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Adam Horowitz writes: Check out this amazing letter from the Israeli peace activist Nurit Peled-Elhanan. She sent it to the recipients of the Sakharov Prize. Peled-Elhanan helped start the organization the Bereaved Families Forum, a network of Palestinian and Israeli…
Adam Horowitz has spent a lot more time in Israel than I have. He’s collecting string on a dangerous new trend in Israeli culture/politics: Welcome to the Israeli settler movement, the 2008 model: the growing priority of settling Palestinian areas…
Yesterday I posited that the Israel lobby is in decline because America has had it with one-sidedness, and Everyone and His Brother Is Sick of this S**t Churning up the World. Further evidence–brilliantly–from the Onion, which reports that the Middle…
Yesterday demonstrated the political limitation of Jewish communal organizations for me. At some point you are doing a potato sack race–or whatever you call that race where your leg is tied to someone else– with a neocon. That’s how it…
Last week I had a great post written by Anne Silver titled, It is an awful and uncomfortable situation to encounter Jews who are progressive on every issue but Palestine. I thought Anne had put her finger on something we’ve…
On Sunday there’s a conference of Jews in New York seeking to recover the progressive anti-war tradition in Jewish life. I’m planning to attend. Rabbis Ellen Lippmann and Arthur Waskow. J.J. Goldberg, Amy Goodman. Register here. Oh, also: Michael Ratner…
I said I met Aaron Levitt last night when he was protesting the Hebron settlers in Manhattan. He got in arguments with a lot of them. It was an amazing thing to watch. Because Levitt knows his Orthodox Judaism, having…
Aaron Levitt was one of the demonstrators outside the Marriott last night as the settlers of Hebron held a big fundraiser inside. Levitt says in a press release on the event: Aaron Levitt, an activist with Jews Against the Occupation-NYC…