Max Blumenthal reporting for Mondoweiss from Jerusalem: On Wednesday, June 3, I went to the Knesset to speak to two of the deliberative body’s most ideologically opposed members. First, I spoke to Alex Miller, a backbencher in Avigdor Lieberman’s incipient…
Max Blumenthal’s latest video was posted on the Huffington Post and quickly taken off by site administrators. Blumenthal shared that an administrator told him the video didn’t have “any real news value.” Well, with that in mind, here are some…
As I reported last month, speakers at AIPAC described Ahmadinejad as the “gift that keeps on giving.” Now AIPAC is pushing a bill in the House for Iran sanctions that the Obama administration doesn’t want, as it seeks to turn…
This new piece on Al Jazeera English gives a great overview of the Israeli conscientious objector movement and the crack down on the organization New Profile that we’ve been following here on the site. As the piece shows, New Profile…
Lest you had any doubt about what Obama’s speech in Cairo meant, a poll conducted by a thinktank connected to the Egyptian Prime Minister’s office finds that 48 percent of Egyptians thought the speech was focused on Israel/Palestine, with 22…
Ha’aretz is reporting that French company Veolia is pulling out of a controversial project to build a light rail system in Jerusalem. The rail is planned to connect West Jerusalem to Israeli settlements in the West Bank, making life in…
Jeremy Harding, a writer for the London Review of Books, lately returned to Europe from the West Bank and had this report: A group of writers based in Britain and North America, guests of the Palestine Festival of Literature, were…
A few days ago, I left Gaza with Medea Benjamin (above, as we came through the Sinai) and four other members of her Code Pink delegations. I wasn’t really able to write about Gaza while I was there. We had…
Grant Smith of IRMEP reports: Steven J. Rosen’s defamation suit against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) had its first appearance at 9:30 AM on June 5 in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Rosen and fellow…