Israel doesn’t really have to change its policies re Palestinians to fight BDS, Michael Oren says, but it has to spend more money on fighting the campaign or its military will be grounded
During Israeli parliamentary debate of a law that discriminates against Palestinian, Deputy Interior Minister Yaron Mazuz called on Palestinian lawmakers to return Israeli identity cards. “We are doing you people a favor by even allowing you to be seated here – terrorists won’t be allowed to sit here.”
Foreign direct investment in Israel dropped by 50% in 2014 according to a 2015 World Investment Report issued yesterday by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. One of the authors of the report, Dr. Ronny Manos from the Open University of Israel, speculates the declining investment is fallout from the Israeli military onslaught on Gaza last summer and “international boycotts” against Israel for “alleged violations of international law.”
Jonathan Rosen, novelist and editorial director of a leading line of Jewish books, describes Edward Said’s Orientalism, an iconic book for Arab-Americans, as a “monster” in academic and public life. Zionism is making American Jewish organizations very conservative indeed.
Promoting a letter from 5 former Obama advisers questioning the Iran deal, the NYT leaves the fact that it originated at the thinktank WINEP till the 26th paragraph and never says that the Israel lobby AIPAC started WINEP.
Palestinian leaders seek to charge Israel with the crime of “Apartheid,” and 22 other charges including seven war crimes, according to Shawan Jabarin, the director of the Palestinian human rights group Al Haq. The thick set documents were ceremoniously handed over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) today at headquarters in The Hague, yet yesterday morning Jabarin was given exclusive access to the report in Ramallah.
Mohammed Zaidan awoke in an Israeli hospital, recovering from serious injuries to his stomach, eye socket, head and arm. At the height of the second intifada the Jenin resident had gone on a suicide bombing operation, but the explosives he brought failed to properly detonate. Fifteen years later, Dan Cohen interviews Zaidan in his home in Gaza City where he recounts why he decided to become a suicide bomber, what his life has been like since the failed attack and whether he would do it again.
On June 8th, 2015 Tel Aviv University academics held a first ever debate on BDS. Read a speech by Dr. Hilla Dayan given in support of the academic boycott of Israel.
James Michie writes the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori to ask her to support six resolutions relating to Israel and Palestine at the upcoming 78th General Convention later this month.
Nadya Raja Tannous writes about the destruction of the Church of the Multiplication on the shores of the Sea of Galilee by Israeli settlers and the massacre of 9 people by a white supremacist in a church in Charleston, South Carolina.