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February 2, 2018

Setting the Record Straight on Israel’s Deportation of Illegal Immigrants

No refugees are being returned home.

Israel has recently announced plans to expel a number of migrants who entered the country without permission—most of them from Sudan or Eritrea via the Sinai between 2006 and 2012. Predictably the decision has raised an outcry, including from American Jewish groups. Against these critics, Emmanuel Navon explains that the deportees are not refugees, and that the deportations are in line with Western practice in general:

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February 2, 2018

  1. The U.S. Adopts a Tougher Stance toward the Muslim Brotherhood

    But it still needs to find a way to combat its non-terrorist activities.

  2. Setting the Record Straight on Israel’s Deportation of Illegal Immigrants

    No refugees are being returned home.

  3. How to Respond to Poland’s New Law Censoring Discussion of the Holocaust

    Jews and Poles should try to put the past behind them.

  4. Remembering the Great Israeli Poet Haim Gouri

    Bab el-Wad.

  5. What Does “Thou Shalt Not Covet” Mean? And How Can the Torah Prohibit Wanting Something?

    The tenth commandment.