Israeli military says it sought witnesses to slaughter of four boys playing soccer on Gaza beach July 16, but Guardian’s Peter Beaumont was never contacted, and he contests many assertions in the report whitewashing Israel for responsibility in the killings.
Netanyahu continues to bash BDS because he cannot do what any real partner for avowed negotiations would do: name the borders of the future states.
Israel is “fantastic,” or at least that is what the CEO of Orange, Stephane Richard, told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this morning in a second apology after stating last week his company wanted to pull out of Israel “tomorrow.”
Sheldon Adelson is devoted to fighting Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions to preserve the Jewish state. Katie Miranda has some ideas for his new tactics.
A story reported last week by Inside Higher Education read like a McCarthyist nightmare: A Brazilian university administrator urgently requested “names of Israeli students and teachers” in order to comply with a request from “pro-Palestinian groups”. But anybody who could take the time for a little internet research could easily find out there was a somewhat different story.
Rob Bryan writes, “If I had to point to the exact moment at which Peter Beinart lost last week’s debate with Yousef Munayyer, it was when he uttered the two words “Nakba museum.” Speaking to a packed crowd at the New York City office of the New America Foundation, Beinart lamented the ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of indigenous Palestinians in 1948 as an “enormous historical tragedy” before offering a solution that sums up his brand of liberal Zionism: “I believe there should be a Nakba museum inside Israel.” Though he went on to advocate for “some right of return,” the damage had already been done. Could there be a better symbol for the toothless sentimentalism of liberal Zionism than this imagined “Nakba museum” – a museum that as Munayyer later pointed out, most Palestinian refugees would be unable to visit?”
When Bshara Nassar arrived in Washington, DC, he strolled along the National Mall and passed myriad museums dedicated to exposing the painful history of oppressed peoples: the National Museum of the American Indian, the Holocaust Museum, Laogai Museum, the list goes on. He quickly recognized there was no “place for the Palestinian story to be told,” which inspired him to launch the first-ever Nakba Museum Project of Memory and Hope.
The battle over whether ultra-Orthodox (or “haredi”) Jews should serve in Israel’s armed forces never seems to end – but it also never seems to touch on the right issue: the occupation.
Months ago journalists leaked that Israel would be kept off a United Nations list of the worst violators of children’s human rights following frantic lobbying by Israel and the United States. Even so, Israel is preeminently featured throughout the report published yesterday and called out as one of the worst child rights abusers in the world.
‘NYT’s Rudoren Jodi Rudoren acts as a stenographer for an Israeli government report that whitewashes the military of war crimes in last summer’s invasion of Gaza, notably the slaughter of four boys playing soccer on the beach last July 16