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Hasan Piker mentioned anti-Zionist protesters who jeered Mamdani at an Oct. 7 vigil had been “opportunists”: Piker, the anti-Israel podcaster, appeared over the weekend at a convention organized by left-wing journal Jewish Currents. He mentioned protesters who disrupted a vigil final week marking the third anniversary of the lethal Hamas raids in Israel and who known as anti-Zionist mayor Zohran Mamdani a “genocidaire” had been “ridiculous.” Different matters of debate: The prospects of bringing again the Bund, the secularist rival to Zionism that every one however disappeared after the Holocaust, and what the Democratic Occasion pink traces on Israel needs to be.
“Torn” wins a New York Emmy: “TORN: The Israel-Palestine Poster Struggle on NYC Streets” walked away from the New York Emmys on Saturday with a greatest documentary award. Its director, Nim Shapira, wrote final week for the Jewish Telegraphic Company in regards to the reluctance of some viewers to see Israeli victims as worthy of sympathy. The New York Emmys are awarded by town’s chapter of The Nationwide Academy of Tv Arts & Sciences.
The actual property expo that wasn’t: Two anti-Israel organizations, Pal-Awda and Writers Towards the Struggle on Gaza, mentioned they’d protest outdoors an actual property expo on Sunday in Queens organized by Nefesh b’Nefesh, a gaggle that promotes immigration to Israel. Then they mentioned the occasion was moved to Lengthy Island, and credited their deliberate protest with the change. Nefesh b’Nefesh didn’t return a request for remark.
A house for hostage tags: Israeli road artists Dede Bandaid and Nitzan Mintz final week launched an set up on the Museum of Jewish Heritage the place guests can deposit the tags they wore for years whereas calling for the discharge of hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. The sculpture represents a clear hollowed out tree, The Instances of Israel experiences.
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