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My response to Allison Speiser
Haaretz published an article by a woman named Allison Speiser the other day in which she explains her reasons for moving into an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank. Read her article here. This is my response: Ms Speiser,You paint a very moving picture of a woman – a wife, a mother – [...]
Israel as the Old West
Today’s gruesome attack in a settlement, in which a man wielding an ax killed a teenage Israeli and wounded a child, brought to mind the image of the old American west. The settlers who founded the United States expanded West and in the process faced hostile natives, the narrative goes. The colonists circled the wagons [...]
Animal Farm in Palestine: Bravo to Jenin Freedom Theater
BBC reports that George Orwell’s Animal Farm is being performed in the West Bank with a decidedly Palestinian twist. It is being put on by drama students of the Freedom Theatre is being staged in the Jenin refugee camp. Although the book is a satire of Stalinism, the adaptation for the Jenin stage is controversial. [...]
Statement from Tristan Anderson’s Family
We are deeply grateful for the love and support pouring in from Tristan’s friends and fellow activists around the world. It is moving to see how many people care for Tristan and are moved by his work championing social justice issues. We are proud of Tristan’s fierce courage, adventurous spirit, and his many travels to [...]
American Injured in Ni’lin in Intensive Care
Tristan Anderson, the American activist Israel shot with a tear gas canister, is in critical condition. According to witnesses, their were not clashes to provoke this. There were active demonstrations earlier that morning, but no imminent need for tear gas against them. Israeli activist Jonathan Pollack told Ynet that “the firing incident took place inside [...]
The Lancet Devotes Latest Issue to Palestinian Health Under the Occupation
Today, The Lancet, one of the world’s best-known and most respected general medical journals released its latest edition. It focused entirely on “Health in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” and features articles by leading Palestinian health specialists from Birzeit University, as well as international scholars and health care workers. In one sentence, the findings are that [...]
Discourse around the Wall
Aaron David Miller and Jimmy Carter both said on Diane Rehm today two things that made me cringe. You can listen here to the whole hour, they start talking about the Apartheid Wall about half way through. Both President Carter and Miller refer to the Wall as “impermanent,” and state that if it had been [...]
While the whole world was preoccupied with Gaza…
Just like it used Election Day in the U.S. as a chance to break the ceasefire, Israel used the Gaza invasion as a chance to confiscate even more West Bank land. Land confiscations in the West Bank are continuing, said Minister of Waqf and Religious Affairs Jamal Bawatneh, and soon “there will be no land [...]
Bob Simon of 60 Minutes: History Passed By Two-State Solution
Bob Simon of 60 Minutes appeared on Charlie Rose to discuss his recent trip to the West Bank and the Gaza invasion. He argues that the history has passed by the two-state solution because of the power of the settlers, the settlements, Israel’s political inability to confront them, and the lack of an American politics [...]
Gaza: raising us up from the terror
It has been three days since Israel began raining indiscriminate death carnage on Gaza, and three days of deliberately terrorizing the civilian population there: 350 killed, over 1,600 wounded, 200 in extremely critical condition in overstretched and understocked hospitals. The numbers don’t seem real anymore. It is hard for the sheer scale of the murder [...]
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