is to boycott Israeli goods and institutions, a group of 540 Israelis says in an appeal to the rest of the world. Birmingham (England), Athens (Greece), and Cambridge (MA) are in the van! BDS. Boycott, divestment, sanctions…
From the Irish Times: John Ging is an ex-Army officer who worked in Rwanda during the genocide and was in the Balkans when ethnic cleansing took place. As one of the UN’s main men on the ground in Gaza, he…
I insist that Gaza is the Elian Gonzalez moment: that moment in the life of a lobby when its selfish and repulsive motivations/actions are revealed to the broader public, and they shake their heads and distance themselves. Gaza is showing…
MJ Rosenberg writes of the Foxman-Moyers exchange of letters: Foxman says that by criticizing the war, Moyers demonstrates “moral equivalency, racism, historical revisionism, and indifference to terrorism….” …Moyers is just lucky he is not some lesser figure. Someone other than…
Gideon Levy replies to the open letter from A.B. Yehoshua. It is a dignified response. He doesn’t mention the most shocking detail of Yehoshua’s letter–the conceit that “proportionality” should take into account the sea of millions of Arabs in back…
“Did you hear of Hertz car rental company demanding to have its logo and name scrubbed out of [British] advertising linking it to Israel?” Eva Smagacz writes. “I think the battle to discuss Israel without fear of loss of job…
Anees, our Jerusalem correspondent, offers this roadmap of the Israeli relationship to the Palestinian minority: Early 1970’s: “We have no solution… You [Palestinians] shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wishes may leave, and we will see where this…
AC writes, before the ceasefire: Video of Tzipi Livni being called a terrorist at her 1/16 National Press Club appearance has surfaced (shorter version). It was mentioned in the Israeli press. A couple of days ago an Al-Jazeera-English a reporter…
since beginning of the war and 230 are still in prison, reports Neve Gordon. The purpose: shutting down internal debate of the immoral assault.