Tagged Israel’s nation-state law

Linda Sarsour clarifies her comment that Israel is ‘built on the idea that Jews are supreme to everyone else’
December 4, 2019 / Josefin Dolsten, JTA

(JTA) — Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour took to Twitter to clarify recent controversial comments she had made about Israel. Speaking Friday at the annual conference of American Muslims for Palestine in Chicago, Sarsour had criticized progressive Zionists. “Ask them this, how can you be against white supremacy in America… Read more »

OP-ED Why a former Israeli military intelligence chief stands with the Druze
August 6, 2018 / Amos Yadlin, JTA
Amos Yadlin (Courtesy of Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies)

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israel’s new “nation-state” law, which is widely viewed here as clumsy, unnecessary and unwise, must be amended. That’s why I was proud to join tens of thousands of Israelis on Saturday night in a peaceful, unifying protest led by the Druze community. I came to… Read more »