On visit to Israel, NY Gov Andrew Cuomo says Israel has developed response to “lone wolf” attacks to “an art form” — but Amnesty Int’l says Israeli execution policy shows “shocking disregard for human life.”
Miki Zohar, member of Israeli Knesset in Netanyahu’s Likud Party, says two-state solution is dead, and under one-state solution, Palestinians can be Israeli citizens, but they won’t be able to vote.
British artist Banksy commemorates Balfour Declaration by opening hotel in Bethlehem with “the worst view in the world” — Israel’s ugly concrete separation wall. The 10-room hotel features political art installations and is gaining international attention.
A Palestinian state is anathema to Zionism – and must therefore be kept in the realms of fiction. The Palestinian state does not arrive, because Israel doesn’t intend, and never has intended, for the Palestinian dream to come true. After Palestinians accepted a partition of the land and initiated the peace process, Israel came up with a charade to convince the world it meant business– what Yitzhak Shamir called the “teaspoon” process.
Israel advocates have sought to smear Malaka Shwaikh, a Palestinian-Gazan student at the UK’s Exeter University, as an anti-Semite and terrorist sympathizer by distorting tweets she made about Palestinian resistance and the use of the Holocaust to enable Israeli crimes.
In eulogizing the late Russian ambassador Vitaly Churkin in the New York Times, Samantha Power may be describing how she sees herself: someone who wants peace but works within the system and covers up or whitewashes the brutal atrocities supported by the government she represents. This piece might be a kind of absolution Power is granting herself. But why is the NYT publishing this propaganda?
On Wednesday, Senator Bernie Sanders sent a one-page letter to David Friedman, President Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. ambassador to Israel, asking the envoy-designee to explain his funding of a West Bank settlement and to consider repealing the tax-exempt status for charities financing settlements, like the one Friedman runs.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is out of step with his own people when he opposes sanctions on Israel’s conduct. A cartoon by Carlos Latuff.
Israel’s neverending occupation is not just endangering Palestinians, but changing the nature of what it means to be Jewish, from a justice-loving people to one that supports injustice. Diaspora Jews must demand that Israel end its occupation, lest their own situation in the west become precarious. Tony Klug’s speech at J Street last weekend.
In less than 10 minutes of a whiteboard video on BDS, eminent British Rabbi Jonathan Sacks manages to endorse apartheid on religious grounds, shred principles of international law in favor of religious violence, and to demonize an entire people — because they don’t happen to be Jews.