When was the last time The New York Review of Books ran a piece by a Palestinian? Lots of Israeli writers, including lately Assaf Sharon, who ignores the BDS movement and advocates for democracy in Israel and Palestine, when saying the Israel’s choice is between the extreme right and the two-state solution. An inherently conservative piece. The Hill actually tries to publish Palestinian opinion.
Ethan Bronner tells Moment that he crossed his fingers hoping news of his son’s joining the Israeli army in 2009 didn’t get out. Greg Mitchell says this was a “journalistic sin,” in which the paper was complicit
The reckoning that should have happened after Gaza isn’t happening. Only a collective effort can reverse the course of destruction and profiting from the destruction. Maybe because European governments and corporations are implicated in Israel’s policies? Marc Ellis at Mondo.
New York Times report on foreign countries influencing policymaking through donations to thinktanks spotlights Qatar and UAE and Egypt but leaves out Israel. Drawing a blank on Haim Saban!
This should be wild and fun. Naomi Wolf will debate Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on Thursday…
An Israeli officer expels Palestinian farmers from their lands in the South Hebron Hills saying that the “intact fabric” of the Jewish settlement nearby will be disrupted by the sounds of Arabic.
Cycling4Gaza began in 2009 as four London friends recruited cyclists to raise funds for Gaza. Now it is teamed with the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund and coming to the U.S., with a Philadelphia to Washington trip on Sept. 18-21.
A leaked transcript of a meeting between Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Mashal includes Abbas’s claim that the U.S. has pressured the Palestinian Authority from joining the international criminal court, Abbas’s threats to hand over West Bank to Israel, and Israeli reports of assassination attempts by Hamas.
Get out of Dodge! Two articles in the last week underscore a trend: secular Israeli Jews are leaving the country, because it’s dangerous and intolerant. Why isn’t the American press covering this story and urging US Jews to contemplate it.
The death of a 23 year old Palestinian woman in an Israeli hospital this week brings the death toll from the Gaza onslaught to 2154