Author Archives: Adam Horowitz

About Adam Horowitz

Adam Horowitz is Co-Editor of Mondoweiss.net.

Visualizing Palestine: Hunger strikes

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

A graphic outlining the history, and physical effects, of hunger strikes.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Occupation | Leave a comment

Israeli spokesman Mark Regev grilled on CNN International over Khader Adnan

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

CNN International’s Hala Gorani interviews Mark Regev about Khader Adnan’s case.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Occupation | 37 Comments

Greenwald: Indefinite detention policies have become normalized legally, politically and culturally in Israel and the US

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Glenn Greenwald: “abuses have now been going on for so long in the two countries, are so entrenched, that they have been absorbed into the political landscape as barely noticed accoutrements.”

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Occupation, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | 14 Comments

Israeli government sending 100 Israelis abroad to ‘defend the state’ during Israel Apartheid Week

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Israel’s Public Diplomacy Ministry plans an intensive hasbara campaign to counter Israel Apartheid Week.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government | 29 Comments

Bassem Tamimi to Israeli military judge: I do not recognize the authority of the Israeli occupation

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Yesterday, after nearly a year in Israeli detention, Nabi Saleh’s Bassem Tamimi was finally given a chance to plead his case before an Israeli military court. He denied the charges against him, and upheld Nabi Saleh’s right to struggle against the occupation and theft of the village’s lands.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media, Occupation | 5 Comments

Media critic calls out pundits for ignoring Khader Adnan, their long awaited ‘Palestinian Gandhi’

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Peter Hart, Activism Director for FAIR, criticizes mainstream pundits for ignoring Khader Adnan’s story.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media, US Politics | 12 Comments

Presbyterian investment committee recommends divestment from Caterpillar, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola over complicity in the occupation

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Adam Horowitz
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The Presbyterian Church (USA)’s Mission Responsibility Through Investment committee is recommending that the denomination divest its holdings in three companies – Caterpillar, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola Solutions.

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, BDS, US Politics | 12 Comments

Right wing to Rudoren: Are you now, or have you ever been, a Zionist?

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Judi Rudoren continues to hold her ground against the right-wing onslaught against her. The Washington Free Beacon’s Adam Kredo interviews her and begins in the most McCarthyite way possible.

Posted in Israel Lobby, Media, US Politics | 32 Comments

BDS interview fallout: Finkelstein ‘showed his own fear of the paradigm shift in discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Three responses to Norman Finkelstein’s interview slamming the BDS movement.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine | 95 Comments

Rudoren responds to the Twitter kerfuffle

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Politico’s Dylan Byers interviews new New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief Jodi Rudoren about her recent Twitter controversy.

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, US Politics | 18 Comments

Israeli rights group to Ehud Barak: Put Khader Adnan on trial or release him immediately

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel sent the following letter to Ehud Barak yesterday.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation | 2 Comments

Report: Last five years has seen a 315% rise in settler violence; this violence is ‘structural and symptomatic of occupation’

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Yesterday, the Palestine Center released the new report “When Settlers Attack,” the result of of a two-year project which cataloged over 3,700 instances of settler violence from 2004-2011.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, Reports/Video, Settlers/Colonists | 14 Comments

Norman Finkelstein slams the BDS movement calling it ‘a cult’

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Adam Horowitz
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Norman Finkelstein on the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. Recorded at Imperial College London on February 9, 2012.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Occupation, One state/Two states, Reports/Video | Tagged | 357 Comments

You won’t have Ethan Bronner to kick around anymore . . .

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Adam Horowitz
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Ethan Bronner is being re-assigned to cover national legal affairs from New York. The new bureau chief in Jerusalem will be Jodi Rudoren.

Posted in Media | 54 Comments

‘Love is a force far more powerful than the state’: Taiseer Khatib tells his family’s story in Salon

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Excerpt’s from Taiseer Khatib’s Salon article “Unhappy Valentine’s Day in Israel.”

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Occupation, One state/Two states | 1 Comment

University president promotes hasbara event with Israeli soldier in campus-wide email

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Western University of Health Sciences’ President, Philip Pumerantz, sent out a campus-wide email promoting the event “Inspiration Out of the Darkness: Reflection of a Front Line Israeli Solider” with Sgt. Benjamin Anthony.

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Politics | 17 Comments

UN official condemns Israel’s ‘strategy of Judaization’ throughout Israel/Palestine

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

UN’s Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Raquel Rolnik, charges Israel with dispossessing Palestinians in east Jerusalem and the West Bank as well as its Palestinian minority.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, One state/Two states | Tagged | 19 Comments

Two new videos take on The Dersh and introduce his toughest client yet – Claus Von Bibi!

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Two new videos look at Alan Dershowitz’s extensive record of intellectual dishonesty and career of making “the case for Israel.”

Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Reports/Video | 15 Comments

US citizens arrested in Bahrain supporting peaceful protest near one-year anniversary of uprising

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

US Citizens Huwaida Arraf and Radhika Sainath were arrested by Bahraini security forces in downtown Manama on Saturday during a peaceful protest. They are both active with Witness Bahrain.

Posted in Activism, Arab Spring, US Policy in the Middle East | 14 Comments

Live tweeting from the Penn BDS conference

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Phil, Alex and Annie are in Philadelphia for the Penn BDS conference, and while we wait for their first report we thought we’d bring you up to speed on the story to this point.

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, BDS, Israel Lobby, Media, US Politics | Tagged | 50 Comments

Israeli police shoot international activist in the neck during weekly Nabi Saleh protest

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

A French woman was hit in the back of her neck with a tear-gas projectile shot directly at her by a group of Israeli Border Police officers during the weekly demonstration in the village of Nabi Saleh yesterday. The IDF reported she was hit by a protesters stone. More that 20 were injured during the demonstration.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Occupation, On the ground reports, Reports/Video | 15 Comments

Archbishop Desmond Tutu endorses PennBDS conference

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Archbishop Desmond Tutu sends his greetings and support to the participants and organizers of the 2012 National BDS Conference at the University of Pennsylvania.

Posted in Activism, BDS | 12 Comments

Barghouti: Attacks on the Penn BDS conference reveal panic that Israel is losing hearts and minds

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Adam Horowitz
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Omar Barghouti, who was smeared in Professor Ruben Gur’s broadside against the Penn BDS conference, replies in the Daily Pennsylvanian: “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions is primarily about freedom, justice and equality”

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine | 17 Comments

Israeli Apartheid Week: Call it as it is

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

New video from the Never Before Campaign for this year’s Israeli Apartheid Week.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Reports/Video | 2 Comments

Racism Report: Africans in Israel

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

This video accompanied a report the African Refugee Development Center submitted to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on January 30, 2012.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government | 13 Comments