Israeli novelist David Grossman is a face of liberal Zionism around the world. Yet his 2008 novel To the End of the Land fails as a love letter to Israel; it is nationalistic and treats Arabs as animalistic

Israeli writer Etgar Keret’s new memoir, The Seven Good Years, has been almost universally lauded in the U.S. Claire Paddock finds it to be a justification of Jewish privilege and state violence with a self-indulgent manner, reminiscent of the French aristocracy before the deluge

Leaflets pepper the Upper East Side slamming Senator Chuck Schumer for being for the war with Iraq and now a war with Iran

Mustafa Barghouti says at Al-Awda in New York that the attack on Gaza a year ago was not a war, This was an aggression against a people who had limited means of defending themselves.

Claire Paddock pens her impressions from the second day of the Jewish Voice for Peace national membership meeting. She writes that scholar Andrea Smith implored the crowd to think about creating a completely new system in Israel/Palestine, one that has nothing to do with colonialism, and relates Liat Rosenberg’s message that the international community needs to apply pressure to compel the Israelis to assume responsibility for Palestinian refugees.

Amer Shurrab tells JVP’s national conference: IDF used toxic chemicals in the Gaza bombardment last summer. Many women in Gaza have been having miscarriages since then, possibly due to exposure to those chemicals.

The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People was celebrated at the UN last week. Sec’y General Ban Ki-moon was there, peering at haunting images of Palestinian dispossession.

Claire Paddock reports from the opening night of “The Death of Klinghoffer” at The Metropolitan Opera in New York City.