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Daily Archives: November 6, 2019

Street view of the mainly ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Borough Park in the southwestern borough of Brooklyn, N.Y., on Jan. 1, 2014. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash 90.

Jewish residents in Brooklyn’s Borough Park assaulted in separate incidents

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A number of Jews in Brooklyn’s ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Borough Park were attacked over the weekend. One incident occurred around midnight on New Utrecht Avenue and 53rd Street when a group of men exited their...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah on July 25, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

Fatah official says PA chief Abbas, soon to turn 85, won’t run for re-election

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Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas will not run for re-election, senior Fatah official Jibril Rajoub told Palestine TV on Monday. Rajoub’s announcement contradicted Hussein al-Sheikh, who recently said that Abbas is Fatah’s only candidate in the next...
Armenians are marched to a nearby prison in Mezireh by armed Turkish soldiers in Kharpert, Armenia, in April 1915. Credit: Project SAVE via Wikimedia Commons.

Ilhan Omar is just one of many guilty of hypocrisy on Turkey

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Last week’s overwhelming vote by the House of Representatives in favor of a resolution condemning the genocide of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923 represented a breakthrough. Hard as it may...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

A Kurdish campaign to boycott Turkey

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It is a story that strikes a chord with anyone familiar with the struggle for civil rights in the American South. Jwnaid Murad, a businessman in Iraqi Kurdistan, has decided that he will no...