Today Jews were murdered and terrorized on the last day of Passover, exactly six months after the Tree of Life shooting. We stand with the victims, and with victims of hatred and violence in every community.
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SCOOP: Staff at the top levels of CBS News Streaming intervened to pull an interview with Palestinian American lawyer Noura Erakat from replays of a show last week, while two other Palestinian American commentators had their appearances canceled by CNN.
Uncut Gems is the most explicitly Jewish mainstream movie in years. The Jewish Currents editorial staff convened an emergency meeting to discuss what it says about contemporary Jewish identity.
This past weekend, Dr. Hammam Alloh—a nephrologist at Al-Shifa Hospital, who contributed a dispatch about conditions in Gaza two weeks ago—was killed in his home by an Israeli airstrike.
Read his words here:
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Today Trump is expected to sign an executive order redefining Jews under Title VI in order to quash criticism of Israel on college campuses. Besides unnerving many Jews, this move targets Palestinians and their allies and undermines free speech. A thread of our recent coverage:
The flotilla carrying Jewish Currents reporter @vv1lder has been captured by the Israeli military. Please contact Emily's senators and representatives—Adam Schiff, Alex Padilla, and Jimmy Gomez—and urge them to advocate for her safe release from Israeli detention.
Jewish Currents condemns Israel’s targeting of Palestinian journalists in the strongest terms, and calls upon every media institution in the United States to do the same. Here's our statement on the recent Israeli threats against six Al Jazeera journalists reporting from Gaza.
NEW: In an explosive deep dive, @aparna_gopalan investigates how US Hindu nationalist groups are learning from Israel advocates’ antisemitism strategy, advancing a concept of “Hinduphobia” that shields an increasingly ethnonationalist India from criticism
