“Has liberal Zionism died and has religious nationalism won in Israel?” New Yorker editor David Remnick asks, acknowledging that many see “only one state” in Israel and Palestine. But he suggests it’s a recipe for endless conflict.
Donald Trump seems to have cold feet about moving U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, with his spokesperson saying he will consult “stakeholders” in a “decision-making process.”
The al-Mezan Center for Human Rights reports that Ahmad Hassan Shubeir, a 17-year-old from Gaza City, died of a congenital heart defect after refusing to serve as a collaborator for Israel in exchange for a travel permit to receive medical care.
“The workshop lasted five hours…. Hopefully, it will herald the new normal in Germany,” Norman Finkelstein says of a lecture he gave today in Halle despite international pressure on the Max Planck Institute to cancel.
Haim Saban called Keith Ellison “clearly an anti-Semite” and a “disaster” for the Democratic Party’s relationship to Jews. Ellison has turned the other cheek, announcing that he has had an “amicable” phone call with Saban and their relationship “is on the road to recovery.”
It was mobilizations like the Saturday women’s marches against Trump that ended the war in Vietnam. The word spread then to the soldiers in Vietnam, and they stopped fighting and it was all over. That’s what could happen here. Trump could be all over. We know now we can stop Trump and his deplorable cabinet.
“I understood, firsthand, what it means to hold the monopoly of violence,” Maya Avis says of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians living in umm al-Hiran village in the Negev last week. What does it say when the only witnesses who count are Ashkenazi Jews?
Gaza’s fishing industry suffers a severe recession as a result of Israel’s naval blockade and daily aggressive practices against boats. The Israeli navy bans sailing in a distance beyond three to five miles from shore and has killed one fisherman lately and injured three others.
Israeli police and authorities have rushed to produce a ‘terrorist’ narrative of an official killing; but autopsy indicates the Israeli teacher Yacoub Abu Al-Qia’an was executed at Umm al-Hiran village last week and left bleeding for twenty minutes when there were medical vehicles at hand. “They murdered him not once, but several times,” his brother Ahmed says.
An anti-war bloc that included Students for Justice in Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace, CODEPINK and Witness Against Torture demonstrated at police checkpoints at the Trump inauguration yesterday, in solidarity with Palestinians at checkpoints and expressing sorrow for Muslim victims of American attacks.