To understand Pamela Geller’s racism, we need to understand how her actions affect Muslims. But the NYT profile of the provocateur quotes not a single person to explain how they respond to her baiting.
The great spiritual challenge to Jews is to deal with our actual status in western societies. What would the American Jewish community look like today if we moved beyond viewing ourselves as the eternal victim? And what would happen to the Israel lobby? A response to David Bernstein’s charge in the Washington Post that Phil Weiss is an anti-Semite.
For Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the period since last summer’s war has been a one-way ceasefire. While Palestinian armed factions have observed the ceasefire, with a handful of exceptions, Israel has violated the ceasefire on a near-daily basis. Soldiers fire at farmers in the buffer zone, gunboats shoot at fishermen, and warplanes and drones are a regular sight over Gaza’s skies. Dan Cohen talks to several people in Gaza about life under this mostly unreported barrage. Moaeen al-Kheysi in Shujaiya says, “We wake up every night to the sound of shooting. The Israelis never stopped shooting at us but Palestinians aren’t shooting them. We want the ceasefire to be from both sides, not just one side.”
Palestinian rights activists are celebrating Lauryn Hill’s announcement that she is cancelling her concert in Tel Aviv, which was scheduled for May 7. The singer posted the announcement on her Facebook page Monday, writing: “It is very important to me that my presence or message not be misconstrued, or a source of alienation to either my Israeli or my Palestinian fans. For this reason, we have decided to cancel the upcoming performance in Israel, and seek a different strategy to bring my music to ALL of my fans in the region.”
The Government of Israel has demolished Al Araqib village 83 times and levied huge fines and an outrageous lawsuit against the villagers to press them to give up their land. Please ask your senators and representative to press the Government of Israel to withdraw the outrageous fines and lawsuit against the residents of Al Araqib and recognize their right to live on the land they own.
NYT and MSNBC should be a little bit more careful about who they’re jumping to defend. Pamela Geller is not attacking jihadists. She is attacking Islam, a world religion, with more than 1 billion adherents, and saying that that religion is essentially evil. And she’s on US TV! Imagine them giving the mike to David Duke
Five years after Tony Judt’s death, Jonathan Freedland reports in the NY Review of Books that based on a meeting he had with Judt, Judt only intended his 2003 essay calling for a binational state in Israel and Palestine as a “provocation” intended to gin up the piece process. Horseshit.
Hisham Suleiman is an Palestinian Israeli actor from Nazareth and one of the stars of “Fauda” a political thriller television series that is the most popular show in Israel. An interview with him published last weekend in Yedioth Ahronoth, he is reported as having said that injuring a soldier inside the Occupied Territories is not a crime because the soldier shouldn’t be there. The interview has provoked outraged responses, and Suleiman has responded in turn.
Jimmy Carter’s statement that Gaza situation is “intolerable” is lead of Guardian story, last paragraph of Washington Post. And you wonder why Washington is in a bubble
New report of Israeli soldier testimonies reflects two doctrines of war that the Israeli military has adopted at the highest level in order to combat Palestinian violent resistance: 1, zero risk to Israeli troops, 2, destruction of neighborhoods as a form of deterrence and collective punishment.