Anees of Jerusalem writes: Yesterday Naomi Klein gave a great talk at the Friends School in Ramallah. It was a short addendum to her January piece in The Nation supporting the BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) movement against Israel. I…
Remember when people wanted to lynch the late Edward Said, English professor at Columbia, for throwing a symbolic stone toward Israeli forces from Lebanon in 2000? Well today my old friend and mentor Lucianne Goldberg: published this image of an…
This photo of Ezra Nawi, the Israeli human-rights activist, appears at Jesse Hochheiser’s blog here. What a beautiful man. He’s about to be sentenced this week for trying to stop a house demolition in the West Bank two years ago….
Do you sense that anti-Zionism is being normalized? I do. I hear the word and more more frequently these days, in a neutral manner. It’s been separated at last from the smear, that it is anti-semitic, thru the refusal of…
Yesterday Assaf Oron expressed skepticism about reports that Israel has eased movement in the West Bank by lifting checkpoints. Today Oron offers “some additional information confirming my suspicions, from Micheala, a Machsom-Watch activist (translated from Hebrew)”: In general the situation…
Earlier this month my coreligionist (and coBaltimoreOriolesist) Rob Browne of Dailykos challenged Rabbi Saperstein of the Union for Reform Judaism for being outspoken on Darfur when he was silent about oppression in Palestine. Browne has now exchanged emails with Saperstein’s…
Another note from Rob Browne of DailyKos: Here is an editorial from today’s Haaretz that simply states that Netanyahu knows what needs to be done to free Shalit. He should stop being a cowardly politician and make the deal. No…
Joseph Dana writes: Over the last several months, Israeli and international activists have made the small West Bank village of Safa a focus of the struggle for the rule of law in the occupied territories. The village is situated next…
Assaf Oron writes: First, the happy talk by lazy reporters: “Israel removes dozens of West Bank roadblocks.” And now, the party spoiler Gideon Levy, who actually goes on the ground to report: the “removed” Jericho checkpoint was replaced by a…