Israel-Hamas war
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In UK, Muslims threaten electoral damage on Labour Party over support for Israel
By Catherine Pepinster — July 1, 2024
LONDON (RNS) — A number of parliamentary seats, once considered safe bets for the Labour Party, could be lost as Muslims organize around Gaza.
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LA mayor considers buffer zones at houses of worship after protest at synagogue
By Alejandra Molina — June 27, 2024
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — An ordinance regulating masks at public demonstrations, however, would not ‘withstand judicial scrutiny,' the LA mayor said.
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Israel’s High Court rules Haredi men no longer exempt from mandatory military service
By Michele Chabin — June 25, 2024
JERUSALEM (RNS) — While the exemption of ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students has long been an issue of contention, it has taken on new urgency since Oct. 7.
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In Mecca on Eid al-Adha, carrying the burden of those lost in Gaza
By Omar Suleiman — June 16, 2024
MECCA, Saudi Arabia (RNS) — In my kaffiyeh, I received prayers from random worshippers and even my taxi driver for the Palestinian people.
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Muslims start the Hajj against the backdrop of the devastating Israel-Hamas war
By Samy Magdy — June 14, 2024
MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — This year’s Hajj came against the backdrop of the raging war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Palestinian militants, which pushed the Middle East to the brink of a regional war between Israel and its allies on one side and Iran-backed militant groups on the other.
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‘The protest is a ritual’: How faith found a place in Palestine solidarity encampments
By Chloë-Arizona Fodor — June 13, 2024
(RNS) – Over the past nine months, student-led Palestine solidarity encampments popped up at universities across the country. For many students, multi-religious programming at the encampments became unexpected sites for religious connection.
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Southern Baptist resolutions on war, Oct. 7 fail logical and biblical tests
By Daoud Kuttab — June 12, 2024
(RNS) — A resolution supporting Israel in the wake of Oct. 7 failed to consider fellow Christians in the Middle East.
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Netanyahu, an accused criminal at the Hague, becomes an invited guest in Washington
By Omar Suleiman — June 11, 2024
(RNS) — The fiction of a post-World War II Western rules-based, values-based world order is dead.
Protests and antisemitic incidents prompt Jewish students to reconsider college choices
By Michele Chabin — June 4, 2024
(RNS) — The ADL’s Antisemitism Report Card gives failing grades to Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Michigan State,
and Northwestern, among others.
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President Milei’s surprising devotion to Judaism and Israel provokes tension in Argentina and beyond
By Almudena Calatrava and Isabel Debre — June 3, 2024
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Breaking decades of policy precedent, President Javier Milei has gone further in his support of right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government than perhaps any other world leader.
At ‘Christ at the Checkpoint,’ Palestinian Christians rail against Western church’s response to war
By Daoud Kuttab — May 30, 2024
(RNS) — Attendees at a conference called for global church leaders to be held accountable for one-sided support for Israel.
A nurse honored for compassion is fired after referring to Gaza ‘genocide’ in speech
By Karen Matthews — May 30, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) — The nurse, who is Palestinian American, was being honored for her compassion in caring for mothers who had lost babies when she drew a link between her work and the suffering of mothers in Gaza.
Mainline Protestant clergy are increasingly pro-Palestinian. Their congregants may not follow.
By Motti Inbari and Kirill Bumin — May 29, 2024
(RNS) — Will mainline leaders be swayed by their silent pro-Israel majorities?
Christian organizations come together to take boycott, divestment action as Rafah campaign continues
By Aleja Hertzler-McCain — May 29, 2024
(RNS) — ‘A core practice of nonviolent resistance, including within our tradition, is economic non-cooperation with injustice,’ the Christian organizations wrote.
Netanyahu frequently makes claims of antisemitism. Critics say he’s deflecting from his own problems
By Tia Goldenberg — May 29, 2024
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The war has reignited the long debate about the definition of antisemitism and whether any criticism of Israel amounts to anti-Jewish hate speech.
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