Posts Tagged: Israel Occupation
New Documentary Tells the Truth About Gaza
The Gaza Strip has been a flashpoint between Israelis and Palestinian Arabs for many years -- but especially since 2005, when Israel unilaterally withdrew its military and civilians...
‘Wonder Woman,’ Concerts Upstage Cultural Boycott of Israel
JNS.org - As Israeli actress Gal Gadot’s "Wonder Woman" film heads towards $400 million at the box office, and as numerous big-name musical acts line up...
Haaretz Destroys Its Own Narrative of ‘Ultra Right-Wing Intransigent Netanyahu’
For the second time in recent days, Haaretz has a reluctant exclusive on how Israel's hated, right-wing, war-mongering, intransigent, anti-peace prime minister -- Benjamin Netanyahu...
Fifty Years of Immoral Occupation
This week, the Israeli occupation of the West Bank reached the milestone of 50 years; it is a legacy that will be recalled in shame. Fifty years...
UN Chief Calls for End to Israeli ‘Occupation’ on 50th Anniversary of Six-Day War
JNS.org - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed concern with Israel’s “occupation” in the disputed territories on the Gregorian calendar’s 50th anniversary of the start of...
Jewish Voice for Peace’s Hidden Agenda
When starting a political movement, choosing the right name is perhaps the most important step. We tend to make snap decisions about whether or not...
Zionism’s Post-1967 Choices
It is no accident that there has been little to no change in the official status quo of Judea and Samaria in the 50 years since the...
‘Disenfranchised’ Palestinians Go to the Polls
Henry Siegman, the former executive director of the American Jewish Congress, wrote in a recent issue of the London Review of Books that Israel is...
Reviewing a BBC News ‘Six-Day War’ Backgrounder
Fifty years ago, the build-up of events that led to the Six-Day War had already begun. After 14 Palestinian terror attacks had been carried out with Syrian support since April...
Israel’s Political Disunity Enables Settlement Policy
Israel will soon reach the grim milestone of 50 years of occupation of the West Bank. Many Israelis have become complacent, and have succumbed to the...
Peter Beinart Is an Apologist for Terror
Peter Beinart tries to trick his readers in his latest piece for the Forward. See if you can spot his sleight of hand as he describes the...
New UN Report Compares Israeli ‘Occupation’ to US Slavery
JNS.org - After the United Nations-affiliated Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) last month released a controversial report describing Israel as an “apartheid regime,”...
Israel’s Anti-Boycott Law Is Overdue
Last week, the Israeli Knesset passed a law barring the entry of visitors who have called for a boycott of Israel, or who are otherwise...
10 ‘Humiliating’ Minutes at an Israeli Checkpoint
JNS.org - Remember John Howard Griffin’s 1961 book Black Like Me, about a white journalist who posed as an African-American in order to experience what...
