Refaat Alareer and Lina Alsharif are among contributors to a special issue of the journal Biography on Life in Occupied Palestine, published by the University of Hawaii Press. Editor Cynthia Franklin says The quelling of free speech in the United States works in tandem with Israel’s human rights violations against Palestinians.
Patriots’ owner Robert Kraft brought a group of former NFL stars, including Thurman Thomas, Curtis Martin, Mel Blount and Raymond Berry, to meet Netanyahu in Israel, and the PM railed against Obama’s Iran deal
If Hillary Clinton is elected, Israel will have to limit settlements to the major settlement blocs in the West Bank, Michael Oren offered last night, so as to restore the special relationship between the countries that Obama has broken.
The New York Times report on the UN Human Rights Council report on Gaza conflict equates numbers of Palestinian rockets fired to Israeli air strikes, and leaves out Israeli death toll (72 to 2251 Palestinian deaths) in dishonest effort to equate the suffering during the war
IMEMC reports: The Israeli District Court in occupied Jerusalem sentenced, on Sunday morning, a young Palestinian man to 13 months of imprisonment, with an additional four months suspended, for what the court called “incitement” on his Facebook page.
Read an excerpt from the new graphic novel “Baddawi”, by Leila Abdelrazaq. Baddawi is the story of a young boy named Ahmad struggling to find his place in the world. Raised in a refugee camp called Baddawi in northern Lebanon, Ahmad is just one of the many thousands of refugee children born to Palestinians who fled their homeland after the war in 1948 established the state of Israel. Leila Abdelrazaq explores her father’s childhood in the 1960s and ’70s from a boy’s eye view as he witnesses the world crumbling around him and attempts to carry on, forging his own path in the midst of terrible uncertainty.
Center for American Progress lies, saying Republican candidates are tailoring their pro-life ideas for Sheldon Adelson. But CAP never mentions Israel; and– Adelson is pro-choice!
‘What do u call Obama coffee? Black and weak” is racist tweet from Judy Mozes, wife of Israel’s vice prime minister, which she has now removed and apologized for. More clueless rightwing culture in Israeli leadership
Israeli diplomats “are not allowed to speak” on US campuses, while North Korean and Iranian diplomats are, Akiva Tor, head of World Jewish Affairs in the Israeli Foreign Ministry, lamented in a panel called “The Coming Storm: BDS on campus” at the American Jewish Committee June 9
Latest State Dep’t report on terrorism itemizes the cost of Israel’s attack on Gaza, over 500 children killed, in what US News is calling a “subtle slap” at Israel. Numbers were not included before