Jon Stewart references Palestinian cartoonist Mohammad Saba’aneh in a story on the flagrant hypocrisy of world leaders attending the march for unity in Paris. Saba’aneh was arrested and detained by Israel in February 2013.
Obama should reach out to Palestine as he has Cuba. His legacy would be assured, Marc Ellis writes at Mondo
Israel has launched a campaign to convince a majority of 47 countries in the UN Commission of Inquiry on Gaza to block findings of the group investigating the Gaza onslaught of last summer
Netanyahu has exploited French killings to say that Jews everywhere “know deep in their hearts” they have only one country, Israel– “our true home, our one and only state”
Imagine a world where the western powers were not invading, occupying, drone bombing, kidnapping, torturing and holding Muslims in prison without trial. Now try to imagine that world in which cartoonists who drew Islamophobic cartoons were murdered. I can’t. writes Katie Miranda
On Saturday, the Modern Language Association’s Delegate Assembly affirmed in a straw poll by 48 votes to 26 that boycotts help to protect academic freedom. The vote represents progress toward a goal of boycotting Israeli academic institutions.
The Muslim American community, by and large, is sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. But when it comes to how to advocate for Palestinians, sharp differences emerge. An at-times bitter debate has broken out in the Muslim American community over engagement with Zionism, the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement and what type of actions to take to address the Israel/Palestine conflict. The debate has centered around a trip to Israel a handful of Muslim Americans are currently on. The Muslim Leadership Initiative trip, which first caused a storm of controversy online last year, is being sponsored by the Shalom Hartman Institute, an Israeli and American think tank that has ties to the Israeli army and works against BDS.
A call by alumni of a prestige Israeli academy on students to refuse to serve the occupation army gets pickup on Israeli and Russian TV, and angers the Israeli acting education minister, Avi Wortzman.
Congress has passed provisions that immediately ends funding to the Palestinian Authority in the event of a unity government with Hamas, or a joint government where Hamas exercises “undue influence.” Though, there is one exception. If a supposed unity government recognizes Israel as a Jewish state, the aid will continue.
A coalition of more than 40 New York City community groups held a press conference outside City Hall on Monday calling for the City Council to cancel a planned delegation to Israel. A diverse group of speakers addressed the city’s progressive politicians, asking how they could reconcile their opposition to racism and state violence at home with support for Israel’s policies against the Palestinians.