Ghada Al Atrash Janbey is a columnist for the Townsman, a newspaper in Cranbrook, BC, Canada. Here she writes about village life in the occupied Golan Heights: Majdal Shams was captured by Israel in 1967 and has been under its…
This is Rabbi Dovid Weiss, of the anti-Zionist group Neturei Karta, protesting outside AIPAC’s policy conference last week. Photo from Dana Goldstein’s flicker portfolio on AIPAC.
The top story on my Yahoo news budget tonight is: “Concerns White Phosphorus Used in Afghan Battle.” It’s an AP story out of Afghanistan that the country’s top human rights group believes the U.S. has used white phosphorous in battling…
Jack Ross responds to my posts about “bad Jews” reclaiming secular Jewish identity. He begins by taking on the embrace of AIPAC by the Conservative Rabbinical Assembly, which triggered my original post: First off, the Conservatives are hemmorhaging membership, and…
Uri Avnery, at his best, says that Shimon Peres trivialized the Holocaust by saying Iran is the equivalent of Nazi Germany and that the Netanyahu government doesn’t believe that Iran is an existential threat. President Barack Obama is now saying…
Rachael Kamel writes: I read your memo to “bad Jews” … and I think that you are actually describing “secular” Jews from Eastern Europe, who overwhelmed the US Jewish community through their massive immigration around the turn of the 20th…
From AFP: The Hamas-run government in the fenced-off Gaza Strip said on Saturday that it will use mud bricks to rebuild houses destroyed during a massive Israeli offensive at the turn of the year…. According to official Palestinian statistics around…
MJ Rosenberg has a typically smart piece on TPM arguing that Obama is actually going to bring Netanyahu to his knees, that the lobby doesn’t have the ability to buck a popular American president. As for the lobby, it will…
My post yesterday about Being a bad Jew is really, as a friend pointed out, about being a secular Jew and feeling guilty about it, and the political consequences of that guilt. Later yesterday I remembered when I first felt…