News Items
The following news items have been syndicated by the following sources:
- B'Tselem
- Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)
- Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU)
- The Mondoweiss Blog
- Health and Human Rights Project
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Report finds US policy toward Israel/Palestine contradicts American values
In April the American Friends Service Committee organized an important daylong mock Congressional hearing on whether US foreign policy towards Israel/...
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Israel and Palestine: A true one-state solution (George Bisharat, Washington Post)
For decades, the international community has assumed that historic Palestine must be divided between Jews and Palestinians. Yet no satisfactory division of the land has been reached. Israel has aggravated the problem by settling roughly 500,000 Jews in East Jerusalem and the West Bank,...
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Honored speaker at Bard College derides Muslims’ praying habits and sniggers at First Amendment
In two weeks Bard College is staging a lecture in New York by New Republic editor Martin Peretz. You have to wonder how appropriate this is given Peretz's latest rant against Muslims and the First Amendment.
Peretz's anti Arab-racism is...
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Armed settlers steal 35 acres of Palestinian land but U.S. pressures Abbas to lie back and think of England, and
And other news from Today in Palestine:
Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing
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Hear, O Israel– first the Pixies and Elvis Costello, now ‘Massive Attack’ says we won’t play Jim Crow
New Statesman, a piece by Bill Parry, author of Against the Wall:
now one of Britain's most successful bands, Massive Attack, is...
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On Al-Quds Day
[Editor's note: Today is Al-Quds Day, an international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people that is held annually on the last Friday of Ramadan.]
Al Quds - Jerusalem: The city of martyrs; the occupied city. A city painted a...
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Well I’ve got a hammer! Washington Post, LA Times and NYT publish important Palestinian voices
The talks are surely a farce, but this is an amazing moment that we must celebrate: independent Palestinian voices are at last being heard in major American newspapers as a counter to the endless pro-Israel arguments. And they are speaking plainly to Americans about an American idea:...
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‘The Israel Project’ cuts Abbas out of the picture
Two nights back I received the following email from The Israel Project (TIP) after a long day of watching the Middle East...
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‘Cookie monster, hubba hubba, inside out socks, and melted ice cream!’ (Revising George Will)
I learned recently that Avigdor Lieberman’s Foreign Ministry is spending money, and I want some.
Ha’aretz reports that sixty to seventy million shekels will be funneled...
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Why Israel imprisoned my best friend (Mohammed Khatib, The Electronic Intifada)
The EU's statement denouncing Abdallah's conviction is an important first step. But it must be followed by serious action to ensure that Israel does not use the resumption of negotiations as a smokescreen to hide behind while entrenching the occupation. Until such steps are taken, no one who...
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