Last month I published a sharp criticism of Peace Now by Ira Glunts, arguing that they shouldn’t have embraced Rep. Gary Ackerman over his recent statement about the West Bank colonies because he’s been a kneejerk defender of Israel at…
This is a cool boycott action video from a French supermarket. And here’s an explanation of the green-shirted action in the video, for the French-impaired (from an email that’s being passed around): Mostly, they are talking about the products they…
Great people, the Corries. Here’s their statement on their daughter’s commemoration. Excerpt: In Rachel’s case, though a thorough, credible and transparent investigation was promised by the Israeli Government, after six years, the position of the U.S. Government remains that such…
Here’s an update on Tristan Anderson’s condition. He’s unconscious following surgery in a good Israeli hospital, and will be kept unconscious for days to aid healing. His family’s getting a lot of support, and is headed over there. On Monday…
On the sixth anniversary of the killing of Rachel Corrie, consider this: Kim Lamberty was volunteering for a Christian group, escorting Palestinian children to school in the West Bank four years ago, when she was attacked on September 30, 2004…
In my haste to slam the Washington Post for giving short shrift to the Tristan Anderson shooting, I credited Ethan Bronner with a good job on his Times story re the Bay-Area activist, whose survival is in our thoughts tonight….
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…
You can hear an American woman wailing and crying, “Oh god, say something,” to the unconscious and brutally-wounded Tristan Anderson on this graphic video taken by the International Solidarity Movement of the shooting of the 37-year-old Californian by an Israeli…