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- San Francisco bus ads condemn Israeli apartheid: backlash begins 120
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Newt Gingrich lauds ‘Jerusalem Day’ extremists
Newt Gingrich’s speech yesterday to the Republican Jewish Coalition was standard right-wing boilerplate intended to appeal to Republican Jewish donors and hardcore Christian Zionists. But notably and disturbingly, Gingrich lauded the throngs of Jews who danced through the streets of … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Lobby
Tagged Jerusalem, Jerusalem Day, Newt Gingrich, Republican Jewish Coalition
25 Comments
June 5 protest showed that Netanyahu lied to Congress when he bragged on freedom of worship
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to a joint session of Congress last month, he proclaimed proudly that “only a democratic Israel has protected freedom of worship for all faiths in the city.” This is a lie, as a … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Fadi Quran, Jerusalem, June 5, March 15 movement, Naksa, Qalandia, Ramallah
6 Comments
Pizzarotti should follow in Deutsche Bahn’s footsteps
Italian construction firm Pizzarotti is stupefied, bewildered, stunned. In an article on today’s Corriere della Sera, Italy’s top newspaper, covering Deutsche Bahn’s withdrawal from the Israeli project for a high-speed train line that cuts through the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Michele … Continue reading
Posted in BDS, Israel/Palestine
Tagged a1 train, BDS, deutsche bahn, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Pizzarotti, veolia
21 Comments
Jewish left continues to take on the Simon Wiesenthal Center
A coalition of progressive Jewish organizations on both coasts yesterday slammed the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s honoring of the civil rights-era Freedom Riders while “engaging in anti-Muslim bigotry that is no less destructive than that against which the Freedom Riders protested,” … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Middle East
Tagged Center For Constitutional Rights, Islamic community center, Islamophobia, Jerusalem, Jewish Voice for Peace, Jews Against Islamophobia, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, Jews Say No, Mamilla cemetery, Park 51, Rebecca Vilkomerson, Simon Wiesenthal Center
7 Comments
‘It is ethnic cleansing’
The video above is of Joyce Ajlouny, who heads the Friends’ School in Ramallah in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It was posted at Huffpo yesterday by the interviewer, Nancy Kanwisher, a brain scientist, actually the Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged ethnic cleansing, Jerusalem, Joyce Ajlouny, Nancy Kanwisher, occupation, Ramallah
72 Comments
Will Miral be this generation’s Exodus?
Today, I saw Julian Schnabel’s new film Miral. It won’t be arriving in theaters in the US until next March, so it will be awhile until we see what effect it has, but my initial impression was amazement at what … Continue reading
Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine
Tagged Exodus, Freida Pinto, intifada, Israel, Jerusalem, Miral, Nakba, Schnabel
34 Comments
Foxman: American Jews should shut up about Israeli policy and fall into line
Abe Foxman in the Jerusalem Post. By the way, the one position he mentions the American Jewish community shutting up about is Jerusalem, which is the “supreme” issue, the “heart and soul” of the Jewish people. Even though he doesn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Abraham Foxman, ADL, Diaspora, Israel Lobby, Jerusalem, monolithic Jewish community
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The crisis of the liberal Zionist
I often write here that Israel is in crisis; and my belief is confirmed by the growing desperation of liberal Zionists who glimpse the end of the two-state solution and with that the possible end of the Jewish state. I … Continue reading
My sabbath is the weekend
Today on Krista Tippett’s show about religion, she had poohbahs of three major religions on stage, and Rabbi Jonathan Sacks of England told a story about how great Sabbath is and said that the sabbath is hallowed by all three … Continue reading
Posted in US Politics
Tagged Jerusalem, Jonathan Sacks, Krista Tippett, Religion, Sabbath, Tonga
14 Comments
Kramer says that the Persian Gulf is ‘as crucial to American security as Lake Michigan’
Can you trust someone’s judgment if every time they talk about the Middle East they refer to it as “the Levant?” I don’t think so. Sandbox author Martin Kramer is not just pretentious, but scary and Israel-centric. Here he is … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Iran, Israel Lobby, Jerusalem, Levant, Martin Kramer, Michael J. Totten, neoconservatism, nuclear strike
11 Comments
Jerusalem and the unspoken systems in our lives
Since we got back from Jerusalem last month, my wife has told me about changes the city produced in her worldview.
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Catholic pilgrim, hermit, Jerusalem, Palestinian, Religion, stations of the cross
5 Comments
‘There is no such thing as tourism in an occupied city’
There are days that I think that Israel can be redeemed without violence, and this video gives me hope. Watch these human-rights activists, many of them Israeli speaking Hebrew, leading creative protests of the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged apartheid, Eden Abergil, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, OECD, tourism conference
9 Comments
Congressional chairman to Palestinians who live in the capital of the Jewish people: Drop dead
U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY), Chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia, issued the following statement today concerning the Israeli construction in Jerusalem. AIPAC is tweeting happily about it. “Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. … Continue reading
‘Jewish state’ demand is Israeli code for refugees, Jerusalem
Chris Keeler, at Notes from a Medinah, writes about the Israeli demand that Palestinian negotiators offer to recognize Israel as a Jewish state: There is a distinct and important difference between recognizing Israel as a home for the Jewish people … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Hussein Ibish, Jerusalem, Jewish state, Mahmoud Abbas, Netanyahu, refugees, right of return
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Feeling the loyalty to the Jewish state
The Israeli Knesset is debating a bill proposed by David Rotem of the extreme right Yisrael Beiteinu party that would require all Israeli citizens to swear loyalty to Israel as a “Jewish and democratic state.” This bill is targeted at … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Dual Loyalty, Israel, Jerusalem, Joseph Dana, loyalty oath, Max Blumenthal
126 Comments
The Search for 1948
The following is a chapter from the important new book Shifting Sands: Jewish Women Confront the Israeli Occupation. From the book’s website, “Shifting Sands brings to life the Jewish anti-occupation perspective through personal stories by activists such as Starhawk, Anna … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged 1948, Hannah Mermelstein, Israel, Jerusalem, Nakba, Palestine, Palestinian, Shifting Sands
17 Comments
Israel issues 16 demolition notices for Palestinian barns & greenhouses in the Jordan Valley
And other news from Today in Palestine:
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged BDS, East Jerusalem, ethnic cleansing, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, peace process, settlements
10 Comments
The pharaoh of Jerusalem
In the last two days two guides have taken me through the geography of the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem, and I’m staggered. I wonder why this monstrous structure is not better known, even to people like me, who study the … Continue reading
Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine
Tagged Beyondoweiss, ethan bronner, ethnic cleansing, Israel, Jerusalem
232 Comments
