Ma‘an reports: Israel’s deputy transportation minister Tzipi Hotovely of the Likud party toured the al-Aqsa mosque compound Tuesday morning while being escorted by Israeli police officers. Commenting on the unwanted visitor, director of the Al-Aqsa Mosque Sheikh Omar al-Kiswani told Ma‘an that “the Israeli occupation continued with its policy of imposing siege on Al-Aqsa Mosque from dawn prayer until noon time.”
Murder, in any democracy’s foreign policy, is hardly ever sold as murder; instead it is neatly repackaged, advertised as necessary defense to loyal constituents. On November 10, the Fletcher School and Tufts Hillel will host one of the primary architects of this summer’s massacres in Gaza. Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine is calling on Tufts President Anthony Monaco to cancel a speaking engagement by Lt. Col. Dr. Eran Shamir- Borer so that apologists for Israeli war crimes are not honored on their campus.
A week after an assassination attempt on a prominent Israeli-American in the Temple Mount movement and the first closure of the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in 14 years, turbulence continued in Jerusalem with clashes inside the al-Aqsa mosque and a vehicle attack that left one killed. In response Jordan, the administrator of the Muslim holy site, recalled its ambassador.
Manchester Jews for Justice for Palestinians welcome events celebrating Jewish culture and history, however it opposes the Manchester Jewish Film Festival from accepting sponsorship from the Israeli Embassy and asks the festival to refuse that funding.
Palestine is occupied by Israel. Al Aqsa is occupied by Israel. Can the churches in Jerusalem and throughout the land escape that same occupation? Last Sunday, Rev. Páraic Réamonn from the Church of Scotland at St. Andrews gave a sermon in Jerusalem that promised a breakthrough in the relationship between the Christian church and the Jewish state.
Amnesty International’s new report, “Families Under the Rubble- Israeli attacks on inhabited homes” accuses Israel of committing war crimes by targeting and killing scores of Palestinians civilian with no warning during Operation Protective Edge, last summer’s slaughter in Gaza. The report says, “Given the failure of Israeli and Palestinian authorities to independently and impartially investigate allegations of war crimes, it is imperative that the international community support the involvement of the International Criminal Court (ICC).”
Saying Yehuda Glick is dedicated to Jewish access in the Old City is like saying the KKK is dedicated to the well-being of white people — Jim Crow in the NYT
Eamon Murphy offers the definitive analysis of what has come to be knows as “Chickenshitgate.” He writes: “In light of the predictable response to Chickenshitgate — in Israel, indignation on the right and exasperation on the left, pearl-clutching and tongue-clucking here at home — Goldberg’s warning about “unsurprising, post-November” changes to US policy seems like a case of saying it to keep it from happening. Publicly presenting a map with borders and withdrawing diplomatic cover for Israel in the UN would be positive steps for the Obama team; but letting their ostensible pet journalist put them on the defensive against Netanyahu is representative of the wisdom with which they manage the special relationship.”
Israel gained recognition in 1948 by accepting the UN Partition borders of 1947, but has negated those borders since. But any partition of the land must reflect that division, explains scholar David Gerald Fincham. This post has been updated with an explanation from Prof. Francis A. Boyle clarifying the advice he offered Palestinian leadership on borders.
Jean-Jacques Surbeck, Israel apologist, speaks at Santa Cruz university and leaves a listener enraged by his mythology. Katie Miranda takes a lesson from the prophet Muhammad, channel your rage.