Left-wing Jewish groups urge Biden not to enforce Made in Israel label policy jewishledger.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jewishledger.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
He has a history of encouraging violence against Palestinians in the occupied territories.
Back in 2019, Ben-Gvir said that Israeli forces must kill 30 Palestinians each time a rocket is fired from the Gaza Strip toward the occupied lands.
He also opposed Israel’s 2005 removal of its settlements from the Gaza Strip and has demanded that they be re-established. 27 years after the [#Hebron] massacre, writes @EsawiFr of @meretzparty, Netanyahu is bringing into the Knesset Itamar Ben-Gvir, an admirer of Baruch Goldstein, who perpetrated it. He who legitimizes admiration of the murderer, says Frej, legitimizes the murderer himself. https://t.co/fhthgOr31d
Moral narcissism and unquestioned lies. Fri Feb 26, 2021
Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., a Freedom Center Journalism Fellow in Academic Free Speech and President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, is the author of Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews. In August, Florida State University was one of several universities to have adopted the now widely accepted IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, signaling that university leaders and others outside of academia have begun to see the wisdom of having guidelines by which to identify and, hopefully, eliminate hate from their respective institutions. Not surprisingly, some progressive groups including even Jewish ones have condemned the IHRA definition, claiming that it will chill their speech and punish their ideology, even though the use of the definition does nothing of the sort. Israel-haters and anti-Semites can still continue to defame the Jewish state and single it out for opprobrium, con
Jewish groups call on Biden to stop settlement goods being labelled made in Israel middleeastmonitor.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from middleeastmonitor.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel s US correspondent based in New York
Israeli winemaker Yaakov Berg holds a bottle of his red blend named after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the Psagot Winery in the Sha ar Binyamin industrial park near the Psagot settlement in the West Bank, north of Jerusalem on November 18, 2020. (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)
A group of six prominent progressive Jewish groups in the US called on the Biden administration to revoke a last-minute directive from the previous White House that requires all US exports from West Bank settlements to be labeled as “made in Israel.”