Andrew Pessin says he’s being criticized because he’s the one professor at CT College who’s outspoken for Israel. Maybe it’s because he compared Palestinians to caged, rabid dogs deserving of being put down.
In a stunning 2-1 decision the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a discriminatory 2011 ruling in favor of King County Metro Transit’s refusal to run Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign (SeaMAC) bus ads “Israeli War Crimes: Your Tax Dollars at Work,” in violation of SeaMAC’s 1st amendment right to free speech.
Katie Halper “translated” Netanyahu’s racist emergency election appeal to put in an American political context: “The Republican leadership is in danger. Black voters are coming out in droves to the polls. Left wing organizations are busing them out.”
The Executive Director of the Lincoln Square Synagogue has attempted to cancel an event scheduled to take place this evening featuring representatives from Palestinian and Israeli human rights organizations discussing the Nakba. The event instead will take place a nearby church, but event organizer Julia Kessler of the Nakba Education Project says the episode points to a broader issue in the Jewish community: “Given the election results in Israel, in which it is clearer than ever that Israel is becoming increasingly anti-democratic and unapologetic in its occupation of the Palestinian people, it’s obvious that we have to do more talking, not less, about the crucial issues like the Nakba and what happened in 1948 and how its effects are being felt, even today. Shutting down discussions and closing the doors to differing views will not help us to arrive at justice for all peoples.”
V15 is a campaign to end Netanyahu’s prime ministership. It has the help of a former Obama aide, and has a humorous ad that imagines one voter’s power to usher Netanyahu from office.
Due to the overwhelming response and support to the “ONE WORD” campaign, Ads Against Apartheid has gone national as the Palestine Advocacy Project. They are currently running ads in public transit systems and on mobile billboard trucks in Washington, DC, New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, San Diego, and San Antonio.
Last night Israeli TV covered the leak of an outrageous video of Israeli soldiers inciting their trained “elite” dogs to attack and maul a captured Palestinian teen near an illegal West Bank settlement two months ago. The video appeared on the Facebook page of Michael Ben-Ari, a Kahanist politician, who praised the attack.
5 things Netanyahu won’t tell congress– Dena Tarkruri skewers the premier in a new video from Al Jazeera
On Wednesday, Banksy published a video and photos from a recent trip to Gaza and set the internet ablaze.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are cashed strapped this winter because Israel is withholding $240 million in tax revenue to the Palestinian Authority as punishment for joining the ICC. This is radical, though it’s not unusual and something we’ve come to expect. But turning off the electricity in the middle of winter as blizzards sweep across the Middle East is nothing short of sadistic. The Los Angeles Times reports Israel cut the power to more than 700,000 Palestinians in two of Palestine’s largest urban areas, Nablus and Jenin, for more than 45 minutes “and warned that more outages are coming if Palestinian officials don’t pay millions of dollars in outstanding debt.”