Category Archives: Nakba

Bed Bath & Beyond flash mob: Stop selling illegal Israeli settlement products

On International Human Rights Day, a flash mob took over a Bed Bath & Beyond in Marin County, CA to boycott Ahava cosmetics and SodaStream home carbonation systems.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, Occupation, Reports/Video, Settlers/Colonists, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 45 Comments

Another 550 Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli jails

550 Palestinian prisoners released in 2nd Phase of Hamas brokered prisoner exchange for Galid Shalit, Israel’s pick this time around.

Posted in Arab Spring, Egypt, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, Today in Palestine | Tagged | 13 Comments

‘Silly messianic superstitious nationalistic … waste of Judaism’ (Did Hitchens abandon these ideas?)

Hitchens dismissed Zionism as a mistake in 2001. Then he dropped the idea.

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, US Policy in the Middle East | 22 Comments

Important tantrum: Netanyahu adds ‘NYT’ and Thomas Friedman to growing list of enemies

Netanyahu refuses to write Op-Ed for New York Times. His aide cites alleged bias going back to description of the Nakba

Posted in American Jewish Community, Media, Nakba, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 22 Comments

Israel is incapable of taking on the settlers

Jeffrey Goldberg says Israel should imprison violent settlers. This is a fantasy for American readers

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Nakba, Occupation, US Policy in the Middle East | 71 Comments

A single-state vision must go beyond Israel vs Palestine, and be inclusive

A Mondoweiss commenter, Sumud, offers a vision that goes beyond Israel vs Palestine

Posted in Arab Spring, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, One state/Two states | 41 Comments

‘One of the most disturbing days I have ever experienced’: An eyewitness account of the Israeli attack on Mustafa Tamimi’s funeral

An eyewitness recounts the Israeli military’s use a tear gas, concussion grenades and physical attacks against mourners at Mustafa Tamimi’s funeral.

Posted in Arab Spring, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, On the ground reports, Settlers/Colonists | 33 Comments

I was Mustafa Tamimi

A third intifadah is looming as Israel grows fiercer in crushing resistance

Posted in Activism, Arab Spring, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, On the ground reports, Today in Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East | 7 Comments

Let’s say you got to ask Israel’s president 8 questions– what would they be?

“What’s your exercise regimen?” NPR’s Guy Raz asks Israeli president Shimon Peres

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Nakba, Occupation, US Policy in the Middle East | 34 Comments

Remnick says Gingrich has been reading 1984 ‘propaganda tract’ Wiesel, Peretz and Bellow fell for

New Yorker editor says Gingrich has been reading 1984 propaganda tract that Bellow, Wiesel and Peretz swallowed

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Nakba, US Politics | 41 Comments

Gingrich comment that Palestinians are an ‘invented people’ enters primary debate

GOP Iowa debate candidates argue over Palestinians as ‘invented people’.

Posted in Gaza, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Nakba, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 100 Comments

Mira Nabulsi: Palestinian youth virtually commemorate the first Intifada on 24th anniversary

On the 24th Anniversary of the first Palestinian Intifada, Mondoweiss follows the #Intifada1 Twitter trend and speaks with researcher, Mira Nabulsi.

Posted in Activism, Arab Spring, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, Occupation | 5 Comments

‘NYT’ continues to fiddle with the Nakba

Mondoweiss follows-up on the NYT censuring its description of Nakba, due reader comments. This time, the NYT picks language that is more “neutral” and less accurate.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media, Nakba | 7 Comments

Two Palestinians dead in Gaza, a story of mourning and peace

A Palestinian in Gaza describes living through a recent Israeli military strike against his next door neighbor.

Posted in Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, Occupation, On the ground reports | 8 Comments

Israel isn’t good for the Jews anymore

Israel isn’t good for the Jews anymore. That’s the news from New York. It happened in the last week, or the last two years. A feeling has taken root deep in the American Jewish community that Israel is hurting us, … Continue reading

Posted in American Jewish Community, Beyondoweiss, Gaza, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, US Policy in the Middle East | Tagged | 263 Comments

Israeli forces prevent Palestinians from reaching their fields as gov’t announces another 650 settlement units

Israel builds more settlements and settlers attack Palestinian village, even as Hillary Clinton attacks restrictions on women inside Israel

Posted in Arab Spring, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, On the ground reports, Settlers/Colonists | 3 Comments

‘This is how they drove us out’–Tiberias’s exiles recall the Nakba

Sam Kestenbaum tours Tiberias with two Palestinian-Israeli residents as they paint an image of the city from pre-Nakba memories to today.

Posted in Features, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, On the ground reports | 57 Comments

Nakba denial: ‘NYT’ removes the word ‘expulsion’ from article describing Palestinian refugees

November 29 NYT piece edits the word “expulsion” from a description of the Palestinian Nakba following reader comments.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Nakba, US Politics | 65 Comments

No freedom in the land of false prophets

Poem by Lillian Rosengarten about the spiritual devastation of chosenness for Jews in Israel and Palestine

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, Occupation | 9 Comments

Questions about Bernard Avishai’s ‘Harper’s’ piece

Bernard Avishai says Israel is ‘Hebrew haven in a heartless world’ for Jews, but how heartless has world been to him?

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, One state/Two states, US Policy in the Middle East | 27 Comments

Praise the ‘NYT’ for exposing an American Jewish family’s argument over Israel/Palestine

An American Jewish family clashes over Palestinian refugees, and the New York Times exposes the family food fight.

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel/Palestine, Nakba | 26 Comments

‘NYT’ focuses on extremist attacks on Palestinians inside Israel

Extremist settlers have violently targeted Palestinians in the West Bank. Now they’re doing it in Israel

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Nakba, Occupation, One state/Two states | 18 Comments

Cold Turkey

Israel has lost friendship of Turkey, the first Muslim country to recognize it, because it refuses to apologize for murdering 9 Turkish citizens

Posted in Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba | 9 Comments

Lauren Pierce needs a history lesson

Lauren Pierce’s tweets regarding Tel Aviv reveal an understanding shaped by Israeli hasbara. Here are some resources on the history of the city.

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, US Politics | 33 Comments

The ‘untamed wildernesses’ of Israeli and American colonialism

A June editorial in +972 Magazine examined the (non-)utility of the argument “Who started it in 1948?” One thing that struck me about the points of the argument regarding the disposition of land in the British Mandate of Palestine was … Continue reading

Posted in American Jewish Community, Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine, Middle East, Nakba, Settlers/Colonists, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 17 Comments