Category Archives: Israel/Palestine

In a sweet video, a diverse group of Princeton students support the end of the occupation and blockade, the right of return, and human rights for Palestinians

Pamela Olson’s book tour tracks ongoing sea change in US public opinion: You used to need extra security to bring a pro-Palestine speaker to campus. Now you need extra security to bring a pro-Israel speaker.

MJ Rosenberg on Ira Forman: Why is there a Special Envoy on anti-Semitism? Because the lobby wanted it. And it gets to place its ex-lobbyist in it.

The New York Times published a credulous account of Israel’s government report on the al-Dura death of 2000, hurting the paper’s credibility

The New York Times plays stenographer to an Israeli government report suggesting that Muhammad al-Dura killing in 2000 was “staged” by Palestinians

Arab Idol finalist Mohammed Assaf managed to get out of Khan Younis refugee camp to Cairo and has has drawn comparisons to the late Egyptian nightingale Abdel Halim Hafez; Mahmoud Abbas has called him to say he has made Palestine and the Arab world proud; his poster is hanging in homes, restaurants and stores all across Palestine…

Haaretz: Under increasing pressure from Kennedy to accept 100s of 1000s of Palestinian refugees, Ben-Gurion convened a special meeting. He was convinced that the refugee problem was primarily one of public image (hasbara), convincing the world that the refugees fled “of their own free will”

Yair Lapid Israel’s finance minister has not talked to John Kerry, savior of the two-state solution, since March, reports the New York Times, and he hasn’t talked to any Palestinian since taking office

On a Birthright tour of Israel, two Dartmouth students find that their guide has nothing to say about the occupation and tries to turn their view away from settlements and refugee camps

What power on earth can prevent two people from the same country meeting in their own land? Walaa Al Ghussein (on the right) had a permit to be in Israel for one day. She had to get back to Gaza by 7 PM. She had never been to Jerusalem before in her life. Her friend Maha from Umm al-Fahem was desperate to see her…

A grim video of the occupied territories shows a Palestinian boy fallen apparently after being shot outside an Israeli settlement and soldiers and “security” pointing guns at his head.

Novelist Susan Abulhawa’s refusal to go on Al Jazeera to discuss the Nakba with Israelis, lest Israelis appropriate Palestinian history, has been getting a lot of attention

Is there any other identity analyzed from inside and out as much as Jewish identity? The Jewish Identity Network (JIN) is like 24/7 cable news. It never shuts down. Marc Ellis, at Mondo

Why is Israel sending trauma teams around the world to help out victims and at the same time uprooting Bedouin communities? Health-care-washing, a new phase of active propaganda. From Dr. Alice Rothchild