hz, Author at Netzach Yisrael

Anti-Semitism: Official Definition ‘Will Fight Hatred’

hzDecember 12, 2016December 12, 2016News

BBC

The government plans to adopt an international definition of anti-Semitism to help tackle hatred towards Jews. Police, councils, universities and public bodies can adopt the wording, Theresa May will say in a speech later.
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), which the UK belongs to, created the definition. It calls anti-Semitism a “perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews.”

Prime Minister Theresa May will argue that a clear definition means anyone guilty of anti-Semitism in “essence, language or behaviour” will be “called out on it”.

hzDecember 11, 2016Articles

Haaretz

By Avi Shafran: No matter what some American Orthodox Jews might wish to imagine, they did not play a pivotal role in the election of Donald Trump. Still and all, a sizable number of them, according to polls, voted for him, and they were elated at the election’s outcome. After all, the Republican candidate campaigned on a number of issues – including school choice, abortion, Israel’s security, and the war on terror – in ways that resonated with most Orthodox. Among, it now seems clear, many other Americans.

What’s interesting, and significant, is the dovetailing of the incoming American administration’s apparent views on such issues and the remarkable demographic changes taking place on the American Jewish communal scene. Those developments may be heralding an American Jewish political and organizational future that will look very different from the current one.
read more: http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.758295

hzDecember 11, 2016December 12, 2016News

NY Times

Boeing announced a $16.6 billion deal on Sunday to sell planes to Iran, which for decades had been economically blacklisted by the United States. The company instead chose to emphasize how many jobs the sale would support.

“Today’s agreement will support tens of thousands of U.S. jobs” associated with the production and delivery of the planes, Boeing said in its news release. The intended recipient of Boeing’s message clearly seemed to be President-elect Donald J. Trump.

hzDecember 11, 2016News

Times of Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he wants to work together with US President-elect Donald Trump to roll back the US-led nuclear accord with Iran.

Speaking in a wide-ranging interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes set to be broadcast later Sunday, Netanyahu said it was not too late to undo the deal that was the landmark foreign policy achievement of President Barack Obama, noting that he would present Trump with five alternatives to the accord.

hzDecember 11, 2016Articles

Algemeiner

By Dogan Akman: Over the years — and more particularly since 2006 — various surveys and reports have told us that Jewish university students confronted with antisemitism on campus feel “uncomfortable,” “vulnerable,” alarmed,” frightened,” etc. These surveys also tell us the number of antisemitic incidents that students experience or witness each year.

Curiously enough, none of the surveys have probed the following three questions, which I consider fundamentally important for the future of the American Jewish community (both on campus and more generally):

hzDecember 11, 2016Articles

Algemeiner

By Mitchell Kaye: President-elect Donald J. Trump said during the campaign that he would “love” to broker a deal between Israel and the Palestinians. Although he has been advised by many experts that a deal may be impossible, can the “master deal-maker” make one?

hzDecember 11, 2016News

Algemeiner

The chilly ties between the leaders of the US and Israeli governments did not drive the Jewish state’s fierce opposition to the nuclear deal reached last year between Iran and six world powers, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in remarks to be aired on CBS’s “60 Minutes” program on Sunday.

“Yes, we had differences of opinion — I had differences of opinion with President [Barack] Obama, most well known, of course, is Iran,” Netanyahu told CBS’s Lesley Stahl. “Suppose we had the greatest of personal chemistry. You think I wouldn’t stand up against the Iran deal if I thought, as I did, that it endangers the existence of Israel? Of course I would.”

hzDecember 11, 2016December 11, 2016News

Iran said Sunday it has finalized a $16.8 billion deal with Boeing to purchase 80 passenger planes, a deal made possible by last year’s landmark nuclear agreement.

The state-run IRNA news agency said 50 Boeing 737s and 30 Boeing 777s would be delivered over the next decade, in the biggest agreement to be struck with an American company since the 1979 revolution and U.S. Embassy takeover.

hzDecember 10, 2016December 11, 2016News

JTA

The House of Representatives delayed action on a bill targeting campus anti-Semitism until 2017, putting off action on a measure that had been backed by mainstream Jewish groups, criticized by civil libertarians and passed unanimously by the Senate on Dec. 1.

Jewish Insider reported Friday, citing an anonymous congressional staff official, that Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Virginia), chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary, opposed “rushing” the bill through the House without adequate study.

The bill outlined when criticism of Israel crosses into anti-Semitism, citing the “three D’s” first advanced by Natan Sharansky, the Israeli politician and former prisoner of the Soviet gulag: demonization, double standards and delegitimization.

hzDecember 10, 2016December 11, 2016Articles

NY Times

By Nicholas Kristof: After Donald Trump’s election, some universities echoed with primal howls. Faculty members canceled classes for weeping, terrified students who asked: How could this possibly be happening?

I share apprehensions about President-elect Trump, but I also fear the reaction was evidence of how insular universities have become. When students inhabit liberal bubbles, they’re not learning much about their own country. To be fully educated, students should encounter not only Plato, but also Republicans.

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