Columbia J School class covers the occupation, after all

A couple weeks ago I scoffed at the fact that Ari Goldman’s "Covering Religion" class at the Columbia Journalism School was taking a caravan to the Holy Land and had scheduled Yad Vashem for Friday– when Fridays are the time of nonviolent popular resistance actions across the West Bank and in Judaized East Jerusalem, which maybe you noticed is about the biggest international story these days. Well Goldman’s class is back and here is a good report by student Rory Kress on Palestinian clashes with Israeli occupying forces in Shuafat, the refugee camp that borders the neighborhood in which Israel plans yet more settlement units, Ramat Shlomo. It appears that the clashes took place last Friday. Kress also has footage of the nonviolent demo in Sheikh Jarrah and of Muslims under 50 barred from entering the Old City to worship at the Dome of the Rock. It’s great when journalists show the Muslims barred from worship–an angry-making fact of racial profiling in annexed East Jerusalem. I see that student Carolyn Phenicie also covers this ugly practice here, for Goldman’s class. Good work.