The Pulaski County Quorum Court on Tuesday rejected a resolution to “support permanent ceasefire and prevent further loss of human life in the Middle East.” The Justices of the Peace […]
Israel-Hamas war
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Cars shut down Chenal for pro-Palestine rally
Protesters staged a car rally in West Little Rock to draw attention to suffering in Palestine.
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State Senate president offered a way out on defamation suit
A letter from attorney Tom Mars to Sen. Bart Hester offers a resolution to a social media battle that threatens to spill over into the courts.
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Bloodthirsty Tom Cotton is going to get someone killed
Tom Cotton calls campus protests against the war in Gaza “cesspools” full of “fanatics and freaks.” It is OK to wage war on these kids, he’s implying. If something really goes wrong, and someone gets seriously hurt or killed — well, that life wasn’t valuable. Just some “lunatic.”
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Interfaith alliance to protest bloody rhetoric at Pulaski Republican meeting
A local coalition of Jews, Muslims and others will break their fast together outside the monthly meeting of the Pulaski County Republicans tonight in protest of the county party’s xenophobic, anti-Palestinian rhetoric.
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Why Gov. Sanders’ attacks on antisemitism ring so hollow
When Republican proposals to fight antisemitism consist solely of limiting the rights of students to express solidarity with Palestinians, or even just to acknowledge the fundamental complexity of the whole mess, you can tell that they do not care about the actual health and safety of Jewish people.
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Is picking on a Jewish man from Jerusalem the podiumgate distraction Sarah Sanders needs? She’s trying it.
The governor and her wingman try to dunk on a Jewish man who lives in Jerusalem in a poorly planned play for pro-Israel political points.