By Oliver Wright. The Independent – The Labour party is facing desertion by Jewish donors and supporters because of Ed Mili-band’s “toxic” anti-Israeli stance over Gaza and Palestine. In a fresh headache for the Labour leader, it is understood that Mr Miliband has been warned that Jewish backers are deserting the party in droves over what […]
At the end of September, a total of 182 Palestinian children were imprisoned and prosecuted in the Israeli military court system, a decrease of 9.4 percent from August.The number of young children detained between the ages of 14 and 15 was 19. There were no children detained in the Israeli military court system under 14 years old. New Military […]
Letter to Joe Klein Time Magazine Inc. cc. Managing Editor, Nancy Gibb 6th of August, 2014 Dear Sir: Re: August 4, 2014 – Commentary: In Gaza, a Just but Bloody War First, I am not a quack. I am a working Mediator with a law background. I have closely studied conflict since 1978 and researched Israel-Palestine since the threads from 9/11 led to […]
By Judy Maltz. The Jewish Daily Forward – (Haaretz) — Inspired by Taglit-Birthright’s free trips to Israel for college students, a brand new program will bring Jewish newlyweds from North America on heavily subsidized honeymoons to the Holy Land. The program, Honeymoon Israel, has just obtained initial funding to finance two pilot trips this spring, each […]
Amnesty International – Israeli forces have killed scores of Palestinian civilians in attacks targeting houses full of families which in some cases have amounted to war crimes, Amnesty International has disclosed in a new report on the latest Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip. Families under the Rubble: Israeli attacks on inhabited homes details eight cases where residential family […]
By Philip Giraldi. The Unz – So Israel is building 2,610 new housing units in East Jerusalem and in contiguous areas on the West Bank at a time when international sentiment against its unending occupation of Palestine is growing, particularly among Europeans if one goes by recent developments in Sweden, Britain and in Ireland. The administration of President Barack […]
By Yossi Gurvitz. 972 Magazine – Is it permitted for a Jewish soldier to rape a gentile woman during wartime? This question – based on the biblical mitzvah of Eshet Yefat Toar (“a comely woman”) – was referred to nine years ago (Hebrew) by Rabbi Eyal Qarim. The questioning party seemed anxious and worried, and wanted to know whether the iron-age mitzvah(religious […]
By Nathan Guttman. The Jewish Daily Foward – When a storm wreaked havoc on East Coast air travel last winter, among the thousands of travelers stranded were several dozen Israeli-American teens from Washington and Philadelphia. But these youths, who were en route to the annual meeting of the Tzofim, the Israeli scouts, were luckier than the […]
The Jerusalem Post – Israeli right-wingers on social media have launched an online campaign of incitement against President Reuven Rivlin in reaction to the newly installed head of state’s conciliatory gestures toward the Arab community.A picture of Rivlin in Arab headdress known as akeffiyeh was making the rounds and going viral on social media, where extremists […]
By Jonathan Cook. CounterPunch – It is astonishing that the reconstruction of Gaza, bombed into the Stone Age according to the explicit goals of an Israeli military doctrine known as “Dahiya”, has tentatively only just begun two months after the end of the fighting. According to the United Nations, 100,000 homes have been destroyed or damaged, leaving […]
