Author Archives: Ira Glunts

About Ira Glunts

Ira Glunts is a retired college librarian who lives in Madison, NY.

Light sentence in brutal murder shows double standard for Jews, Palestinians

Posted on July 15, 2012 by Ira Glunts

Jewish assailant gets 8 years, Palestinian 26 in remarkably-similar killings

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 51 Comments

War of the Stomachs continues

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Ira Glunts

Palestinian prisoner Akram Rikhawi is in the 87th day of a hunger strike and Physicians for Human Rights and Addameer have called for his release. Rikhawi is in the 8th year of a 9 year sentence

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 2 Comments

Pro-Israel literary subculture is poised to champion Shani Boianjiu, as it did Risa Miller

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Ira Glunts

Write a novel that puts down Palestinians? You’ll get support inside the literary establishment

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media | 20 Comments

Another Palestinian political prisoner near death as the ‘battle of the stomachs’ rages

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Ira Glunts

Akram Rikhawi, who has been on a hunger-strike for 71 days, is in imminent danger of death. Rikhawi is requesting that the Israeli Prison Service release him on humanitarian grounds due to declining health.

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 6 Comments

Sarsak’s release rumored, as football fans protest his detention

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Ira Glunts

Israeli women lost a soccer match in Scotland as protesters seeking Palestinian freedom mocked: ‘They’re useless without guns’

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 11 Comments

Former Israeli soldier wants to live in Palestine, says, ‘I hate Zionism’

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Ira Glunts

Israel imprisons an Israeli for being in Palestinian area

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 23 Comments

Palestinian footballer fighting for his life is not a story, but Netanyahu’s football injury is

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Ira Glunts

Mahmoud Sarsak is in the 88th day of a hunger strike and negotiating for his release

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media | Tagged | 27 Comments

Let’s praise Zengerle’s profile of Beinart

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Ira Glunts

Jason Zengerle’s profile of Peter Beinart has shifted the discourse in a progressive direction

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 6 Comments

Obama’s kosher cowboys

Posted on June 2, 2012 by Ira Glunts

The president has authorized Israeli cyber warriors to launch attacks on Iran, the New York Times reports, though Biden says they’ve gone ‘too far’

Posted in Iran, Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 32 Comments

High Israeli official hints, We made the Flame virus

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Ira Glunts

Virus has targeted computers in Iran and Palestine. Deputy PM Ya’alon takes Israeli credit for it

Posted in Israel/Palestine | Tagged | 125 Comments

Aaron David Miller: After a short ‘peace process,’ look for war with Iran in 2013

Posted on May 26, 2012 by Ira Glunts

Aaron David Miller predicts that there will be neither an agreement nor an attack on Iran in 2012. Instead he sees a “peace process” which will create an illusion of progress then end badly. In 2013, with the failure of negotiations, we could see a war, unless there is an “unexpected breakthrough.”

Posted in Iran, Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 42 Comments

U.S. and Israel coordinate– and signal hard line in Iran talks

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Ira Glunts

Hard line against Iran is reminiscent of the hard lines leading up to the invasion of Iraq

Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 18 Comments

U. of Haifa stops Nakba commemoration, as prof writes hate post calling for ‘Many Nakbas’

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Ira Glunts

Israeli reality TV star, Saar Szekely, was supposed to appear at U of Haifa Nakba commemoration, but university shut it down

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Nakba | 66 Comments

Removing MEK from the terrorist list would raise chance of war

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Ira Glunts

Israel lobby agenda is to remove an Iranian terrorist group from State Dept list of banned orgs

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons, US Politics | 8 Comments

Netanyahu gets special audience on nuclear talks

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Ira Glunts

How much trust can the Iranians have in European negotiations if Catherine Ashton is visiting Israel to brief Netanyahu?

Posted in Iran, Israel/Palestine | 12 Comments

Israeli official tours Europe in attempt to influence Iran talks

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Ira Glunts

Israelis belittle European negotiations with Iran, but try to get a foot in the door

Posted in Iran, Israel/Palestine | 41 Comments

Al Jazeera and Tribeca Festival pick up feelgood documentary on resistance to Jerusalem evictions starring riveting Palestinian teen, Moh’d El Kurd

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Ira Glunts

Filmmakers who gave us Budrus offer Our Neighborhood, a vision of inter-religious cooperation to fight tyranny

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media, US Politics | 2 Comments

In ‘Time,’ Cantor joins himself at the hip with Netanyahu in defiance of Obama

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Ira Glunts

Netanyahu is the “right partner for America,” House Majority leader Eric Cantor says, thumbing his nose at Obama

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 25 Comments

Eisner, new poster boy for occupation, says you can’t look good for the camera when you’re fighting ‘anarchists’

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Ira Glunts

Attack on Danish cyclist by Israeli lieutenant colonel continues to reverberate

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine | 11 Comments

The rifle-butting video is following a different narrative

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Ira Glunts

Netanyahu and his army chief of staff rush to condemn officer who smashed Danish cyclist in the face with a rifle. It’s a new narrative

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media | Tagged | 104 Comments

The courage to refuse: the 10-year anniversary of the Combatants’ Letter

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Ira Glunts

In the midst of the Second Intifadah, some Israeli reservists had the courage to refuse to serve, and were hosted by the org Brit Tzedek in the U.S.

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 9 Comments

Arab-American high school student video targets US backing for killings of Palestinian children

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Ira Glunts

Arab-American student’s video protests US gov’t's allegiance to Israel, using Kanye West music

Posted in American Jewish Community, Gaza, Gaza 2 Years Later, Israel Lobby, Israeli Government, US Policy in the Middle East | 4 Comments

Ben-Ami: I advocate for Israel, Palestinian groups should advocate for Palestinian human rights

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Ira Glunts

J Street President says that Palestinian human rights is not his portfolio

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Reports/Video, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | Tagged , , | 38 Comments

Judaism.com attacked from Iranian IP address

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Ira Glunts

Website selling Judaica comes under attack from Iran, or so its owner claims

Posted in Activism, Iran, Israel/Palestine, Middle East | 15 Comments

Why the tight security at J Street president’s Syracuse talk?

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Ira Glunts

Jeremy Ben-Ami gives speech to Syracuse Jewish center with two burly cops on hand

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine | 15 Comments