Vassar Hillel group defies parent org: Your Israel doctrine doesn’t represent ‘diversity of young Jews’ By Philip Weiss February 19, 2014 2 The Open Hillel movement is on the move! Let us celebrate. First it was the…
Disenfranchised: How the NYT spins the status of Palestinian land By Barbara Erickson February 18, 2014 83 In The New York Times, Palestinian land has become something else again. It is not the…
The campaign against BDS is a deliberate choice to maintain the status quo By David Schwartzman and Mai Abdul Rahman February 18, 2014 34 On February 12th, Jodi Rudoren argued in a New York Times article against the Palestinian-led…
Museum of Jewish Heritage spikes panel on John Judis’s book as too controversial By Philip Weiss February 18, 2014 11 The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York has spiked a planned appearance by John…
Montgomery bus boycott was divisive — Remi Kanazi video By Philip Weiss February 18, 2014 2 From the poet Remi Kanazi: “‘This Divestment Bill Hurts My Feelings’ deconstructs and debunks the…
Transcript: Netanyahu calls on U.S. Jews to fight BDS– ‘eerie’ anti-Semites ‘on the soil of Europe’ By Philip Weiss February 18, 2014 114 Everyone is talking about Netanyahu’s speech to the Jewish group the Conference of Presidents of…
Stirring debate on BDS, ‘NYT’ allows readers to speak out about inequality By Philip Weiss February 18, 2014 107 I’m easily astonished, but this is astonishing. The New York Times runs a bumper crop…
The alternative is BDS By Haidar Eid February 18, 2014 5 As BDS activists, we are no longer interested in the sterile opposition to normalization generated…
Wesleyan President’s BDS denunciation fails to meet university’s ideals By Shireen Tawil February 17, 2014 14 Three weeks after I began my freshman year at Wesleyan University, the Second Palestinian Intifada…
FIFA: Mohammed Assaf invitation to perform in World Cup opening ceremony ‘still stands’ (Updated) By Annie Robbins February 17, 2014 29 Last week there were reports that Arab Idol winner Mohammed Assaf had been banned from performing at…