Amos Oz sought to portray himself as a humanist and yet routinely rationalized Israeli violence against Palestinians because Israel was the victim. This logic is also inherent in the justifications he had for his abuse of his daughter Galia that she relates in her new memoir of her father.
In 2001, there were almost no alternative online sources of truths about Israel/Palestine. Thankfully, ‘Electronic Intifada’ launched — and just celebrated 20 years of success.
The immediate and urgent task is to move international solidarity for Palestine beyond the grassroots and implement the S section of the BDS call — sanctions against apartheid Israel until it complies with international law.
This week will mark the one year anniversary since the first cases of the coronavirus were reported in Palestine, and a state of emergency was declared in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, where Palestine’s COVID-19 outbreak began. One year later Palestine’s COVID-19 nightmare seems to only be getting worse. Cases are surging in the West Bank, causing health officials to declare a third wave of the virus, as many hospitals across the territory reach maximum capacity.
An ICC investigation of Israel’s actions against the Palestinians is an instance of long, long overdue justice, of leveling the playing field to some degree. Why? Because while Israel is by no means the world’s worst malefactor, it is definitely the world’s most lavishly indulged one.
Several hundred Israelis could face arrest in official ICC probe of war crimes in Palestine, Defense minister Gantz says, as AIPAC urges Biden and Congress to condemn the move. The investigation will also target Israeli settlements, which European countries have said are illegal.
The New York Times just ran an article in which an Israeli documentary filmmaker asserts that “Evangelicals are the only significant power outside Israel that is openly supporting the settlements. No one else does.” This is simply not true, and reporter David Halbfinger was a witness to it in the powers of Trump aides David Friedman and Jared Kushner.
Vegans for BDS, a group of Palestinian and North American vegans and environmentalists, stand in solidarity with the indigenous Palestinian people, recognizing that the Israeli military occupation of Palestine harms the land, people, and animals there every day.
Since September 2019, the Israeli government has banned Laith Abu Zeyad from traveling outside the West Bank based on secret evidence they will not share with him. Due to this ban he was not able to travel with his mother for medical treatment in Jerusalem, or be with her when she passed away. Writing in Mondoweiss, Abu Zeyad reflects on having this ban and secret evidence indefinitely hanging over him – a prisoner in his own land, he dreams of freedom.