A non-Zionist new year’s resolution includes, Pursue peace with justice, Support BDS, Occupy Judaism. But maybe we need a new Jewish theology to support it.
Phil Weiss used to tell amusing provocative stories every holiday season about the melding of Jewish and Christian culture in my extended family. Now he’s sick of it. It’s just about the cohesion of elites; and other sociological struggles for inclusion are far more compelling.
The humiliations of occupation for Palestinians living in Hebron is clear in this brief video from Tom Suarez, in which a soldier indiscriminately throws a percussion grenade over a checkpoint.
Dan Ephron’s book Killing a King is an almost morbid exploration of the preparation for and political consequences of the murder of Yitzhak Rabin twenty years ago, but in celebrating the two-state solution it ignores the real problems in the Israel/Palestine one-state reality
Hassan Ali Hassan Bozor, 22, was shot dead at the Huwwara checkpoint near Nablus on Dec. 31 after a suspected car attack on Israeli soldiers
Hillary Clinton is a tool of Haim Saban, and Donald Trump says so in so many words. Will Democrats say the same thing?
Paul Krugman writes an entire column about Sheldon Adelson and Paul Singer’s influence inside the Republican Party without pointing out the obvious: their core issue is Israel. He’s lying to his readers.
Roger Waters posts an inspiring video of Palestinian children in occupied Bil’in who take measures to go to the sea they’re not allowed to visit, just 20 miles away
Pollster Nate Silver describes Israel as a democracy, right up there with the US and the UK; he shouldn’t dignify an ethnocracy in that manner given the rampant discrimination against Palestinian citizens and voters, and subjects
No one has condemned Asher Schechter or Moshe Arens for comparing Israel to ISIS in the wake of Duma firebombing. But Rania Khalek, Max Blumenthal and author Dan Cohen were all accused of an ugly and false attack when they made the comparison last year.