Last night and this morning, a group called Philadelphia Jews for a Just Peace had a vigil outside the Israeli consulate in their city to commemorate the fact that the anniversary of the massacre at Deir Yassin outside Jerusalem in…
Jerry Slater, the scholar (and also “a lifelong Zionist” who once volunteered to serve in the Israeli navy), had more to say about Jim Sleeper’s piece about the efficacy of Palestinian nonviolence at TPM yesterday: What Sleeper evidently doesn’t understand…
Devastating bill of goods on Israel’s war crimes against the Palestinians by Philip Giraldi, with a simple thrust: Opinion polls suggest that foreigners who dislike the United States frequently do so because of Washington’s support of Israel. Scenes of Israeli…
The Weekly Standard has published a cover piece by Gershom Gorenberg on that ancient and somewhat dubious question, Where is the Palestinian Gandhi, that portrays Palestinians as human beings. A rapid scan produces this sentence: That said, absolute nonviolence is…
For a brief moment last night, I had a sense of what it would be like to be on the other side of my issue. The evening was coming to an end, at the New York Theatre Workshop– a reading…
The Guardian has published three videos with statements from Palestinians supporting allegations of Israeli war crimes in the Gaza assault. The Guardian says Israeli soldiers used Palestinian children as human shields for tanks, targeted medics and ambulances, and used drones…
Susie Kneedler responds to Ethan Bronner’s report in yesterday’s Times on Nir Barkat, the rightwing mayor of Jerusalem, and his plans to tear down Palestinian homes near the Old City to make way for park space. Bronner’s “story” is fiction;…
A few impressions of being in the company of the settler movement last night in New York: The meeting’s in the basement of a rich stone synagogue. The crowd aren’t rich people, they’re cause people, rough around the edges, a…
Thanks to the AP: –In the last year, 4 Palestinians have been killed by Israelis in protests of the Israeli landgrab in the village in which Anderson was shot; –Anderson’s ambulance sat for 15 minutes at a checkpoint, waiting for…