Reader Rob Browne sent along this interesting update on the Congressional letter to Hillary Clinton on rebuilding Gaza. First Browne points out that there are 62 signatories, not 60, as Reps continue to sign on. The latest are Marcy Kaptur…
From the YNet article “IDF soldiers leave racist graffiti on Gaza homes”: Other graffiti included “Death to Arabs,” “Arabs must die,” and “One down, 999,999 to go.” The Guardian is also reporting that Israeli troops also wrote “Arabs 1948-2009” on…
Check out this video of the Laura Flanders show last night (and skip to 7:00): Ali Abunimah challenges Mark Green and Katrina vanden Heuvel, saying that progressives haven’t spoken out on Gaza. They respond by not speaking out on Gaza….
Today is International Holocaust Memorial Day (I didn’t know such a day even existed). To commemorate the day the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network released the following statement: How does the city sit solitary, that was full of people! How is…
Rabbi Shai Gluskin gives more background on the rabbinical statement on Gaza in the Mondoweiss comments section: Thanks for all the support. And as Brant said, we are finding our voice. I’m committed to start blogging on this topic and…
Students in the UK have been taking over university buildings to protest the destruction in Gaza and now the academic boycott movement has made its way across the Atlantic. Inside Higher Ed covered the recent creation of U.S. Campaign for…
As reported by the New York Times today Israel is not allowing building materials to enter Gaza to begin the reconstruction. From the article: Peter Lerner, the spokesman for the Defense Ministry’s coordination office for Gaza, said that while Israel…
Last week we alerted you to the inspiring statement of outrage from a collection of US rabbis on the carnage in Gaza. A day later the statement’s website was down. Today the site reads: January 26, 2006 Attempts by a…
Bob Simon’s 60 Minutes piece on the two-state solution finally aired and it was a doozy. If Abe Foxman was pissed at Bill Moyers he surely had a coronary after watching this. Watch it: Here’s an excerpt if you didn’t…