Everywhere Jews went in the world there was “unease,” New York Times columnist Roger Cohen tells a temple filled with 450 in California– and that is why we need a Jewish state.
New York Times dispatches a reporter to describe the quarantining of Netanyahu’s dog for biting guests at a Hanukkah party even as it ignores important Palestinian stories, including that of a brother and sister, 22 and 17 respectively, killed 5 weeks apart by Israeli occupying forces.
Neera Tanden of the Center for American Progress denounces Trump and celebrates US “immigrants from around the world, with no set religion” — but a month ago she feted Benjamin Netanyahu, who administers an immigration policy that discriminates on the basis of religion.
Syria will not be stabilized, and ISIS will not be defeated, until Israel returns the Golan Heights and refugees are resettled on their lands
Winter is coming and Palestinian refugees are especially vulnerable. But the int’l agency that provides for their needs, UNRWA, faces a huge deficit in funding. With so many governments deciding to bomb Syria, who is talking about the “human development” response? Think of helping UNRWA this winter.
“In a time when we can talk about any oppression, any war, any life, any death, any terror anywhere in the world with non-obfuscatory language, it seems only right that we are able to do the same when we talk about Palestine,” Ru Freeman says, in introducing the new collection, Extraordinary Rendition: American Writers on Palestine.
Last night, Israeli soldiers entered the West Bank city of Ramallah and raided a municipal library as nearly 100 Palestinian youth clashed with soldiers setting on fire tires and trash cans. Palestinians view Israeli army activities inside of the de facto capital as an escalation to an already tense few months.
Ayman Odeh, a Palestinian Israeli leader in the Knesset, made a pilgrimage to the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s congregation. “Prime Minister Netanyahu’s approach is to create hate. But we don’t want Jews against Arabs, Arabs against Jews. We want another approach: Arabs and Jews against racism and segregation,” Odeh explains.
Israel has managed to create a discourse that South African settlers would have been envious of, because it is able to exploit Jews in the Diaspora and the historical European persecution of Jews. Palestinians struggle to find a place within a narrative of liberation in part due to the impossibility of being a victim to the ultimate victim.
On Thursday Dec 10, 2015 over 800 members from the Arab community, Muslim community and human rights activists of New York City came together in solidarity for Syrian and Iraqi refugees to say no to the harmful racism, Islamophobia, Arabphobia, and Xenophobia towards the refugee community. People of all different faiths and backgrounds joined the rally, simultaneously there was a banner drop at the Trump Towers.