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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 465

Quakers

Illustrative: Construction in the settlement of Ariel, on January 17, 2014. (Flash 90)
November 20, 2018, 11:31 am
Quakers in Britain to boycott companies ‘profiting from occupation’ of West Bank
Board of Deputies of British Jews slams decision as ‘a biased and petulant act,’ notes faith group is divesting from world’s only Jewish state
By Stuart Winer
'Rescue Board' author, Rebecca Erbelding. (Miriam Lomaskin)
June 29, 2018, 12:06 pm
Holocaust museum scholar pushes fund drive for group that compares Israel, Nazis
Dr. Rebecca Erbelding offers a free copy of her new book to anyone donating to the Quaker AFSC, which rescued Jews in WWII but now compares Jewish state’s policies to Hitler regime
By Atara Beck
Friends Seminary in Manhattan. (Screen capture: Google Maps)
March 26, 2018, 11:36 pm
Students at Quaker school defend teacher who joked ‘Heil Hitler!’
Petition garners hundreds of signatures to reinstate Ben Frisch, fired for raising arm in Nazi salute to illustrate obtuse angle
By JTA
Elizabeth Tinker and Noah Smalls install an American Friends Service Committee exhibit at the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Tuesday, January 10, 2017. (AP/Matt Rourke)
January 8, 2018, 5:08 am
Nobel-winning Quakers vow to keep up campaign after banned from Israel
Some reportedly surprised over blacklist inclusion of American Friends Service Committee, which helped Jewish refugees during and after Holocaust before adopting BDS policies
By ToI Staff
Sa‘ed Atshan speaking at a Jewish Voice for Peace national meeting in Baltimore, March 2015 (YouTube screenshot).
February 14, 2017, 9:31 pm
Quaker school suspends teachers over pro-BDS speaker invite
Sa’ed Atsha disinvited from addressing Peace and Equality in Palestine club at Pennsylvania school after parents complain
By AP
Protesters urging a boycott against Israel in Melbourne, file photo (CC-BY SA Takver/Wikimedia Commons)
February 21, 2014, 1:25 am
Jewish, Quaker groups launch BDS summer camp
Five-day ‘fun, comprehensive’ training program geared towards campus activists ‘inspired by divestment victories’
By Yifa Yaakov
A Jewish star badge from France (Courtesy Yad Vashem)
May 16, 2013, 7:05 pm
Woman becomes Ireland’s first Righteous among Nations
Mary Elms, who died in 2002, helped a large number of Jewish children escape the Rivesaltes detention camp in France
October 1, 2012, 5:56 pm
Quaker group divests from companies working in Israel
Hewlett-Packard and French firm targeted for their ties to Israeli military
A Palestinian man next to a mural in Rafah that reads 'returning' (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)
March 28, 2012, 5:32 pm
NGO that wants Palestinian refugees let into Israel is barred from Ramallah for being Israeli
Anti-normalization protests force cancellation of workshop on the practicalities of the ‘right of return’
By Elhanan Miller
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