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New on Broader View: February 2016
- Antisemitism: How to Criticize Israel Without Being Antisemitic by Binyamin Arazi, Israellycool.com, Feb. 20 & 26
- Colleges & Universities: Safe Spaces, No Jews Allowed by Anthony Berteaux, The Tower, February
- Media & Manipulation: Twisting the knife by Eylon Aslan-Levy, Telegraph, February 23
- Political Process: The Perfect and the Good by Michael Koplow, Israel Policy Forum, February 11
- Polls: Americans’ Views Toward Israel Remain Firmly Positive by Lydia Saad, Gallup, February 29
- Zionism: Why Support Israel? by Nevet Basker, Times of Israel, February 25
More at American Jews, BDS, Churches, Europe, Gaza, Hamas, Israelis, Jerusalem, NGOs, Palestinians, Public Diplomacy, Syria, Turkey, United Nations, and Water.
- Police trainee Hadar Cohen (19) and Tuvia Yanai Weissman (21) killed in separate Jerusalem terrorist attacks; Eliav Gelman killed by friendly fire during stabbing attack
- Israel approves mixed-gender, egalitarian prayer space at Western Wall
- Controversial Israeli NGO transparency bill passes first vote
- U.S. Congress passes trade and customs bill with anti-BDS provisions; Britain, Canadian Parliament, Paris municipality, state legislatures in Indiana, Iowa, and Florida, and the students and administration of McGill University reject boycotts of Israel
- Iran announces financial rewards for families of Palestinian terrorists who kill Jews
- Sony purchases Israeli chip manufacturing company Altair for $212 million; Oracle acquires Israeli cloud firm Ravello for $500 million
- Israel strengthens ties with Russia, India, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Egypt, and U.S. state of Colorado
- Variety Magazine, London Underground, and Chicago billboards pull anti-Israel ads
- Israelis win international awards and honors in Judo, fencing, cyber security startups, English-language debating, movies, chess grandmasters; innovation in financial services, mobile-automotive apps, and fruit; and France’s “Singer of the Year”
- Recent visitors to Israel include the president of Kenya, foreign minister of Rwanda, U.S. ambassador to UN Samantha Power, 9 British Members of Parliament, former U.S. Secretary of State George Schultz, over 100 American Jewish leaders, hundreds of American sailors and other service members,nanotechnology experts, medieval fighters, Microsoft’s CEO, windsurfing champions, thousands of runners in Tel Aviv marathon, and (in 2010) a Bahraini princess undergoing life-saving surgery, plus 3.1 million tourists last year.
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