Earlier today I posted a clip from Al Jazeera on Jewish settlers in Jerusalem. It was taken from a longer documentary that is now available. Here it is in two parts: The title of this post comes from a series…
Meanwhile, barely a peep in the US media. Yesterday the Guardian reported that Israel is directly challenging the Obama administration by moving forward with a plan to build 240 new homes in a West Bank settlement. The Wall Street Journal…
MJ Rosenberg at TPM: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu believes that President Obama has already blinked…. There is no other way to interpret Netanyahu’s dismissal of the settlement issue in his interview with RAI TV in Italy. Settlements? “I think that…
Transparency in journalism: The Jewish Telegraph Agency’s Ron Kampeas owns a home in the illegal Israeli settlement East Talpiot, built on Palestinian land stolen from Sur Bahir village.
Here is a great interview of American-Israeli lawyer Emily Schaeffer, the descendant of Holocaust survivors, who works for a Tel Aviv human-rights firm and is suing two Canadian companies in Canada for their role in building the settlement in Bi’lin….
Joseph Dana follows up on his report of this morning from Safa in the West Bank: I just got an email from Ta’ayush activists who went to Safa this afternoon with the Palestinian land owners whose fields were burned and…
Joseph Dana reports: Just got an update from Amiel, a Ta’ayush member, who was in Safa this morning. He told me that settlers uprooted around 150 olive and grape leaf trees in Safa as a protest of our action last…
Obama’s game is to defeat the Israel lobby from within. He could not defeat the lobby from outside it; because Jews are simply too important in the American power structure. That is why he could not run against the lobby;…
Joseph Dana from Ibn Ezra sent us the following: I just shot and edited a video (see below) of what happen today in Safa in the southern West Bank. Ta’ayush went with about thirty Israeli and international peace activists to…