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I know it’s kind of lame to relaunch my blog and then never post anything. I’ve been posting far more to Facebook and Twitter seeing how more folks are looking there than they are here these days. Plus I’m just crazy busy with work and not really focused on writing.
Last week we rolled [...]
I’ve got a piece up on Jewcy this evening regarding the relative success of Avigdor Lieberman’s far-right party Yisrael Beiteinu and the impact his proposal to disenfranchise Israeli Arabs will have on pro-Israel advocacy efforts.
Here’s about 11 minutes of unrefined footage from my forthcoming documentary The Forbidden Tree of Knowledge: A Secret History of Jews & Drugs. I showed this admittedly rough segment as a supplement to my talk of the same name at Limmud NY this weekend. Don’t worry about volume levels, lighting, color, cropping, etc. [...]
The same folks who vilified me and my friends for raising money for both Lebanese and Israeli war victims in 2006 are now promoting a similar effort in Southern Israel to provide relief to Gaza.
“The Israeli media is swimming in pronouncements from anonymous Israeli defense officials that the Gaza offensive has accomplished all it can in Gaza and yet has not dismantled Hamas’ infrastructure. Hamas has played it safe and is still capable of shooting just as many rockets per day as previously. Senior defense ministers back an immediate ceasefire.”
“We wanted to show another possible reality, to suggest that another Jewish community is possible. Those who believed it, even for a moment, were being given a gift — a vision of a Jewish leadership which stands up for peace and justice rather than mindless ethnic solidarity.”
Max Blumenthal reports from the Israel solidarity rally this past Sunday in New York:
Help make Middle East peace a top priority of the Obama administration. Vote this up on Change.gov. (But only If you’re comfortable with their privacy policy.*)
Killing civilians is not a just means of pursuing political recourse, either morally or legally, no matter which party does the killing.
