From the Ha’aretz article, “IDF probing whether troops forced Gaza man to drink urine”: The latest complaint was submitted by Omar al-Qanoa to the IDF military advocate general by the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights. It states that Qanoa,…
My minder at the AIPAC policy conference was Jason Rosenberg. I don’t know much about him, except that he’s not a full time AIPAC staff person, he worked as a volunteer for the conference. A quick google search turned up…
More on Robert Dreyfuss’s piece on Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton. Earlier we focused on the Dayton’s “sell-by date” for the two-state solution. The question we ignored is what does Dayton know about peace in Israel/Palestine in the first place? Dreyfuss…
More criticism of the New York Times article on Israel’s ongoing strategy to control Jerusalem from an insightful reader in New York who reminds us of the local angle: The New York Times failed to tell its New York readers…
The JTA reports on an interesting new study measuring “the Israeli-Jewish Collective Memory of the Israeli-Arab/Palestinian Conflict,” and it has some surprising results. Perhaps the most important is that 47% of Israeli Jews believe that the Palestinian refugees were expelled…
AIPAC is stuck in a tough position. Among the news stories emanating from this week’s conference is the lobby’s acceptance, if not embrace, of the two-state solution. Several stories of the conference highlight that AIPAC attendees were asking their congresspeople…
Growing up outside Philadelphia, my family received the Jewish Exponent newspaper every week. I believe it was sent to every Jewish person in the area that was a member of a synagogue (we were members of Har Zion), along with…
The Mondoweiss social media onslaught continues. In addition to Twitter, we now have a home on Facebook. Come on over an become our friend. At some point we’ll advertise events and who knows what else. Besides, it’s much better than…
The Mondoweiss social media onslaught continues. In addition to Twitter, we now have a home on Facebook. Come on over an become our friend. At some point we’ll advertise events and who knows what else. Besides, it’s much better than…