Oudeh Basharat writes in Haaretz: “Why bother looking into the circumstances of the killing of Khayr al-Din Hamdan of Kafr Kana? Just watching the police officers throwing him, like a sack of onions, onto the floor of the police car after he was mortally wounded says everything about the value of an Arab’s life. The video shows no hesitation or embarrassment on the part of the ones who took this young man’s life.”
“What is Palestine?” asks a Jewish religious temple-mount activist. At a rally, activists wear Yehuda Glick masks and say that the Al Aqsa mosque will be removed, by earthquake or war.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, went against the Obama administration’s own line when he said Thursday that the Israeli military acted “responsibly” and went to “extraordinary lengths” to minimize Palestinian civilian casualties during Operation Protective Edge last summer.
Amid clashes in occupied East Jerusalem and Bethlehem, Israelli forces shot a Palestinian youth in Nazareth, killing him
“2 Unite All” features 26 powerful musical tracks of healing and peace created in a wonderful and very accessible way for people around the world to support the besieged Palestinian community of Gaza. The album features Peter Gabriel, The Police’s Stewart Copeland, Grammy Award-winning opera singer Sasha Cooke, Rick Allen (Def Leppard), Country Grammy winner Gary Nicholson, Pearl Thompson (Cure/Led Zeppelin) and System of a Down’s Serj Tankian.
Photos from “Keep Your Eye on the Wall,” a book conceived and edited by Olivia Snaije and Mitchell Albert. It brings together seven award-winning artist-photographers and four essayists, including an introduction by Raja Shehadeh, all responding to the Wall in images or words specially commissioned for this book. The photographers present unique perspectives, whether documenting the journey of laborers across the barrier, the desolation of abandoned checkpoints, a surreal grey bulk cutting across a landscape or the tattered posters of “martyrs” on a wall in Gaza.
On October 26, 2014, the Jerusalem Post carried an article entitled “Bethlehem Bible College – purveyor of anti-Israel propaganda” in their Christian News section. The Rev. Alex Awad, a Baptist minister who works both for Bethlehem Bible College and The United Methodist Church, was personally named as part of “a blatant attempt to demonize Israel.” The article goes on to denounce a video the college produced on the bombing of Gaza. That the Jerusalem Post felt it necessary to publish this frontal attack on a well known Bible college is actually a good sign.
Tzvia Thier experienced many Zionist myths: she was a Holocaust survivor who made aliyah to Israel, she worked on kibbutzes, she taught in Hebrew schools in the US, she wrote Zionist texts, and her brother died fighting for Israel. But at 64, she experienced an “earthquake,” and today she is opposed to the idea of a Jewish state. Read her story.
Compared to its international counterparts, the U.S. labor movement has been slow to embrace BDS. On the grassroots level, however, things look different. This summer, hundreds of US labor leaders and organizers signed on to Labor for Palestine’s BDS statement. To add to these inspiring developments, on December 4th, UAW 2865, a union that represents 13,000 student workers across nine University of California campuses, will become the first U.S. union to hold a membership vote on joining the BDS movement. Similarly encouraging are recent solidarity actions in the San Francisco Bay Area, which show that, despite the ambivalence among some union leadership, rank-and-filers do not hesitate to stand in solidarity with the oppressed.
A haunting piece by young Gaza writer Enas Fares on the aftermath of this summer’s Israeli attack.