As debate over the Israel-Palestine conflict rages at campuses around the country, some school administrations are insisting on a need for "balance" as a means of limiting the Palestinian perspective. Iymen Chehade lost a class at Columbia College in Chicago after such a demand. But a petition on his behalf has garnered 6,000 signatures.

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Obama seems committed to keeping the peace process show on the road for a while longer, however aware he is of the ultimate futility of the exercise. For the first time since the US launched the Middle East peace talks last summer, the Palestinian leadership may be sensing it has a tiny bit of leverage.

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Ma‘an reports that activists from the peaceful popular resistance movement on Saturday shut down the Beit El checkpoint north of Ramallah in protest against the killing of three Palestinians by Israeli forces in Jenin earlier in the day.

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Ron Dermer toasts Hillary Clinton at a NY event and this week is visiting the Republican Jewish Coalition, a partisan body opposed to Obama, at a Sheldon Adelson hotel in Vegas. Democrats have no problem because the Israel lobby transcends US politics

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Ariel Sharon and Juan Gelman grew up at opposite ends of the Earth, but as the children of immigrant Russian-speaking Jews to Palestine and Argentina respectively, both of them were inheritors of the manifold tragedies of the pogroms and the ghetto. Sharon sought to shake off the pain and humiliation of that past by building a militaristic ethnocracy atop the ruins of a conquered and demonized society. In contrast, as an Argentinean and as a Jew, Gelman transmuted that same legacy of suffering into a universalist struggle for decency and justice.

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'NYT Book Review' publishes letter saying that Palestinians want to kill 'all Jews.' Would 'NYT' Book Review print such racism about any other people?

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