Category Archives: Beyondoweiss

Israeli Foreign Ministry launches social media hasbara campaign featuring cute yellow puppet called ‘Hans von Puppet’

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Eleanor Kilroy

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs enlarged its budget for the “Brand Israel” campaign last year to an unprecedented 100 million Shekels (over $26,260,000). In an article entitled “Will we conquer the world?”, translated by PULSE media, Globes found out that the … Continue reading →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine | 26 Comments

The great Renee Fleming, brought to you by the Jewish Agency and its West Bank colonization project

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Ofer Neiman

The famous American soprano Renee Fleming is scheduled to sing at Jerusalem’s Binyanei Hauma hall on Thursday July, 28th. Israeli activists have sent the following letter to her representatives:  Dear Renee Fleming, We are a group of Israeli citizens. We … Continue reading →

Posted in BDS, Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine | 78 Comments

Normalizing Israeli apartheid through international sporting events

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Eleanor Kilroy

The use of sport to unite children divided by street violence and traumatized by war is a compelling idea. ‘Serious Play: The Goal is Peace’ is the title of a 7 July Huffington Post article by Alison Craiglow Hockenberry. It … Continue reading →

Posted in BDS, Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine | 12 Comments

New Feature Announcement: Number of Replies to Comments on Profile

Posted on July 7, 2011 by alec

In commenter profiles, you will be able to see how many replies any given post has generated.

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel Lobby, US Policy in the Middle East | Tagged , | 12 Comments

Europe embraces the silences of Aharon Appelfeld

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Eleanor Kilroy

“Is the genocide of European Jewry being used as part of the negation of what is happening to the Palestinians?” Yitzhak Laor asks, rhetorically, in The Myths of Liberal Zionism (Verso, 2010), his book on the Jewish Israeli literati and … Continue reading →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, US Politics | 7 Comments

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Posted on June 27, 2011 by Philip Weiss and Adam Horowitz

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Israel seeks to ban the Palestinian protest movement from iOS store

Posted on June 22, 2011 by alec

Arab springtime is welcomed in Syria and Libya but not in Israel. Israel’s determination to follow South Africa’s apartheid path seems relentless.

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Pitying ‘Coldplay”s angry commenters

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Eleanor Kilroy

It is easy to gloat at this smallest of victories – UK rock band Coldplay posts on their Facebook fan page a one-line endorsement of the extraordinary single released by their friends, ‘Freedom for Palestine – OneWorld’. Within a few … Continue reading →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine | 31 Comments

Major New Weblog Features: The Anti Hypocrite Tools

Posted on June 1, 2011 by alec

In celebration of the arrival of summer, a new set of Anti Hypocrite Tools. To help you catch bad faith contradictory comments.

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‘The Israel Lobby’ — the docudrama. Part 1, the Prophecy

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Ben Fishbein

This screenplay is a work of fiction. Almost all details have been invented, although the historical backdrop is largely accurate. Some public figures’ real names have been used as talismans of the important political reality in which the story is … Continue reading →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine | 7 Comments

Zuckerman rag prints bald-faced lies on upcoming flotilla to Gaza

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Alex Kane and Nima Shirazi

It comes as no surprise that a newspaper owned by Mort Zuckerman, an ardent Zionist, would be anti-Palestinian and that it would strongly oppose efforts to break the Israeli naval blockade by sending a flotilla of ships to Gaza.  But … Continue reading →

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Corporate media erase U.S. role in Hamas-Fatah split

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Alex Kane

In response to the youth of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank rising up on March 14 and 15 to call for Palestinian political unity, both the leaders of Fatah and Hamas pledged to enter into talks aimed at … Continue reading →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 24 Comments

Israel destroys hundreds of West Bank olive trees to lay settlement water line

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Circarre Parrhesia

Yesterday, February 22 2011, a number of Palestinian news agencies, including the agency that I work for, published articles on the destruction of olive fields in the West Bank town of Jab’a, found in the greater Bethlehem district. The details … Continue reading →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine | Tagged | 79 Comments

‘The Palestine Cables’: Al Jazeera is viewed in White House for Egypt coverage, but U.S. complained about its 08-09 Gaza coverage

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Alex Kane

The Al Jazeera news network is not well liked by many governments.  It has the bravest, most consistent and unyielding reports from the front lines of Middle East turmoil, as the uprising in Egypt has shown.  Al Jazeera journalists have … Continue reading →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Egypt, Gaza, Israel/Palestine | Tagged , | 10 Comments

The truth that the ‘Palestine Papers’ has broken into the mainstream: Israel is the obstacle to peace

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Alex Kane

The release of the “Palestine Papers,” Al Jazeera’s leak of thousands of documents relating to Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, is creating space in the American mainstream for this central truth:  it is Israel’s fault that there has not been a peace agreement … Continue reading →

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Thanks National Geographic, Palestine needs to be travelled to

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Morgan

I recently ran across an article on JPost.com that inspired me to action. According to this article, he latest edition of the National Geographic’s Traveller Magazine has published a “Travel Palestine” advertisement and the Advertising Standards Authority has been inundated with complaints that … Continue reading →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine | 8 Comments

Wild woman lament for dead children

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Lillian Rosengarten

1/6/11 What is this strange, strange world where children die? Question the killers, dark wars.  Suffering everywhere.  Callous indifference deadened in pursuit of blood on the ground of Palestine stolen from the living. Little screams on still faces. I cannot … Continue reading →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine | 4 Comments

Jeffrey Goldberg likens BDS movement to Nazi Germany policies

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Alex Kane

If you can’t beat ‘em, smear ‘em.  And throw in the word Nazi for good measure. As the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement continues full-steam ahead in its efforts to force Israel to comply with international law, pro-Israel hawks … Continue reading →

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Editable comments | Site Improvements

Posted on December 16, 2010 by alec

Improvements to come in 2010 for Mondoweiss include profile pages where you’ll be able to read people’s comments.

Posted in Beyondoweiss | 89 Comments

To Gaza with humble apologies

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Lillian Rosengarten

I am a Jew symbolic of the carnage of Gaza. I will walk on the ravished desolation of destroyed lives places where Apache helicopters fired yet another missile on to crowds reduced to charred remains. I wonder how to make … Continue reading →

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Double your donation in December, get two gifts!

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Phil Weiss and Adam Horowitz

An anonymous donor will match your holiday season gifts. In thanks we are sending you two gifts. A beautiful heavy mondoblue t-shirt with a copy of our just published Goldstone Report.

Posted in Beyondoweiss | 31 Comments

The latest from Haiti

Posted on December 3, 2010 by James North

I’m just back from Port-au-Prince, where, as always, I met people with extraordinary courage.  Here is my up-to-date report in The Nation, in which I present one of them — Pierre France, a 35-year-old electrician who, along with his friends, … Continue reading →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine, US Politics | 6 Comments

Qatar nutmegs Obama

Posted on December 3, 2010 by John V. Whitbeck

One may fairly conclude that Barack Obama’s over-hyped alleged efforts to “reach out” to the Arab and Muslim worlds ended yesterday when he responded, with a breathtaking lack of grace, to Qatar’s defeat of the United States (as well as … Continue reading →

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Watching The Pianist in Gaza

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Mohammed Rabah Suliman

The Pianist is a movie that tells the disheartening story of a Jewish pianist,  Władysław Szpilman, who struggles to survive during the holocaust along with his family in Warsaw. Although it is primarily the story of one man, the movie … Continue reading →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Gaza, Israel/Palestine | Tagged , | 70 Comments

Will Miral be this generation’s Exodus?

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Adam Horowitz

Today, I saw Julian Schnabel’s new film Miral. It won’t be arriving in theaters in the US until next March, so it will be awhile until we see what effect it has, but my initial impression was amazement at what … Continue reading →

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