Larry Cohler-Esses, an assistant managing editor at the Jewish Daily Forward, responds to Dan Cohen’s critique of the Jane Eisner editorial “Why the Forward Sent a Brave Reporter to Gaza.”
For three hours, 200 Palestinians in the occupied village of al-Karmil were forced by soldiers to leave their pool to allow Israeli settlers to bathe there, B’Tselem reports.
Sheldon Adelson is mounting an attack on BDS campaign this weekend in Las Vegas. Attacks from opponents will not succeed in intimidating BDS advocates, or in denying Palestinians their freedom.
This evening Israeli Forces delayed the Palestinian National Football Team at the Allenby/Al Karamah Crossing, the only international border for Palestinians living in the Occupied West Bank. The national team was on its route to Tunisia as part of their preparation for its upcoming official matches. This new Israeli violation occurred less than 24 hours after Mr. Sepp Blatter, president of FIFA, left Israel and Palestine, having received a commitment from Israeli PM Mr. Netanyahu about facilitating the travel of Palestinian athletes.
A broad coalition of national civil rights organizations are asking Indiana Governor Mike Pence to repudiate a non-binding Indiana legislative resolution that BDS tactics to achieve equality and justice for Palestinians are “anti-Jewish.”
An open letter signed by over 250 members of the Jewish Voice for Peace Academic Advisory Council asks the U.S. State Department to revise its definition of anti-Semitism in order to prevent the charge of anti-Semitism from being misused to silence critics of Israel.
As Palestinians commemorate the Nakba, the catastrophe in 1948 when more than 700,000 indigenous Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from their homes by Zionist militias and later the State of Israel, life in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip is reaching a fatal tipping point, as the UN has warned. Given the human catastrophe that Gaza is facing and Israel’s threats of more atrocities, a coalition of Palestinian NGOs calls on governments and international bodies to take immediate action.
Palestinian rights activists are celebrating Lauryn Hill’s announcement that she is cancelling her concert in Tel Aviv, which was scheduled for May 7. The singer posted the announcement on her Facebook page Monday, writing: “It is very important to me that my presence or message not be misconstrued, or a source of alienation to either my Israeli or my Palestinian fans. For this reason, we have decided to cancel the upcoming performance in Israel, and seek a different strategy to bring my music to ALL of my fans in the region.”
After students express their concerns to the dining staff of the products connections to human rights abuses, University of California, Riverside provides alternative hummus brand in its campus store.
The courts ruled that Pamela Geller has the right to put up her virulently anti-Muslim ads on public buses. As a community, we will make our voices heard as forcefully as we can in protest of Islamophobic hate speech. –Jews Against Islamophobia Coalition