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Here’s JTA’s report on the “eight Jewish women” who got inside the Israeli consulate in Toronto yesterday and staged a protest, were led away in handcuffs. “Israel purports to represent all Jews worldwide and these atrocities are not being committed…

Another Jew has passed the Gaza test. And the more status you have, the more Karmic bonus points you get. Menschy internationalist Roger Cohen, in the New York Times even allows himself to hint that Zionism is over. He’ll come…

Anees, my Palestinian friend in Jerusalem, reports last night: Just watched live coverage on Al-Jazeera /Arabic. Elias Karram, the correspondent was in Nahariya covering the Katyusha attacks there. There are crowds of Israelis around him with goofballs jostling him, shouting…

Report on NY tv: Many pro-Israeli demonstrations have been held over the last few days, but on Wednesday night there was something different — a pro-Palestinian demonstration. Both sides see this as a simple struggle when it is anything but….

Nonzionism on the march. Here’s an international group of Jews calling on Israeli soldiers to stop “crimes against humanity” and atrocities. An important communal note is struck: that Jews everywhere are accountable: This criminal activity does nothing to advance the…

On Italian Yahoo. These young keffiyeh Jews are LA Jews for Peace, and staged a demo outside the Israeli consulate there today. Fabulous poster, huh? And check out the iconic masks of Palestinian suffering… I feel like young Jews are…