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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 347

Arkansas

Dr. Steve Feldman, who was denied payment from the state of Arkansas for refusing to sign a pledge not to boycott Israel, pictured on a trip to the West Bank, undated. (Courtesy of Steve Feldman via JTA)
June 2, 2023, 8:03 am
In reversal, Arkansas pays Jewish doctor who rebuffed pledge not to boycott Israel
Dermatologist Steve Feldman, a Palestinian rights activist, plans to donate the $500 withheld from him to anti-Zionist Jewish Voice for Peace
By Andrew Lapin
Dr. Steve Feldman, pictured on a trip to the West Bank. (Courtesy of Steve Feldman via JTA)
May 4, 2023, 9:02 am
Arkansas Jewish doctor denied payment over failure to promise not to boycott Israel
In keeping with state law, $500 withheld from dermatologist Steve Feldman, a Palestinian rights activist, who gave Zoom university lecture but refused to sign pledge
By Andrew Lapin
Light illuminates part of the Supreme Court building at dusk on Capitol Hill in Washington, November 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
February 21, 2023, 8:53 pm
US Supreme Court keeps Arkansas anti-BDS law in place, declining to intervene
Justices reject appeal on behalf of an Arkansas newspaper that objected to a state law that reduces fees paid to contractors who refuse to sign pledge not to boycott Israel
By AP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Anti-Israel BDS activists in New York City, May 15, 2021. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
October 21, 2022, 2:32 am
US rights group petitions Supreme Court to overturn law barring Israel boycott
ACLU says state laws outlawing boycott of Jewish state violate 1st Amendment protections, threaten right to protest
By Luke Tress and AP
Illustrative photo of signs calling for the boycott of Israel at an anti-Israel protest in San Francisco, April 2011. (CC BY-dignidadrebelde, Flickr)
June 23, 2022, 9:46 am
US appeals court rules that laws against Israel boycotts don’t violate Constitution
Ruling by St. Louis-based Eighth Circuit court is a major victory for pro-Israel activists who have pushed some 30 states to adopt anti-BDS laws
By Andrew Lapin
Members of the Bowling Green Fire Department dig through the remains of a house destroyed by a tornado in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Dec. 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Clubb)
December 11, 2021, 12:53 pm
At least 50 feared dead in Kentucky tornadoes as powerful storms rip across US
Governor says state’s death toll ‘probably closer to somewhere between 70 and 100’; deaths reported in Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri; roof collapses at Amazon warehouse in Illinois
By Agencies
Then White House press secretary Sarah Sanders speaks during a news briefing at the White House, in Washington, March 11, 2019. (Evan Vucci/AP)
January 25, 2021, 8:25 am
Trump’s former press secretary Sarah Sanders running for Arkansas governor
She joins a crowded field of candidates hoping to replace Gov. Asa Hutchinson in the staunchly Republican state
By Andrew DeMillo
Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks at the Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, August 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
September 4, 2019, 5:52 am
Ginsburg: Work on court ‘saved me’ during cancer treatment
13,000 turn out to listen to US Supreme Court justice in Arkansas; ‘All of us hope that she will stay on the court forever,’ says Bill Clinton, who nominated her
By Andrew DeMillo
White Supremacists protesting a Holocaust memorial in Russellville, Arkansas, May 5, 2019. (screen capture: YouTube)
May 10, 2019, 3:00 am
White supremacists crash Arkansas Holocaust memorial event
Protesters in Russellville carry anti-Semitic signs, including one calling Shoah a hoax, in demonstration ostensibly aimed against ADL
By JTA
Campus at Arkansas Tech (CC-BY SA Zscout370/Wikimedia Commons)
April 20, 2019, 9:17 am
Arkansas university accused of honoring Holocaust denier with new scholarship
ADL, Jewish faculty at Arkansas Tech University say late professor who contributed to school had history of anti-Semitic teachings; institution says claims lack evidence
By Josefin Dolsten
Illustrative: Students protest at an anti-Israel demonstration at the University of California, Irvine. (Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images/JTA)
January 24, 2019, 5:47 am
Judge lets Arkansas law against Israeli boycotts stand
Ruling says such a boycott is not protected by the First Amendment; similar measures have been blocked in Arizona and Kansas
By Andrew DeMillo
Interned Japanese men read US President Franklin Roosevelt's proclamation on their internment, posted on the wall at Rohwer Relocation Center near McGehee, Arkansas, September 21, 1942. (AP Photo/Horace Cort)
June 23, 2018, 8:51 am
US officials mull possible migrant site near former Japanese internment camp
Arkansas politicians object to setting up shelter for immigrant children at base 2 miles from where thousands of Japanese-Americans were held in WWII
By Hannah Grabenstein
An investigator collects evidence near an Arkansas nightclub where police say multiple people were shot, Saturday, July 1, 2017, in Little Rock, Ark. (AP Photo/Andrew DeMillo)
July 1, 2017, 4:56 pm
Little Rock police: 17 injured in nightclub shooting
City police chief says officers suspect multiple people fired weapons; incident not terror-related
By Andrew DeMillo
The smashed Ten Commandments monument outside the state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., is blocked off June 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Jill Zeman Bleed)
June 28, 2017, 5:31 pm
Man destroys new Ten Commandments statue at Arkansas Capitol
Car crashes into two-and-a-half ton statue, toppling it over to smash into pieces on the ground; suspect arrested
By JILL BLEED
Tony Alamo (L) is escorted to a waiting police car outside the federal courthouse in Texarkana, Arkansas, July 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)
May 4, 2017, 8:24 pm
Disgraced preacher, child sex abuser Tony Alamo dies
Jewish-born minister, sentenced to 175 years in prison for string of offenses against young girls, dies in jail aged 82
By KELLY P. KISSEL
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