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Category Archives: Israel/Palestine
Did Israeli Eurovision contestant watch too much Juliano Mer Khamis?
Yesterday a commenter linked to the Israeli entry in the Eurovision Song Contest. The band is called Izabo, the song is called “Time.” Video below. Well I found something eerily familiar in the song. Its mood and characters reminded me of … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
52 Comments
The charmingest flashmob you ever did see
Has there ever been a charming flashmob? I can’t remember one. They’re usually loud, wordy, in your face. Well here is a group of students at the Ohio State University doing the dabka, the Palestinian dance to alert the campus … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
4 Comments
U.S. and Israel coordinate– and signal hard line in Iran talks
Hard line against Iran is reminiscent of the hard lines leading up to the invasion of Iraq
Affirming a Judaism and Jewish identity without Zionism
Rabbi Brian Walt reflects on his journey from being a progressive Zionist to holding a belief in a Judaism and American Jewish identity that rejects Zionism as its core belief.
Israel Land Administration charged with race and gender discrimination
The Israel Land Administration (ILA), the powerhouse behind Israeli territorial expansion, is being challenged in Israel’s high court over race and gender discrimination. Currently, all of the council’s 22 members were Jewish men, and 10 are representatives of the Jewish National Fund.
‘Where is my children’s democracy?’ The Jilani family speaks out two years after the execution of Ziad
Alex Kane speaks with Moira and Iman Jilani about their campaign for justice for ZIad Jilani (above, with his daughter Yasmin), who was shot at point-blank range in Jerusalem two years ago. (Photo: ListenIn Pictures)
Bill Clinton’s $80 million swagbag includes some dough from ‘Israel First’ interests
MJ Rosenberg left Media Matters partly because of his use of the term Israel Firster. Well Matt Stoller says Israel Firsters gave Bill Clinton money
Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, US Politics
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Passive-aggressive George Bush namechecks neocons for getting us into that mess
George Bush brings up neocons in his memoir only to show how they gave bad advice on Iraq war
Posted in Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Neocons, US Politics
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‘Foreign Policy’ peddles productive Iranian war theory
Only a bloody war of attrition with Iran will lead Israel to resolve Palestinian conflict, says Israeli prof
Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Politics
25 Comments
Palestinian Authority and Israel on an arresting spree, children and activists detained
Detainees and Other Prisoner News Palestinians arrest 10 Islamic Jihad members Palestinian security forces arrested 10 members of the Islamic Jihad in the Jenin refugee camp on Monday, a local leader of the radical movement said. link to news.yahoo.com Islamic … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Nakba, Occupation, On the ground reports, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, Turkey, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
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‘Homeless in Your Own Home’: New website focuses on housing issues of Palestinian citizens of Israel
On May 16th, in honor of the 64th commemoration of Nakba Day, the Mossawa Center launched a blog which features articles and audio-visual content about Arab localities throughout Israel in which Palestinian Arab citizens are facing acute housing problems such as home demolitions, lack of basic services, rent discrimination, etc.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Today in Palestine
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Israeli judge to issue verdict in Rachel Corrie case
Nearly a decade after Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by the Israeli military with a weaponized Caterpillar D9 tractor, an Israeli judge will issue a ruling in August on the civil suit filed by the Corrie family.
Posted in Activism, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, US Politics
94 Comments
March of the Flags
Sahar Vardi, pictured above preventing the arrest of a Palestinian boy during the Jerusalem Day parade, explains the meaning of the parade and the single most threatening symbol to the marchers — a Palestinian flag. (Photo: Haim Schwarczenberg)
Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Occupation, On the ground reports
Tagged featured
127 Comments
Latest video’d settler shooting could defuse third rail in US discourse
Soldiers stood by as Israeli settlers shot unarmed Palestinian demonstrators in occupied West Bank — and American media are noticing
Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, US Politics
13 Comments
Israelis sling racial epithets to mark 45 years of a Jerusalem ‘unification’
On Sunday Israel celebrated 45 years of occupying East Jerusalem with thousands of jubilant right-wingers hurling racial epithets as they paraded through the Old City and Muslim Quarter during “Jerusalem Day,” a state holiday embracing the 1967 capture of the city.
Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists
Tagged featured
8 Comments
Bill Kristol celebrates Republican Party purge of ‘oldfashioned Arabists’ Scowcroft, Baker and Bush I
Republican Party boss Bill Kristol is treated like royalty on the Upper West Side in a “communal” Jewish conversation
Nabi Saleh’s Bassem Tamimi convicted by Israeli courts based on coerced testimony from 15-year-old boy
Bassem Tamimi was arrested in March of 2011, indicted on protest-organizing charges, and has spent 13 months in jail before he was granted bail last month. His trial has shed light on systematic violations of Palestinian minors’ right during police interrogations, and the use of their coerced confession to persecute political leadership.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation
17 Comments
The Messiah’s Donkey: Settlers fire on Palestinian villagers as the Israeli military watches
B’tselem: On Saturday, 19.5.2012, around four thirty in the afternoon, a large group of settlers descended on the eastern outskirts of the village ‘Asira al-Qibliya, from the settlement Yitzhar.
The Interior Minister’s call to expel African immigrants, in context
Eli Yishai, Israel’s Interior Minister, has a strong track record of racist anti-refugee remarks, and is representative of the “demographic threat” obsession that dominates Israeli politics.
Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation
Tagged immigration, refugees
3 Comments
South African artists, intellectuals and gov’t ministers take steps to isolate Israel
How long before South Africans are accused of being anti-Semites? South Africa to ban labeling West Bank settlement products as ‘made in Israel’, Amira Hass Minister of Trade and Industry says South Africa recognizes the State of Israel only within … Continue reading
Aharon Appelfeld’s rage at the German language (and Arendt’s need for it)
It wasn’t the German language that went crazy, Hannah Arendt explained. Israeli prize winner calls German a language of murderers
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media
Tagged Aharon Appelfeld, Hannah Arendt, Independent foreign fiction prize
156 Comments
The awakening: Missouri paper runs a Jew’s call for equal rights for all
Columbia (MO) Daily Tribune runs article exposing the ‘Zionist mythology’ that covers up the Nakba
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Nakba, Occupation
35 Comments
Monumental Dutch exhibit: Zionism built ‘a house, a cage, a UN shelter… a zoo’
Inspired by the donkeys of the Gaza zoo, Israeli architect Malkit Shoshan exposes the inhumanities of Zionism in a Dutch exhibit that has stirred critics across Europe
‘King Bibi’ is ready for his close up, and ‘Time’ is willing to oblige
Time magazine crowns Benjamin Netanyahu in its latest cover article, although he comes across as the leader of a country on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media
23 Comments
A tale of two festivals
Eleanor Kilroy compares Palfest and the Jerusalem International Writers Festival.
Posted in BDS, Israel/Palestine
Tagged Bidisha, International Writers Festival, PalFest, Silwan
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