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Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protesters hold signs as the presidential motorcade of US President Joe Biden drives past near Phoenix, Arizona, on October 25, 2024. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)
October 26, 2024, 7:00 am
Anti-Israel protester interrupts Biden apology for Native American boarding schools
‘There’s a lot of innocent people being killed and it has to stop,’ US president says after heckler claims he’s ‘committing a genocide in Palestine’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Ben & Jerry's ice cream on sale at a shop in Jerusalem, on July 19, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 8, 2023, 10:10 pm
Ben & Jerry’s sees boycott call after July 4 appeal to return ‘stolen indigenous land’
Parent company Unilever loses nearly $2 billion worth of stock since announcement; Native American tribe whose land company’s HQ is built on expresses interest in its return
By ToI Staff
Pedestrians walk on Church Street, past the Ben & Jerry's shop, in Burlington, Vermont, March 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
August 10, 2022, 5:07 pm
Israeli students accuse Ben & Jerry’s of illegally occupying Native American lands
Letter is a response to the company’s controversial efforts to halt sales in West bank settlements
By Ash Obel
Watergen installs a GEN-M water generator at Rocky Ridge Gas & Market in the Hard Rock Community of the Navajo Nation. (Watergen)
July 9, 2021, 6:54 pm
Israel’s Watergen helping Arizona Native Americans make water from air
Project aims to address critical drinking water shortage within Hard Rock community where nearly 10,000 families across Navajo Nation lack access to running water
By ToI Staff
The main gallery in Jerusalem's Musrara museum, now using digital reality to display a new exhibit during the 2020 coronavirus (Courtesy Musrara)
September 26, 2020, 7:11 pm
A Jerusalem museum ventures into VR and 3D imaging to open new exhibit
Musrara brings to life portraits and videos of an exchange program with Native Americans in new digital format
By Jessica Steinberg
Native American leaders protest against the Redskins team name outside US Bank Stadium before an NFL football game, October 24, 2019. (Bruce Kluckhohn/AP)
July 13, 2020, 8:56 pm
NFL’s Redskins to change name after years of pressure, including from ADL
Football team announces renaming will happen at end of ongoing review, owner Dan Snyder and coach Ron Rivera working on new moniker and design
By Ben Harris
US President Donald Trump arrives for the Independence Day events at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, South Dakota, July 3, 2020. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)
July 4, 2020, 6:56 am
At Rushmore, Trump tells crowd that race protests seek to ‘wipe out our history’
Addressing thousands for July 4 as virus cases spiral, US president says left wants to ‘defame our heroes, indoctrinate our children’; Native Americans protest nearby
By STEPHEN GROVES and DARLENE SUPERVILLE
A statue of Christopher Columbus, which was toppled to the ground by protesters, is loaded onto a truck on the grounds of the State Capitol on June 10, 2020 in St Paul, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images/AFP)
June 11, 2020, 6:37 am
US protesters topple, behead and drown Christopher Columbus statues
At least three monuments of Italian explorer defaced as pressure builds in United States to rid the country of monuments associated with racism, genocide
By Agencies
Raquel Montoya-Lewis answers questions from the press after Gov. Jay Inslee announced her appointment to the Washington State Supreme Court. (Office of the Governor/ via JTA)
February 15, 2020, 11:55 pm
Native American Jewish justice Raquel Montoya-Lewis explains how to make history
The trailblazer never intended to be a lawyer or judge — but now that she is, she seeks to create opportunities for a population over-represented in the criminal justice system
By Emily Burack
Maine Gov. Janet Mills speaks to reporters before signing papers to posthumously pardon Don Gellers, a Passamaquoddy tribal lawyer convicted of marijuana possession, at the Statehouse in Augusta, Maine, January 7, 2020. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP)
January 16, 2020, 9:05 am
Maine posthumously pardons Jewish attorney for Native Americans framed for drugs
Donald Gellers represented Passamaquoddy tribe, exposing police abuses and looting of trust fund; was convicted on trumped up marijuana charge
By Ron Kampeas
New Washington Supreme Court Justice Raquel Montoya-Lewis is sworn in, Monday, January 6, 2020, in Olympia, Washington. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
January 8, 2020, 3:51 pm
State of Washington swears in first Native American-Jewish Supreme Court justice
Governor says naming of ‘exceptional’ Raquel Montoya-Lewis is historic, but he called on her ‘because she’s the best for the job’
By Emily Burack
Maine Gov. Janet Mills speaks to reporters before signing papers to posthumously pardon Don Gellers, a Passamaquoddy tribal lawyer convicted of marijuana possession, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020 at the Statehouse in Augusta, Maine. Accompanying the governor, from left, is Donna Loring, the governor's senior adviser on tribal affairs, Tribal Rep. Rena Newell, and Darrell Newell, Vice Chief of the Passamaquoddy Indian Township. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
January 8, 2020, 12:19 am
Maine gives tribal attorney turned rabbi posthumous pardon for 1968 pot charge
Don Gellers was prosecuted for possessing drugs while fighting for native land rights in alleged retribution by US officials; he later emigrated to Israel, fought in Yom Kippur War
By AP
The photographer uses a process that gives her work a weathered, antique look. (Kali Spitzer/via JTA)
May 3, 2019, 10:59 pm
Native-Jewish artist documents story of her dwindling people through photos
After spending 7 months with her relatives, Kali Spitzer returned home eager to teach others about indigenous culture through her passion, photography
By Josefin Dolsten
A sign reading 'This was not okay,' is seen in front of Covington Catholic High School in Park Kills, Ky., January 20, 2019. (Bryan Woolston/AP)
January 22, 2019, 10:44 am
Trump says students ‘unfairly treated’ over Native incident
US president tweets that ‘early judgements’ of disputed clash at Lincoln Memorial are ‘proving out to be false’
By AFP
In this January 18, 2019 image made from video provided by the Survival Media Agency, a teenager wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, center left, stands in front of an elderly Native American singing and playing a drum in Washington. (Survival Media Agency via AP)
January 21, 2019, 6:50 am
Student defends face-off with Native American as story complicates
Confrontation began when Black Hebrews began harassing school group from Kentucky, with both drummer and high schooler claiming they were only trying to calm situation
By Jeff Karoub and ADAM BEAM
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