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left-wing
Transparency bill for NGOs advances in Israel
Jewish Journal
December 28, 2015
An Israeli bill requiring nongovernmental organizations to state publicly that they receive funding from foreign countries has advanced to the full Knesset.
J Street, the book — expect more controversy
Jewish Journal
July 19, 2011
Supporters, critics and relatively neutral observers all have conspired — with plenty of prodding from J Street’s own aggressive communications operation — to shine an intense media spotlight on the self-described “pro-Israel, pro-peace” organization. The result has been waves of positive attention and tough scrutiny, often out of proportion with any actual accomplishment or misdeed.
Netanyahu opposes inquiry into left-wing groups
Jewish Journal
July 15, 2011
Benjamin Netanyahu said he opposes a proposal for parliamentary investigations of Israeli groups critical of the country\’s policies toward the Palestinians.
Left and right clash at Tel Aviv rally to support Palestinian state
Jewish Journal
April 21, 2011
Leading left-wing cultural leaders, including several Israel Prize laureates, were verbally accosted on Thursday during a rally in support of an independent Palestinian state.
Knesset approves probe of left-wing groups
Jewish Journal
January 5, 2011
Israel\’s Knesset voted to form a parliamentary committee to investigate left-wing Israeli organizations that criticize the Israeli military\’s actions. The initiative, proposed by the Yisrael Beiteinu Party, passed Wednesday by a vote of 47 to 16. The committee will be charged with determining if the groups are funded by foreign countries or by other groups with links to terrorism. Israeli human rights groups have criticized the initiative.
Iran policy reveals split between U.S. Jewish and Israeli left
Jewish Journal
September 7, 2009
Israel\’s highest-ranking female soldier, Brig. Gen. Yisraela Oron, was sounding all the right notes for her J Street hosts.
War Marks Defining Moment for Jews
Joel Kotkin
April 3, 2003
The current war with Iraq marks a defining moment in the lives of American Jews and their lives in this country. For generations, Jews have lived, for the most part, on the left-wing edge of the American commonwealth.
They have been — in Hollywood, in the political world, academia and the media — generally hostile to the idea of the projection of American power and the idea of a new American empire.
This may soon be changing. Although initially somewhat less supportive of the Iraq invasion than other Americans, Jews are far more behind the projection of American power, arguably, than at any time since World War II. Over half of Jews strongly supported the Bush policy before the outbreak of hostility, according to the Pew Research Center; that percentage has likely increased more recently, as has occurred in the rest of the population.
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