Jack Ross, first on Obama’s game, then on the Nakba: It’s important to cut through the smoke and mirrors of biblical references – which is not to say that Netanyahu’s “Amalek” mindset isn’t real and threatening. But the sense of…
Jack Ross, first on Obama’s game, then on the Nakba: It’s important to cut through the smoke and mirrors of biblical references – which is not to say that Netanyahu’s “Amalek” mindset isn’t real and threatening. But the sense of…
We’re only hours from the Obama-Netanyahu meeting and the advice is coming fast and furious. The New York Times is all over the place today with commentary from Ali Abunimah, Chas Freeman, Daniel Levy and Jeffrey Goldberg. The discourse is…
Gershom Gorenberg–author of an excellent piece on East Jerusalem expansion at TAP–has a somewhat-literary theory of history as random. Everything is a mess and it is a fallacy to discern intention in events. No big actors are pulling strings. A…
The following is from David Hosey’s blog City of… [This] photo was taken by my Sabeel coworker Lydia on a trip we took last fall to what is today northern Israel–northern Palestine in 1948. We were visited villages that were…
On the eve of Nakba remembrance day, a young rabbi led an observance of the catastrophe “that cannot be denied, ignored, or wished away” in Union Square in New York last night before a largely-Jewish group. She said that four…
Today Palestinians across the Middle East, including inside Israel, commemorated al Nakba. Arabic for “the catastrophe”, al Nakba refers to the ongoing displacement and dispossession of the Palestinian people that began in 1948 with the founding of the state of…
The JTA reports on an interesting new study measuring “the Israeli-Jewish Collective Memory of the Israeli-Arab/Palestinian Conflict,” and it has some surprising results. Perhaps the most important is that 47% of Israeli Jews believe that the Palestinian refugees were expelled…
Today I figure there will be the weekly demonstration in Ni’lin against the separation wall that is confiscating Palestinian land east of the old green line. Israel has opened an investigation into the army’s lethal firing of teargas shells during…