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- Randa Adnan: The world must intervene to save my husband 167
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- New book explores the history of ‘New Jewish Agenda’ 133
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Category Archives: US Policy in the Middle East
The Palestinian refugees of Lebanon
In my native Lebanon, where I volunteered last winter in a number of Palestinian refugees camps such as Burj el Barajne, I saw first hand the immense level of deprivation Palestinians face as refugees in Lebanon, where they are prevented from the right to work, from joining any Lebanese trade unions, from owning property and even denied social security.
Dog-bites-man story in NYT leads readers to say, tail wags dog
Republicans want to railroad us into a war that serves Israel, NYT readers write
Posted in Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
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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
Foreign nationals willingly gave passports to Mossad
If you give your English passport to the Mossad for use in overseas operations, aren’t you an Israel firster?
2013 US budget: ‘difficult cuts’ for Americans, jackpot for Israel
As the U.S. makes tough choices on budget cuts for 2013, Obama has pledged to kept aid to Israel at unprecedented levels, climbing over $3 billion next year.
Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
Tagged featured
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Day and night in a Bahraini jail
Radhika Sainath describes her arrest and interrogation in Bahrain: “They had got me. In Bahrain, supporting human rights was something akin to terrorism, and I had just admitted to it.”
Posted in Activism, Arab Spring, Reports/Video, US Policy in the Middle East
Tagged featured
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Greenwald: Indefinite detention policies have become normalized legally, politically and culturally in Israel and the US
Glenn Greenwald: “abuses have now been going on for so long in the two countries, are so entrenched, that they have been absorbed into the political landscape as barely noticed accoutrements.”
The end of the ‘two-state solution’ is the beginning of a more just future
Ever aware that the struggle for liberation must be led by Palestinians, our collective task at the moment, in my view, is to bring about the collapse of the present situation in Palestine in order to exploit its fundamental unsustainabilty.
Mark Perry: Israel and Iran’s ‘low-level war’ is ‘dangerous stuff’
Acclaimed author and journalist Mark Perry speaks with Mondoweiss on the escalating situation between Israel and Iran, and the implications for the U.S.
Posted in Iran, Israel/Palestine, Middle East, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror
Tagged featured, Foreign Policy, Hezbollah, Juan Cole, Mark Perry, New Delhi
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Wael Ghonim at Harvard: a key figure of the Egyptian revolution speaks truth to U.S. power
Hailed as the spark that ignited the Egyptian revolution, Wael Ghonim spoke at Harvard University earlier this month on Egypt and U.S. policy in the Middle East.
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.
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.
‘A level of racist violence I have never seen’: UCLA professor Robin D. G. Kelley on Palestine and the BDS movement
UCLA professor Robin D.G. Kelley just returned from a delegation to Israel/Palestine with the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel and speaks to Mondoweiss about Palestine, BDS, black Zionism and much more.
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Settlers/Colonists, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
Tagged academic boycott, Americans for Middle East Understanding, featured, Grace Halsell, Jesse Jackson, Jewish Defense League, Marcus Garvey, PLO, Robin Kelley, Students for Justice in Palestine, USACBI, Vanguard Leadership Group
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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.
News roundup on the 59th day of Khader Adnan’s hunger strike
As Khader Adnan entered his 59th day on hunger strike, his wife Randa appealed for the international community to end his isolation and save his life.
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.
Controversial US police chief hired by Bahraini Interior Ministry
Former police chief of Philadelphia and Miami, John Timoney, has been recruited by Bahrain’s Interior Ministry to advise the Bahrainis on policing strategies.
Posted in Arab Spring, US Policy in the Middle East
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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
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
AIPAC member identified as Abileah assailant during Netanyahu speech to Congress
Stanley Anthony Shulster, a retired lawyer, admitted to assaulting Rae Abileah, a member of CODEPINK, in the House of Representatives while she protested the Israeli occupation of Palestine during the speech by Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel. The Capitol Police issued an arrest warrant for Mr. Shulster for this attack.
US citizens arrested in Bahrain supporting peaceful protest near one-year anniversary of uprising
US Citizens Huwaida Arraf and Radhika Sainath were arrested by Bahraini security forces in downtown Manama on Saturday during a peaceful protest. They are both active with Witness Bahrain.
Posted in Activism, Arab Spring, US Policy in the Middle East
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MSNBC: Israel trains Iranian terror group to kill nuclear scientists
Yesterday, MSNBC reported an Iranian terror group responsible for assassinating nuclear scientists was trained and financed by the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence unit.
Posted in Iran, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, US Policy in the Middle East
Tagged featured
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Musings on Post-Apartheid Israel
With models from South Africa to Jim Crow, Sylvia Schwarz muses over the aesthetics of a post-apartheid Israel/Palestine.
The journey to the border
We published the sequel to this journey before the journey itself. This is an amazing first journey of one young Palestinian woman to the home of her father, who was expelled in ’67. It’s important, it’s revealing and sometimes startling. … Continue reading
Beinart to cast Obama as caped hero of two-state-solution in forthcoming book
From the Amazon listing for Peter Beinart’s forthcoming book on Israel’s crisis, and American Jewry’s role in it. I guess this is a second-term book, a book envisioning a breakout role for Barack Obama in his second term, pushing Israelis … Continue reading