A Georgia-based program that has sent thousands of American law enforcement officials to Israel for counter-terrorism training is promoting Islamophobia into police forces across the U.S..
Orientalism is alive and well at the New York Times, as the paper tries to explain the Saudi-Iran dispute by citing 7th century theology.
After Hamas released video of former Israeli prisoner Gilad Shalit, in a possible effort to initiate another deal, Hamas arrested satirist Ayman Al-aloul for mocking the video. Hamas treats prisoners under Islamic law, but not dissenters.
NYT piece by Diaa Hadid says Palestinians in Haifa get to enjoy freedoms they wouldn’t in Arab society; but a main source for the piece says on Facebook that the Times quoted him out of context and censored his support for cultural resistance to Israel.
Israel charged two suspects this morning in district court for an arson attack on the West Bank village of Duma where Jewish extremists killed three Palestinians five months ago in most high-profile case of settler violence. The lead suspect is Amiram Ben-Uliel, 21, who is said to have confessed to the firebombing. His alleged accomplice, 17, is unnamed.
An Israeli living in France returns home and reports tragically that people shut out knowledge of apartheid and meantime live in fear.
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