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Over 300 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists came under a rain of tear gas and rubber bullets Friday at a non-violent demonstration against the wall in the West Bank village of Bil’in. During the barrage, a young Palestinian demonstrator was shot in the head by a rubber bullet and evacuated to a local hospital.read more [...]
The presidents of 27 major American labor organizations have signed a letter condemning the recent spate of union boycotts against Israel, particularly those in the UK. The letter also calls on Israeli, Palestinian, and international trade unionists to work together to pursue a “just and fair resolution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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I’m at the airport. It’s a quarter to 5 in the morning. Flight boards in about an hour and a half.
What a whirlwind of a day. I’m amazed I’m still standing.
NY soon.
Jerusalem: Queer protest against Israeli Independence Day
GoGay, April 23, 2007
Translation by Yossi Bartal
A group of queer activists painted pink the memorial canon in Jersualem’s “Davidka” square, and added the graffiti “Lesbians against arms” (which in Hebrew also translates as “Lesbians against dicks”). This act is meant as a protest against the occupation of Palestine and [...]
In this video, shot by a 16 year-old Palestinian child, an Orthodox Jewish settler in Hebron taunts her Palestinian neighbor, repeatedly calling her a whore.
ynet reports,
The Abu- Aisha family in Hebron has been suffering at the hands of their neighbors from the nearby Jewish settler community of Tel-Rumeda for a along time now. A video [...]
I’ll be on WBAI’s Beyond The Pale in an hour and a half (12PM EST/7PM Israel) to discuss the American Jewish Committee’s paper “‘Progressive’ Jewish Thought and The New Anti-Semitism.”
Listen online here.
[Update]
Here’s my interview, followed by comments by Sara Roy, professor at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University.
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[Note] I have condensed my two most recent posts about Israel’s relationship with American Neoconservatives into the following post and removed the original two, which were, I believe, less well-thought through than this one.
A Fox News poll conducted in May 2006 shows that only 24% of Americans consider Iran an imminent threat, while 63% consider [...]
Even when I do something considerably risky and arguably honorable by very publicly owning up to an indiscretion, vowing to make ammends for it, and calling for the support of others, my so-called friends at Jewlicious have found it opportune to take a giant shit on me.
The gulles continues.
[Update] Ariel Beery joins the hater chorus, [...]
