Haaretz reports that Goldman Sachs has a “clear pattern” of giving to Israeli settler and rightwing groups through their Charitable Gift Fund. Of course, Hebron settlers aren’t the only ones experiencing Goldman largesse. Bernie Sanders has made an issue of the $675,000 Clinton received in speaking fees from the investment house just in 2013.
Jeffrey Goldberg drives the neoconservative story, in an interview with President Obama in which he repeatedly suggests that the president lost his foreign policy credibility when he failed to attack Syria in 2013.
Ahava Dead Sea cosmetics, a company that pillages mud products from occupied Palestine, plans to move its factory from the occupied West Bank to within Israel’s pre-1967 borders. The company had been the longtime target of Code Pink’s Stolen Beauty Ahava boycott campaign, which included activists chaining themselves to concrete blocks inside Ahava’s London store, and persistent online social media actions spanning continents since the campaign was launched in 2009.
In the Israeli military’s fairytale world, it is Palestinian society, and not the elephant in the room — Israel’s occupation of Palestine — that “cultivates hate, violence, and a willingness to kill.”
Today, International Women’s Day, the Austrian Parliament was scheduled to hold an event called In Grandmothers’ Words. This event would have joined eight female WWII witnesses from around the world in Vienna in an unprecedented opportunity for the public to hear their experiences regarding specific topics, such as the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the Uprising in Warsaw, and the Blitz in London. However, fueled by a biased article about Hedy Epstein, who was scheduled to appear, the event was cancelled. A protest emerged in an open letter originating from the Austrian public and with strong international support: over 180 signatures from 19 countries, including almost 50 Austrians and eminent figures.
Last spring we published Tamara Ben-Halim’s moving story about searching for her grandmother’s home in Yafa. Annie Robbins shares an amazing update that explains how Ben-Halim discovered that her family home is still standing.
Trump’s penis moment recalls Teddy Roosevelt’s famous foreign policy line from 1901: Speak softly and carry a big stick
On February 15th, Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Minnesota launched their UMN Divest campaign #UMNDivest. Soon after, a graphic appeared on social media that replaces an olive branch in the #UMNDivest logo with a swastika.
All heck broke loose last week after students in the Palestinian Solidarity Society (PSS) at the UK’s University of York staged the play Seven Jewish Children: A play for Gaza by British playwright Caryl Churchill at an Israeli Apartheid Week event.
‘Avi does the Holy Land’ is a video blog with a provocative series of videos about Avi, a fictionalized Canadian Jewish woman who travels to Israel on a birthright trip and falls in love with the place, or so she says. Is it satire? Hasbara? You be the judge.