Why do we single Israel out? Riding on a Code Pink bus in Gaza last month with Mike Levy, a human rights worker from Osceola, Wisconsin, I asked him to compare the human-rights abuses we were witnessing, some of it…
Andy Whitmore of Christians for Justice in the Middle East/Kansas City writes: I’m including a link to George Galloway’s speech to about 300 here in the KC area Thursday night. Early in his talk, he addressed the demonizing article (“Local…
We’re doing an informal roundtable on this site, challenging non- and anti-Zionists to utter some positive formula for peace in the Middle East. On the very-American theory, Now that we have the microphone, we have to step up to the…
How has the internet liberated journalists? Tom Ricks works at the Washington Post. He also has perches at Foreign Policy and some thinktank. Here a genius post at Foreign Policy about the Post op-ed page titled, Stop the Insanity! In…
If you want to understand the liberal media’s behavior on Israel/Palestine, this is an important post. In it, a powerful editor admits that his views of the conflict are far more left than you’d ever know from his broadcast. He…
AP says a Conservative Jewish organization will attend annual convention of American Islamic society for first time. Sayyid Syeed remembers an interfaith event several years ago when a Jewish leader went to embrace him, saw someone snapping a photo, then…
Wonderful piece of analysis of the hateful colonization program, from Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett at Foreign Policy, showing that Obama has accepted pro-Israel premises inherent in George W. Bush’s doomed roadmap project: the road map’s most significant flaw comes…
Lately we’ve been conducting an informal roundtable on the challenge, Offer readers a forward-looking solution in Israel/Palestine. The following is a response from David Zellnik, a leading young playwright, and non-Zionist Jew. Actions are more important than words, as in…
Very good piece by Glenn Greenwald on NPR’s refusal to use the word “torture” to describe the interrogation techniques adopted by the Bush administration, and on the refusal of an NPR ombudsman to answer Greenwald’s questions. (I’d be afeered of…