Israeli forces executed another teenage girl at a checkpoint in Hebron on Sunday. Her name was Dania Ersheid, she was 17 and a student. A witness at the scene, standing in back of Arsheid in line at the checkpoint adjacent the Ibrahimi Mosque, said the teen raised her arms and stated “I don’t have a knife” before she was shot with “eight to 10 bullets” before she fell to the ground.
Yousef Munayyer says the Palestinian rebellion could hurt international solidarity efforts if it is not channeled into the non-violent BDS movement that has transformed global opinion. While Max Blumenthal says the violence suggests an Algeria outcome in Israel and Palestine rather than a South Africa ending.
Will the recent escalation of Israeli brutality, coinciding with the continuing diminishment of Palestine, change the progressive Zionism of Rabbis for Human Rights?
For the clearest distillation of Israeli political thinking there is no better place to start than at the top. Haaretz’s Barak Ravid reports on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s message to a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that although he doesn’t want a binational state, “at this time we need to control all of the territory for the foreseeable future. . . I’m asked if we will forever live by the sword — yes.”
Britain’s chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, compares Palestinian knife attacks to the Islamic jihadists who killed fusilier Lee Rigby on the London streets in 2013, nearly beheading him. A morally bankrupt analogy.
Times change: A day after the formerly neoconservative Washington Post ran an article calling for boycott and sanctions against Israel written by two prestigious Jewish scholars, it runs a piece by novelist Assaf Gavron saying Israel has become a savage rightwing society and it must end the occupation to save itself.
Greenburgh Town Supervisor says he wanted to be a rabbi, and he supports Israel, after rightwing fanatics denounce as “evil” an event at town hall that merely called for equal rights for Jews and Palestinians
On an American Christian trip to the occupied territories, Rev. Jeffrey DeYoe’s group picks olives, meets highly-educated Palestinians and sees that they don’t even have the right to demonstrate against the occupation.
B’Tselem video showing six Israeli soldiers beating a Palestinian worker who was just minding his own business resulted in the man’s release from five days of detention. The soldiers likely will face no charges.