I heard a great story about Uri Avnery. A former member of the Irgun, the terrorist organization in the ’40s, he became a member of the Knesset in the ’60s and began speaking out against the occupation. Someone took him…
Today on ESPN Skip Bayless said the difference between Andy Pettitte and Barry Bonds is Andy Pettitte apologized for using human growth hormone. We got past it. Today Osama bin Laden’s driver apologized to the American people. I like that….
More about that 1948 t-shirt I mentioned yesterday, worn by a Palestinian protester. “I saw a number of these shirts in Deheisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem,” says Michael F. Brown of Interfaith Peace-Builders, just back from a trip to Israel/Palestine….
A savage video of the shooting (allegedly last Friday) of a Palestinian youth while protesting the “separation fence” in the Occupied Territories– the weekly Bilin protest, near Ramallah. The young man is shot in the right thigh, a grievous wound,…
Yesterday I blogged about the party for Raja Shehadeh’s book on walks in Palestine, at which a lady named Rima told me about the day in August 1947 that her house in Jaffa was evacuated because a Jewish terrorist had…
In a comment on this site the other day, journalist David Samuels took a neat swipe at me. He said the figure on 1.1 million Jews killed in the destruction of the second temple period comes from the Roman historian…
Nakba commemorations are coming to an end. This month has been a real eye-opener for me, raised my consciousness. I want to talk about Nakba here in strictly emotional terms. One of the signal moments for me came when Nadia…
Tonight I went to a Nakba event at a Friends meeting house in Brooklyn. There were 130 people there and many Arabs but oddly the focus was on the Jews. In a way the evening wasn’t about ethnic cleansing so…
Good for NPR. For Israel’s birthday celebration, it interviewed Nina Cullers, a Palestinian-American living in Virginia, who described her family’s flight from Jerusalem in ’48. She says her family picked up and left Jerusalem after the Haganah’s bombing of the…