Naomi Klein (pictured right with Iyad Burnat of the Bil’in Popular Committee) visited the West Bank village of Bil’in today to voice her support for the weekly demonstrations against the Separation Wall, and to reiterate her support for boycotting Israel….
(Mohammed Omer (right) receiving the 2007 Martha Gellhorn Journalism Prize along with journalist Dahr Jamail (left). They are joined in the photo by journalist John Pilger, a member of the Prize’s judges panel. Photo: Paul de Rooij.) A year ago…
The paper was given today by Eitan Bronstein at the Shadow of Memory: Relational Perspectives of Remembering & Forgetting conference held in Tel Aviv. Bronstein is the Director of the Israeli organization Zochrot, which carries out educational and advocacy campaigns…
Elliott Abrams has an oped in today’s Wall Street Journal trying to defend Ariel Sharon’s legacy, and evidently further ruin the Bush administration’s. In his article, “Hillary Is Wrong About the Settlements,” he attempts to show that there was a…
Earlier today I posted a clip from Al Jazeera on Jewish settlers in Jerusalem. It was taken from a longer documentary that is now available. Here it is in two parts: The title of this post comes from a series…
Last week we passed along a report from Joshua Ruebner about his efforts to attend the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs “mark-up” session on the FY2010 budget. He was interested because they were supposed to…
Howard Schneider has an article on the Washington Post website outlining the history and controversy around Netanyahu’s unprecedented demand that Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state or homeland before negotiations can begin. The issue has been covered more thoroughly…
Meanwhile, barely a peep in the US media. Yesterday the Guardian reported that Israel is directly challenging the Obama administration by moving forward with a plan to build 240 new homes in a West Bank settlement. The Wall Street Journal…
(Screen shot captured by Justin Elliott) Note that the heroic Iranian woman on the CNN page is about to throw a stone. Have you ever seen coverage of a Palestinian throwing a stone during a protest highlighted so prominently and…