Palestinian support for “armed resistance and intifada” surged from 43 to 60 percent in the last two months, according to lead Palestinian pollster, reflecting overwhelming belief that Gaza militants defeated Israel in the May conflict by stopping expulsions in Jerusalem.
Yale’s student body takes a strong stand for Palestine. As students at one of the most privileged academic institutions in the world, we must call out injustice wherever it may occur…. We stand against the violent expulsions of those living
under occupation in Sheikh Jarrah. We stand against the apartheid and the persecution of Palestinians, and stand for peace and the freedom of the Palestinian people from violent military occupation.”
In his recently published diary, the Conservative politician and former Minister Sir Alan Duncan, denounces in forthright terms his own Government’s acquiescence in Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians with the active influence of the conservative Israel lobby. “[T]he rules of propriety, and all the morality and principle that goes with it, are discarded and rewritten to accommodate this exceptional pro-Israel infiltration into the very centre of our public life,” Duncan asserts.
The myth of victim in danger of extinction by Palestinians, has colored the thinking of many older generations Jews who maintain an allegiance to Zionism, Lillian Rosengarten writes. To look at Zionism with open eyes, one observes a form of virulent Nationalism perpetrated on Palestinians who represent for Zionists an inferior race, unwanted and demonized in the dream of a Jewish State for
Jews only.
Israel has had a “temporary” law passed again and again since 2003 to deny both Jewish and Palestinian residents of Israel who choose to marry Palestinians the right to live with their partner in Israel. The Palestinian party in the new government is against extending it. While Netanyahu taunts that the government is reliant on anti-Zionists and pushes for a permanent law affirming Jewish supremacy yet again.
After every ceasefire, Rana Shubair tries to imagine leading a normal life. In Gaza, the bar is set low and means not living under raining bombs. “Mama, who broke our house?” the neighbor’s three-year-old asked. His mother ignored his question. The following day the toddler announced, pleased that he had figured it out, “The Israelis broke our house.”
A congressional letter to the State Department led by Jan Schakowsky did not actually condemn the IHRA definition of antisemitism, but suggested that the Nexus Document and the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism be used as tools alongside it. “These two efforts are the work of hundreds of scholars and experts in the fields of antisemitism, Israel and Middle East Policy, and Jewish communal affairs, and have been helpful to us as we grapple with these complex issues,” it read.
Liberal Zionist Rabbi Jill Jacobs says that American Jews who give up on the two-state solution have abdicated a “moral and spiritual imperative.” The journey to the two-state solution is like the journey from Egypt to the promised land in the bible, with lots of setbacks and no shortcuts. “Instead of sinking into despair let’s reconnect with the moral and spiritual imperative before us.”
The Israeli government defused a political problem today by reaching a deal to evacuate illegal settlers from the outpost called “Evyatar.” The government wants no sources of tension with the Biden administration as the two governments commence a lovefest. But Palestinians cannot be happy with the deal, which allows a yeshiva to remain in the illegal colony.
Unholy alliances: DP World, a company from the UAE, handed out suspensions to workers who honored a picket line and refused to unload an Israeli boat in Prince Rupert, Canada. They aided the Israeli Zim shipping company in trying to squash grassroots support for Palestine in that remote northern British Columbia town, whose port is under the jurisdiction of Canada’s Minister of Transport, Arab-Canadian Omar Alghabra. A scenario that even the most creative writer could not possibly make up.