Shades of Selma: Shmuley Boteach tells two Muslim writers on CNN that they have no right to complain about their freedoms in the US and Israel. Ahmed Shihab-Eldin and Rula Jebreal beg to differ.
Hicham Tiflati writes about why Charlie Hebdo, and the resulting political fallout from the tragic attack on its office, offends him.
A new billboard at the U of South Florida in Tampa says 10,000 students’ demand for divestment from companies complicit in human rights violations in Palestine has been dismissed by the school without consideration
A New York panel last night featured Dr. Robyn Spencer and Linda Sarsour discussed the connections of militarized policing between the US and Israel. The panel was held one day after a press conference hosted by a coalition of over fifty groups in opposition to the New York City Council’s upcoming delegation to Israel and the US-Israel military/police relationship.
This powerfully moving video of a flashmob in Nazareth by the recent Dream Defenders delegation to Israel/Palestine is an earth shifter: “From Ferguson to Palestine the struggle for freedom continues”
Netanyahu warned French Jews that they were as unsafe in Paris as Jews in Spain before the inquisition; but his pushiness on the Paris tour is turning into mockery back home
Media have tended to portray Muslim objections to the depiction of the prophet Muhammad as backward and unevolved. It would be better if the media sought to explain how Muslims feel about the matter.
Around 2,000 mourners gathered on Tuesday for a somber state funeral in Jerusalem’s Givat Shaul neighborhood laying to rest the four victims of a hostage attack at a Paris kosher grocery store on Friday. The bodies of the deceased were interred in a Jerusalem commemoration after an invitation to host the burial was extended to relatives of the slain by the Israeli Foreign Ministry who later sought payment from families of $13,000 each for the ceremonies. Economic Minister Naftali Bennett intervened late Tuesday night, lifting the fee.
Jon Stewart references Palestinian cartoonist Mohammad Saba’aneh in a story on the flagrant hypocrisy of world leaders attending the march for unity in Paris. Saba’aneh was arrested and detained by Israel in February 2013.
Obama should reach out to Palestine as he has Cuba. His legacy would be assured, Marc Ellis writes at Mondo