The essence of the two-state solution, based on U.N. Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, is a return to the ’67 border. Put aside the right of return for a moment; the ’67 border would reestablish Israel’s legitimacy in many…
Emily Ratner is just back from Gaza, and struggling like me to come to terms emotionally/intellectually/spiritually/Jewishly/humanly with what she saw there. She has a superb piece here about going down into the tunnels (I was too chickenshit myself) and reflections…
On July 14 at the Brecht Forum in New York, several of us who were on delegations to Gaza in May and June aimed at breaking the siege will be reporting on what we saw. “Hear what is going on…
Naomi Klein (pictured right with Iyad Burnat of the Bil’in Popular Committee) visited the West Bank village of Bil’in today to voice her support for the weekly demonstrations against the Separation Wall, and to reiterate her support for boycotting Israel….
A central question for American Jews in the media when considering the Middle East is: How much authority do they grant Israeli Jewish voices? Do they elevate Israeli Jewish opinion about Israel/Palestine over, say, progressive American Jewish opinion or American…
The Agence France Presse reports that the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) issues a report on “torture” of detainees by Israeli security forces, based on 547 cases of arrests and dozens of interrogations conducted over the past year….
(Mohammed Omer (right) receiving the 2007 Martha Gellhorn Journalism Prize along with journalist Dahr Jamail (left). They are joined in the photo by journalist John Pilger, a member of the Prize’s judges panel. Photo: Paul de Rooij.) A year ago…
I frequently criticize the Washington Post editorial page here for providing a night refuge (as Herzl said of Uganda) for the neoconservatives as they flee the progressive pogroms. Well yesterday the Post distinguished itself head-and-shoulders with a superb op-ed by…
Here’s a depraved story from Haaretz: an 18-year-old Israeli Jew indicted in Nazareth for killing a Palestinian Israeli by stabbing him in the head, just because he was an Arab, and that bugged him. The Arab man tried desperately to…