The Breaking the Silence report of Israeli soldier testimonies about the attack on Gaza earlier this year continues to reverberate around the world. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, it has yet to be mentioned in the New York…
The Times of London is reporting that the west and Israel are moving toward a deal in which Israel makes concessions on the alleged peace process and is given the green light to attack Iran within a year. “Urgent!!!” writes…
The Nation has distinguished itself by insisting on running the voices of Jews and Palestinians on the conflict. Here is a great piece by Huwaida Arraf on the blocked passage of the “Spirit of Humanity” boat to Gaza last month….
Allison Hoffman, left, who states without any basis that Max Blumenthal’s views of Israel might hurt his father’s career, used to work for the Jerusalem Post before going to the new Jewish online publication, Tablet. The other night a friend…
Adam Shapiro (husband of Huwaida Arraf) tried to get into Gaza last month on the Spirit of Humanity, the boat seized by the Israeli navy. He writes about it at Huffington Post: Those of us with video cameras bore the…
Emily Hauser, who has moved between Israel and the U.S., writes a stirring piece about why she’s throwing herself back into Palestine/Israel issues. Her story reminds me of all the Americans who moved to Israel after ’67. And now the…
Beforehand my wife told her friend that I would laugh harder than anyone in the theater all thru “Bruno” then when we got out I’d say, “That wasn’t so good.” She was right, as usual. Two good things were: 1,…
I have a bit of a different take than Phil on Ehud Olmert’s oped in today’s Washington Post. I don’t see hints at the one state solution, but I do see Olmert trying the resuscitate one of the all-time great…
Last month in Gaza, I was at a presentation by five members of the International Solidarity Movement when I noticed longtime legal activist Dennis James walking away, shaking his head. I went up to ask him what had hit him…