Author Archives: Adam Horowitz

About Adam Horowitz

Adam Horowitz is Co-Editor of Mondoweiss.net.

Israeli police barricade and arrest activists attempting to commemorate the Nakba

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Israeli activists with the organization Zochrot were arrested and barricaded in their office by police when they attempted to publicly read the names of Palestinian villages destroyed in 1948 during the Nakba.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Nakba | 35 Comments

Netanyahu goes looney tunes on Israeli Independence Day

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Just watch the video.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Reports/Video | 32 Comments

Message to Methodists: ‘Vote for Divestment. Vote for Human Rights.’

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

The above video was produced by The Palestine Solidarity Committee in St. Louis, MO. Three PSC members also have an an Op-Ed in today’s ‘Tampa Bay Times’ calling on the United Methodist Church to divest from multinational companies profiting from the Israeli occupation.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine | 23 Comments

Netanyahu involved in ’60 Minutes’ pushback; Official compares CBS story to a ‘strategic terror attack’ on Israeli diplomacy

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Israel continues to scramble in the fallout from Bob Simon’s bombshell story on the plight of Palestinian Christians. The back story on the Israeli attempts to kill the story are starting to come out, and they go right to the top.

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media | 35 Comments

’60 Minutes’ profiles Palestinian Christians, Michael Oren falls on his face

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Adam Horowitz
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This Sunday’s episode of ’60 Minutes’ included a powerful story from Bob Simon on Palestinian Christians which exposed life under occupation, and featured Michael Oren’s callous, and bumbling, defense of Israeli occupation.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media | Tagged | 318 Comments

‘California Scholars for Academic Freedom’ challenges UCLA on censure of prof who linked to BDS website

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

The organization California Scholars for Academic Freedom sent the following letter in response to UCLA’s faculty Senate’s action against Professor David Delgado Shorter, for linking to a website advocating for the culture boycott of Israel on an online syllabus.

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Politics | 8 Comments

UCLA prof reprimanded for linking to website advocating boycott of Israel

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

UCLA professor David Delgado Shorter has been reprimanded by the school’s faculty Senate for linking an online syllabus to a website advocating the boycott of Israel.

Posted in BDS, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Politics | 7 Comments

Bono in Jerusalem: ‘Hope Is Like A Faithful Dog’

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Read Bono’s ‘Hope Is Like A Faithful Dog’ — if you dare.

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 27 Comments

‘The War Around Us’: New film on the journalists who covered ‘Cast Lead’

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Watch the trailer for “The War Around Us.”

Posted in Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Media | 3 Comments

One state solution featured on NPR and in Carter ‘IHT’ Op-Ed

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

As the possibility of a two-state solution fades into the horizon, the discussion of alternatives continues to expand.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media, One state/Two states | 10 Comments

Israeli police attack Palestinian and international activists touring Hebron

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Israeli Border Police attacked a group of Palestinian and international activists who were touring Hebron’s Old City as part of the 7th International Bil’in Conference on the Palestinian Popular Struggle.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Occupation, Reports/Video | 20 Comments

Marc Ellis speaks out

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Marc Ellis has broken his silence on the disciplinary proceedings he faces at Baylor University.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Reports/Video, US Politics | 4 Comments

Aloni and Zizek to appear this Sunday in NY stage version of ‘What Does a Jew Want?’

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

This Sunday Udi Aloni will be appearing with Slavoj Zizek and the Israeli actress Hani Furstenberg at Joe’s Pub in a stage adaptation of Aloni’s book What Does a Jew Want?: On Binationalism and Other Specters.

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 7 Comments

Tear Gas in the Morning

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Watch a motion comic pitch for the graphic novel Tear Gas in the Morning: A Story of Nonviolent Resistance.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Media | 2 Comments

A twitter debate on Israel/Palestine and racism

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

This past weekend saw a spirited and sometimes angry debate rage on twitter over racism, Israel/Palestine, and BDS.

Posted in BDS, Israel/Palestine | 32 Comments

Live updates from the Global March to Jerusalem and Land Day protests

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Follow live twitter updates from Global March to Jerusalem actions around the world.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, Occupation | 3 Comments

Video: Students in Palestine and the US mark Land Day by calling on TIAA-CREF to divest

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

A three minute video calls on TIAA-CREF to end its investments in corporations that profit from Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Occupation, Reports/Video | 3 Comments

Global March to Jerusalem website blocked in Israel; decoy site directs to hasbara video

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

The Global March to Jerusalem website appears to be blocked in Israel, and a fake website set up directs visitors to a hasbara video.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government | 4 Comments

Wear your support for Israel on your sleeve. And your head, and your coffee mug, and . . .

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Christians United for Israel currently boasts of having one million members, making it “the nation’s largest pro-Israel organization.”

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine | 11 Comments

‘We must expel Arabs and take their place’: Institute for Palestine Studies publishes 1937 Ben-Gurion letter advocating the expulsion of Palestinians

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

The Institute for Palestine Studies rebuts criticism from CAMERA by publishing a Ben-Gurion letter showing he supported expelling Palestinians.

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Nakba | 191 Comments

Hey girl, feeling bad about the Park Slope Co-op vote?

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Ryan Gosling is here to help.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine | 8 Comments

Palestinian and Israeli organizations visit South Africa to study, brainstorm ‘practicalities of the implementation of the right of return’

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

From February 1-10, 2012 Badil and Zochrot undertook an intensive study visit to Cape Town, South Africa. The visit was carried out as part of a broader joint project of examining the practicalities of the implementation of the right of return of the Palestinian refugees and internally displaced.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Nakba | 13 Comments

CCR: Israeli excavations continue in Jerusalem’s Mamilla cemetery despite Wiesenthal Center claims

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

New photographic and video evidence made public today for the first time by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) indicates that controversial archeological excavations by the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) have continued this month on the ancient Mamilla cemetery in Jerusalem.

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government | 8 Comments

Brandeis students disrupt town-hall meeting with Israeli Knesset members

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

On Monday, March 26th 2012, members of Brandeis Students for Justice in Palestine disrupted a Town Hall Meeting with 5 members of the Israeli Knesset (MKs) at Temple Emanuel in Newton, Massachusetts. The activists wore blue T-shirts with the word “apartheid” written in Hebrew across the chest.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government | 76 Comments

The ‘clash of civilizations’ and the death of an Iraqi mother in San Diego

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Antiwar.com’s Justin Raimundo says the responsibility for Shaima Alawadi’s murder rests with the “war party,” and that her death should not be a surprise given the rampant Islamophobia seen in Southern California over the past few years.

Posted in Iraq, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | Tagged , | 11 Comments