A “town hall” hosted by the U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs exposed the charade of Israel’s bid to enter the U.S. waiver program and confirmed what we already knew: Israel has no plans to ensure equality, and the U.S. knows it but doesn’t care.
The ‘NY Times’ has long whitewashed Israel’s far-right. In a welcome surprise, the paper covers the rising segregation by sex there.
Israeli forces killed three Palestinians this week, including a 16-year-old boy. Meanwhile, 1,000 Palestinian prisoners announced a hunger strike in protest of repressive policies by the Israel Prison Service under the control of Itamar Ben-Gvir.
In 2021 two pro-Palestine protestors were accused of carrying out an antisemitic attack against Jewish diners in LA, but that’s not what actually happened.
Mitri Raheb’s latest book is a provocative examination of how the Bible has been used to support Israeli settler colonialism. “The land of Palestine is colonized by the use of military hardware that is justified by theological software,” he writes.
The letter accusing Israel of apartheid initiated by Israeli Jewish scholars has given permission to commentators at mainstream publications to echo the accusation. Even J Street acknowledges it’s two sets of law based on “racial and ethnic” distinction.
Writing stories about Gaza does not come only from interviewing and observing but most importantly they come from being a central part of it, as I experience them as any local living here.
The Biden administration seems insistent on pushing Israel into the visa waiver program, but unless it forces Israel to ensure complete freedom of movement for Palestinian dual nationals any policy changes are meaningless.
Leading pro-Israel organizations in the U.S. have criticized the Netanyahu government’s recent judicial reforms, while their counterparts in Canada have remained quiet. What explains the silence?
Retired Israeli general Amiram Levin and South African journalist Benjamin Pogrund are the latest to call out Israeli apartheid. Now the question becomes, what are they willing to do about it?