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Israel Fails International Religious Rights Survey, Parents Demand Purifying School After Moslem Wedding

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Israel Fails International Religious Rights Survey, Parents Demand Purifying School After Moslem Wedding

Richard Silverstein December 14, 2011 27

One of the aspects of Israeli life which pro-Israel advocates trumpet is freedom of religion: that Jews,...

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Ex-Aipac PR Flack, Block May Be Dropped by Washington Think Tanks

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Ex-Aipac PR Flack, Block May Be Dropped by Washington Think Tanks

Richard Silverstein December 13, 2011 2

The Washington Post reports that two Beltway think tanks with which Josh Block is associated may cut...

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Major Explosion at Iranian Steel Plant, Israeli Source Calls It Work of Mossad, MEK

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Major Explosion at Iranian Steel Plant, Israeli Source Calls It Work of Mossad, MEK

Richard Silverstein December 12, 2011 22

An Iranian steel plant near Yazd, whose dedication was attended by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad only six months ago,...

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Adelson’s Yisrael HaYom Doing for Gingrich What It Does for Bibi

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Adelson’s Yisrael HaYom Doing for Gingrich What It Does for Bibi

Richard Silverstein December 11, 2011 5

Sheldon Adelson, in effect, contributes $36 million every year to support the election and rule of Bibi...

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Israeli Hasbara Minister Edelstein Patrols Park Slope’s Mean Streets on Lookout for BDS and Delegitimizers

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Israeli Hasbara Minister Edelstein Patrols Park Slope’s Mean Streets on Lookout for BDS and Delegitimizers

Richard Silverstein December 11, 2011 9

 …We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall...

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Bank Leumi, Faced With Prospect of Im Tirzu Winning Charity Competition, Cancels It

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Bank Leumi, Faced With Prospect of Im Tirzu Winning Charity Competition, Cancels It

Richard Silverstein December 11, 2011 1

A few days ago Israeli customers of Bank Leumi raised a furor over the inclusion of the...

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Lieberman’s Specialty: Whitewashing Shady Russian Leaders, Elections

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Lieberman’s Specialty: Whitewashing Shady Russian Leaders, Elections

Richard Silverstein December 11, 2011 3

Akiva Eldar writes (in Hebrew, and a related English story) about Avigdor Lieberman’s annoying tendency to whitewash some...

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Gingrich’s Big Lie About Palestine

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Gingrich’s Big Lie About Palestine

Richard Silverstein December 10, 2011 45

A few days ago the NY Times reported an interview with Newt Gingrich in which he made the...

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Ministry of Hasbara: IDF Has Become Israel’s Chief Delegitimizer

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Ministry of Hasbara: IDF Has Become Israel’s Chief Delegitimizer

Richard Silverstein December 10, 2011 19

In the aftermath of the murder of Mustafa Tamimi, Israel’s Ministry of Hasbara (that IS what they...

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Israel Once Again Murders Unarmed Palestinian Protester

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Israel Once Again Murders Unarmed Palestinian Protester

Richard Silverstein December 10, 2011 24

Mustafa Tamimi, a 28 year old resident of Nabi Saleh, was fatally shot in the head at...

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Iran Claims It Hacked Controls of Downed U.S. Drone

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Iran Claims It Hacked Controls of Downed U.S. Drone

Richard Silverstein December 10, 2011 6

I’ve been hesitant and careful about entering into the debate about how the downed U.S. stealth drone...

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Palestine Joins Newt’s Ranks of ‘Invented Peoples’…Along With Israel (1948), America (1776), Germany (1870)

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Palestine Joins Newt’s Ranks of ‘Invented Peoples’…Along With Israel (1948), America (1776), Germany (1870)

Richard Silverstein December 9, 2011 29

In an interview with the Jewish Channel, Newt Gingrich’s brain once again outsmarts his mouth, as he...

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