We’ve been conducting a roundtable here ’round the challenge to come up with some positive formula toward a solution in Israel/Palestine, reflecting the fact that the left is finally in the house. Today Sammer Aboelela, a leader of Muslim progressives…
Alan Sabrosky in the Salem-News of Oregon… In this case, as in previous instances of Israeli violations of international law, nothing has been done. Indeed, there has been almost no coverage of the incident anywhere in the mainstream media, and…
Joe Biden went on “This Week,” George Stephanopoulos’s show Sunday, and said Israel has a “sovereign right” to go after Iran. JTA saw Biden’s comments as giving a “green light” to Israel. So did Haaretz. When asked whether the Obama…
Shocking racism, not directly connnected to anything but exposing deep racism within European society: a 32-year-old Muslim woman is murdered inside a German courtroom by her neighbor. They are there because the neighbor has earlier harassed her as a “terrorist”…
Real journalism. A stunning report from Channel 2 in Israel on a confrontation between Peace Now activists and settlers in the West Bank. The activists are traveling into the West Bank to check the status of the “freeze” on settlements….
Ali Abunimah at EI, on Hamas’s softening, post Cairo: Another analysis of Hamas’ shift currently circulating argues that Hamas has accepted the Palestinian “consensus” position of a two-state solution on every inch of the 1967 occupied territories with removal of…
Joseph Dana shot this video on July 4 outside Tuba, a village near a settlement called Maon in the occupied West Bank. It is a grisly scene: Palestinian shepherds are forced off their lands when Israeli soldiers show up and…
Our friend Seham, a Palestinian-American in California, declined our challenge to produce a positive forward-looking solution in Israel/Palestine. You’ll see there were a ton of smart comments on her post. We asked if she wanted to add anything to her…
Rob Browne writes: I urge people to read Bradley Burston in Haaretz, “This Is What Is Wrong With The Jewish State.” The article is his July 4th assessment of the present moral state of Israel. It appears that the 42…