“…here we are, with the lofty, pizza-challenged mayor of New York City, right after a landslide election, caught keeping a speech to AIPAC off his public itinerary and barring any press coverage of it. Weird, innit? What would he have to hide? Well here’s an audio of the speech that AIPAC, according to De Blasio, asked […]
By Alex Lubin, Associate Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico. Albuquerque Journal, January 23, 2014 – When a social movement struggles to expand human rights for all, it seeks to oxygenate debate and dissent, it invites opponents to engage with the central moral and political issues of the day. Social movements that have the […]
IMEMC, January 26, 1014 – After dozens of settlers uprooted Palestinian trees and farmlands near Wad Rahhal village, south of Bethlehem, Israeli soldiers kidnapped coordinator of the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements, and detained two journalists.
WAFA, January 26, 2014 – Israeli settlers Saturday night severely beat up a 13-year-old Palestinian in central Hebron, according to the child’s father.
IMEMC, January 26, 2014 – Israeli soldiers invaded various Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, conducted military searches of homes and property, and kidnapped three Palestinians.
IMEMC, January 26, 2014 – Palestinian sources have reported that several Israelis hurled stones at Palestinian cars driving on Road 1, in occupied Jerusalem; injuries have been reported. The sources stated that dozens of extremists gathered in the area, and threw stones at Palestinian cars before proceeding to assault a young Palestinian man, and stealing his […]
IMEMC, January 25, 2014 – Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stated that Tel Aviv would not remove a single Israeli settlement in the occupied territories, and that any ideas proposed now to advance peace talks, “are just proposals.”…
By Peter Hart. FAIR, January 13, 2014 – Reading the pieces in the Sunday editions of the New York Times and the Washington Post (3/12/14) about the death of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, one gets the sense that reporters were aware of some of Sharon’s bloodiest history–but mostly kept that out of their accounts of his life. […]
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, January 17, 2014 – Funding to Israel was restored to its pre-sequester levels in the spending bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill keeps funding for Israel at $3.1 billion for 2014, the amount designated in a 10-year memorandum of understanding from 2007 that guaranteed Israel an average of $3 […]
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, January 17, 2014 – Michael Oren, the former Israeli ambassador to the United States, will be a contributor to CNN. “Michael will be joining CNN as a Middle East contributor,” a spokeswoman for Oren told JTA in a statement. Oren, a U.S.-born historian who served as ambassador from 2009 until September, now […]
