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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini at the Paris Middle East peace summit, Paris, June 6, 2016. (EU Photo)

Deconstructing Netanyahu’s spin about the Paris peace summit

The Prime Minister’s Office spared no time in declaring the multilateral conference on advancing Mideast peace a failure. He may have missed a few things. By Shemuel Meir It is difficult to ignore the unbridled joy that took over the Prime Minister’s Office as its spokespeople went out of their way to declare the Paris…

By +972 Magazine June 8, 2016

A woman lays flowers at an impromptu memorial a day after the Paris terror attacks, Le Petit Cambodge / Carillon, November 14, 2015. (Maya-Anaïs Yataghène/CC)

Don’t equate Paris attacks with those in Tel Aviv

Suggestions that terrorism in Paris springs from the same well as terrorism in Israel are misleading and dangerous. Erasing complexity may be a comfort in difficult days like these, but conflating the varying causes of violence won’t help us end it. There are troubled currents flowing from unlikely sources these days. Terror attacks have continued…

By Natasha Soffer-Roth November 24, 2015

Israeli men stand with a French flag at the Tel Aviv memorial for victims of the Paris terror attacks, November 14, 2015. (Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

Prominent Israeli journalist tweets opportunism at Paris’s pain

There is a tendency on the Israeli right to express Schadenfreude when Europe is targeted by terrorists — especially when the perpetrators are jihadis. The subtext is that Israel is unfairly judged for its policies toward the Palestinians. As social media reporting from Paris increased in pace and volume on Friday, a well-worn pattern emerged.…

By Lisa Goldman November 14, 2015

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French nationals hold up signs reading "I am Charlie" during a vigil at the French Embassy in Tel Aviv, January 8, 2015. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Putting the Charlie Hebdo attack in context

The news from Paris hit like a punch to the stomach and to the heart. Ten employees of the satirical French magazine, Charlie Hebdo, were shot in cold blood for practicing freedom of expression. Two policemen were killed for trying to protect them. Eleven more were wounded. The killers screamed out Allahu Akbar. The thought…

By Mairav Zonszein January 8, 2015

A protest condemning the Israeli assault on the Gaza strip, held outside the Israeli consulate in downtown Chicago, IL on July 16, 2014.

Anti-Semitism has no place in Palestine advocacy

Anyone who claims to speak for Palestine while condoning acts of bigotry against our Semitic brothers and sisters should not be speaking on our behalf at all, let alone for those suffering in Gaza. By Yasmeen Serhan Amidst heart-wrenching death tolls and news accounts of the recent escalation in Israel’s ongoing bombardment of Gaza, reports…

By +972 Magazine July 23, 2014

DJ Maor Anava.

Mixtape: Sounds from the ‘other’ Israel 1967-1978

Maor Anava is a 28-year-old DJ and record collector from Tel Aviv. He helped found the Fortuna record label, which specializes in reissuing rare, 60s and 70s Middle Eastern psychedelic music on vinyl. Anava sat down with Café Gibraltar to talk about the high demand for Middle Eastern music among record collectors, and how his…

By Cafe Gibraltar December 24, 2013

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Rightists cause a near riot during Abdallah Abu Rahmah speech in Paris

Ethnic violence in France usually causes headlines during Muslim riots on the outskirts of Paris. But on May 5th it was a different story. Far right “pro Israel” activists disrupted a speech by Bil’in’s Abdallah Abu Rahmah and Israeli Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS)activist Ronnie Barkan. Members of a Paris based Jewish group claming to…

By Joseph Dana May 22, 2011