Palestinian politician Mustafa Barghouti was the star of the recent Bob Simon report on “60 Minutes” on the death of the two-state solution in Israel/Palestine. This Thursday afternoon he will be at Columbia University, speaking to the Arab Students Association,…
Ali Gharib writes: It appears now that the U.S. will not be directly involved in aid programmes to Gaza – especially reconstruction – and that the new administration of President Barack Obama will continue the George W. Bush policy of…
From the Telegraph: John Rose, one of the original London School of Economics (LSE) students to mount the barricades alongside Tariq Ali in 1968, spent last week giving lectures on the situation in Gaza at 12 of the occupations. “This…
A friend writes that the neocons now despise Andrew Sullivan and offers this reason why: a great picture of a Palestinian schoolgirl inside her wrecked school from Sullivan’s blog in January. The girl’s covered. Horrors.
Writer Jean-Moise Braitberg has written a letter to Israeli president Shimon Peres demanding that his grandfather’s name be removed from Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. The letter is reported to have been printed first in Le Monde, 10…
A further sign of Israel’s isolation. Compelling video of a basketball game in Barcelona on Thursday, featuring a Tel Aviv team, where many Palestinian supporters rushed the court with flags, disrupting the game. Watch the cheerleaders run for the exits……
It usually doesn’t pay in the media to be a sharp critic of Israel. But sometimes it does. The photographer AnomalousNYC, who has a global following on Flickr for his photographs and alterations of photos and accompanying writings, has told…
From the New York-based National Lawyers’ Guild press release of three days ago: The seven delegates also witnessed the remains of the entire residential neighborhood of Izbit Abed Rabbo. Resident Khaled Abed Rabbo told delegates Huwaida Arraf and Radhika Sainath…
Reuters is reporting that Philip Rizk, a 26-year-old German activist and blogger who studies at the American University in Cairo, has been arrested in Egypt. Here’s Rizk’s blog: TabulaGaza. Rizk was apparently involved in this march of protest of the…