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Half-Muslim, half-Jewish, 100% Zionist

“The Quad” with guest Chama Mechtaly

It goes without saying that being half-Muslim and half-Jewish in today’s Middle East is no easy task. Throw Zionism in the mix and the challenges only become greater.

Nevertheless, Moroccan artist and activist Chama Mechtaly refuses to be intimidated by the status quo. Rather, she seeks to reawaken the North African tradition of multiculturalism and pluralism despite the challenges.

JNS TV show with Fleur Hassan-Nahoum (deputy mayor of Jerusalem), Emily Schrader (activist and journalist), Ashira Solomon (African-American Jew and political moderator) and Vivian Bercovici (former Canadian ambassador to Israel).
“It’s yet another example of the Wikipedia editors’ anti-Israel bias,” Alyza Lewin of the Combat Antisemitism Movement told JNS.
Balad party chair Sami Abu Shehadeh, who wrote a piece lauding Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks, withdrew his candidacy for the upcoming election.
Rabbi Rachel Timoner, of Congregation Beth Elohim, told JNS that there ought to be a conversation “to break down assumptions.”
“I fought for my life—and the lives of the passengers,” Capt. Smit Machchhar told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi from his hospital bed in the UAE.