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Jun 23, 2024 | 
blogs.timesofisrael.com | Hillel Schenker
For some reason, the Israeli media missed the fact that Miriam Adelson bought the Dallas Mavericks from Mark Cuban. As a New York Knicks fan since my youth, the Boston Celtics were always a serious rival, but the fact that the Celtics beat the Mavericks in the NBA finals suddenly made me a Celtics fan. After all, the Adelsons were the largest donors to Donald Trump’s previous presidential campaign.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
jpost.com | Hillel Schenker
2023 and another Simchat Torah holiday arrived. This time, like most secular Israeli Jews, I did not go to a synagogue but assumed that it would be a day of rest and relief marking the end of the annual marathon of the fall Jewish holidays. But before I could put on my bathing suit to get ready to go to the neighborhood pool, suddenly the wail of air-raid sirens pierced the air. It didn’t make any sense. I looked at my computer news site Start.co.il, and it was real.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Hillel Schenker
Activism / What is the view of most of the organizations and activists in the Palestinian solidarity movement about Hamas? The answer remains unclear—and rarely talked about. Ad PolicyOne of the things that mystifies me as an Israeli leftist (yes, Virginia, there are leftists in Israel), is the lack of an international leftist critique of Hamas.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
www-thenation-com.translate.goog | Hillel Schenker
Activism / What is the view of most of the organizations and activists in the Palestinian solidarity movement about Hamas? The answer remains unclear—and rarely talked about. Ad Policy One of the things that mystifies me as an Israeli leftist (yes, Virginia, there are leftists in Israel), is the lack of an international leftist critique of Hamas.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
haaretz.com | Hillel Schenker
Opinion | With a huge Gaza death toll and the attrition of Democratic support, Biden knows he must urgently demonstrate a more even-handed approach to Israel-Palestine.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
qoshe.com | Hillel Schenker
As a former Chair of Democrats Abroad – Israel, the Israeli branch of the Democratic Party, I was sad to learn recently that the current leadership felt it was necessary to resign from their positions. As reported in Haaretz, they stepped down due to "the hostile environment in Democrats Abroad against Jews in general and … American Jews living in Israel in particular".
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
fairobserver.com | Hillel Schenker
Critical need for collaborative efforts to provide urgent aid and alleviate the collective suffering.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
blogs.timesofisrael.com | Hillel Schenker
Israeli peace activists are mourning the death of veteran peace activist Vivian Silver from Kibbutz Be’eri, who we now know was killed on October 7th. When I told my Palestinian colleague Ziad AbuZayyad about that, he said and we are mourning the death of many Palestinian professors and doctors in the Israeli bombing of Gaza. Enough is enough! We have more than fulfilled the Biblical injunction of an eye for an eye, many times over. It’s time for a cease-fire.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Caleb Brennan |Hanno Hauenstein |Hillel Schenker |Spencer Ackerman
Politics / Our political and cultural systems are obsessed with exploiting fears about crime. But it wasn’t always this way. Ad PolicyYou had to watch your back on the grimy cobblestone streets of Victorian Era London. Ever since the explosion of the Industrial Revolution, crime had become a constant source of anxiety.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Brad Swanson |Hillel Schenker |Ilana Cohen |Mychal Denzel Smith
Environment / In the corporation’s version of Newspeak, “carbon emissions” means whatever it wants—and any investment in renewables is just a facade. Ad PolicyEnvironment / In the corporation’s version of Newspeak, “carbon emmissions” means whatever it wants—and any investment in renewables is just a façade. Ad PolicyWhich of the following is true? ExxonMobil:pledges to eliminate its carbon emissions by 2050. is dramatically increasing its oil and gas production.
