Alan Dershowitz has responded angrily to the Hampshire College divestment initative for singling out Israel: The divestment campaign applies to Israel and Israel alone. Hampshire will continue to deal with companies that supply Iran, Saudi Arabia, China, Cuba, North Korea,…
Here’s something grotesque. Last week the physician Mustafa Barghouti visited New York and talked about the inequity in water usage in Israel/Palestine on public radio: “We the Palestinians of the West Bank can only use up to 50 cubic meters…
The AP’s Karin Laub has picked up that expanded settlement news, first published in Haaretz, and done wonderful reporting on it. Laub says the land belongs to a Palestinian plumber. The plans–and here the AP echoes this site–are a direct…
In Haaretz: “West Bank settlement gets green light for major expansion.” This includes the charming legal declaration that 1700 dunams outside Jerusalem, or 400 acres of land, are now Israeli state land. I wonder whose land that was before. Don’t…
AC writes: For those wanting compelling, video evidence of Palestinian non-violent resistance and the sin inherent in subjugating humans to live under the boots of others, see the following two videos shot on Friday February 13, at the International Solidarity…
A few times in the last 3 years I have declared that young people are going to lead us; and each time I have been premature. I did it at Columbia University in an article for New York Magazine in…
Gary Ackerman, the Long Island congressman. Far too little–where was he when it mattered–but it’s an important signal of where the mainstream is moving. Even AIPAC is going to start on this soon, trying to save two states, which they…
From Haaretz’s amazing story on the appeal that rightwing extremist Avigdor Lieberman holds for Israeli youth. Please someone tell me why this is not in the American press, while Haaretz cries out for our help? [One youth says,] “This country…