Antony Loewenstein reports: The recent Salute to Israel parade in New York was symptomatic of a mainstream Jewish community desperate to appear normal, relaxed yet determined. Sunday’s “Tel Aviv beach in Central Park” was another day in the life of…
Al Jazeera English reports on the important work Adalah is doing to prevent Israel from selling stolen Palestinian land to Jewish Israelis in Haifa:
Joseph Dana reports: Just got an update from Amiel, a Ta’ayush member, who was in Safa this morning. He told me that settlers uprooted around 150 olive and grape leaf trees in Safa as a protest of our action last…
Joseph Dana from Ibn Ezra sent us the following: I just shot and edited a video (see below) of what happen today in Safa in the southern West Bank. Ta’ayush went with about thirty Israeli and international peace activists to…
Saree Makdisi calls the media to task for its coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and especially Netanyahu’s speech last weekend. From his oped in today’s Los Angeles Times “The language that absolves Israel”: Similarly, Israeli housing units built in the…
Ali Gharib responds to Mohammed of Vancouver’s post Tehran is burning, and who is fueling the fires?: There’s nothing wrong with publishing dissenting opinions. Much of the progressive blogosphere has erupted into green flames of support for Iranian presidential challenger…
Earlier I pointed out the article by Harold Meyerson about how support for Israel is declining in the Jewish community. Well, it seems to be catching. From the Jerusalem Post article “Israel is losing the PR war so badly that…
US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation’s National Advocacy Director Josh Ruebner reports on the US government in action: Today, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs held a “mark-up” session on the FY2010 budget. I…
Harold Meyerson has a great oped in today’s Washington Post which makes several of the same points we have been making on this site – American Jews’ belief in liberalism and equality is beginning to outweigh their support for Israel….