Here’s a conference in Boston in March on the one-state solution. A big lineup of speakers, including the great Phyllis Bennis, Joel Kovel, Nadia Hijab. You never see these people writing op-eds in the Times. And Saree Makdisi is here….
Anees writes from Jerusalem: The other day I had the misfortune of watching this multi-party discussion on Al-Jazeera/English. One party was Gerald Steinberg. Untruths were spewing from him so I looked him up and he is executive director of Non-Governmental…
A French company that operated the Stockholm subways for 10 years has lost its 3.5 billion Euro contract, in a vote of the Stockholm city council, in part because it was building a tramway for Israel in the occupied territories……
Suleiman Baraka is an astrophysicist working for NASA at Virginia Tech. On December 29, his 11-year-old son Ibrahim back in Gaza was critically injured by an Israeli strike. A week later he was dead. The father is desperate to get…
Rabbi Brant Rosen has come through again. He is the driving force behind Rabbis Speak Out, “a group of American rabbis seeking to express their outrage at the war launched by Israel against Gaza in December, 2008.” They have released…
Our politicians won’t change till our journalism changes. Jackson Diehl, deputy editorial page editor of the Washington Post remembers that George Mitchell wanted an end to settlements, and the Israelis thumbed their noses at him: Imagine a U.S. administration prepared…
Photo by Jiser, at Flickr, evidently from Gaza. Passed to us by Mishal al-Johar, who writes from University of Texas: “big pro-Israel protest happening tonight on the Texas campus. we’re counter protesting. it’s getting crazy, so many people are getting…
Ben Smith reports that Dennis Ross (who wrote a fat book about the difficult and messy process of making peace after basically prolonging the colonialist project for 12 years) was nowhere near the foreign-policy podium today and has gotten an…
“‘These comparisons are a manipulative distortion of history,’ [said Avner Shalev, head of the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem], adding that the Holocaust would be best left out of the contemporary political discourse.”