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New York, NY, November 4, 2009 – Eleven organizations from the US, Palestine and Israel have called on baseball’s New York Mets to cancel a November 21st dinner at the Caesars Club at Citi Field for the Brooklyn-based Hebron Fund. ...
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If you're near New York, check out this interesting event coming up Thursday - Omar Barghouti & George Fletcher Debate
Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Against Israel
Barghouti & Fletcher Debate BDS Against Israel moderated by GRITtv's Laura Flanders | Adalah-NY: The
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Columbia University (AltschulHall, Room 417) at 420 West 118th St New York,..
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Yaakov "Jack" Teitel, a resident of the Jewish settlement outpost Shvut Rachel, was arrested by Israel’s Shabak for his alleged murder of two Palestinians and planned terrorist attacks on a left-wing academic and homosexuals. ...
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Ahmed Moor writes: "Jewish people who are critical of Israel are right to question what Israel means to them as Jews. “Not in my name” is a solid basis for taking issue with the often-criminal behavior of the Zionist Israeli government. But it is not enough to eventually heal the rift between the Jewish and Palestini...an peoples. A purely Jewish focus on a more-than-Jewish problem causes many leftist Jews to take a paternalistic view of Palestinians. Rather
than equals whose inalienable rights form the crux of the case against
Zionism, the Palestinians are the clay of Jewish humanism, waiting to
be fully actualized by thoughtful and reflective Jewish hands. Instead
of insisting that Palestinians are human beings whose existence is the
repudiation of Zionism, some Jews on the left argue that Zionism
violates Jewish ethics. I am not suggesting
that the two streams of thought are mutually exclusive, only that the
focus on one may inhibit the realization of the other."Read More
than equals whose inalienable rights form the crux of the case against
Zionism, the Palestinians are the clay of Jewish humanism, waiting to
be fully actualized by thoughtful and reflective Jewish hands. Instead
of insisting that Palestinians are human beings whose existence is the
repudiation of Zionism, some Jews on the left argue that Zionism
violates Jewish ethics. I am not suggesting
that the two streams of thought are mutually exclusive, only that the
focus on one may inhibit the realization of the other."Read More
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Something special is happening to the discourse about Palestine and Israel in the United States. New spaces are opening up where none existed before. For instance, some Palestinians, Israelis ...
Mondoweiss Mondoweiss reports from the J Street conference. In addition to the post below also see http://bit.ly/g8744, http://bit.ly/14aeYW and http://bit.ly/nlj4f
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I’ve finally reemerged from J Street. Although I intended to be posting throughout the conference, I never found the time. It was a packed few days, with energy bursting at the seams. Although usually ...
Mondoweiss Scene from the studio audience as Dr. Mustafa Barghouti and Anna Baltzer were interviewed on The Daily Show.
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As I entered the television studio, Aerosmith was blaring over speakers and the familiar set of The Daily Show stood empty. As can be expected, it looked much smaller in person, but everyone was excited regardless. ...
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Report from Israeli conscientious objector Sahar Vardi on her speaking tour to South Africa: "The explosive reaction to our stay in South Africa is explained by the
fact that Israelis are allergic to talk of South Africa. The spectre of
Apartheid haunts the Israeli elite because they know that this is what
exists, in modified form, in the occupied territories."
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Shministim are conscientious objectors. We are Israeli high-school graduates who refuse conscription into the military, and are repeatedly imprisoned as a result. We will not take part of the occupation ...
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Tony Judt rolled on to the stage at NYU last night in a wheelchar, with a breathing tube over his face and a blanket over his form and began his lecture in a surprisingly strong voice by “shooting ...
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Noam Chomsky, Rashid Khalidi, George Bisharat and others tell President
Obama - "If you are serious about forging peace, then we call
on you to defend the right of Mohammad and all Palestinians to resist
their oppression through non-violent activism. We implore you to
pressure Israel for the immediate release of human righ...ts advocate
Mohammad Othman and all prisoners of conscience who are being held
solely for their work towards justice and freedom."Read More
Obama - "If you are serious about forging peace, then we call
on you to defend the right of Mohammad and all Palestinians to resist
their oppression through non-violent activism. We implore you to
pressure Israel for the immediate release of human righ...ts advocate
Mohammad Othman and all prisoners of conscience who are being held
solely for their work towards justice and freedom."Read More
Open Letter to Obama: If you are serious about forging peace, then support Palestinian non-violent a
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This morning, an Israeli judge extended Mohammad Othman’s detention for another 11 days. The following letter has been issued as part of the international campaign to demand Othman’s release:
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Of all the events I’ve covered surrounding Jewish identity and Israel in the last year, none has given me so much pleasure as the lecture last night by Shlomo Sand at NYU on the Invention of the Jewish People. ...
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The Jewish push for peace is surging through the grassroots, but leaders and policy-makers are still turning a deaf ear.
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The Toronto Declaration refuses to go away, and Udi Aloni is one of the reasons why. Son the Israeli left-wing fixture Shulamit Aloni, Udi is an internationally recognized filmmaker (his films include Forgiveness and Local Angel) and a mainstay on the Tel Aviv art scene. ...
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Israel's latest strategy for responding to allegations of human rights abuses: kill the messenger.
Tel Aviv suburb starts anti-miscegenation patrol to ‘assist young girls in the habit of mingling wit
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Check out this illustrative news story from Mississippi, 1963 Tel Aviv, today. The great Israeli blogs Promised Land and Dimi’s Notes report that the Tel Aviv suburb of Petah Tikva has established a patrol unit to break up dates between Palestinians and Jews. ...
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Shalom Rav at Jewschool reports that the Rabbinical Assembly, the religious authority of the Conservative movement, has asked Jewish congregations to sing the "Hatikvah," the Israeli national anthem, at the start of the Jewish new year tonight as a means of combating the Goldstone report.
