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5 days ago | 
eldiario.es | Joshua Leifer
La noche del 5 de noviembre de 1990, Meir Kahane, un rabino extremista nacido en Estados Unidos y convertido en político ultraderechista de Israel, acababa de pronunciar un discurso en el hotel Marriott East Side, en pleno Manhattan neoyorkino, cuando un hombre llamado El Sayyid Nosair le disparó en el cuello. Murió dos horas más tarde.
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2 weeks ago | 
almendron.com | Joshua Leifer
In the early morning hours of March 18, Israel unilaterally broke the cease-fire it had agreed to with Hamas in Gaza two months earlier, launching a crushing aerial campaign across the territory. In less than twenty-four hours, Israeli warplanes killed more than four hundred people and wounded hundreds more. The assault has continued unabated ever since.
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3 weeks ago | 
nybooks.com | Joshua Leifer
In the early morning hours of March 18, Israel unilaterally broke the cease-fire it had agreed to with Hamas in Gaza two months earlier, launching a crushing aerial campaign across the territory. In less than twenty-four hours, Israeli warplanes killed more than four hundred people and wounded hundreds more. The assault has continued unabated ever since.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Joshua Leifer |Nicola Alexandrou |Danielle Stephens
A violent fanatic and pioneer in bigotry, Meir Kahane died a political outcast 35 years ago. Today, his ideas influence the very highest levels of government
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1 month ago | 
portside.org | Joshua Leifer
Kahane’s Ghost: How a Long-Dead Extremist Rabbi Continues To Haunt Israel’s Politics Published March 31, 2025 On the evening of 5 November 1990, Meir Kahane, the extremist American rabbi turned far-right Israeli politician, had just finished speaking at the midtown Manhattan Marriott East Side hotel when a man named El Sayyid Nosair put a bullet through his neck. Two hours after the shooting, Kahane was pronounced dead.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Joshua Leifer
On the evening of 5 November 1990, Meir Kahane, the extremist American rabbi turned far-right Israeli politician, had just finished speaking at the midtown Manhattan Marriott East Side hotel when a man named El Sayyid Nosair put a bullet through his neck. Two hours after the shooting, Kahane was pronounced dead. Kahane “believed in the ideology that ‘you shall murder,’” said Avraham Burg, then a Labor member of Knesset, “and died at the hands of someone who also believed in that ideology”.
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2 months ago | 
dissentmagazine.org | Joshua Leifer |Michael Sfard
The Abduction of Mahmoud Khalil
If the secretary of state can simply declare a legal permanent resident deportable based on their constitutionally protected activities, the First Amendment no longer applies to noncitizens.
▪ March 14, 2025
Though the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil has been widely covered, it still does not cease to shock.
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2 months ago | 
dissentmagazine.org | Basel Adra |Michael Sfard |Joshua Leifer |Meredith Tax
Settler Terror Continues in the West Bank
Our documentary No Other Land won an Oscar, but the conditions it depicts are only getting worse.
▪ March 6, 2025
Throughout the making of No Other Land—our documentary about the struggle and resilience of the Palestinian residents of Masafer Yatta in the face of Israel’s efforts to expel us—one question persisted: Will anyone even watch this? Will anyone care?
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2 months ago | 
courrierinternational.com | Joshua Leifer
Daniella Weiss, 79 ans, descend de son SUV blanc, garé sur le parking de la gare de Sderot, à trois kilomètres à peine de la frontière gazaouie. Nous sommes le 26 décembre, au deuxième soir de Hanoukka, et depuis plusieurs semaines Nachala, l’association de colons juifs qu’elle dirige, communique tous azimuts sur sa “procession” festive vers Gaza. Avec cet événement, l’organisation d’extrême droite pousse encore un peu plus loin sa mobilisation pour la recolonisation de la bande de Gaza.
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
972mag.com | Jonathan Adler |Joshua Leifer
Daniella Weiss, the 79-year-old leader of the far-right settler organization Nachala, stepped out of her white Mitsubishi SUV and into the parking lot of the Sderot train station, a mere three kilometers from the Gaza Strip. It was Dec. 26, the second night of Hanukkah, and for weeks Nachala had been aggressively promoting a celebratory “procession to Gaza” and candle-lighting ceremony in a closed military zone by the border.
