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Settlers/Colonists

More apartheid justice

by Bruce Wolman on February 9, 2010 · 2 comments

It may very well be that these settler teens were picked up with insufficient evidence. But, under similar circumstances would we see Arab youths freed from custody until investigations were complete? Hardly! Arab youths could just as easily be held in administrative detention with no charges against them.

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It’s beginning to look alot like apartheid

by Philip Weiss on December 18, 2009 · 1 comment

Adalah NY will be singing Christmas carols tomorrow afternoon, 1–3, outside settlements-king Leviev’s diamond store on Madison Ave. at 62nd in NY. 

"Just Say No" (to the tune of "Let It Snow")
Oh the diamonds inside are sparklin
But they can’t hide what’s behind em
They’re funding apartheid so
Just say no, just say no, just say no…"

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If feds hadn’t stopped Geo Wallace in ‘63, we’d still have apartheid

by Philip Weiss13 December 2009

Reuters reports: There’s no real freeze on settlers; Israel plans to add 10,000 in the next few months.

"This is neither a freeze nor a suspension," [Likud minister Benny Begin was quoted as saying]. "Construction in Judea and Samaria will continue in the next 10 months," he said, using the Biblical term for the West Bank. [...]

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NYT’s Kershner focuses on Jewish extremism

by Philip Weiss13 December 2009

Credit where it’s due: Isabel Kershner’s piece in the Times today on the torching of a mosque in the West Bank included several references to Jewish extremism and land-grabbing.

On the front stoop of the mosque, the vandals left graffiti in Hebrew that read, “Price tag — Greetings from Effi.”
Price tag is the name of a [...]

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gobsmacked

by Philip Weiss11 December 2009

Haaretz: "U.S. not opposed to Israel pumping more funds into settlements."
From Rashid Khalidi’s book, The Iron Cage. Please note Khalidi describes U.S. policy from nearly 20 years ago, never enforced.

…the United States failed to respect its own commitments in the joint U.S.-Soviet letter of invitation to the Madrid Peace Conference, and particularly in the U.S. [...]

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‘Peace Now’ board member calls for end to U.S. tax-breaks for funds to settlements now

by Philip Weiss9 December 2009

Dan Fleshler, a board member of Americans for Peace Now, heeding the siren-call of truth, writes:

U.S. tax-exempt charities are in league with the devil in the occupied territories…. The idea that tax exemptions are available to people who are helping the settlers resist the settlement freeze or who prop up the Jewish zealots in Hebron [...]

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Peace Now and J Street should join the battle against tax breaks for the West Bank colonists

by Philip Weiss9 December 2009

In a sign that the discourse is changing and taboo subjects are coming inside, The Atlantic considers the case for ending the special relationship of US and Israel, and picks up an important piece in the Guardian by Andrew Kadi and Aaron Levitt about the U.S. tax subsidies extended to the Hebron colonists. Kadi and [...]

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2009: Religious colonists demand ‘kosher certification’ of Arab workers

by Philip Weiss30 November 2009

From Ynet:. Kosher certification is from the headline and story:

 In recent weeks, a large group of Beit Illit [West Bank colony] residents has organized with the support of local rabbis in an effort to expel Arab workers from the town. "They are harmful to the daughters of Israel and create serious spiritual problems in the [...]

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Israeli army strip-searches… an ultra-Orthodox battalion

by Philip Weiss24 November 2009

A week back Micha Kurz told me that American Jews are not aware of the real tension in Israel/Palestine, the looming war between secular Israel and the religious settler movement. John Mearsheimer has said as much, too. So has Michael Walzer. A friend, citing this piece in Haaretz, says, battalion against battalion–the Israeli army has [...]

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Masters on a hill

by Anees of Jerusalem23 November 2009

A microcosm of the white man’s trauma, usurpation, entitlement, patronization, that is Israel. From Ynet:

Residents of the Palestinian village of Arb al-Ramdin were surprised to discover Sunday that their water supply had been shut down. The village, which is located in an enclave created by the separation fence, was never properly connected to the water [...]

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No, Gilo is not East Jerusalem

by Jeffrey Blankfort22 November 2009

Jeffrey Goldberg gives one of his Goldbloggers, Hershel Ginsburg, the space to explain to Goldberg’s unenlightened readers that Gilo, where the Israelis are now building another 900 housing units, is not a part of East Jerusalem, but in Jerusalem: "a neighborhood in the city, i.e., within the city limits, forming the southernmost part of the [...]

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Hebron Fund begins charm offensive by calling Obama policy racist

by Adam Horowitz19 November 2009

The Hebron Fund is beginning to fight back against the growing campaign to cancel its fundraiser this Saturday at Citi Field. Instead of trying a conciliatory approach, Hebron Fund Executive Director Yossi Baumol has come out swinging. From a Hebron Fund press release:

“Just as Jews can live anywhere they want in New York, Paris or elsewhere, [...]

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Sullivan unbound, takes on colleague Goldberg for reflecting ‘Israeli consensus’ not American one

by Philip Weiss19 November 2009

Andrew Sullivan takes on his fellow blogger Jeffrey Goldberg here for defending the colonies in the West Bank. Beautiful. Why should we tolerate any settlements? he asks– in a rebuttal to Goldberg, who would tolerate no end of earlier landgrabs. Sullivan puts the needle in: "The criterion here is not what America might think, or [...]

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Truckling to Netanyahu, White House removes word ’settlements’ from a statement

by Philip Weiss18 November 2009

In its initial statement expressing dismay at Netanyahu’s Gilo landgrab (900 new colonists’ homes), the White House headlined its release yesterday, "Statement by White House House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on the Approval of Settlement Expansion in Jerusalem." Subsequently the White House removed the words "the approval of settlement expansion in" from its statement. The [...]

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