A banner drop this morning over New York City’s West Side Highway, carried out by members of Jews Against the Occupation/NYC, declared “Jews Say: End Israel’s War on Gaza NOW!” Says the press release: “This action by Jewish New Yorkers…
Here are videos of people at Harvard reading Mahmoud Darwish’s poems last summer after his death. I love America: one of the readers is Darryl Li, a handsome Harvard law student of Asian descent, reading first in Arabic then in…
The core condition of Zionism is the understanding that Jews are unsafe in western societies. Theodor Herzl invented Zionism two centuries ago for this good reason, and that belief underlies Prisoners, by Jeffrey Goldberg, about his decision to move from…
A beautiful statement by Brit Tony Klug. And astonishing that it has a hopeful ending (read it) after this beginning: When I was young, I learned about the quintessential Jewish values of justice, peace and truth from the distinguished rabbis…
Yakov writes: NY Times editorial today. Notice: “Already more than 1,000 Palestinians have died in the densely populated Gaza Strip” rather than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed.
A lobbyist friend of mine commented on the comparison between Gaza and Fallujah. He pointed out that while there are many similarities, at least in Fallujah Iraqis could escape, in Gaza the Palestinians have no where to go.
Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) speaking at a ‘pro-Israel’ rally in Washington, DC: “To misquote Shakespeare, something is rotten in Gaza and now it’s time to take out the trash.” (Another gem for the same article: “[Virginia Republican Congressman Frank] Wolf also…
Why isn’t this stuff in the New York Times? Yossi Sarid prays to Obama to impose a solution on two “prisoner” societies: And don’t get too upset by the Israeli lobby in Washington, whose voice is that of Benjamin Netanyahu…
Just got this now: 30 to 40 Gaza solidarity activists took over the building housing the San Francisco Israeli consulate shortly after 8am today, putting bike locks on the doors to prevent anyone from opening them. Activists then locked themselves…