“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Mohandas K. Gandhi On the day Israelis went to the polls to elect a right-wing government that will include a party calling for…
Highlights include: From Johannesburg to Jerusalem: Anti-Apartheid Organizing in the US What: Showing of critically acclaimed film “Have you heard from Johannesburg?” followed by a discussion with David Wildman of the United Methodist Church and Mahmoud Mamdani of Columbia University…
The rightwing parties won a clear majority. 55 seats for Likud-Shas-and-Lieberman’s-party over 41 for Labor and Kadima. Of course no one will make a coalition with the Arab parties. Not that they could even overcome the center-left’s deficit.
Jack Ross: It looks like we’re going to have the best that could have been hoped for, a unity government of the four large parties led by Livni. Last night I was resigned to such led by Netanyahu; either way…
“Hamas figured out how to win a media victory by sacrificing its own civilians,” Dershowitz said in an interview with Jamie Glazov of Front Page Magazine. Yes, sacrificing 410 children is a surefire way to get you sympathy in bleeding-heart…
AC writes: Some context for the “video posted below” The tank that the cute child is perched upon at 0:09 is evidently the Israeli-designed-and-built Merkava. It’s based on the the Hebrew word for chariot, Merkabah, a reference to the chariot…
“Thanks for the video about the kids kicking the Arab woman,” writes Andrea Whitmore of Kansas City. “When I was in Hebron with Interfaith Peace Builders our little group happened upon a soldier who was pulling on one end of…
Weiss’s Lincoln post this morning was about an incredible radical American political movement that began operating on the mainstream over six years in the 1850s in response to an outrage, slavery. The same political movement is required today, over Palestine,…