Author Archives: Anonymous

It is not him who is under anesthesia, it is us

Posted on July 15, 2012 by Anonymous

Saturday night in Tel Aviv a 52-year-old man named Moshe Silman immolated himself during a march marking the one year anniversary of the J14 protest movement within Israel. Ynet reports, “Eye witnesses said Silman read out a letter before pouring flammable liquid over himself and setting himself on fire. He left copies of the letter scattered on the ground. . . ‘The State of Israel robbed me and left me with nothing,’ he wrote.” Here is a reaction from an anonymous protester who was in the crowd in Tel Aviv.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine | 105 Comments

Resisting Counter-Revolution: Egypt’s elections under military rule

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Anonymous

Activists in Egypt reject the current elections as a strategy to derail the goals of the revolution to oust the Mubarak regime.

Posted in Arab Spring, Egypt, Middle East | 6 Comments

Comrades in Cairo send solidarity, and advice, to Occupy Wall Street

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Anonymous

To all those in the United States currently occupying parks, squares and other spaces, your comrades in Cairo are watching you in sol­i­dar­ity. Having received so much advice from you about tran­si­tion­ing to democracy, we thought it’s our turn to … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 16 Comments

Open letter to Gaddafi supporter Cynthia McKinney from disappointed Palestinians

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Anonymous

Dearest Cynthia McKinney, Two years ago, you spoke out against Israel’s human rights abuses in Palestine. You were even put in an Israeli prison after your attempts to help deliver medical supplies and humanitarian aid on a ship to Gaza … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 72 Comments

Noteworthy milestones toward a Palestinian state

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Anonymous

This week, key international organizations have come closer to endorsing Palestinian readiness for an independent state. Notably, in preparation for tomorrow’s meeting in Brussels of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC), a 12-member committee of the European Union and United … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 13 Comments

Obama sets his strategy: Arab advocates for democracy will have to cool their heels

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Anonymous

Obama, Clinton, Gates know how to pick their friends. Exactly the same ones as Bush, so what is the difference between the administrations? Wall Street Journal (Adam Entous and Julian Barnes): After weeks of internal debate on how to respond … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 28 Comments

BART riders can’t escape the Palestine issue

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Anonymous

 The ad above greeted commuters passing through several major Bay Area Rapid Transit stations in San Francisco and the East Bay this week. At other stations travelers could feast their eyes on this one: The ads – professionally printed, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 18 Comments

Rabbi who went after Helen Thomas has supported ethnic cleansing

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Anonymous

Sorry I can’t use this contributor’s name but he/she makes some good points, to the rabbi who exposed Helen Thomas. Dear Rabbi Nesenoff, Helen Thomas has been rightfully criticized for her comments to you.  Yet you are on record at … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Nakba | 11 Comments

What would Obama have said about Bull Connor?

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Anonymous

On Thursday evening, three days after the Israeli attack on the activists attempting to bring aid to the people of Gaza, Larry King interviewed President Obama on CNN.  Towards the latter part of the interview, the President was asked about … Continue reading →

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

Netanyahu’s psyche

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Anonymous

On Netanyahu and the Entebbe motive [for the flotilla raid]: psychoanalytic explanation was a reflex of our parents’ time. It is now is too little used. Netanyahu is the emotionally tunneled sibling of a martyr brother, son of a big … Continue reading →

Posted in Gaza, Israel/Palestine | 7 Comments

It’s ’68– and who will be the Cronkite of the Jewish community?

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Anonymous

"That’s it. If I’ve lost Walter Cronkite, I’ve lost Middle America"– President Lyndon B. Johnson, February, 1968 After reading the tragic and heartbreaking news concerning the Israeli attack on the activists attempting to bring humanitarian aid to the people of … Continue reading →

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

Olbermann seeks non-IDF version of events

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Anonymous

Keith did it last night. Had on as guest Edward Peck, the deputy director of the terrorism task force in the Reagan administration and passenger on one of the ships of the flotilla. Olbermann was skeptical of Israeli claims. Peck … Continue reading →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Gaza, Israel/Palestine | 9 Comments

Gaza is coming home

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Anonymous

Spotted this on my walk home from work yesterday – corner of Whitney and Trumbull, New Haven, CT.

Posted in Gaza | 51 Comments

The new nationalism

Posted on April 18, 2010 by Anonymous

The Times covered the Goldstone bar mitzvah controversy on its front page Saturday. See second paragraph; what does reporter Barry Bearak mean by "countrymen"?

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Gaza, US Politics | 45 Comments

Nice little obfuscation from Clinton

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Anonymous

From Haaretz: She added: "But we believe that through good-faith negotiations, the parties can mutually agree to an outcome which ends the conflict and reconciles the Palestinian goal of an independent and viable state based on the ’67 lines, with … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel/Palestine, US Politics | 107 Comments

Amid heckling, BBC pulls plug on ‘Jerusalem Quartet’

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Anonymous

Interesting piece in the Forward this week: "Jerusalem Quartet Draws Discordant Note in Britain." It is your by-now-standard harassing of an Israeli cultural presentation in London by BDS types, but with some great twists. 1) The lunch time presentation was … Continue reading →

Posted in BDS, Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine | 30 Comments

Never ceases to fascinate me

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Anonymous

Here’s J Street touting a Jewish democracy in the Washington Post.   And here’s the ADL quoting Justice Stevens on the separation between religion and government.

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Politics | 16 Comments

Lawrence Wright plays it safe on Gaza

Posted on April 4, 2010 by Anonymous

Two weeks ago on this site, Michael Ratner reviewed a play about Gaza called The Human Scale, by Lawrence Wright, a writer for the New Yorker. The show ran for four nights in NY. Well, here is another review, which … Continue reading →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, US Politics | 57 Comments

BBC puts US media to shame on E. Jerusalem

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Anonymous

The BBC puts U.S. corporate and public media to shame, violating taboos on Israel.  On “BBC World News America” last night, host Matt Frei asked Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen point-blank about the Israeli government’s announcement yesterday (news ignored by … Continue reading →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Gaza, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 10 Comments

Lawrence Wright on linkage

Posted on March 17, 2010 by Anonymous

Lawrence Wright authored ‘The Looming Tower,’ which is widely regarded as the definitive account of al-Qaeda. The book is called the ‘bible’ by intelligence operatives. Now what does this text say of the fateful triangle (Israel, Palestine and Islamic militancy). … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East | 7 Comments

The linkage fantasy

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Anonymous

Israel-supporters in the U.S. know they will lose if the issue is framed as a linkage: Palestinian grievances are endangering our troops. Jeffrey Goldberg does some digging: "I called the White House to ask if Biden actually said this. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine | 57 Comments

Holocaust porn is serious subject

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Anonymous

Eran Shayshon found Naomi Klein’s mention of Holocaust pornography "extraordinarily amusing." Amusing? What’s that about? Does he think it’s not real? An event on this very topic was just held in San Francisco a few days ago: the screening of … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel/Palestine, US Politics | 9 Comments

We cut no ice on the right, what gives?

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Anonymous

Walter Russell Mead wrote this interesting passage on why the right supports Israel: "Many of the arguments and perceptions that have weakened support for Israel on the left cut no ice with the populist right. The argument that just war … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East | 33 Comments

Comparative Circular Grammar Studies

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Anonymous

An instinct of evasion so profound it would rather talk nonsense than specify: David Axelrod to Jake Tapper, March 14: "I believe that that region and that issue is a flare point throughout the region" Obama to student questioner in … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel/Palestine, US Politics | 31 Comments

Oren sounds the alarm

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Anonymous

It is interesting to note who’s writing about the mind-blowing news that General Petraeus wants to put I/P under his command because the Palestinian grievance is endangering the U.S. Akiva Eldar, Andrew Sullivan, MJ Rosenberg, and Spencer Ackerman all noted … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East | 19 Comments