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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Some diasporas from persecution have honor
Janet Maslin in the Times on Isabel Wilkerson's new book, The Warmth of Other Suns, which documents the ways that blacks sought to flee the Jim Crow south.
She has documented the sweeping 55-year-long migration of black...
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‘How to kill goyim and influence people’
Weiss: Earlier today I complained that Americans are not getting the news about what Israel is becoming. My endless complaint. Here is someone who can cut the corridor, as they say: Max Blumenthal, whose message from Jerusalem a year ago was killed and killed and killed but still it lived,...
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Now Israeli academics sign on to occupation-boycott, citing disaster for Jewish state
Another shoe drops on boycott. Here are Israeli academics, many of them obviously Zionist, saying that they will not go into the territories. Their petition helps to dispel the big clouds surrounding academic boycott here in...
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Advocates for 3 U.S. hikers captured by Iran spotlight their leftwing activism
Here is a great piece by Stephen Zunes on Huffpo about the three American hikers captured by Iran a year ago, evidently when they were on Iraqi soil, visiting a famous water fall. Zunes situates the travelers...
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3-year-old in Hebron has cerebral atrophy, but Israel won’t let her mother in Gaza come back to her
and other news from Today in Palestine:
Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing
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A state of equality (Diana Buttu, Bitterlemons.org)
Support for the "one-state" concept must not simply be a default outcome resulting from failure of the two-state approach, but rather an outcome that strives for equality. Equality, while not a foolproof guarantee of bliss, is certainly a good start. Advocates are cognizant that it may involve...
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PLO urges Yale president to speak out on ‘anti-Arab hate-mongering’ conference
Last week we reported on a disgraceful 3-day conference at Yale that described criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism. Today Maen...
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Rocket Redux, the Israeli fiction
A few months ago, I authored a ...
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Writers Oz, Yehoshua, Grossman back artists’ boycott of Ariel settlement
Where are the liberal American Zionists on this one? What will J Street do? Important news:
Ynet learned on Monday that prominent Israeli authors A. B. Yehoshua, Amos Oz, David Grossman and Sami Michael are...
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