Doctors in Gaza have expressed concern that protesters in the “Great March of Return” have been targeted in the legs by Israeli live fire. Mondoweiss visits the Médecins Sans Frontières clinic in Gaza to hear who doctors and meet the injured Palestinians whose lives have been changed forever.
For the first time in its 101-year history the Giro bicycle race will begin outside Europe, on May 4 in Jerusalem, thanks to $12 million from the Israeli government. We can on the same Friday look forward to the spectacle of the start of an international sporting event hosted by the same country that about 50 miles away is concurrently killing and wounding civilians in cold blood.
The Council on International Relations, a Gaza-based NGO, issued an invitation yesterday to Senator Chuck Schumer to come to Gaza so that he can see that he and the Palestinian community share many attributes, from humble origins to a high value for education. Schumer has had nothing to say about Israel’s killings in Gaza, despite pressure from young Jewish progressives.
The residents of the Bedouin town Umm Al-Hiran have signed an agreement with the Israeli government to be relocated under threat of demolition and more violence to make way for the Jewish town of “Hiran”. This “voluntary” response to the government’s “generous offer” tells us a lot about Zionism, and how Israel understands its own history.
Joel Kovel died April 30 at age 81 after a life of incomparable intellectual freedom. His restless spirit and brilliant mind produced groundbreaking works on white racism, climate change, and Zionism.
The crown prince and de facto leader of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Bin Salman, now appears to be parroting Israeli propaganda. The Saudi leader prince Mohammed Bin Salman is reported as saying that Palestinians “missed one opportunity after another” and that they should “shut up and stop complaining.”
Jeff Halper reports on the work of the One Democratic State Campaign, a working group of Palestinians and Israeli Jews who have formulated a strategy for implementing a single multi-cultural democratic state between the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River.
A cartoon incitement video from the rightwing Jewish organization Im Tirtzu targets those who criticize Israeli soldiers as ‘foreign agents’ and singles out the progressive New Israel Fund. “Do you want to experience what IDF soldiers feel when they are persecuted by New Israel Fund organizations?”
The Center for Constitutional Rights’ Vincent Warren and Katherine Franke were denied entry into Israel over the weekend. The two were interrogated at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel on Sunday, April 29 and then deported to New York, arriving back on Monday.
The campaign against the Philadelphia Orchestra’s upcoming tour to Israel continues to intensify. Eleven longtime subscribers and donors have issued a statement announcing their decision to withdraw their support of the Orchestra if it does not cancel the tour. “We will no longer support the Orchestra if it decides to lend legitimacy to Israel’s apartheid regime,” the statement reads.