Israel’s last attack on Gaza was too much for even Sen. Menendez, says Samer Khalaf, president of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. “It was so bad what they were doing that he finally realized, Wait a minute, something is wrong here.” But don’t expect political conversions from pro-Israel congresspeople. Just baby steps.
Hundreds of workers at Google and Amazon are demanding that the companies cut ties with the Israeli military.
A photo of an armed Israeli soldier, surrounded by dozens of his fellow soldiers, standing on the back of a Palestinian man as he lie face down in the ground went viral on Palestinian social media this week.
The photo was taken in the midst of a brutal Israeli crackdown on activists as they attempted to escort a group of Palestinian farmers to their land in order to harvest their olive trees in the al-Ras area west of Salfit, in the northern occupied West Bank.
The new two-state bill in the House promoted by progressive Congresspeople describes Israel as the “national home of the Jewish people.” This language is “unacceptable” to Palestinians, says Jafar Farah of the Mossawa Center in Haifa, because it prolongs discrimination embodied by the fact that Palestinians are not permitted to build a university in Nazareth over 40 years of demanding that right.
The “Battle of Cable Street” has become part of British lore as a stand against fascism, but its true history shows the country’s enduring legacy of white supremacy and colonialism.
As Mondoweiss has grown over the last 15 years we’ve had a number of landmarks, but none gives us greater pleasure than to announce this news: We’ve hired a full time Gaza correspondent, the great young writer Tareq S. Hajjaj!
As Tareq begins his position with us, our focus is on making sure we can back him and his work to the absolute highest degree. We need your help to do that. By Sunday we are hoping that 100 Mondoweiss readers will step up as new monthly donors – and a group of generous donors has agreed to match your entire first year of donations.
Media reports have implied that Sally Rooney rejected an Israeli publisher’s request to translate her newest novel because she is boycotting the Hebrew language, but a statement put out by the writer makes it clear that the issue is Israel’s system of apartheid.
Millions downloaded ‘Caliphate,’ a 2018 ‘NY Times’ podcast that was based on a hoax — and the paper keeps downplaying its malpractice.
Haidar Eid performs the Simsimiyya as part of a collection of resistance songs from around the Arab World.
Supporters of Palestinian human rights are always accused of antisemitism. Ben Cohen of Ben and Jerry’s gave a strong answer to such charges when he said he is “totally fine” with them because they are absurd. “I mean, What? I’m anti-Jewish! I mean, I’m a Jew, all my family is Jewish, my friends are Jewish.”