Another hot Wikileaks email has broken out of the Clinton camp: Neera Tanden, a Clinton adviser, called Netanyahu a ruthless ‘wing nut’ and Israel ‘depressing’ after he won reelection in March 2015. A few months later she hosted him fawningly at the Center for American Progress.
Megadonor Haim Saban called Bernie Sanders “bad bad bad” on Israel and urged the Clinton campaign to research James Zogby and Jeremy Ben-Ami’s “awful” statements about Israel to get ‘ammunition’ against Bernie Sanders last winter, according to the latest email released by Wikileaks.
“Bro, are you out of your mind? Do you wanna get hurt?” the Israeli military bulldozer driver said.
“You know that they don’t have running water in this village?” I asked.
Amitai Ben-Abba shares a story from a day of activity with Ta’ayush, a group of Jewish Israeli solidarity activists who accompany Palestinian villagers in their struggle to survive under military law in the West Bank.
Community-based media does not just provide a different perspective from the “mainstream” or “corporate” media — it can also be a means to link grassroots voices with grassroots action. Amahl Bishara explains how a video about water shortages in Aida refugee camp spurred activism in Boston to fight the Israel-Massachusetts Water Partnership.
The U.S. and Israeli air forces are making headlines in October for painting jet fighters pink to raise awareness during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but here is the context for how Israel treats actual cancer patients if they happen to live in the besieged Gaza Strip. Not everyone is buying this most literal example of pinkwashing.
Journalist Julia Ioffe says she was “glad” to experience an “outpouring of anti-Semitism” on line because it reminded Americans that Jews are a “persecuted minority” and not the Establishment
Latest wikileak’d email from Clinton campaign shows the intense pressure inside the campaign to pander to the Israel lobby. Draft of a Clinton letter on BDS praised Jews: “Jews have led the way on human rights and civil rights, always raising the bar. It is wrong to ignore this tradition and… undermine the legitimacy of Zionism.”
The Atlantic’s new editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg is ambitious and worldly, and he will carve his name in history and outstrip his rivals by affirming the Atlantic’s abolitionist heritage by abandoning Zionism and coming out for one state with equal rights in Israel and Palestine.
It’s round two for ‘The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary’ Journey by Laila El-Haddad and Maggie Schmitt, as Just World Books has now published a 2nd edition of the award-winning Palestinian cookbook featuring new epicurean specialties from the distinctive Gazan cuisine. Read an exclusive excerpt on Na’ema Al-Daghma and the Backyard Farm Revolution which includes a recipe for Halwit il Ari’ (Pumpkin Conserve).
Palestinian rights activists on American college campuses have become the target of posters that attempt to smear them as supporters of violence, with a new round of posters calling out students and teachers by name. The posters are the work of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, a pro-Israel group that has a history of attempting to intimidate Palestinian activists, especially those in academia.