Author Archives: Susie Kneedler

About Susie Kneedler

A writer.

‘Mr President, I’m sure you know everything’ — a Palestinian boy expelled from half his home urges US action

Mohammed El Kurd, 14, hero of the vibrant documentary, My Neighbourhood, about the ethnic cleansing of Sheikh Jarrah in illegally Occupied East Jerusalem, writes to the US President

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 9 Comments

Parsing the Oscars: Affleck turned resistance into peevishness

In announcing Best Documentary at the Oscars, Ben Affleck said ’5 Broken Cameras’ illuminates ‘the tension and resentment of those living in the West Bank’ — as though the occupation is about peevishness

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 21 Comments

Scathing report documents worst year of Israeli attacks on occupied Hebron

Abdulhadi Yusuf Hantash documents unending settlement expansion, settler attacks, and Israeli flags planted on the Ibrahimi mosque in a report on the worst year of occupation violence in Hebron

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Jolly Christmas: BBC celebrates ‘return’ of a ‘lost tribe of Israel’ — and not a word about Palestinians’ right

On Christmas, BBC celebrates “Return” of “Lost Tribe of Israel” from India– and not a word about Palestinians’ Right of Return, including Christians

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 19 Comments

Iyad Burnat explains the resistance in Ohio

Iyad Burnat, leader of nonviolent resistance in Bil’in in the occupied West Bank, will be speaking in Cleveland tonight

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Iyad Burnat to speak on nonviolent protest in Palestine in Columbus Wednesday night

Palestinian leader Iyad Burnat is a subject of the film Five Broken Cameras. He had trouble getting into the U.S. But he will speak in Columbus on Nov. 28

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Jordan said to allow Iyad Burnat’s passage to U.S. tour about Palestinian peaceful resistance

The hero of the Bil’in popular resistance to the occupation of Palestine has been allowed to leave Jordan to speak in U.S., his American sponsor says

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Why are Jordanian officials stopping Iyad Burnat’s US speaking tour?

Iyad Burnat, the head of Popular Committee of Bil’in, was invited by Jewish Voice for Peace and other groups to speak throughout the United States about Palestinians’ peaceful work for human rights. So why did Jordanian officials refuse Mr. Burnat entry, preventing him from catching his flight from Amman, Jordan, to the U.S.?

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

Latest hasbara campaign spotlights ‘Wi-Fi donkeys’

While Israel destroys ancient landscapes, US press Agog over Wi-Fi Donkeys in “Biblical” theme park

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 17 Comments

Barak told Clinton about plans to Judaize Jerusalem

In “Israel’s Strategy to seize Jerusalem, on display for all to see,” in the National, Joseph Dana shows the Israeli government plot of purging Palestine: Ehud Barak is rumoured to have informed former president US Bill Clinton that Israel had … Continue reading

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israeli Government, Media, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists, US Politics | 4 Comments

At a vigil for Rachel Corrie in Columbus, Ohio

Women in Black mourned Rachel Corrie and stood with Free Palestine on High Street in Columbus, Ohio at the Ohio State University campus last Friday, the anniversary of Rachel Corrie’s killing in 2003. We held signs, flew the Palestinian flag, … Continue reading

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine | 3 Comments

Uygur leads assault on Iran war– U.S. policy is being ‘dictated’ by Netanyahu

Leaving MSNBC for Current TV, Cenk Uygur is leading the criticism of calls for war on Iran

Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 9 Comments

For just $502.42 you can bash Muslims in Columbus

David Horowitz publishes Islamophobic ad in Ohio State University newspaper, stirring rage in the capital

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

MSNBC discusses the urgency of the I/P issue, but promotes claim that ‘everybody knows minor land swaps’ will create two states

A little forward movement the other day on MSNBC. First Martin Bashir’s guest host Richard Lui allowed Anthony Summers (“The Eleventh Day” about Osama BinLaden and  Saudi royal funding of Sept. 11 attacks) to name “the Palestine/Israel issue” as “driving” … Continue reading

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 5 Comments

Bill Maher asks Michael Oren whether ‘being an Occupier has changed the Jewish people,’ but

lets slide Israeli Ambassador Oren’s promise that “we want Palestinians to have their own state,” if they “recognize Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people.” In this segment last week, Maher, oblivious to the rights of Palestinian citizens, as … Continue reading

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 54 Comments

In the ‘Forward,’ Pogrebin condemns the ‘un-Jewish’ smear campaign of Goldstone by Jews

As an admirer of Letty Cottin Pogrebin, a founding editor of Ms. Magazine, for nearly 40 years, I was dismayed by her fervent defense of Hillary Clinton in a debate over the 2008 election with her daughter, Abigail Pogrebin, who … Continue reading

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 47 Comments

As a lame duck, Grayson, do you think you could just quack once for Corrie, Henochowicz and Dogan?

Yesterday Seham posted about an appeal by Florida Congressman Alan Grayson at Huffpo to hear from the grassroots so as to reinvigorate the Democratic Party. Susie Kneedler sent Grayson, who was defeated last month, a letter. Dear Representative Grayson,  Thanks … Continue reading

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 13 Comments

MSM stirs– Wilkerson tells Olbermann Israel can’t be ‘democratic and Jewish’

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Last night Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson gently set a naive Keith Olbermann partly straight. Olbermann noticed (at 2:45 or so) that a 2007 cable in the WikiLeaks communiques gives … Continue reading

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NPR ombud says Israel lobby was ‘successful’ in changing coverage

Last week on a local call-in show on WOSU, Ohio, NPR ombudsman Alicia Shepard virtually boasted about  NPR’s giving into “pro-Israeli” pressure: “NPR is not as much criticized for its Middle East coverage as it was back in 2002, which … Continue reading

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Olbermann won’t mention…

On Countdown last night, Keith Olbermann would not mention the scandal of Israeli racism–or, rather, what would be a scandal if people like him dared to talk about it. First Maria Teresa Kumar (of VotoLatino.org) and then Jonathan Turley attacked … Continue reading

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine | 12 Comments

Daniel Schorr waltzes with Bibi

The other night (Transcript or Audio) NPR’s senior news analyst Dan Schorr described the impasse in Palestinian-Israeli negotiations as: "Netanyahu will not accept the Palestinian state with its own defense capability.  The Palestinians will not accept a Jewish state that … Continue reading

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine | 8 Comments

BBC buries the bitter

Just as English pubs used to pour mild ale over bitter in the once-famous drink, "half ‘n half," the BBC World Service yesterday camouflaged facts on Israel and Palestine–though at least it offers facts somewhere.    BBC Newshour’s Robin Lustig mentions … Continue reading

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Gaza, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine | 3 Comments

Terry Gross has no empathy for Palestinians

Tomorrow night, Terry Gross, the longtime host of Fresh Air on National Public Radio, will submit to questions in an event at Town Hall in New York, hosted by Brian Lehrer, a talk-show host at WNYC. Both radio personalities bend … Continue reading

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine | 32 Comments

Burying Gaza, Frank and Matthews remember the good old days fightin apartheid

Who hammered Barney Frank into reversing himself last night on Hardball?  (Audio here).  A day after announcing that Gaza’s deprivation by Israel makes him ashamed as a Jew, Frank defended Israel’s condemning Gazans to survival-rations amid ruins. The flip-flop would … Continue reading

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

Who will take on Netanyahu? Comedy channel?

CNN aired Binyamin Netanyahu’s falsehoods yesterday. The Israeli Prime Minister held forth about Israel’s premeditated attack on international humanitarians, as well as its starvation siege of Gaza—both of which, let’s not forget, are acts of war.  CNN challenged this Minister … Continue reading

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Gaza, Israel/Palestine | 2 Comments