May 24 2013

0 SF officials describe ‘apartheid’ label as ‘intolerance alienating the Jewish community’

1 In electric atmosphere, Medea Benjamin takes over the president’s speech

0 Bradley Manning blows chance to have a gay wedding

6 Weiner’s Park Ave apartment belongs to man whose ‘only agenda’ is Israel

1 UN and Hunter College events feature plight of Bedouin refugees, due to be expelled again from E-1

0 AIPAC promotes Netanyahu on two states (and ignores the statements from the rest of his government)

5 Jamal al-Dura calls on Israeli government to bring him his son

14 Kerry faults Israelis for complacency — peace isn’t ‘on the tip of everybody’s tongue’

1 Cornell SJP publishes ‘Notes on Palestine/Israel’ as an antidote to ‘dialogue’

2 Exile and the Prophetic: Notes from a ‘marginal Jew’

12 CBS stands by Bob Simon, blowing off CAMERA’s charges of anti-Semitism

May 23 2013

22 Video: Medea Benjamin interrupts Obama speech on US drone policy

33 Glenn Greenwald on the Woolwich attack and blowback from the ‘war on terror’

7 Church of Scotland accepts controversial report on Israel/Palestine
Ira Glunts and Adam Horowitz

8 Half of Israel’s eligible youth don’t enlist– and ranks of ‘gray resisters’ grow

15 Chelsea Clinton’s multifaith initiative

12 More on the ‘creepy’ al-Dura report

8 Exile and the Prophetic: Does John Kerry have the keys to Kafka’s (middle east) castle?

13 Wolf Blitzer looks for a religious state

38 Kerry goes for the Hail Mary, but Obama is punting

May 22 2013

19 ‘Forward’ piece on destruction of Palestinian neighborhood fronting Western Wall is not embraced by all ‘Forward’ readers

45 Israel cracks down on American travel to West Bank by requiring tourists to obtain military permit

3 Bradley Manning rally to feature Ellsberg, Ann Wright, Dan Choi, Sarah Shourd

10 Another ‘NYT’ piece buys Israel’s al-Dura report– which PA spox calls ‘fantastical’ racist propaganda

35 Jewish philanthropies stay away from org dedicated to Yiddish culture because it doesn’t focus on Israel or the Holocaust

9 Reporters Without Borders on the Israeli al-Dura investigation: ‘the nature and substance of this report are questionable and give the impression of a smear operation’

34 Obama’s secret wars in Muslim world make Americans vulnerable

9 ‘Al Jazeera’ reposts Massad piece, after censoring it

56 Biden says Jewish ‘influence’ behind American cultural politics is ‘immense… immense’

11 The etymology of anti-Semitism

7 Exile and the Prophetic: My name is the Church of Scotland and I am a recovering…..

4 Israel blocks UNESCO fact-finding mission to investigate assaults on holy places in Jerusalem

May 21 2013

14 Video: Paterson, NJ raises the Palestinian flag over city hall for Palestinian-American Day

7 Princeton students ‘come out’ for Palestine to overcome shame attached to issue in U.S.

11 Jim from Newport Township, Illinois asks the wrong question

31 There’s been a sea change in US opinion on the conflict

21 Former AIPAC lobbyist assumes weighty mantle (and travel budget) of US Special Envoy on anti-Semitism

13 Press Release: Isabel Kershner chosen to reveal future Israeli exonerations

1 As Israel’s occupation drags on, boycotts are one way forward

45 Both Massad, and ‘Open Zion’, ignore the experience of Middle Eastern Jews

17 Exile and the Prophetic: My Father’s death

21 Widely denounced as ‘propaganda,’ Israel’s report on al-Dura calls attention to 950 other child killings

35 New York City Council official urges Brooklyn College to hire ‘professor from Israel’