Jeffrey Goldberg says Jewish students are “ill equpped” and “anti-intellectual” in dealing with the Israel Palestine issue. In order to be thought of as liberal, they’re replacing the simplistic Leon Uris narrative with an equally simplistic anti Israel narrative.
‘One state or two states who cares? What matters is equality’ — NYT columnist Roger Cohen quotes Palestinians on the oppression they experience in Israel and all but states the two-state solution is over.
The rise of anti-Semitism is real. But the use of false anti-Semitism charges to justify Zionist crimes is a lamentable and important trend, Lillian Rosengarten writes.
A video published by Electronic Intifada shows Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank throwing stones at Palestinian schoolchildren in the village of al-Tuwani on 27 October. The Israeli soldiers are supposed to protect the children from attacks by Israeli settlers in the area.
Ari Shavit, maybe the most influential Israeli journalist in the United States recent years, was shunned by major Jewish institutions in recent days, following his coming forward as the unidentified author who “groped, grabbed and pulled” American journalist Danielle Berrin in 2014.
When it comes to aiding Israeli Apartheid, American Express is just another brick in The Wall, according to a new report. Roger Waters, lead singer behind Pink Floyd, lost a multimillion dollar American Express sponsorship for his 2017 US+Them tour after expressing solidarity this month with Palestinian students trying to end Israel’s apartheid system of military occupation using the same protest tactic that helped dismantle South African Apartheid (and, earlier, America’s Jim Crow): Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS.
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.