Al Jazeera English reports on the important work Adalah is doing to prevent Israel from selling stolen Palestinian land to Jewish Israelis in Haifa:
Joseph Dana reports: Just got an update from Amiel, a Ta’ayush member, who was in Safa this morning. He told me that settlers uprooted around 150 olive and grape leaf trees in Safa as a protest of our action last…
Muhammad Idrees Ahmad writes: The comments by Gabriel of JSF are based on a strawman argument… The debate is not divided as neatly between those supporting the struggle in the streets of Tehran and others supporting their repression. The struggle…
Obama’s game is to defeat the Israel lobby from within. He could not defeat the lobby from outside it; because Jews are simply too important in the American power structure. That is why he could not run against the lobby;…
Gabriel at Jews sans frontieres: It is one thing to defend the Iranian state from outside assault and interference, all necessary and laudable, one thing to recognize the occasional political usefulness of the Iranian state on the world’s stage, which…
Joseph Dana from Ibn Ezra sent us the following: I just shot and edited a video (see below) of what happen today in Safa in the southern West Bank. Ta’ayush went with about thirty Israeli and international peace activists to…
Two readers have already passed along Roger Cohen’s startling account of participation in the Tehran protests yesterday, during which Cohen retreats to an alley to escape gassing and barely suppresses his thrill at being part of this democratic history-making. Two…
Rob Browne at Dailykos has an excellent piece on the evolution of the Israeli demand for “recognition-plus”– that Palestinians recognize Israel as the Jewish state, even before negotiations over land, refugees etc begin. This “new and nonsensical” demand (which preemptively…
Here is the transcript of Jimmy Carter’s speech in Gaza to graduates of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency schools, in which he said that the citizens of Gaza are being treated more like animals than human beings. It includes…