Posts Tagged: Israel war crimes
BDS, Antisemitism, and Class
Class has emerged as one of the most important features of global politics. Predictably, antisemitism and the boycott-Israel movement are enmeshed in class-based patterns of...
There Is Still No Palestinian Partner for Peace
JNS.org - In his annual speech to the UN General Assembly, Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas warned that if Israel annexed the Jordan Valley,...
Whatever Happened to the Palestinian ‘Diplomatic Tsunami’?
JNS.org - It was only eight years ago that supporters of Israel were trembling at the possibility that support for the Jewish state would soon...
For Israeli Arabs, Violence Starts at Home
JNS.org - The death of Khair al-Din Hamdan, who was killed by police fire in the village of Kafr Kana in November 2014, resulted in...
Being a Liberal Jewish Student and Dealing With BDS and the Occupation
I have been given what feels like an impossible task -- starting and leading a J Street group on campus. Occidental College used to have a...
BBC Imagery Implies Israeli Airstrikes Target Children
Unidentified aircraft, widely believed to be Israeli, recently carried out overnight airstrikes on targets belonging to Iran-backed militias near Syria’s border with Iraq. The BBC‘s report...
The Tlaib/Omar Controversy Reveals the True Nature of BDS
As expected, the UK paper The Guardian published two full blown rants over the weekend concerning Israel’s refusal to allow US Congresswomen Ilhan Omar (D-MN)...
Six Facts About Israelis, and One About Palestinians, That the Media Ignores
Here are six basic facts about Israelis, and one about Palestinians, that are hardly mentioned in the media or at universities. This refusal to report...
End Which Occupation?
JNS.org - It seems that just about everyone wants to “end the occupation” in Israel. The call rings out from the editorial pages of The New...
The Palestinians, Happiness, and the ‘Occupation’
It might sound frivolous to attempt to measure happiness. Still, for a Columbia University think tank and two respectable Canadian policy institutes, the measuring of...
The Washington Post Bars the Truth About Israel
You can tell a lot about a news outlet by what it chooses to cover -- and even more by what it chooses to ignore....
Palestinians: Palestine Would Be a Beacon of Light of Liberalism to the World — If It Wasn’t for Evil Racist Israel
The recent UN Human Rights Council (UNHCR) meeting looking at the policies of the Palestinian Authority (PA) on fighting racism and bigotry in its society...
Israel Is Not an ‘Apartheid’ State — Here’s the Proof
Since the claim that Israel is an apartheid state was broadcast in 2001 in Durban, South Africa -- the land where I was born and...
Palestinian Leaders Don’t Actually Care About the Lives of Palestinians
American leaders visited Israel this week, following up on the US-sponsored Bahrain economic workshop. The goal of America's continued expenditure of diplomatic time and energy...
