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Guest columnist Benjamin Weil: Fossil fuel-free law addresses legit concerns
E-Edition Advertise Newsletters Subscribe Home News Opinion Sports Business Arts & Life Obituaries Classifieds Calendar Puzzles Benjamin Weil, Northampton Climate Action and Project Administration director. In his guest column Jan. 30 [“All-electric rule: Costlier homes, worse efficiency”], David Murphy poses several objections to Northampton’s fossil fuel-free construction ordinance.
PEP in Your Step
Since their popularization during the outbreak of the AIDS crisis, condoms have, ironically enough, given birth to an array of sexual freedoms, among them the ability to have sex without risk of pregnancy or infection. Yet, as freeing as they can be, condoms have also, for many, been just as limiting—tethering sex, especially sex outside of monogamous, heterosexual, reproductive relationships, to a frankly unsexy public health imperative for latex prophylaxis.
Sex Work is (Gig) Work
For sex workers—including but by no means limited to escorts, porn performers, strippers, street workers, camgirls, rent boys, and exotic dancers—the rallying cry “sex work is work” has never been about merely stating the obvious but about making the obvious. That is, working to counter the conservative and, frequently, feminist forces that consider sex work a form of moral degradation, as dangerous, sinful, demeaning, or always coerced.
In defence of Maddy Morphosis, Drag Race's cishet male queen
Last week, RuPaul’s Drag Race announced the cast for its upcoming 14th season. This year, among the 14 drag queens in the running for the title of America’s Next Drag Superstar, is Arkansas’ Maddy Morphosis. Even painted head-to-toe in hot pink as she appears in her promo look, there is nothing especially remarkable about her. And yet, much fanfare has been made about her inclusion in the cast.
Israel’s headache named Qatar
While the Israelis continue their campaign against a nuclear Iran, the Iranians, through Qatari assistance, affect the calm on Israeli borders except those with Jordan and Egypt. 688 WORDS Spread the word. Help JNS grow! Share now: (July 21, 2021 / JNS) What would you say if I told you that Israel is allowing a close ally of Iran, her arch-enemy, to fund the Hamas terrorist regime in Gaza? In 2018, the tension on the Israel-Gaza border flared up.
Israel’s Headache Named Qatar
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani shakes hands with Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani during a welcome ceremony, in Tehran, Iran January 12, 2020. Photo: Official Iranian Presidential Website/Handout via REUTERS. JNS.org – What would you say if I told you that Israel is allowing a close ally of Iran, her arch-enemy, to fund the Hamas terrorist regime in Gaza? In 2018, the tension on the Israel-Gaza border flared up.
Remarks on installations and changes in time dimensions
Originally published in Flash Art no. 162 January/February 1992. The farsightedness with which Weil analyzes the then-nascent 1990s is indicative of the brutal changes that the art world would undergo in terms of how it related to time, to the media, and to the creative process.
The shoddy and questionable resolution of the UNHRC on Israel
The world body came to a special session immediately following the Israeli-Hamas conflict ready to throw a dart; all they needed to do was draw the target around it. 604 WORDS Spread the word. Help JNS grow! Share now: (June 2, 2021 / JNS) At this point in time, we are all aware of the anti-Israel bias in the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The number of anti-Israel resolutions adopted each year by the council surpasses those of infamous human-rights violators around the world.
Opinion | The president has it all wrong on Iran
Benjamin Weil (VIa JNS.org) By Benjamin Weil In recent weeks, the breaking news notifications on my cellphone have switched from reports about the next Muslim or Arab country to normalize relations with Israel to Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia and Shi’ite militia attacking U.S. targets in Iraq. The commonality between the two groups of militias is their backing by Iran.
Easing the gay blood ban means more sexual stigma
Posted Monday 14th December 2020 / Text By Benjamin Weil In the wake of a rule change meaning that more gay men can give blood, writer Benjamin Weil argues that the burden of AIDS discrimination has merely shifted elsewhere in the community. In the wake of a rule change meaning that more gay men can give blood, writer Benjamin Weil argues that the burden of AIDS discrimination has merely shifted elsewhere in the community.
Is Iran Pushing an Arms Race?
Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wears a protective face mask, during a virtual meeting with lawmakers, in Tehran, Iran, July 12, 2020. Photo: Official Khamenei website / Handout via Reuters. JNS.org – While the United States has been busy with the presidential election and the blazing fires out West, the UN arms embargo on selling conventional weapons to Iran, under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), has expired.
Helping Israel Swallow the Pill of the F-35 Sale to the UAE
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands in front of an F-35 stealth fighter at the IAF’s Nevatim base, July 9, 2019. Photo: Amos Ben Gershom / GPO. For more than 6 years, the UAE has been eyeing Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning. The US has been hesitant to sell the fighter jet to the Emiratis, in order to preserve Israel’s air supremacy in the skies of the Middle East. But now that the Israelis and Emiratis have signed a peace agreement, the Emirati request will most likely be granted.
The first domino to fall …
By Staff | on August 19, 2020 By Benjamin Weil Benjamin Weil is director of the Project for Israel’s National Security for the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET), a pro-Israel and pro- American think tank and policy institute in Washington. For years, statesmen and diplomats from around the world have claimed that it is impossible for Israel to reach a peace agreement with any Arab state without first signing a peace agreement with the Palestinian Authority.
The UAE Is the First Domino to Fall …
The Tel Aviv municipality building is lit with the United Arab Emirates national flag following the announcement of a deal to normalize relations between the Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Aug. 13, 2020. Photo: Reuters / Ammar Awad. JNS.org – For years, statesmen and diplomats from around the world have claimed that it is impossible for Israel to reach a peace agreement with any Arab state without first signing a peace agreement with the Palestinian Authority.
UAE - The first domino to fall - Opeds
(JNS) For years, statesmen and diplomats from around the world have claimed that it is impossible for Israel to reach a peace agreement with any Arab state without first signing a peace agreement with the Palestinian Authority. They said Israel would have to give up land beyond the Green Line, evacuating settlements, splitting Jerusalem and establishing a Palestinian state.
Israel’s unique methods against the Iranian threat
The brilliance in Israel’s alleged reactions lay in how they have managed to face Iran on a number of fronts: in Iran, in Syria and in Lebanon.
Some Sobering Medication for Khamenei’s Tweet on Israel
Iranian ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a live televised speech marking Quds Day (Jerusalem Day), in Tehran, Iran, May 22, 2020. Photo: Official Khamenei Website / Handout via Reuters. JNS.org – Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, recently took to Twitter and compared the creation of the State of Israel to the COVID-19 virus. He wrote: “Some argue that the Zionist regime is a reality that the region must come to terms with.
Is the coronavirus a blessing for Hezbollah? - opinion
In the midst of this coronavirus, Lebanon defaulted its $1.2 billion loan this past March, setting up the stage for Hezbollah to take over the government’s role in providing civil services. By BENJAMIN WEIL MAY 9, 2020 22:34 HEZBOLLAH FLAGS flutter along an empty street, at the entrance of Mays Al-Jabal village (photo credit: SETH J.
Is Hamas the true beneficiary of the Israel-Islamic Jihad escalation?
I found it interesting to see how Israel reacted to the rockets from Gaza this time, as opposed to how it acted in the past. By BENJAMIN WEIL NOVEMBER 28, 2019 21:51 Are these the winners? (photo credit: REUTERS) Islamic Jihad retaliated by launching over 450 rockets toward 110 communities in Israel, tethering Israelis to their bomb shelters at night and preventing more than one million kids from going to school.
PrEP at the After/Party: The ‘Post-AIDS’ Politics of Frank Ocean’s “PrEP+”
Introduction HIV/AIDS prevention efforts have taken many forms, ranging from pop-up stalls at LGBTQ+ Pride parades to circuit parties at popular queer venues. In this essay, we examine music artist Frank Ocean’s recent attempt to revivify the HIV prevention-access circuit party: a dance event primarily attended by gay men which emerged in cities in the United States to fundraise for HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention efforts.
An integrated experimental and economic evaluation of cell therapy affinity purification technologies
Financial support from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and SpheriTech Ltd. was gratefully acknowledged. University College London hosts the EPSRC Centre for Innovative manufacturing in Emergent Macromolecular Therapies with an academic network and a consortium of industrial and government users (Grant code: EP/G034656/1).
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