Joseph Dana and Mairav Zonszein had a great oped in yesterday’s Ha’aretz about the Israeli government’s complicity in the settlement movement. Both Dana and Zonszein are active in the Israeli organization Ta’ayush and run the Ibn Ezra blog which is…
I’m dashing. I.e., this will be semi-coherent. The most important political Jew of the last century and more was Theodor Herzl, who struggled against all odds to start the Zionist movement for a Jewish state, based on his shock at…
I’m off to Cairo later today, and then on to Gaza, I hope. Thanks to the generous support of readers of this site. I’ll be in Cairo when my president gets there, next month. Whether my group of 14 humanitarians/journalists…
Earlier we posted that the Israeli Ministry of Tourism had apologized for featuring a map of Israel that included occupied territory as part of Israel. Well, a sharp reader has pointed out that the Ministry is still featuring similar maps…
Max Blumenthal reporting for Mondoweiss from the occupied Palestinian territories: JERUSALEM — I just spent the evening in a small park overlooking occupied East Jerusalem at a gathering of the Israeli settlement movement’s most prominent figures. The settlers were there…
Ali Abunimah responded to Phil’s post on how the The New Yorker is failing in its Israel/Palestine coverage: This is when I wrote the New Yorker off – when Henrik Hertzberg attacked me for daring to equate the lives of…
The Beeb is reporting that the Israeli Ministry of Tourism has apologized for a map of Israel which they used in an advertisement campaign in the London Underground that included the occupied territories as part of Israel. In response the…
Likud MK Danny Danon in support of the “Alternatives to the Two-State Outlook”conference that will be held this upcoming Tuesday: “We need to come out of the closet and say that we are proud to be anti-Palestinian state.” The event…
Haaretz disagrees completely with the lobby-led New York Times: The great Israeli newspaper says that Netanyahu got slam-dunked by Obama on attacking Iran. “From his [Yossi Melman’s] lips to God’s ear,” says Mike Desch, who passed this along: Israel’s military…