A new report from 22 European NGOs titled “Trading Away Peace: How Europe Helps Sustain Illegal Israeli Settlements” calls for a ban on settlement products in the European Union.
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Monthly Archives: October 2012
Carter Center ‘commends’ Christian leaders call for Congressional investigation into Israeli human rights violations
Carter Center press release: “The Carter Center commends the 15 Christian leaders who recently urged Congress to investigate human rights violations by Israelis against Palestinians that are obviously in violation of U.S. law.”
Exile and the Prophetic: Palestine in pieces
Palestine is in pieces. It won’t be put together again, at least as it was. The view of Palestine before the fall is romanticized. Like Eastern European Jewish life before the Holocaust, communities see what they want to see. Nostalgia is part of the storm’s aftermath but it doesn’t go very far. It may even take our eyes off a future that is achievable.
I am you
The poem “I am you” by Refaat Alareer
Video: Normalize this!
Video of Remi Kanazi performing his new poem, “Normalize This!”
On the unbearable lightnness of (not) being Israeli
The adjective ‘Israeli’ is a magician’s trick. but whereas the common magician makes coins and pigeons vanish and reappear, ‘Israeli’ can disappear a whole people, only to pull it back from the ear of an assistant when the show requires it. Let’s see how it’s done.
Israeli military begins demolishing home in Beit Ommar with family still inside
Seven Palestinians including three children, a woman and her son were arrested in Al Khalil Israeli authorities arrested seven Palestinians on Tuesday in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, including three children, a woman and her son. Said Raba, a Palestinian from the South Hebron Hills village of al-Mufaqarah, was arrested because he refused to […]
Medea Benjamin awarded US Peace Memorial Foundation 2012 Peace Prize
Medea Benjamin has been awarded the 2012 Peace Prize by The US Peace Memorial Foundation in recognition of “Creative Leadership on the Front Lines of the Antiwar Movement”.
Crossing Hizma, the other Jerusalem checkpoint
While Qalandia is the main passageway out of the West Bank for Palestinians, Hizma, another checkpoint a few kilometers to the south, is the entry point into “Judea and Samaria” for settlers. Once part of the landscape of what would have been the capital of a Palestinian state, Hizma now represents a forgotten era of geographical continuity in the West Bank.
Exile and the Prophetic: How much justice will there be in a ‘just’ resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
Left to itself, justice is a non-starter. It isn’t only the Israel/Palestine situation that makes justice alone problematic. Look at our world and the conflicts around the globe. Justice is part of their solution. It isn’t the only part.
Israel announces 180 new settlement housing units in East Jerusalem
180 new units in East Jerusalem [map] Settlement Watch EJ 29 Oct — The Israeli Land Administration announced last week the allocation of 180 new housing units in East Jerusalem for families of people from the Israeli security forces (the army and police). The decision was made in accordance with the Israeli Government’s decision from […]
Advocates for overthrow of Iran’s government educate American high school teachers
The Philadelphia-based Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) brought together 44 high school teachers from around the country for “a professional development conference on ‘Understanding Iran and the Geopolitics of the Middle East.’” Two of the scholars giving presentations on Iran are proponents for overthrowing the Iranian government.
CBS no longer categorizes American Jews as ‘ethnic minority’
It’s always cool to bash WASPs. Harvard Magazine article about documentary about superrich Jewish couple refers to WASPs not Jews….
‘This is travesty of American criminal justice’: Supreme Court denies Holy Land Five appeal
The Supreme Court has denied the Holy Land Five appeal and will not be issuing a decision in the case. This almost definitely marks the end of the legal appeal process. Above, a rally for the Holy Land Five in New York City last week.
‘NYT’ piece whitewashed occupation and Nakba
The Nakba never happened, and the occupation is caricatured — says op-ed by Colin Shindler in the Times
‘NYT’ op-ed equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism relied on Nasrallah quote that is in all likelihood a fabrication
The Times op-ed page held up Sarah Schulman’s piece criticizing Israel for months, demanding 300 pages of documentation. Yesterday it ran a pro-Israel piece by a British academic that contains what is in all likelihood a fabricated quote
Exile and the Prophetic: Do Jews and Palestinians ‘share’ the Holocaust and the Nakba?
Old ideas would be mutual recognition, with each side recognizing the tragedy that has befallen the other. There’s no harm in mutual recognition of past suffering. I wonder, though, if at this point it’s better for Jews and Palestinians to agree to drop the past suffering of both and concentrate on suffering and justice in the present.
Whether legal or political, the Holy Land Five struggle will continue
Today the Supreme Court will announce its decision to hear whether to hear the last remaining legal appeal of the Holy Land Five. The crusade against the Holy Land Foundation has been a political prosecution that targeted five Palestinian-Americans, with the close collaboration of Israeli intelligence sources and an anonymous witness.
Samira Shackle: The Netanyahu-Lieberman alliance will accelerate isolationism and discrimination
The Netanyahu-Lieberman alliance will accelerate isolationism and discrimination When I interviewed Professor Avi Shlaim last month, he said that the current Israeli government was “is the most right-wing, the most hawkish, the most uncompromising … in Israel’s entire history”. That could be about to get worse. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has announced that he is […]
US immigration officials detain and interrogate Imran Khan about drones and who’s pushing the State Department
Imran Khan U.S. Immigration detained Imran Khan in Canada on Saturday as he was boarding a plane for New York to attend a fundraiser. They interrogated him for 2 hours over his views on drones. Khan made big waves last month leading an anti-drone march to Waziristan to protest against American drone strikes. But more […]
War and the two Bible belts
Israel’s acceptance of Jim Crow and America’s acceptance of permanent war are each fostered by intolerant segments in the respective societies
Israeli maker of ‘Gatekeepers’ says occupation is ‘past the point of no return’
The two state solution is dead. The NYT won’t tell you this. But Dror Moreh who directed The Gatekeepers will.
Celebrating Chomsky’s historic visit to Gaza
We were taught Chomsky in school, but never thought we shared the same stage. Now he has brought that stage to Gaza, and reunified Gaza with the world. Gaza celebrates
Parents in Nazareth Illit: ‘There is no need for our children to be educated with Arabs’
Apartheid in Israel? Parents of Jewish children in Natzrat Ilit are threatening to make a strike and shut down the playground, if the kindergarten will integrate in a project that will bring Arab children and Jewish ones together.
Holy Land Five appeal could set precedent on using ‘secret evidence’ in U.S. courts
On Monday the Supreme Court is expected to decide if it will hear an appeal that could overturn the conviction of the co-founders and chief staff of the Holy Land Foundation, a Texas-based humanitarian organization and once was the largest Muslim charity in the United States.