Two hate attacks on Palestinians in Jerusalem are said to have been carried out by girl gangs, as Palestinian drivers say they are avoiding the Jewish parts of the city
Steven Salaita says that he was double trouble for a neoliberal corporation, the University of Illinois, because he studies not just Palestine but American native dispossession. He gave two speeches to overflow crowds in New York schools.
In the midst of Israel’s latest seven-week military assault on Gaza, up to 200,000 people took to the streets of Cape Town, South Africa to march in solidarity with the Palestinian people–in what many say was the largest single protest that country has seen since the mass movements that overthrew apartheid. The people who filled this crowd—including prominent as well as lesser-known anti-apartheid heroes—made direct links between South African history and present-day reality for Palestinians. Sarah Lazare talks with three South African activists on the parallels between South Africa under apartheid and Israel/Palestine today, as well as the state of the Palestine solidarity movement in South Africa.
Stewart Copeland, CIA brat and former Police drummer, says Israelis and Palestinians are inseparable so Israelis have to give up Zionist dream of a Jewish state, and practice Kumbaya
Annie Robbins comments on “First they came for the Palestinians”, a political cartoon by renowned cartoonist and political-cultural commentator Michael Leunig: “My initial response to the cartoon was that the conversation surrounding events in Palestine and Israel require and demand public engagement. The onus is on all of us and this is not primarily a Jewish conversation, nor should it be. We cannot be silent. This is a global conversation as well as an American conversation. Be part of it.”
A recent headline in Haaretz claimed the Israeli government withholding of corpses, Said Abu Jamal and Uday Abu Jamal the two Palestinians cousins responsible for carrying out the synagogue attack in Jerusalem last Monday, was an “unprecedented move”. How odd, for there’s nothing unprecedented in the least about Israel refusing to release the bodies of deceased Palestinian militants to their families for burial. How short are our memories?
John Jay College tried to censor an October 8 “Die In” by students commemorating Gaza; now the school accuses Palestine supporters of anti-Semitism. Where’s the evidence?
A video of a traffic stop in East Jerusalem reflects perfectly how an ordinary person might respond to a constant police presence, a suffocation that’s untenable. This is the “battle of Jerusalem” Americans don’t see.
Israeli police ransacked seven apartments and urinated inside one while demolishing the Silwan apartment of Abdel Rahman al-Shaludi, 21, the Palestinian motorist from East Jerusalem who killed a three-month old Israeli-American Chaya Zissel and one Ecuadoran tourist in a light rail attack in Jerusalem on October 22, 2014. “They urinated on the mattresses in my brother’s apartment, said Enas al-Shaludi, 43, the mother of the deceased driver. “You can see the urine on the mattresses.” In addition to the demolition, which the family expected after receiving a demolition order last Friday, all of the other apartments in the four-story residential building were raided.
David Remnick treats Israeli president Reuven Rivlin’s talk of a one-state future as nutty in a piece in the New Yorker, while holding out for a two-state solution that would deny Palestinians any real sovereignty