On Sunday, the Israeli Population and Immigration Authority declared that during the past year the most popular male names given children were Yosef, followed by Daniel and Ori. The top female names were Tamar, Noa and Shira. This was reported in the English edition of the Ha’aretz news website. What neither the English article nor the government announcement mentioned was that Arabic names were excluded from the survey.
The Democracy and Workers’ Rights Center field teams have documented full or partial damages to 75 kindergartens and day-care centers caused during the 51 day Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip this summer.
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Junot Diaz, Elif Batuman, Ahdaf Soueif, Seth Tobocman, Anthony Arnove, Amit Chaudhuri, Sarah Schulman, Remi Kanazi and Astra Taylor among those writers and editors protesting Brooklyn Book Festival’s funding from the Israeli government just weeks after Israel’s bloody 50-day assault on the Gaza Strip.
“It sounds to me like you’d prefer Palestinians not to exist,” I said between sessions at the Jewish retreat center. “I wouldn’t go as far as genocide,” he said. “Almost, but not quite.” And he smiled.The ideological merger between Judaism and Zionism has given rise to an American form of idolatry that one rejects at one’s own peril. A vicious hasbara indoctrination had overtaken these people’s minds and shuttered their ability to think.
Rabbi Danielle Leshaw, the director of Ohio University’s Hillel, felt tremendous anguish over the Gaza onslaught this summer as a liberal Zionist. Still she threw herself into fighting the burgeoning Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement on campus. Then she was outraged by the pro-BDS “bloodbucket” video posted on Sept. 2 by student senate president Megan Marzec. Leshaw has helped lead demands for Marzec’s resignation by stating that Marzec had made Jews feel unsafe in Athens, Ohio. “Athens is a shitshow right now,” she has tweeted.
It is the time to end the “ecumenical deal” that creates a Christian code of silence on Palestine. It’s time for a new and officially recognized dialogue/solidarity between Jews of Conscience and Christians, to answer the World Council of Churches’ call for a just peace in the conflict.
In her new book On the Brink, Alice Rothchild chronicles a visit to Palestine at the height of Israeli raids on the West Bank this summer. She has returned to a country where Jews are at last wrestling with the issues: is Jewish privilege over Palestinians consistent with liberalism? is there any possibility of a two-state solution given John Kerry’s negotiating failure?
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At the height of the Gaza onslaught in July, Netanyahu’s right-hand man met with a group of journalists in Jerusalem to equate Hamas with ISIS. The latest Israeli rhetoric is overheated: Both organizations seek to establish an Islamic caliphate, both “educate (read: brainwash) children to sanctify death and to die as a martyr (shahid) in jihad.” Oh and Hamas is global, but Boko Haram isn’t.