More details have emerged on how a deal over vaccines broke down between the Palestinian Authority and Israel, and what Palestinians want from a new deal.
Divisions over Israel will bring “disaster and disunity” for Jews in the U.S., Abraham Riesman writes in New York magazine in an article about his grandfather, an Israel lobbyist who helped cover up war crimes. Young Riesman says the massacres and imprisonment of Palestinians today makes Jews unsafe.
Mondoweiss is proud to announce our new series Gaza Diaries, which shares firsthand accounts from Palestinians who lived through the 11-day Israeli attack on Gaza in May 2021, and are now dealing with its aftermath. In this entry Zahra Shaikha amends her diary of life during the Israeli attack with her feelings since the fighting. The result reflects her fragmented reality.
A Dutch arts school permits students to hang banners in favor of Black Lives Matter and the Je Suis Charlie free-expression campaign. But when students put up a banner accusing Israel of “ethnic cleansing” in Sheikh Jarrah, the dean demands its removal. And the school’s security also seized a watermelon banner, which celebrates the Palestinian colors.
Several articles by Israel supporters bewail a “surge in anti-Zionism” among Jews because of the latest Gaza attack. They want to remind American Jews of their Jewish identity: that Being Jewish means supporting Israel. That’s an important argument to have.
It was not Naftali Bennett or Avigdor Lieberman who finally dethroned Benjamin Netanyahu, but the Palestinians themselves.
After the Cornell President, Martha Pollack, issued a statement about rising antisemitism “amid ongoing tensions in the Middle East,” evidently at the urging of pro-Israel students who feel “unsafe” in the light of pro-Palestinian demonstrations, Palestinian students and others sympathetic to the Palestinian cause were angry and demoralized, as she exhibited a lack of recognition for Palestinian suffering and grief in the Gaza attack.
Having lived through the Intifada, various escalations and four wars in Gaza, I have realized that what doesn’t kill you does not make you stronger, it makes you more vulnerable.
In the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof asks if his criticisms of Israel were fair during the recent Gaza attack and says, Yes. Spanish and Irish precedents for terrorism show that negotiation of political issues is the only way to end war crimes over territorial questions.
Reporter Tareq Hajjaj reflects back on the harrowing last few weeks in Gaza where he twice fled his home to escape Israeli attacks, and reveals the trauma of reporters who cover wars that they are also trying to survive.