Palestinian solidarity is a movement that will “grow and grow… and be impossible to stop,” Anne-Marie Slaughter told Hillary Clinton in 2011 based on Alice Walker’s presence on the freedom flotilla bound for Gaza.
A group of UK BDS activists have been making inquiries after hearing several advertisements on the UK’s Magic 105.4 radio broadcast hyping a “Win a trip to Israel” contest. The station has already backed down from suggesting Jerusalem is Israel’s capital.
When Nidal Alareer, a 40-year-old father of five returned to Shujaiya after Israel’s 51-day war on Gaza, he found all three of his houses destroyed. Though promises of reconstruction have proven to be hollow, his family was able to obtain materials to rebuild their home from the Qatari government. But the labor is back-breaking and until he and his young sons finish reconstruction, his family is scattered about Gaza with no money to rent apartments. Dan Cohen spoke with Alareer as he worked on his house during Eid al Adha.
Author Lillian Rosengarten just completed a wrenching trip to the country of her birth Germany, speaking on the subject, “A Jew Against Zionism.” The Israeli embassy tried to shut her down
The Saudi-led, US-backed coalition killed 131 civilians, including at least 80 women, after bombing a wedding in Yemen on September 28. A representative of Doctors Without Borders said there was no military presence near the wedding. This attack marks the deadliest day in the war in Yemen, which has now gone on for over half a year.
Dozens of Palestinians were injured across the West Bank as Israeli forces suppressed protests over Jewish visits to the plaza of the Al Aqsa mosque. Aymen Odeh, Palestinian member of Knesset, said the mosque is occupied and belongs to Muslims
Among most U.S. elected officials and politicians, pursuing Benjamin Netanyahu’s friendship– and bragging about their Bibi-buddy-bonafidas– is extremely trendy. Katie Halper runs down the candidates running for president in 2016 who claim to be best friends with Netanyahu.
When Netanyahu, Michael Oren and Natan Sharansky all appeal to American Jews to defy their president in support of Israel, they’ve allowed people to broach the topic of dual loyalty– and JJ Goldberg at the Forward agrees
Karin Attia says it is time to look inwards at a rising culture of violence in Israel rather than facile explanations about individual bad seeds.