Yesterday we ran a report on Mads Gilbert’s lecture in Chicago on the Gaza onslaught. Gilbert was one of two Norwegian doctors to work at Shifa hospital in Gaza City for twelve days in January. I went to hear him…
In a March 29 on-line dialogue with foreign editor Susan Chira, the Times published a letter from Yisrael Medad complaining about coverage of the settlements, and gave his dateline as Shiloh, Israel. Shiloh is a settlement in the Occupied Territories….
Here is the video of the IDF shooting Bassem Ibrahim Abu Rahmah that I mentioned earlier: Isabel Kershner has reported on the protest for the New York Times. She offers a version of Abu Rahmah’s death “according to other demonstrators,”…
Today, the Israeli military shot and killed Bassem Ibrahim Abu Rahmah, 30, during the weekly nonviolent protest against the Wall in the West Bank village of Bil’in. The photo to the right, from the International Middle East Media Center, is…
The JTA is reporting that Avigdor Lieberman has chosen Naor Gilon to be his chief of staff in the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Gilon was the lead Israeli official involved in the Pentagon espionage scandal involving Lawrence Franklin and ex-AIPACers Steve…
We have been following the story of Silwan on this site. It is a Palestinian neighborhood located right outside of Jerusalem’s old city, and a strategic area that Israel wants to control as part of its colonization of the West…
Our first fundraiser is over, and we’ve raised the $8000 we asked for two weeks ago. “Thank you!” doesn’t begin to describe my/our gratitude. This site began more than three years ago as a personal blog, with dog pictures and…
As an American Jew, I was taught to go all gooey-eyed at the thought of Israel… –David Brooks in a column on his twelfth trip to the Holy Land where he says that the Palestinians are the obstacle to peace…
The pseudonymous “Seven” regularly sends me news tips from California, so I asked her what’s on her mind, and she sent along the following note. Seven is a Palestinian-American woman who does not want her real name used lest she…