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By February 05, 2013

• Worth reading: US Should Recognize Israeli Control of the Golan

• Richard Cohen (Washington Post) and Dan Ephron (The Daily Beast) ruminate on “The Gatekeepers.”

• Essentially agreeing with Glenn Greenwald, an LA Times commentary says the fuss over Brooklyn College’s BDS event is a “red herring.”

Obviously no student should be subjected to ethnic or religious harassment. But it does no service to Jewish students — in Brooklyn or Berkeley — to try to insulate them from debate about Israeli polices, including the denunciations offered by the BDS movement.

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• Israel’s newest parliamentarians were sworn into the Knesset today. Gideon Allon — who has covered the Knesset for 20 years — offers advice to the record number of newbies.

Lahav Harkov

• YNet: Israel is in talks to send up an astronaut to the International Space Station.

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Pesach Benson

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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