Over the next few days we’re hoping to devote attention to President Obama’s speech in Cairo and offer various reactions. The following is from our regular contributor Seham: Well, I hate to rain on any ones parade but I am…
Here are two interesting reactions to the Salute to Israel parade that Antony Loewenstein reported on for us yesterday. The first is a reaction to Loewenstein’s piece, and the second is an oped by Rabbi Sidney Schwarz in The Jewish…
The following report comes from Alice Rothchild, a Boston-based physician and author of Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience. A longer version has been posted here. The appointment of Avigdor Lieberman, Netanyahu’s outspoken foreign…
(Salute to Israel march, New York, May 2009. All photos by Antony Loewenstein from his flickr page.) Antony Loewenstein writes: Last year I was told a story about a friend’s visit to Israel on the Birthright program. After visiting Auschwitz…
This is one of the tunnels going to Egypt from Gaza. You’re looking down the shaft on the Gaza side, about 25 meters to the bottom. People say there are hundreds of tunnels and if you walk around Rafah, the…
That’s Norman Finkelstein at right, posing questions last night to three Hamas officials at left. The questions came from the delegation to Gaza that I’m with, which was organized by Code Pink, the antiwar group. Notice the microphone in Finkelstein’s…
I’m staying on in Gaza with Code Pink, the feminist antiwar group, which is leading a delegation of 66 activists from 18 states and 10 nations. The formidable Medea Benjamin is here (in pink), and so is Norman Finkelstein, and…
Israeli Government Press Director Daniel Seamen reacting to the US demand that Israel stop settlement growth in Jerusalem: “I have to admire the residents of Iroquois territory for assuming that they have a right to determine where Jews should live…
Israeli anxiety over the Obama administration actually being serious about settlement growth seems to getting worked into a full blown lather. Ha’aretz is following the frenzy closely and reports on a meeting between George Mitchell and Israeli officials in London…