One of the most important tools we have to change minds and policy regarding Israel/Palestine is video. Here are some highlights of the important video journalism Mondoweiss produced in 2015. We need your help to increase our ability to produce more groundbreaking video in 2016.
Finally the ‘NYT’ profiles a Palestinian shot by soldiers and quotes his family and Hamas standing up for him– because Ishaq Khalil Hassan was shot by Egyptians. The 136 Palestinians shot by Israeli soldiers can’t be humanized in this manner.
Michael Singh’s film “Valentino’s Ghost,” which shows that anti-Muslim and anti-Arab images in popular culture are part of an imperialist/Zionist propaganda effort, has itself suffered from that orthodoxy, rejected by PBS.
Five Palestinians killed in alleged stabbing attacks and two Israelis killed bring total number of victims since October 1 to 136 Palestinians and 18 Israelis. Israel holds many of the Palestinian bodies
It is incontrovertible that Israel commits war crimes and acts of state terrorism. If anything, Breaking the Silence doesn’t go nearly far enough. But the New York Times manages to diminish its work
The Christmas spirit entails a radical reworking of identity and worldview to interrogate our own tribal and ‘patriotic’ roots and touch the other. Donald Trump isn’t helping.
Yasmin Yablonko, an Israeli who refused army service, describes the social pressure on those Jews who don’t want to sign up for mandatory service. Abandonment of duty is a source of great social shame.
Jewish life and Judaism is divided between those who want justice and those who commit and celebrate atrocity. When do we admit that errant weeds aren’t errant at all?
Breaking the Silence is a courageous Israeli veterans’ group that should have been the subject of a NYT profile for the last ten years. It’s only getting to the story now, with Jodi Rudoren back in the U.S.
Skunk gas, a foul substance that smells like feces and rotting flesh, is sprayed indiscriminately over Bethlehem during a routine Israeli army incursion into the village in December 2015. And young men have to ask soldiers for permission to move where they want to.