08/04/06
The Shia Revival
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What I’ve Been Up To Lately
- mazel tov to @bluenatic and @grandstreet on the birth of their baby girl 2 weeks ago
- RT @JTownCrier: Tropper? Kolko? Margulies? Balkany? Dwek? Rubashkin? NO. Moetzes Gedolei Torah condemn AVI WEISS as more offensive. 2 weeks ago
- Rorschach from Watchmen is the new Freddy Krueger http://bit.ly/7s61Cj 2 weeks ago
- More updates...
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08/04/06
World Pride Goes Forth
Next week’s World Pride festival in Jerusalem will proceed but not precisely as planned. Due to the present conflict, the hotly contested and highly controversial pride parade (which brought about numerous protests and threats from Jerusalem’s religious communities) has been cancelled. This may be good or bad depending on where you stand on [...]
08/04/06
Necrophilia
No, really: Who is this man?
I keep trying to hit home the point that this battle is being waged in the media. That being the case, it’s evident that Israel is losing on the media front. I think, frankly, that this is because Israel does not share with Hezbollah the “cultural ethic” [...]
08/04/06
Collaboration of Consequence
[Upd.] We won’t die and we won’t cause death
in the serivce of the United States.
The illustration on this poster is by Mazen Kerbaj, an artist in his early 30s from Beirut. Check out his blog and his Flickr gallery. Overwhelming work.
08/04/06
Jewish Youth in Boston Stage Die-In Against Civilian Deaths
Young Jews Stage Die In to Denounce Israeli Attacks on Civilians
by Marjorie Dove
Boston IMC
Boston, Mass. A group of young American Jews staged a “Die In” on Tuesday August 1, 2006 at South Station in downtown Boston to demonstrate their opposition to recent actions by the Israeli government in Lebanon and Gaza.
“We want to break [...]
08/03/06
sinat chinam/national disunity
downtown jerusalem
man, eicha reads like a newspaper these days, eh?
08/03/06
Only Human
Anarchodin reminded me of an essay by the recently deceased Murray Bookchin, “Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm”, which takes a giant shit on John Zerzan, Hakim Bey, and Crimethinc (more or less) — the anarchist authors which I most identify with (tho which I remain critical towards).
Anarchodin writes,
I do not like Murray [...]
08/01/06
Shin Bet Scuttled Peace Initiative?
An “urgent press release” issued by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed of the University of Sussex Dept. of International Affairs states,
The Omega Institute (OI), which works closely with the Institute for Policy Research for Development (IPRD), has learned from Israeli and Palestinian sources that just prior to the current crisis, senior Hamas leaders were in active dialogue [...]
08/01/06
Protesters Clash With Police at Jerusalem Consulate Demo
ynet:
Dozens of people protested opposite the US Consulate in east Jerusalem against the war in Lebanon and America’s policy on the issue. During the protest clashes broke out between police and protesters. Five people were arrested for suspicion of attacking police officers.
