Without an Iran deal, the world could have seen a nuclear exchange in the Middle East. President Obama wiretapped Israeli PM Netanyahu not out of political rivalry but to stave off the threat to world peace posed by Netanyahu and his American allies trying to sabotage the deal.
Mondoweiss.net had 12.3 million visits to the site this year, and our top post got 322,000 views and was by Allison Deger, detailing an incident in which German Chancellor Angela Merkel caused Palestinian teen Reem Sawhil to cry with a lecture about unwelcome immigrants in Germany
Thirty years ago Marc Ellis called for a solidarity with the Palestinian people. Now that call is more relevant than ever. Because the abyss is clearly in view.
For her bat mitzvah, Faryn Borella’s grandparents bought her fifteen shares of stock in General Electric. Every financial quarter since she has received a tiny check in the mail, which she has dutifully yet automatically deposited in her bank account. Then she became a BDS activist.
Three weeks ago, some of our most generous and strategic donors told us they believed we could build a stronger organization—that the community we’ve grown would be ready to push us to the next stage. On the last day of the campaign, and we’re well over 90 percent of our goal! Please help us donate today to help us unlock our $50,000 Challenge Fund.
Former Brandeis President Frederick Lawrence mentions not one Palestinian, only Jews and Israelis, when he says the way to defeat BDS is to invite participants with all perspectives on campus. He hired three former Israeli soldiers to present a picture of Israel in the “context of love.”
Supermodel Gigi Hadid made international headlines last week when she posted to Instagram a note about her Palestinian heritage —“check out the last name. Hadid. Half Palestinian & proud of it.” But the model is not the only “proud Palestinian” from the Hadid family on social media. Her father Mohamed Hadid posted a series of images of the past few weeks of his Nazareth-born family as refugees in Syria following the 1948 war.
A new Wall Street Journal scoop details how a NSA wiretap trained on the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led to intercepts of conversations with U.S. lawmakers and American Jewish groups. While the possibility of illegal spying on Congress will dominate public discussion of the story, the monitoring of Netanyahu and his staff, and the blunt way American officials reportedly discuss it in private, completely belies the public presentation of a relationship based on “shared values.”
Israel takes another step down a dark path, banning a novel from high school classes that deals with a romance between a Jewish woman and a Palestinian man. The government says it will undermine “Jewish identity.”
2015 was a landmark year for the BDS movement. Read a detailed round-up of BDS victories over the past 12 months.