The White House bridled yesterday at Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim that the U.S. is violating “American values” in opposing Israeli expansion into East Jerusalem. Press secretary Josh Earnest lectured the Prime Minister on American support and singled out the new Jewish settlements in Silwan and Givat Hamatos
Swedish PM Stefan Lofven has announced that the country will recognize Palestine. The move has two big implications: it telegraphs a normative shift, Israel is no longer regarded as working hard to find a friendly guide through the wilderness. And it opens the door on radical activism, and states supporting BDS.
Marc Ellis on his latest book “Burning Children: A Jewish View of the War in Gaza.”
The residents of Israel’s southern periphery, bordering the Gaza Strip, are among the Israelis who suffered the most from Operation “Protective Edge.” By the end of the Operation, it was clear that residents of the embattled south — one of Israel’s poorest regions to begin with — were in dire need of the state’s aid. Yet money designated for the rehabilitation of the south is apparently being diverted to bolster West Bank settlements — again.
Junot Diaz, novelist and professor at MIT, says that a scholar could be driven out of MIT and have tenure stripped after speaking out against the occupation. “That’s like literally the reality. Where you can say almost anything else. You could be like, ‘I hate humans.'”
The last time President Obama said he intended to strike Syria, anti-war sentiment surged in the U.S. But this year, as airstrikes against the Islamic State continue to pound targets in Iraq and Syria, the anti-war movement is facing a different battle. Organizers are struggling to gain traction in the face of headwinds that include fear over the Islamic State, a media incessantly broadcasting news of ISIS atrocities and the loss of one obvious leverage point: Congress.
As news orgs sue to get videos of forced-feeding of Guanatamo hunger strikers, some facts: More prisoners have died in Guantanamo than have been convicted (9 to 8). There are now 149 prisoners; 78 have never been charged, 38 are deemed too dangerous to release and unconvictable; and the rest are in limbo. Close the prison now, set those free that the U.S. can’t bring to trial.
This shocking story has been circulating for days now. The Islamophobic attitudes of the mainstream…
This takes crust. Benjamin Netanyahu went on Face the Nation yesterday and lectured the U.S.…
Jews Say NO! and Jewish Voice for Peace/NY write a letter to New York Senators Charles Schumer
and Kirsten Gillibrand asking them to to enforce provisions of federal law that require the termination of aid to any unit of a foreign military for which there is credible information that the unit has committed a gross violation of human rights.