Demonstrators in village of Nabi Saleh, Palestine, focused on the case of 14-year-old schoolgirl Malak al-Khatib, arrested by Israeli soldiers near Ramallah a month ago and imprisoned since
Imagine a pre-1994 MSM discourse on US-South Africa that entirely excluded black South Africans– a New York Times article urges US and Israel to grow up and patch their differences
Rachel Maddow, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and People for the American Way all blast a Republican trip to Israel and occupied Palestine because of the US Christian sponsor, not Palestinian conditions. SPLC praises Israel as a refuge for Jews from anti-Semitism.
In the spirit of the Super Bowl we have decided to release our betting line for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming speech to Congress.
Odds the following will be thanked during the speech:
John Boehner: 1 to 1
Chris Kyle: 10 to 1
Ted Cruz: 100 to 1
Tom Cruise: 1,000 to 1
Carnival Cruise Lines: 10,000 to 1
Barack Obama: 100,000 to 1
In an action that has already made headlines around the world, Code Pink stole the show yesterday with…
What are the odds that Netanyahu backs out of the invitation to speak to Congress? Neocon Robert Kagan and liberal Zionist Martin Indyk both want the speech not to happen, lest it politicize Congress’s blind deference to Israel supporters
Robert Cohen shares a moving personal post on why he has become weary and wary of trying to take meaning or lessons from the Holocaust: “When it comes to the Palestinian people, the Holocaust has hardened our hearts and closed our minds. The scale of our own suffering has made us blind to their suffering – which we see as all of their own making. Perhaps this was inevitable. Why should a people abused and broken become saints? The opposite result is more often the outcome. I am asking for too much. Expecting something that no group is capable of.”
Why does there seem to be so much tension between Muslims and Jews? Sabith Khan suggests that while the tension between the two faith groups seems to be about religion, it is in fact a political discourse in which politics is intruding the territory of religion. In this particular case, he suggests that religious traditions and institutions can offer solutions, rather than political parties or ideologies.
Houria Bouteldja, founder and spokesperson of the Party of the Indigenous of the Republic in France, writes a searing essay on the Charlie Hebdo attack and Islamophobia in French society: It did not take a genius to guess that this system produces time bombs—and our friends knew it—but it had to be us to understand the gaping wound of our violated dignity. We know that we are nothing. People keep telling us. Our humanity is trampled; on it, everyone wipes his or her feet. Thus, the “jihadists” responded: “our lives are worth nothing but now yours are worth nothing as well. You eradicate us, we eradicate you.” This is the curse of the “scum.” Let’s move on.
On Saturday, January 24th, 2015, the Palestinian Youth Movement – San Diego and Colectivo Zapatista co-organized their 2nd Break Down Borders 5K along the U.S. side of the U.S.-Mexico Border. The 5K draws parallels between injustices happening at borders in Palestine under Israeli military control and the border between the U.S. and Mexico. It also highlights the violence and injustices that indigenous and oppressed communities face at colonial border regions around the world.