February 2014

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After all that buildup– SodaStream ad was flat

By Philip Weiss February 3, 2014 33

Whatever its political implications, SodaStream’s ad for the Super Bowl didn’t land well among viewers…

By Institute for Middle East Understanding February 3, 2014 0

The Institute for Middle East Understanding has compiled a “Facts on the Ground Peace Index” to track…

By Avigail Abarbanel February 3, 2014 129

Above, a video promoting Israel’s high-tech ORT schools, featuring students of many backgrounds but citing…

By Mark Braverman February 3, 2014 44

It’s hard to do justice to the extraordinary new booklet Zionism Unsettled: A Congregational Study…

By Philip Weiss February 3, 2014 86

Oxford Press has just published a new volume of 100 letters by Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914-2003),…

By Marc H. Ellis February 3, 2014 16

This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To…

By Philip Weiss February 3, 2014 10

We live in a celebrity-driven culture, right? And Scarlett Johansson has done more to educate…

By Ira Glunts February 3, 2014 99

Update: President Mahmoud Abbas, in an interview with the New York Times today (Monday), made…

By Annie Robbins February 3, 2014 17

“It’s a permanent movement now,” states Ray Halbritter, a representative from the Oneida Indian Nation, referring…

By Philip Weiss February 2, 2014 89

Adam retweeted this arresting poster from the Israel Project, a rightwing Israel lobby group that…