Back in January, in the wake of the carnage in Gaza, we posted a video featuring Ali Abunimah, Mark Green, and Katrina vanden Heuvel, where Abunimah challenged progressives to speak out more on Israel/Palestine. Green was defensive (and offensive) whereas…
One takeaway message from the Obama-Abbas meeting is that the realists are getting heard in the Obama administration. Much has been made of Hillary Clinton’s recent hardball approach with Israel regarding settlements. On Wednesday she told reporters that the administration…
Last week’s meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and President Obama was a circus. Surrounded by intense media scrutiny and intrigue, the meeting was preceded and followed by endless speculation and analysis. Today’s meeting with Mahmoud Abbas? Not so much. The face…
Fred Jerome begins his new book, Einstein on Israel and Zionism, with a great quote from Albert Einstein to a close friend, “Though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me. I am a revolutionary.” Jerome’s…
Today, Eitan Bronstein has an oped on Ynet (hebrew site only) responding to the proposed legislation in the Knesset to ban commemorations of the Nakba. Bronstein is Director of Zochrot, a Tel Aviv-based organization which directs education and advocacy campaigns…
The Palestine Festival of Literature is currently taking place in the occupied territories. The Festival received some unexpected attention when the Israeli occupation forces attempted to shut it down on its opening night. Writing in the Guardian, Rory McCarthy reported,…
First there was the Nakba law, then the loyalty oath, now the Israeli Knesset is considering a bill that would institute a one year jail sentence for anyone who speaks “against Israel’s existence as a Jewish and democratic state.” According…
The commentary on the Iran/US/Israel triangle is coming fast and furious. It’s too much for me to try to put together into a coherent post, so I thought I’d just give a rundown and links. We can sort it out…
I guess it should maybe come as no surprise, but criticism of President Obama’s Middle East policy has come from an unlikely source – one of his special envoys tasked with carrying it out. Ha’aretz is reporting that in his…