Ellison and Baird, take photos of the rubble of the American International school in Beit Lahiya in the northern of Gaza Strip. Photo: Adel Hana, Associated Press Brian Baird(D-WA-03), and Keith Ellison, (D-MN-05) have issued their first statement since visiting…
The worldwide student movement of occupying university centers after the war in Gaza continues to spread in the US. Two weeks after a student occupation at the University of Rochester, students at NYU have taken the Kimmel Center for University…
The belief that the US and Israel share common values seems to be unraveling in the wake of Avigdor Lieberman’s success in the recent Israeli elections. Two days after former US ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer admitted it would be…
Can we politicize Israeli model Bar Refaeli appearance on the cover of Sports Illustrated’s recent swimsuit edition? Of course. Today in Ha’aretz Aluf Benn asks whether Refaeli will make people forget about Gaza and sees her as part of Israel’s…
The coalition building fracas continues in Israel with the Likud and Kadima fighting over who can bring Avigdor Lieberman into their coalition. Lieberman has put forth several demands including creating a citizenship bill that requires loyalty as a condition for…
Brian Van Slyke, Hannah Mermelstein, Ali Abunimah and Dr. Kanwal Chaudhry discuss divestment, the Gaza aftermath, the Jewish community, and the moral responsibility of Americans with Laura Flanders. Watch and learn:
Daphna Baram has a great article on the Guardian website today – “It’s time to rethink Zionism.” Similar to the recent LA Times editorial questioning Israeli democracy, Baram starts out by stating the obvious: The results of last week’s parliamentary…
Hampshire College divested from South Africa in 1977. Apartheid began to crumble politically 13 years later. But is this a good analogy? Yes. In the end several hundred schools divested, but they did so within a few months of each…
The rise of Avigdor Lieberman is raising fundamental questions about Israel and Zionism in the US media that have long been ignored. While Israel expansionism in the occupied Palestinian territories has been justified over the years as a “security issue”…