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The Free Zone - Palestine Chronicle | Palestine Chronicle - 0 views

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    This Palestinian news paper says that the Palestinians would reduce anti-semitism is Israel did not call itself a Jewish state. They call Israel criminals and think they are acting on behalf of all Jewish people.
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The Rise of the Jewish Policy Elite: Meritocracy, Myth and Power - 0 views

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    This article was ignited after Obama's nomination of Garland to the Supreme Court. Garland is a Jewish which makes the Supreme Court 4 Catholics and 3 Jews. This article goes deeper into Government and looks at the statistics of Jews, WASPS, and Catholics in the Government. There is a distinct lack of Islamic or Muslim persons in the government. This article is based on how this could hurt U.S. chances with all foreign policy in the MIddle East.
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ISIS reportedly planning attack targeting Jewish children in Turkey | Fox News - 0 views

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    ISIS has now threatened the lives of children in Turkey. The caliphate took the lives of Christian children in Pakistan and now it threatens to kill Jewish children in Turkey. They will be targeting kindergartens, schools and youth centres.
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Second Class Citizens - 0 views

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    In this Wall Street Journal opinion article, the authors tackle a controversial law that Netanyahu proposed. The law would officially declare Israel as a Jewish state and de-list arabic as the official language. As the authors declare, they are very much pro-Israel, but are ashamed of the law.
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UK activists call to ban Hezbollah entirely - Europe - News - Arutz Sheva - 0 views

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    "Activists in the UK have launched a campaign to have Hezbollah officially proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the British government. The Israel-Britain Alliance is leading the campaign to have Hezbollah officially proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the UK government. Nearly 20 different organisations, both Jewish and Christian, have thrown their weight behind the initiative so far."
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Israel admits hitting Hezbollah-bound arms | News24 - 0 views

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    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu openly admitted on Monday for the first time that Israel had attacked dozens of convoys transporting weapons in Syria destined for the Jewish state's arch-enemy Hezbollah.
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L. TODD WOOD: Iran-supported Hezbollah threatens to attack American forces in Iraq - Wa... - 0 views

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    "Israel has long been worried that Hezbollah will be emboldened by access to sophisticated weapons in Syria provided by the Russian military, concerned that once the Syrian opposition has been vanquished, Hezbollah would turn its focus to the Jewish state. "
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Israel and Palestine: Two states, two peoples - Al Jazeera English - 1 views

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    The fact that Israel wants to remain a Jewish state keeps Palestine salty about the situation. There are several problems with "two states for two peoples".
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My Birthright Summer in Israel - 0 views

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    A strong satire of Birthright Israel. Likely to evoke an equally strong rejection from many American Jewish students who have taken part in Birthright.
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ISIS Leader 'Al-Baghdadi' Is A 'Jewish Mossad Agent' - French Reports - 0 views

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    A vast conspiracy. What do your critical thinking skills tell you about this "news"?
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Hamas - Haaretz | Israel News - 0 views

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    How Israel and the Jewish people see Hamas
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Israel Founded on the Back of a Hate Crime - 0 views

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    In this Times of Israel article, a statement made by South Africa's ruling party, the ANC, is examined. Made in protest to a planned meeting of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, the ANC's statement accused Israel of being a state founded in apartheid. More dramatically, the article references a quote made by the ANC where they liken Israel's most recent attack on Gaza to the Nazis.
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Biton Committee begins work to enrich Mizrahi culture in education system - Israel News... - 0 views

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    This is an interesting article concerning Minister Naftali Bennet. He will empowering Eastern Jewish Cultural Studies within the general curriculum. This would be a way to de-stigmatize Judaism and help with interfaith commuication
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Why is Middle Eastern culture missing from Israeli schoolbooks? - Al-Monitor: the Pulse... - 0 views

  • In September 2015, “​Faith and Redemption” caused an uproar in Israel as another example of the exclusion of Mizrahi culture and history from the Israeli curriculum.
  • From Shriki's perspective, the place of Mizrahi authors and thinkers in the Israeli curriculum is critical.
  • Gideon Saar, Naftali Bennett's predecessor as education minister, struggled with this same issue in 2012, when the Libi Bamizrach coalition sent him a letter protesting the exclusion of Mizrahi history, literature and cultural heritage from the curriculum.
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  • ne pages, out of a total of 400 pages, that deal with the history of Jews from Islamic lands in a textbook on the “history of the Jewish people in recent generations.” The book was used in Israeli schools for many years. Two years later, Yehuda Shenhav, a professor from Tel Aviv University, surveyed textbooks in Israel and found that not only was the scope of discussion of Jews from Islamic lands meager, its representation was erroneous and stereotypical.
  • This long checklist calls for a deep and significant change within the Israeli educational system. It also suggests that Bennett's initiative, much like earlier ones, hardly guarantees that such change will indeed take place.
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    In the Middle East there is a lack of focus on culture in education. it focuses on the history of the "winners" and is promoting hate and ignorance in the education system. These issues have popped up before the Minister of Education since 1997. 
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