A panel of judges in Saudi Arabia overturned the death sentence of Palestinian artist, curator, and poet Ashraf Fayadh but upheld the verdict of the crime of apostasy and sentenced him to eight years in prison, 800 lashes, and an official public repentance through Saudi Arabia state media.
Yesterday a parody edition of the New York Times was handed out on the streets of New York City generating headlines around the world. Today, the New York chapter Jewish Voice for Peace and the organization Jews Say No! have claimed credit for the project. They say the paper was created to “point out how biased current reporting is on Israel and Palestine and to show what a paper that was fair and accurate could look like.”
For her new line of women’s clothing, Dodo Bar Or, a Tel Aviv designer, has appropriated the keffiyeh, the scarf that is a symbol of Palestinian resistance, and eroticized it
“I will always stand up to those who challenge Israel’s right to exist”, Ban Ki-moon assures the world, handing Israel carte blanche to define just what ‘Israel’ is, a definition the world has waited for in vain since 1948. Does it extend to Ma’ale Adumim? The Jordan? The Nile? Will citizens someday be equal? It doesn’t look promising, but whatever it is, we support it!
Anyone with a brain knows that we have to distance ourselves from the Middle East and occupier Israel; but these lessons were nowhere evident in the no-holds-barred political brawls in Iowa. That’s got to change, and Bernie Sanders is the best hope to do so.
On February 2, activists spread out across New York City handing out 10,000 copies of an expertly-produced “supplement” to the New York Times announcing a “new editorial policy” towards Israel/Palestine.
No evidence, no eye witnesses, and no crime preceded the capture, torture and forced confessions of the Hares Boys, 5 Palestinian youths from the West Bank village of Hares. And yet Ali Shamlawi, Mohammed Kleib, Mohammed Suleiman, Ammar Souf, and Tamer Souf were recent sentenced, after almost 3 years of imprisonment and over 100 hearings, by the Israeli occupation military court to 15 years in prison.
The UN Secy General has doubled down on remarks last week that unending Israeli settlements are provoking Palestinian violence; but Ban Ki-moon’s op-ed in the New York Times threatens no enforcement mechanism against Israel’s illegal activities
Amjad Jaser Sukkar, 34, a Palestinian Authority staff sergeant from Nablus and the father of four, was killed at a checkpoint next to the illegal Israeli settlement of Beit El in the West Bank after allegedly shooting three Israeli soldiers this weekend
“I who plowed Israel’s fields, planted trees, built a house and fathered sons and shed his blood in the battle for its founding… renounce my belief in the Zionism which has failed, I shall not be loyal to the Jewish fascist state and its mad vision,” the late Dov Yermiya said in 2009