An important and necessary conversation about Zionism is taking place in a St. Louis Jewish…
World-famous British artist Banksy has made a bold statement about refugees in his latest artwork depicting Steve Jobs, the visionary CEO and cofounder of Apple, on a wall in “The Jungle” refugee camp outside the port city of Calais in northern France. The piece is simply titled “the son of a migrant from Syria.”
The Brookings Institution acts as an arm of the Israel lobby when it convenes a secret panel on Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions that surely opposes a campaign Israel’s PM has called an “existential” threat. Jeffrey Goldberg wisecracks that the panel is the “Dimona of panels.”
Robyn Brown, one of the four donors who have created a $50,000 Challenge Fund to mobilize maximum support this month for Mondoweiss, explains how she came to Palestine solidarity activism and why she supports Mondoweiss: “My own experience of Israeli disregard for basic human dignity has been part of what brought me to value Mondoweiss and the journalism that powers justice.”
For the first time since the weeks leading up to the second Intifada, or the 2000-2005 uprising, a majority of Palestinians believe current intensified violence will build into a full scale Intifada with greater potential to achieve their goals than peace talks with Israel, said a report published on Monday by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey (PCPS), the West Bank’s leading independent pollster.
Every morning, hours before dawn, around 30,000 Palestinian laborers make their way from the occupied West Bank, where they live, and enter Israel. These workers, desperate to keep their jobs, arrive at the checkpoints in the middle of the night to make it through in time. Abed Abu Shierra knows the men who cross through the Bethlehem 300 checkpoint well, as he serves them coffee on their way through every morning. “It started to get worse for people being stuck like this at the start of this new Intifada,” Abu Shierra says.
On December 1, the Wall Street Journal published an oped titled, “Those Israel Boycotts Are Illegal” after members of the American Anthropological Association overwhelmingly voted in favor of endorsing a resolution calling for the academic boycott of Israeli institutions. In response, Palestine Legal staff attorney Radhika Sainath submitted the following letter to the editor, which the Journal refused to run.
Israelis live in a bubble of impunity and so international pressure must be brought so they pay a price for the occupation, or nothing will change, says Colette Avital, a former Israeli diplomat
Lillian Rosengarten reflects on the blackout by the mainstream press of her wrenching memoir, Survival and Conscience: From the Shadows of Nazi Germany to the Jewish Boat to Gaza
On Tuesday, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said that the terrorists who firebombed the home of the Dawabsha family in the West Bank village of Duma, killing a baby and his parents, have been identified but that “Israel does not have enough evidence against the defendants to keep them detained or prosecute them.”