Harold Meyerson has a great oped in today’s Washington Post which makes several of the same points we have been making on this site – American Jews’ belief in liberalism and equality is beginning to outweigh their support for Israel….
One mental shadow cast by my trip to Gaza is sympathy for the Israelis. When you are in Gaza, as far as the eye can see there is incredible cruelty and scorched earth, all but unprovoked. Seeing a child burned…
[Egyptians entering the great hall at Cairo University for Obama’s speech last week] A week ago, after Obama’s speech in Cairo, I went shopping in the old Islamic section of the city and Egyptians kept calling out “Obama” at me….
Max Blumenthal reporting for Mondoweiss from Jerusalem: On Wednesday, June 3, I went to the Knesset to speak to two of the deliberative body’s most ideologically opposed members. First, I spoke to Alex Miller, a backbencher in Avigdor Lieberman’s incipient…
David Bromwich writes: President Obama in his Cairo speech mentioned and named the “unprecedented Holocaust” suffered by European Jews in the years 1933-1945. He also mentioned the sufferings of Palestinians, from the dispossession of 1948 to the life under occupation…
Today, Eitan Bronstein has an oped on Ynet (hebrew site only) responding to the proposed legislation in the Knesset to ban commemorations of the Nakba. Bronstein is Director of Zochrot, a Tel Aviv-based organization which directs education and advocacy campaigns…
Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beitenu party is moving to fulfill one of his main campaign promises – creating a loyalty oath for all Israeli citizens. From Ha’aretz: Party spokesman Tal Nahum said the measure would require all Israelis to declare loyalty…
Ha’aretz is reporting that a ministerial panel has decided that a bill spearheaded by Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beitenu party to outlaw public commemoration of the Nakba in Israel can move on to the Knesset and cabinet for a vote. If…
Last night demonstrators outside Radio City Music Hall called on Leonard Cohen to cancel a gig he has planned for Israel in September. The pressure will continue through Cohen’s tour this summer. From Adalah: “With the construction of the Apartheid…