David Horowitz visits Ohio State University and spreads falsehoods about Israeli history, like denying the Nakba and the occupation, and departs with an expletive
A main-stage debate is beginning between liberal Zionists and non- and anti-Zionists. Here are two videos that show the continuous human rights abuses of Jewish nationalism, from 1950 to 2012; how can liberals call themselves liberals and support that ideology?
On April 19, two French music students were held overnight at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport and humiliated, interrogated, strip-searched, and then deported all because their destination was Palestine, where they had previously taught music. The authors relate their story in order to oppose the “violation of intimacy, psychological torture, dehumanization, racism, theft, trauma” that often greet travelers at Ben Gurion.
The man who pressed the White House to nuke Iran now seems to have threatened Jeb Bush over the fact that a foreign policy adviser, James Baker, addressed a liberal Zionist group last month. Sheldon Adelson was “ripshit” over the speech, National Review reports.
Members of the International Solidarity Movement write about a new play by the Jenin Freedom Theatre “The Siege” which tells the story of the Israeli siege of the Church of the Nativity in 2002 during the second Intifada.
After students express their concerns to the dining staff of the products connections to human rights abuses, University of California, Riverside provides alternative hummus brand in its campus store.
Touring America, Haneen Zoabi, Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesset, envisions a democracy in Israel alongside a Palestinian state. “We have a vision to stay and live with each other. We don’t want to throw anyone in the sea! No! We suggest when we say equality it is equality with you, this is to recognize you.”
Miranda Willson talks to Jewish Voice for Peace board member Donna Nevel about how working against Islamophobia in the U.S. is connected to justice in Israel/Palestine.
Ma’an reports: “Hundreds of Palestinians attended the funeral of Muhammad Murad Yahiya, 18, on Tuesday after he was shot dead by Israeli forces late Monday in al-‘Araqa village in western Jenin. ‘Israel assassinated my son in cold blood,’ Yahiya’s father, Murad, told Ma‘an. ‘After a family wedding Muhammad and several of his friends went walking in our lands near the separation wall when Israeli soldiers opened fire and hit him.'”
Manchester Jews for Justice for Palestinians calls on all individuals, institutions and companies to end the two way arms trade between the UK and Israel and to divest from those companies involved.