Miakoda Wolin-Collins shares her experience traveling in Gaza and the harassment she experienced when leaving Israel/Palestine through the Ben Gurion Airport.
Read an excerpt from the book “One Land, Two States: Israel and Palestine as Parallel States” which details the findings of a half decade’s worth of joint research, discussions and debates in the areas of security, economics, diplomacy, international law, legal regimes and harmonization, and the role of religious and of culture more broadly in creating a new architecture for shared sovereignty yet politically independent life for both peoples on the same land.
Emails published by Glenn Greenwald show the Democratic Party thinktank Center for American Progress censoring writers under pressure from AIPAC, and top Democratic advisers Ann Lewis and Howard Wolfson
Netanyahu is not insane with his Hitler talk, as Avnery says; he is cleverly mobilizing Israelis to complete the Zionist project and drive out Palestinians from the West Bank
Wa’d Manaf Abbas writes from Ramallah about the ongoing intifada, inspired by this Salvador Allende quote, “The people must defend themselves, but they must not sacrifice themselves. The people must not let themselves be destroyed or riddled with bullets, but they cannot be humiliated either.”
Israel has made an initial request for its annual U.S. military aid to increase to as much as $5 billion when its current aid package, worth an average $3 billion a year, expires in 2017.
Netanyahu has demonstrated a clear willingness to distort Jewish suffering for Israel’s ends. And in like fashion Canada’s main Jewish organizations have also participated in this injustice to Palestinians and insult to Hitler’s victims, for their own political ends.
Israeli destruction of Palestinian dignity and of Palestinian nonviolent movement is “the moral darkness” that is responsible for the Palestinian stabbing attacks, Peter Beinart says at a Los Angeles synagogue
James Ferguson, a leading US anthropologist who focuses on international relations, has overcome qualms to endorse BDS of Israel because, he says, honest fair minded scholars of the greatest understanding of the conflict support it.
As his visit to Washington approaches, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claque in the U.S. is getting noisier and noisier by the minute. And Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is outfront. In a article for the Forward, Clinton has nothing but bad things to say about Palestinians as terrorists in promising that she will patch up relations with Israel if she becomes president. She’s kissing up to the lobby.