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Why ‘Brand Israel’ is failing
Ambassador Michael Oren’s recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal is timely – and appropriate. Israel is less popular among young Americans than ever before. And it will only grow more unpopular as more facts about the occupation make their way into the American mainstream.
Posted in Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, US Politics
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Hana Shalabi has been on hunger strike for 40 days– A call to action
Students from US and European universities issue a call for a day of solidarity Thursday to publicize the hunger strike of Hana Shalabi, who is in administrative detention in Israel. Many students will go on a 24-hour hunger strike in solidarity
One-State conference at Harvard – March 3 & 4, 2012
Students at Harvard University have organized a conference on the meaning of the one state solution that will be held March 3 and 4, 2012.
Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, One state/Two states
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BDS comes to Penn
The past few years have seen the BDS movement electrify campus activism – a bright spot on the landscape of Palestine advocacy. The movement has enabled students around the country to engage constructively with the big moral question of our … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
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PalestiniansRegister.org seeks to restore democracy for all Palestinians
My hope is that the organizers will succeed in registering the bulk of refugees and other Palestinians in the diaspora
Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine
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Discussing Palestine at Occupy Boston
I spent my day in downtown Boston in and around the Occupy Boston encampment. Appropriately, the protesters bivouacked across the street from The Federal Reserve Bank here; the image they’ve conjured is a symbolically potent one. My main task for … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
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Take notice D.C. – Panel of distinguished Arabs analyze the ‘Arab Spring’ at Harvard
I had the privilege of attending a discussion entitled “Inside the Arab Awakening” on Sept. 19. The panel was organized by the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School and was moderated by Ambassador Nicholas Burns. The panelists – … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
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The implications of the US economic bust go much further than political dysfunction
Lately, some of my friends have been posting triumphant messages across social media. The focus of their attentions is the ongoing global financial collapse – and their messages are steeped in a misguided Schadenfreude. You can celebrate America’s credit-rating downgrade … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
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Boycott debate– in which a young, cosmopolitan, liberal-leaning Jewish man twists and writhes under the weight of half-truths and wispy contradictions
I had the privilege of attending the boycott debate in London with Eleanor Kilroy, which she wrote about here. I only wanted to add a few more points: For those of you who haven’t seen Omar Barghouti debate or speak, … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
54 Comments
Don’t lose heart. This struggle is a long one
Evidently, the Israelis and Americans (and the French and Germans?) have succeeded in pressuring the failing Greek government into preventing the flotilla from sailing. As Medea Benjamin pointed out earlier, this likely has a lot to do with Greece’s sovereign … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
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Facebook counterrevolution: Jews and Arabs can’t live together
Most of the time when Zionists discuss democracy, it’s from under a dark cloud’s pall. The words they issue are strained and a compressed desperation suffuses their arguments. Invariably, they become aggressive. Masada is rebuilt in their own heads and … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
64 Comments
Go Palestine!
A dedicated group of activists and teachers have launched a program called “Go Palestine!” Its purpose is to provide a summer experience for Palestinian Diaspora youths (ages 14 to 17) by pairing them with a Palestinian host family for the … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
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The education of Richard Goldstone
Judge Richard Goldstone made a mistake. An ardent Zionist, he believed that he could alter the course of the Jewish state’s trajectory. Undoubtedly pained by the actions of his Zionist fellows – and earnestly knowing that it doesn’t have to … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
55 Comments
‘Going native’ and Jewish exceptionalism on the left
Yossi Gurvitz issued a decent rebuttal to Dimi Reider’s call to self-immolation over at 972mag. It’s worth reading the argument in its entirety, and its strengths are self-evident. There is one significant note worth harping on: Gurvitz’s casual racism when … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
28 Comments
‘Libya is not Egypt’
Like virtually every other sentient creature in the galaxy, I’ve been following the Arab revolutions closely. But unlike the “serious people who know better,” it hasn’t occurred to me that “Libya isn’t Egypt.” At the outset of the revolutionary wave, … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
36 Comments
I know you all fear that our fervor is waning. It is not
Almost universally, everyone I’ve spoken to who isn’t in Egypt over the past few days has expressed a concern that the revolutionary fervor here is waning. I am happy to report that isn’t what I’ve been witnessing. But a few … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
30 Comments
Moor: Television fails to capture the wider experience of Tahrir
I just wanted to write a quick note about media coverage of what’s been going on here in Cairo. I haven’t had much access to outside media over the past eleven days, but I managed to watch a few hours … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
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Ahmed Moor: There is a sense in Tahrir now that democracy is coming– and medics and journalists are granted respect
Phil Weiss talked to Ahmed Moor by telephone in Cairo. Your mood today? I’m optimistic. I’m optimistic that it’s going to end up in a negotiated resolution where Mubarak steps down but he still gets to die in Egypt. Which … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
39 Comments
Ahmed Moor: The people are utterly undaunted, they have held Tahrir, anything less than Mubarak’s ouster means nighttime arrests by secret police
Ahmed Moor in Cairo spoke today to Phil Weiss. The people who started the violence today were secret police. We know this because often they were caught and their ids were found. The method was, they would try to start … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
32 Comments
Noticing my distress, the other detainee whispered: ‘I’m sorry. This is not Egypt. This is Mubarak’
Ahmed Moor wrote this article on Thursday in Cairo. It appears here for the first time. I didn’t know where to go for today’s round of anti-regime protests. There wasn’t any question of whether they’d happen; Tuesday invigorated people. I … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
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Ahmed Moor reporting from Cairo: ‘I was tired, but not more tired than the people who have waited 30 years for the opportunity to breathe’
Ahmed Moor has a stirring piece about his experience in the Egyptian protests on the Al Jazeera website. Here is an excerpt: There still were no people in the streets. And I bristled at the looks the security apparatus wore. They … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
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‘Tahrir means Liberation’: A report from Cairo
The day started with high expectations for me. But after getting shoved around Tahrir square by one riot policeman after another for hours I was beginning to lose hope. They knew we were coming, and there were hundreds of them. … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
94 Comments
The stark reality of the ‘Palestine Papers’ points the way forward
I sat around last night thinking of ways to punish Erekat, Abbas and Qurei for treason. It was an exercise in pure fantasy but it had an ameliorative psychological effect. George Bush made the noose unsexy, and it’s too barbaric … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
68 Comments
The Jasmine Revolution
Thanks to the New York Times, I’ve been able to engage deeply with what’s happening on the ground in Tunisia for the past month. Just kidding. The Times only just covered the story (I think the Style section had a … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
33 Comments
Report from Bil’in and meeting Jawaher Abu Rahmah
Bilin was cold yesterday. It rained and the wind and damp got to everything. About a thousand of us showed up – Palestinians, Israelis and internationals – to protest the apartheid barrier in the village. The Israeli army knew we … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
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