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Bernie Sanders addresses a campaign rally, by Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com.

‘There’s a vicious fight in our community’: Simone Zimmerman talks Bernie for the first time

Earlier this year, the Jewish American world was up in arms over the hiring, or firing — depending on where you stand politically — of Bernie Sanders' Jewish outreach coordinator. For the first time, she talks about what happened in the campaign, the growing anti-occupation movement among U.S. Jews, and why the Jewish establishment lost touch with its youth.

By +972 Magazine July 25, 2016

Tsitsernakaberd, a memorial dedicated to the victims of the Armenian Genocide in 1915, Yerevan, Armenia. (Shutterstock.com)

ADL’s Armenian genocide recognition sends powerful statement — to Israel

A major Jewish-American organization breaking with Israeli policy, especially regarding Jewish universalism and the Holocaust, is a statement in and of itself. The Anti-Defamation League, American Jewry’s foremost civil rights organization, has made a powerful statement recognizing the Armenian genocide by the crumbling Ottoman regime in the early 20th century. Last Friday, CEO Jonathan Greenblatt posted…

By Dahlia Scheindlin May 15, 2016

Simone Zimmerman. (photo: Rafael Shimunov)

What critics of Bernie Sanders’ Jewish liaison are missing

Simone Zimmerman’s appointment is great news for mainstream American Jews who are desperate for a real conversation on Israel/Palestine. Over the past few days, it has been difficult to watch the American Jewish establishment’s attacks on my friend, Simone Zimmerman. Just three days ago Simone was appointed the Jewish outreach coordinator for Bernie Sanders’ presidential…

By Edo Konrad April 14, 2016

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John Adams's The Death of Klinghoffer. (photo by Richard Hubert Smith, English National Opera/CC BY-ND 2.0)

‘Klinghoffer’: New York’s Jewish right goes to the opera

Now that ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ has opened and people are learning what the opera is actually about, the outraged claims made against it are being exposed as hot air. Until Monday night, when the “The Death of Klinghoffer” opened at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, people knew it was being attacked by many…

By Larry Derfner October 22, 2014

Illustrative photo of ultra-Orthodox Jews and a mosque's minaret. (Photo: Shutterstock.com)

A distorted portrait of Palestinian ‘anti-Semitism’

With a discriminatory system that includes two separate legal systems, what is a Palestinian supposed to answer when he’s asked if Jews don’t care what happens to anyone but their own kind? The ADL’s world anti-Semitism survey presents a distorted view of the world. By Inna Michaeli The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) – a Jewish-American organization…

By +972 Magazine May 19, 2014

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Oday Aboushi: Caught playing football while being Palestinian

The controversy surrounding NY Jets offensive lineman Oday Aboushi reveals the rules of conducts for Palestinians in the public sphere. Oday Aboushi, one of a handful of Palestinians to be drafted by an NFL team, became the target of some American conservatives following his appearance at the El Bireh Society convention last month. Approached by…

By Noam Sheizaf July 15, 2013

Blood Libel illustration in the Nazi Newspaper Westdeutchen Beobachter of Cologne

Why didn’t Abe Foxman condemn Palin’s “blood libel” slur?

Sarah Palin’s calculated use of the phrase “blood libel” is yet another example of her canny mastery over American media. Dating back to the time of the Crusaders — and used to justify centuries of anti-Jewish terror — “blood libel” stands as one of the most vile symbols of anti-Semitism ever to plague the Jewish…

By +972 Magazine January 15, 2011