This morning Joseph Dana (aka Ibn Ezra) sent us the following email: This morning the army dismantled parts of hilltop 26 (18), the place that we wrote the article about. Check out the news here (editor note: you can read…
Update from Phil (sent by phone): Looks like were getting in. At egypt emigration. Police let us thru checkpoints. Feeling good, though who of all our number didn’t get okd? A Palestinian trying to go home, papers out of order….
The Obama administration is putting Israeli settlements front and center and Israeli politicians are doing their best to spin the issue. Likud MK Tzipi Hotovely has held her conference opposing the two-state solution where Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya’alon argued…
The growing movement for an academic boycott of Israel has been criticized as limiting academic discourse and debate. Defenders of the boycott point out that the discourse is already limited by Israeli occupation policy which shuts down Palestinian universities arbitrarily,…
Brief site update: starting today you can find Mondoweiss at the TPMCafe. TPM will be syndicating some posts from the site, which is an exciting development. If you’re new to Mondoweiss and have found us through TPM, welcome!
Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beitenu party is moving to fulfill one of his main campaign promises – creating a loyalty oath for all Israeli citizens. From Ha’aretz: Party spokesman Tal Nahum said the measure would require all Israelis to declare loyalty…
Ha’aretz is reporting that a ministerial panel has decided that a bill spearheaded by Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beitenu party to outlaw public commemoration of the Nakba in Israel can move on to the Knesset and cabinet for a vote. If…
One of the most impressive moments of the AIPAC conference was when they brought out 193 university student council presidents onto the stage. It seemed like a brilliant strategy to me; each of those presidents represented a relationship that AIPAC…
Sunday’s New York Times Book Review featured two reviews of Israeli authors, both commenting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In one, Jeffery Goldberg reviewed Benny Morris’s latest book on the one state and two state solutions, and the other was a…