Stories written by PhilipGiraldi
IMEMC – A group of Israeli settlers of the Keryat Arba’ settlement, and nearby illegal outposts, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, attacked Palestinian homes and stores in the city. Soldiers have been reported to have kidnapped three Palestinians. The settlers attacked homes in the al-Ja’bary neighborhood, and the ar-Ras area, hurling stones and […]
IMEMC – Israeli navy boats opened fire on a number of Palestinian fishing boats in territorial waters. northwest of Gaza City; the attack caused damage but no injuries. The Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA) has reported that the boats were less than six miles away from the Gaza shore, and had to sail back to the […]
Part I — Donors Give More to Israel Than to Education By Josh Nathan-Kazis. Jewish Daily Forward – The American Jewish community’s network of charity organizations is a font of Jewish power, a source of communal pride and a huge mystery. We know that the network exists. We know that its federations, social service groups and […]
By Eva Illouz. Haaretz – Open Haaretz on any given day. Half or three quarters of its news items will invariably revolve around the same two topics: people struggling to protect the good name of Israel, and people struggling against its violence and injustices. An almost random example: On December 17, 2013, one could read, […]
Redress Online – Brace yourselves: Ukraine could end up with an Israeli president. The Israeli news website Ynet reports that Vadim Rabinovich, a Ukrainian Jewish oligarch who holds an Israeli passport and has lived in the apartheid state of Israel, has announced that he will run for Ukrainian president. He is one of four people to announce their […]
By Max Blumenthal. Mondoweiss – On March 7, members of Northeastern University’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) were informed by the school’s Center for Student Involvement that their chapter had been suspended for at least a year. In a letter sent to the SJP chapter and provided to me by Max Geller, a second […]
By Glenn Greenwald. Salon – Cass Sunstein has long been one of Barack Obama’s closest confidants. Often mentioned as a likely Obama nominee to the Supreme Court, Sunstein is currently Obama’s head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs where, among other things, he is responsible for “overseeing policies relating to privacy, information quality, and statistical programs.” In 2008, while […]
By Stuart Littlewood. My Catbird Seat – “The time when we could condemn Israel and think that that was enough has long passed. The Israelis do not care about condemnation. They are self-righteous. We must now take action against them. We must impose sanctions. If the spineless Obama will not do it, we must do it—even […]
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By Richard Falk. Richard Falk blog – As someone who is both Jewish and supportive of the Palestinian struggle for a just and sustainable peace, I am often asked about my identity. The harshest critics of my understanding of the Israel/Palestine conflict contend that I am a self-hating Jew, which implies that sharp criticism of Israel and Zionism are […]
By Henry Herskovitz. DeirYassin.org blog – The National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) conference was held in Ann Arbor Nov. 2-4, but no JWPF members even knew about it until our friend Michael – from the Yom Kippur protest in Boulder, Colorado – informed this writer that he was planning to attend. But alas, neither […]
