Category Archives: Israel/Palestine

In the last part of Isabel Kershner’s piece on the al-Dura report by Israel, I learned that the investigative body had never contacted the father of the killed boy. At that moment, I understood that the report is military propaganda. — Harold Hjalmarson

Ugly vicious, sickening, sadistic — Larry Derfner’s take on racist video from Israeli college students portraying Arabs as backward monsters

Consider all the cases of writers denied entry into Palestine by Israel. Then consider George Orwell’s rage at England for denying Henry Miller entry in 1934. “[T]he mixture of spite, cunning and stupidity with which they handled him made one wonder what is the use of all this talk about democracy, freedom of the press, and what not.” And just imagine what Orwell would say about Israel

The first Palestinian and first Arab woman to make it to climb Everest was the Yaffa-born Suzanne al Houby, in 2011. Now Raed Zidan has joined her, the first Palestinian man

Obama seems to have a dual role – he’s also fronting for the Jewish establishment. Right now, I can’t imagine one establishment without the other. To change one you have to change both. –Marc Ellis

Coalition supporting apartheid ads on SF buses urges campaign to stop official action to label their ads hate speech

Jack Rosen of the American Jewish Congress was part of Barack Obama’s outreach to Jews on Israel. His whole agenda is Israel. Anthony Weiner is in his apartment in NY. The NY Times doesn’t tell you that.

There are 3000 Jahalin Bedouin refugees living in the E-1 lands east of Jerusalem that Netanyahu plans more Jewish settlements on. You can learn about them tonight at Hunter College, at 7 PM

The Guardian’s Harriet Sherwood interview Jamal al-Dura who challenges Israel to produce his son Muhammad, if he is indeed alive

A day after Jordan’s Foreign Minister told John Kerry that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the “lingering, core” issue, the Secretary of State chided Israelis for missing opportunity: “it’s not on the tip of everybody’s tongue. People in Israel aren’t waking up every day and wondering if tomorrow there’ll be peace, because there is a sense of security and a sense of accomplishment and a sense of prosperity.”

Bob Simon took on Israeli ambassador Michael Oren a year ago, causing CAMERA to accuse 60 Minutes of anti-Semitism. ’60 Minutes’ has put CAMERA on ignore

“High school’s tough enough without having to face prison time for refusing to serve an occupation you know is wrong” — when will story of Israeli refuseniks make ’60 Minutes’?

While Biden panders to a Jewish audience, Chelsea Clinton undertakes a “multifaith” initiative

First the Israeli government drank the Koolaid on a rightwing conspiracist theory of how young Muhammad al-Dura died in Gaza 13 years ago. Then the New York Times got in line….

Wolf Blitzer is a redneck, in exchange with Oklahoma victim who rebuffs his question, Did she pray to the lord, by saying she’s an atheist

There are a lot of racist comments about Palestinians in a Forward comment section following a great piece on the destruction of the Mughrabi quarter in 1967