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Gavin Newsom meets with a Californian survivor of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in October 2023. (Courtesy office of the Governor)
Posted inOpinion

Gavin Newsom isn’t waffling on Israel — he’s voicing sensible ideas in an era of outrage

Rob Eshman by Rob Eshman March 26, 2026March 26, 2026

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. When California Gov. Gavin Newsom told Politico in an […]

Sonoma State University sign
Posted inLetters

Dangers of rabbinic burnout. No ‘blood libel’ at Sonoma State. Iran campaign is good.

by J. Readers March 20, 2026March 20, 2026
Gavin Newsom
Posted inCalifornia

Newsom staff meets with Jewish leaders after ‘apartheid’ comment about Israel

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman March 6, 2026March 7, 2026
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom at a memorial for Sen. Dianne Feinstein. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inCalifornia

Newsom: Some say Israel is ‘sort of an apartheid state,’ questions U.S. aid

Ben Samuels by Ben Samuels March 4, 2026March 5, 2026
Signs protesting the Gaza war, including some that accuse Israel of apartheid, are laid out on the sidewalk in front of San Francisco City Hall on Dec. 5, 2023. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inFrom the Archives

In the ‘80s, Jews protested and camped out against apartheid — and it worked

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 6, 2024May 6, 2024
Palestinians cross into Israel from the West Bank through an opening in the Israeli separation barrier between the West Bank town of Qalqilya and the Israeli Kibbutz Eyal, Feb. 27, 2022.  (Photo/RNS-AP-Oded Balilty)
Posted inNews

Jewish groups denounce Presbyterian Church for calling Israel ‘apartheid’

Yonat Shimron by Yonat Shimron and RNS July 12, 2022
Walt Disney employees and demonstrators during a rally against the Florida "Don't Say Gay" bill at Griffith Park in Glendale, California, March 22, 2022. (Photo/Forward-Alisha Jucevic-Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

I was gay and Jewish under apartheid. LGBTQ rights are slipping away in the U.S.

Robert Bank by Robert Bank and Forward June 2, 2022June 2, 2022
Klaas Mokgomole
Posted inOpinion

I’m South African. Calling Israel ‘apartheid’ puts the BS in BDS.

Klaas Mokgomole by Klaas Mokgomole April 22, 2022April 22, 2022
Zahra Billoo speaks at the Jan. 2018 Women's March in San Francisco. (Photo/Wikimedia-Pax Ahimsa Gethen CC BY-SA 4.0)
Posted inLetters

Myopia on race; Zahra Billoo was wronged; Can’t stop Russia

by J. Readers March 7, 2022
Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli security forces at the entrance of the West Bank city of Ramallah, Jan. 30, 2020. (Photo/JTA/Flash90)
Posted inOpinion

Condemning Amnesty’s flawed ‘apartheid’ report won’t bring peace to Israel

Matt Nosanchuk by Matt Nosanchuk and JTA February 14, 2022

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