Canadian Bruce Cockburn’s song, “If I had a rocket launcher… (I’d make somebody pay)” came out in 1984 in response to American military action in Central America…On this video, look at the faces of the Central American villagers and who…
A fine column by Eric Alterman in the Nation, echoing David Grossman’s outrage over Gaza (see bottom of excerpt) and saying that the New York Times refused to run intact Bill Moyers’s letter defending himself on Gaza after he was…
More and more Jews are questioning the program. American Jews for a Just Peace, a Boston-based group that formed last fall, has issued a statement calling for action against Israel’s “war on Palestine.” In the wake of this illegal war,…
The following was sent to us by Raed Jarrar: I sent the following letter in the mail today to the office of “War Crimes Issues” in the State Department. It’s a relatively small office that includes 12-18 staffers, in addition…
Here’s a story I can’t even read about a Middlebury graduate named Amer Shurrab who lost two brothers in the Gaza slaughter. MJ Rosenberg says the two boys could have been saved even after they were shot. Where is the…
One of the beautiful things about the new debate over Israel/Palestine is how it has sorted out the weak from the strong; and courageous scholars and journalists have emerged who have educated themselves about the issues and are not taking…
Richard Silverstein and Jerry Haber are appealing for help to put an American Jewish No! letter in the Hebrew press in Israel. Ira Glunts, an Israeli-American, writes: I think that putting the ad in the Hebrew language version of Ha’aretz…
Jeff Blankfort writes: I wouldn’t pay much if any attention to the Al-Quds poll. It is a Fatah [PA] organ that is not known for telling inconvenient truths. It had an English edition until sometime 1993 when the editor, amazingly,…
Rabbi Martin Hier in the New York Daily News. Hundreds of thousands of students visit his center, and the “museum of tolerance.” Hier basically calls the Palestinians Nazis: There is little doubt that if Gaza is not rebuilt, many civilians…