Controversial Yad Vashem Chair

  Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt is among the academics criticizing the appointment of a right-wing politician to head the Israeli Holocaust memorial and educational center, arguing that his remarks toward Palestinians and Arab Israelis are disqualifying. 

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• SOURCE: Haaretz
  11/8/2020
  

  Revered Polish Jew, Holocaust Survivor Joins Protests Over Top Appointment at Yad Vashem

  A prominent Polish Holocaust survivor has objected to the appointment of Effi Eitam, an Israeli politician and former military commander, to chair the directorate of the Holocaust memorial because of inflammatory statements calling for the deportation of Palestinans from the West Bank and calling Arab Israelis a "fifth column." 

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• 11/1/2020
  

  Mythologies Without End: The U.S., Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020

  by Jerome Slater

  The author of a new history of the Israel-Palestine conflict argues that a myth of national innocence crafted by Israel and embraced by the United States impedes pragmatic compromise and costs lives through ongoing violence. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/24/2020
  

  1,100-Year-Old Treasure Is Unearthed by Teenagers in Israel

  The discovery offers clues to the relations between different empires that controlled the region centuries ago.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  8/17/2020
  

  Trump's Dodgy Israel-UAE "Peace Deal" Smells like the Work of Henry Kissinger

  by Jim Sleeper

  Is the Israel-UAE agreement to open diplomatic relations an effort to marginalize the Palestinian Authority? Jim Sleeper argues it's the sort of thing Henry Kissinger would do. 

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• 7/3/2020
  

  New Novel "The Collaborator" Explores the Moral Ambiguities of a Holocaust Rescuer

  by Diane Armstrong

  Do we have the right to judge the actions of people in life and death situations? Are we honour-bound to keep promises, no matter to whom they were made, and in what situations? Can a man be a hero and a collaborator?

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  6/29/2020
  

  In Search of King David’s Lost Empire

  The evidence of David’s life is sparse. Was he an emperor? A local king? Or, as Biblical archaeologist Israel Finkelstein claims, a Bedouin sheikh?

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• 7/5/2020
  

  Annexation Will Be the (Formal) Beginning of Apartheid and the End of Zionism

  by Andrew Seth Meyer

  An American historian and lifelong liberal Zionist concludes that Israel's planned annexation of West Bank territory will force people of conscience to choose between liberal ideals and a form of Zionism harnessed to ethnic nationalism.

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• SOURCE: France 24
  6/21/2020
  

  Israeli Historian Zeev Sternhell, Advocate for Palestinian Rights, Dies at 85

  Hebrew University president Asher Cohen hailed Sternhell, a professor emeritus there who was awarded the prestigious Israel Prize for political science in 2008, as "among the most important researchers" to emerge from the institution.

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• SOURCE: Haaretz
  6/16/2020
  

  Why Israelis Backed the Civil Rights Movement but Fear Black Lives Matter

  by Chemi Shalev

  After more than 40 years of right-wing rule, Israelis identify and are identified more with ruling whites than with oppressed Blacks.

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• 6/14/2020
  

  Israel and the Palestinians: Architects of Their Own Destruction

  by Alon Ben-Meir

  The political positions of Israeli and Palestinian leadership set the region on a path toward more bloodshed. 

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• 5/31/2020
  

  The Decline and Fall of Socialist Zionism (Review)

  by Ralph Seliger

  A new book examines the diminished influence of left and labor parties in Israeli politics. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/7/2020
  

  Daniel Pipes Argues Annexing the West Bank Would Hurt Israel

  Daniel Pipes, prominent conservative American commentator on Middle Eastern affairs, gives six reasons to believe that taking over Palestinian territory would harm both U.S.-Israel relations and Israel’s status as the Jewish state.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/21/2020
  

  Coronavirus Lockdown Deepens Holocaust Survivors' Loneliness

  How one Holocaust survivor is honoring Holocaust Remembrance Day under quarantine.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  4/21/2020
  

  Holocaust Memorial Event 'Zoom Bombed' with Hitler Images

  During an online event held by the Israeli Embassy in Germany, "Zoom bombers" interrupted a Holocaust survivor's speech.

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• SOURCE: The National Interest
  4/13/2020
  

  How Hitler's World War II Weapons Helped Israel Win Independence

  And here is where the other odd twist of fate happened: Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin provided the arms.

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• 3/22/2020
  

  When the Western Wall Was A Battleground For Jewish Rights

  by Moshe Phillips

  The book explains how Segal and the others who followed in his footsteps transformed the Western Wall from a site of wailing to one of national pride.

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• 3/15/2020
  

  Golda Meir and Women's Wartime Leadership

  by Jonathan W. Jordan and Emily Anne Jordan

  Are women seeking the presidency held back by Americans' mistrust of female military leadership? The example of Golda Meir suggests they shouldn't be.

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• 2/16/20
  

  A Gallon of Talk and a Teaspoon of Action, Then Label the Problem "Insolvable" and Plan Another Conference

  by Robert Scott Kellner

  What shall it avail, the latest speech-laden conference on this topic, when seventy-five years of intensive Holocaust education had no effect on Holocaust deniers and could not stop the resurgence of the virulent anti-Semitism that had infected Germany one hundred years ago?