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Start-Up Nation Tech Fair Showcases Israeli Technology Industry

By Kareeda Kabir October 23, 2018

Israel’s technology industry struggles to cultivate diversity, said Ifat Baron, founder and executive of ItWorks, an Israeli non-profit that promotes diversity in the technology industry, at the...

Congressman Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) spoke about the Israel-U.S. relationship at an event hosted by the Georgetown Israel Alliance on Tuesday. Deutch said that U.S. policy towards Israel has historically been a bipartisan issue and that progressive values do not conflict with a pro-Israel stance.

Pro-Israel and Progressive Values Are Compatible, Says Rep. Ted Deutch

By Noah Berman September 27, 2018

Being progressive and being pro-Israel are not mutually exclusive, but compatible, Congressman Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) said at an event Tuesday. Deutch, the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs...

VIEWPOINT: Subtle Anti-Semitism

By Tanner Larkin March 24, 2017

Last October, a swastika was scratched into the wall of a Georgetown University Medical Center bathroom. Laudably, administrators and others quickly condemned this blatant expression of bigotry. However,...

In Search of Diplomatic Respect

By Laila Brothers March 22, 2016

I am a Palestinian in J Street U, a pro-Israel, pro-Palestine, pro-peace organization that advocates a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and this week was particularly trying for...

Center for Jewish Civilization Plans Launch

By Ian Scoville February 23, 2016

Georgetown University will launch the Center for Jewish Civilization, an interdisciplinary teaching and research program that will cover all aspects of Jewish civilization, with an event Monday. The...

Avoid Empty Rhetoric

By The Editorial Board March 6, 2015

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress on Tuesday was nothing if not controversial. Both the timing of his arrival and the content of his address polarized groups on Georgetown’s...

Palestine, BDS, and Richard Falk: An Answer to GIA

By Amin Gharad December 28, 2014

The Georgetown Israel Alliance (GIA) seems to have taken considerable exception to an earlier campus event featuring a lecture and question-and-answer session with Princeton international law scholar...

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Through Different Lenses: Israel, Hamas and Gaza

By Contributors July 16, 2014

Shortly after the militant group Hamas and the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority agreed to form a unitary government, the kidnapping and subsequent murder of three Israeli teenagers triggered tensions....

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With Hamas at the Helm, A Fearful Future

By Nitzan Gabai July 16, 2014

I look back at the past few weeks I spent in Israel and the West Bank in both awe and frustration. Amid visits to Ramallah and Bethlehem, I managed to reconvene with family and spend time with my new baby...

Interfaith Concert Follows Screening Withdrawal

By Sam Abrams November 15, 2013

A week and a half after Students for Justice in Palestine withdrew from a film screening meant to foster dialogue with pro-Israel student groups, the Jewish and Muslim Chaplaincies held Amplified Voices,...

Friendly Screening Sours

By Mallika Sen November 8, 2013

Students for Justice in Palestine withdrew its co-sponsorship of a film screening with the Georgetown Israel Alliance and J Street U, an event that was supposed to herald an unprecedented collaboration...

The ICC Accords

By The Editorial Board October 28, 2013

Israeli-Palestinian relations, rooted in decades of religious and political violence, have become almost synonymous with the word “conflict.” Even here on campus, thousands of miles away from the sites...

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