Tag: Palestine
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Pro-BDS Group Uses Israeli Platform Wix to Build Website
Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Denver deny being hypocritical. According to the university group, which supports the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement built a website for its activities using the free Israeli website builder Wix, according to the Times of Israel website. The successful Tel Aviv-based company provides a platform for free website…
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Bomb Gaza Video Game Gets Shot Down from Google AppStore
Google removed from its app store — Google Play — a mobile game that simulates Israeli attacks on Gaza. “Bomb Gaza” lets video game players drop bombs and try to avoid killing civilians. The game got the axe from Google this week after a public backlash, said the Guardian newspaper. PlayFTW developed the game in which…
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Israel’s Tech Scene Is Having A Banner Week Despite Horrific Israel-Palestinian Violence
By Armin Rosen The conflict between Israel and Hamas has sent shockwaves through the Middle East and the broader world, but the hostilities have left one aspect of life in Israel curiously untouched: the Israeli tech sector. The four weeks since Hamas members kidnapped and murdered three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank — a…
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Apple’s Jerusalem Problem
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, an influential ultra-Orthodox rabbi, says it is forbidden for religious Jews to own an iPhone and has instructed his followers to burn the device if they own one. It’s not that Kanievsky sides with Android in the smartphone war, but that he’s concerned about what observant Jews will see with such a…