Articles by JTA

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Hawaii: Maui’s Deadly Wildfires Burn Through Lahaina
Mojtaba Sadegh | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Aug 2023

8 Aug 2023 – It’s a Reminder of the Growing Risk to Communities That Once Seemed Safe

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Brazilian University Solicits Professor to Teach Zionism as Racism
JTA – Haaretz, 25 Jul 2016

Much to the consternation of the Brazilian Israelite Confederation, the university wants curricula on the similarities between Apartheid, Nazism, and Zionism.

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London Times Refuses to Run Elie Wiesel Ad Denouncing Hamas’ Human Shields
JTA - Haaretz, 11 Aug 2014

6 Aug 2014 – The London Times refused to run an ad featuring Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel speaking out against Hamas’ use of children as human shields. The ad has run in The New York Times, Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, among other U.S. newspapers.

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California University Passes Divestment Resolution against Israel
JTA – The Times of Israel, 9 Jun 2014

The University of California, Santa Cruz student government passed a non-binding resolution calling for divestment from companies involved in alleged human rights abuses against Palestinians in the West Bank including Lockheed Martin, Caterpillar, Hewlett Packard and General Electric.

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UPDATE: U.S. PLEDGES TO QUASH GOLDSTONE RECOMMENDATIONS
JTA, 26 Sep 2009

The Obama administration will not allow the Goldstone report recommendations on Israel’s conduct in the Gaza war to reach the International Criminal Court. A top White House official told Jewish organizational leaders in an off-the-record phone call Wednesday that the U.S. strategy was to "quickly" bring the report — commissioned by the U.N. Human Rights […]

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