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23 Jul 2019, 9:52 am
While self-sacrifice in the context of national armies and the defense of one’s homeland is celebrated the world over, indeed is the foundation of nationalism, Palestinian self-sacrifice is studied as a perplexing anomaly. [read post]
6 May 2019, 6:06 am by Yuval Shany
And it leaves in place the aforementioned democratic deficit. [read post]
22 Mar 2019, 1:29 pm by Scott R. Anderson
And while the native Syrian Arab and Druze populations have mostly retained their Syrian identity, a growing minority of the latter have pursued Israeli nationality—despite concerns that legislation recently adopted by Israel’s Knesset will render them and other non-Jewish Israelis secondary to Israel’s Jewish citizens. [read post]
24 Feb 2019, 12:44 pm by Steve Lubet
Here is a statement signed by progressive pro-Israel organizations, including J Street, the New Israel Fund, the National Council of Jewish Women, and Ameinu (of which I am a member): Following Otzma Yehudit Agreement, 8 Organizations Call On American Jewish Community To Affirm: Kahanists Have No Place In The Knesset  “Kahanists are a danger to Israelis and Israeli democracy”  This week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, keen to… [read post]
23 Dec 2018, 11:25 pm by Steve Lubet
  But according to the Columbia Center for Critical Thought, she has actually served on the steering committee of JVP’s Academic Advisory Council. [read post]
30 Nov 2018, 7:00 am by Jenny Gesley
The Council decided that elections to a constituent German National Assembly for the Weimar Republic would take place on January 9, 1919. [read post]
6 Nov 2018, 3:27 am by Edith Roberts
Frost, revisiting the question of whether the National Park Service can regulate activities on navigable waters within the national park system in Alaska. [read post]
16 Aug 2018, 10:59 am by Chibli Mallat
It leads to the transformation of a national (generally language-based: Kurdish, Arab, Turkish or, Azari) or religious group (Christian, Jewish or Muslim, or to be more specifically sectarian, Sunni, Shi‘i or Coptic) within a country into claimants to an independent state. [read post]
14 Aug 2018, 5:33 am by Benjamin Wittes
Will it be a state in which one ethnicity dominates another—the prospect that many people see in the recent passage by the Knesset of a new Basic Law on Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people? [read post]
2 Jul 2018, 9:30 am by Salam Al-Marayati
This exemplifies that it is not too late to broadly start treating Muslims like other U.S. communities: Jewish, LGBTQ, African American, Hispanic. [read post]
13 Feb 2018, 4:00 am by Asher Susser
As for Israel’s failure to recognize Palestinian national rights, Shehadeh is simply wrong. [read post]
26 Dec 2017, 5:00 am by J. Dana Stuster
Moscow is forging ahead with its own diplomatic process, separate from the United Nations’ efforts. [read post]
8 Dec 2017, 3:58 am by Elena Chachko
It has provoked extensive international criticism and it was one of the reasons cited by the Obama administration for allowing Security Council Resolution 2334—condemning Israel’s settlement activities—to pass. [read post]
30 Nov 2017, 11:50 am by Scott R. Anderson, Yishai Schwartz
Security Council, which successfully encouraged those countries with embassies in West Jerusalem to relocate them out of the city. [read post]
1 Oct 2017, 4:08 pm by INFORRM
Billionaire Sheldon Adelson has lost his defamation claim against the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC), after the Nevada Supreme Court ruled this week that the political organization is immune from civil liability in the defamation case. [read post]
14 Sep 2017, 9:30 pm by Sarah Madigan
.), along with 16 Democratic Senators, introduced the Medicare for All Act of 2017, which would establish a national health insurance program where “every resident of the United States will receive health insurance through an expanded Medicare program with improved and comprehensive benefits. [read post]
13 Jul 2017, 8:52 pm by Jim Sedor
      National: Blue Cities Want to Make Their Own Rules. [read post]