Category Archives: Media

PennBDS still being smeared two weeks after student conference

Though it has been two weeks since the much-discussed PennBDS conference, it seems that some opponents of Palestine solidarity simply cannot let it go.

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Assault on Beinart begins with poll claiming young American Jews love Israel

Beinart is wrong about Zionism, say critics– American Jews heart Israel

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Khader Adnan ends strike and will be released in April, under reported deal

Israeli officials today offered a deal to hunger striker Khader Adnan, now in his 66th day of protest against his administrative detention.

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Israeli spokesman Mark Regev grilled on CNN International over Khader Adnan

CNN International’s Hala Gorani interviews Mark Regev about Khader Adnan’s case.

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Bassem Tamimi to Israeli military judge: I do not recognize the authority of the Israeli occupation

Yesterday, after nearly a year in Israeli detention, Nabi Saleh’s Bassem Tamimi was finally given a chance to plead his case before an Israeli military court. He denied the charges against him, and upheld Nabi Saleh’s right to struggle against the occupation and theft of the village’s lands.

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Media critic calls out pundits for ignoring Khader Adnan, their long awaited ‘Palestinian Gandhi’

Peter Hart, Activism Director for FAIR, criticizes mainstream pundits for ignoring Khader Adnan’s story.

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Troubled Jeopardy!: Travels through Trebekistan

The Jeopardy! writers, widely respected as masters of fact and trivia, got a simple one wrong on February 8, 2012 when they claimed Gaza was no longer controlled by Israel.

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“Four days in Ramallah through the lens of dehumanization” – remembering Anthony Shadid

Boston.com just republished Shadid’s four day account of his journey through the West Bank in the spring of 2002. It’s worth quoting it at length; there’s no better way to mark Shadid’s career than letting his words speak for him.

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Book Review: ‘A Child’s View from Gaza: Palestinian Children’s Art and the Fight Against Censorship’

The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) book A Child’s View from Gaza: Palestinian Children’s Art and the Fight Against Censorship offers a behind the scenes window into a continued struggle to give voice to a people whose cultural identity has been assaulted, ignored, hidden, repressed, attacked and stolen.

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Khader Adnan, 61 days on a hunger strike, near death

A Palestinian prisoner on his 61st day of hunger strike while shackled to a bed in an Israeli hospital is in immediate danger of death, according to a medical report submitted to the supreme court in an effort to secure his release.

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Right wing to Rudoren: Are you now, or have you ever been, a Zionist?

Judi Rudoren continues to hold her ground against the right-wing onslaught against her. The Washington Free Beacon’s Adam Kredo interviews her and begins in the most McCarthyite way possible.

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In photos: PennBDS

Sara Jawhari’s exclusive photographs of the watershed Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions conference held at the University of Pennsylvania.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 9 Comments

Rudoren responds to the Twitter kerfuffle

Politico’s Dylan Byers interviews new New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief Jodi Rudoren about her recent Twitter controversy.

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New ‘NYT’ bureau chief Jodi Rudoren faces outcry from Israel advocates over Twitter messages

The fast and furious reaction to Jodi Rudoren’s Twitter messages, and what it says about ardent advocates for Israel.

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Out of the Ballpark: Susan Abulhawa’s speech to the PennBDS conference

A video and partial notes from Susan Abulhawa’s speech to the PennBDS conference.

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Israeli apartheid is never fit to print in the ‘Times’, only in ‘Haaretz’

When has the Times ever filed a serious report on Israeli apartheid policies, and will it ever? Meanwhile, Haaretz today runs an editorial page broadside against the colony/settlement Ariel’s University expansion plans.

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You won’t have Ethan Bronner to kick around anymore . . .

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Ethan Bronner is being re-assigned to cover national legal affairs from New York. The new bureau chief in Jerusalem will be Jodi Rudoren.

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‘Love is a force far more powerful than the state’: Taiseer Khatib tells his family’s story in Salon

Excerpt’s from Taiseer Khatib’s Salon article “Unhappy Valentine’s Day in Israel.”

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Occupation, One state/Two states | 1 Comment

Radio Against Apartheid: People of Color in the US and Palestinian Queers for BDS

Darnell Moore, a visiting scholar at NYU’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, and Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz, a Jewish Arab writer and co-founder of intersections/intersecciones consulting, joined us on the program. The two recently returned from a delegation as guests of Palestinian Queers for BDS to the occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Nakba, Neocons, Occupation, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 1 Comment

Israeli military escalating arrests in Hebron of boys aged 12-15 years old; at least 10 children arrested last week

Hebron: At least 10 children arrested by Israeli military in one week The extreme Golani Unit of the Israeli military is escalating its arrests of Palestinian children in Al Khalil (Hebron), targeting boys between the ages of 12 to15 years … Continue reading

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Husband of ‘NYT’ Jerusalem correspondent calls for attack on Iran

When does the Caesar’s wife standard kick in? When do warlike statements from Israeli Hirsh Goodman, who is married to Isabel Kershner, a New York Times Jerusalem correspondent, become too much for the Times to bear? When do those pronouncements … Continue reading

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Sh*t the David Project says about Israel

Jumping on the “Shit white girls say…to black girls” YouTube bandwagon, the David Project produces (with an all college student cast) “Sh*t people say about Israel,” co-opting the original video’s sentiment, which critiqued interpersonal racism.

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Judge delays ruling on Khader Adnan, now in his 56th day of hunger strike

With failing health, Khader Adnan now on his 56th day of hunger strike, awaits a decision from an Israeli judge on his final appeal for release from administrative detention.

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‘Commentary’ covers its eyes and makes Palestinians disappear

Commentary decides that Hamas is irrelevant

Posted in Arab Spring, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Nakba, Neocons, Occupation, US Politics | 115 Comments

Leading Zionist historian was first to say ‘Israel Firster’– in 1960

‘Israel Firster’ is no anti-Semitic trope. Zionist historian Abram Sachar used it against Ben-Gurion in 1960

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