A group of Israeli women activists who have helped smuggle Palestinian women over the green line to visit their families’ land travel to the West Bank village of Beit Ummar to share dinner with the women they have gotten to know through their activism.
A day after 9/11 Donald Kagan, Greek scholar, and his son Frederick were advocating the US invade Palestine. “We have to take the war to these people,” Frederick said.
President Obama just gave his strongest speech yet in support of the Iran deal. At…
Gulf Labor Coalition’s creatively interjected Palestinian resistance and BDS into the 2015 Venice Biennale on Sunday. GLC’s exhibition artists staged an intervention performance adding a stencil of Handala to their exhibition banner hung prominently in the Pavilion Arsenale exhibition hall, read a ‘Statement on Palestine’ and occupied the 2nd floor of the Israeli Pavilion.
From Middle East Monitor: The burning of Palestinian homes by Israeli settlers, as happened in Duma on Friday, “is not a rare incident” says Israeli human rights organisation Yesh Din. The organisation has documented 15 cases where Israeli settlers have burnt or attempted to burn Palestinian homes since 2008. Yesh Din said that the Palestinians submit complaints to the Israeli police stations, however in 10 instances the files were closed without anyone being brought to justice.
Is Obama a person of the left? Phil Weiss says he is and is making great strides late in his presidency. Michael Smith say Obama is all for the 1 percent
Bernie Sanders’s answers on Israel/Palestine are in the liberal mainstream, but the left has moved on to boycott, the Washington Post observes, and Sanders may get exposed politically to his Democratic progressive base
As many American Jews speak up in favor of Iran deal, the JCRC of Washington says opposition to the deal should be based on collective memory of the “baseless hatred” behind the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 590 BC and 70 AD. That’s a basis for foreign policy!?
“There are too many places across America where citizens are denied the right to be heard at the ballot box,” says Rep. Pete Aguilar. So why’s he going to Israel and the West Bank for six days at the behest of AIPAC?