My following article recently appeared on Mondoweiss: Antony Loewenstein writes from East Jerusalem: “Signs of Hope Emerge in the West Bank” was a headline in the New York Times on 16 July. On the same day, the London Guardian headlined a similar story, “Allure of normal life triumphs in West Bank ‘ghost town‘”. Both pieces…
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From bingo halls to illegal, Jewish colonies
An interesting piece in the Guardian about the ongoing illegal, expansion in East Jerusalem and the American Zionist behind it: For the winning punters chancing their luck at Hawaiian Gardens’ charity bingo hall in the heart of one of California’s poorest towns, the big prize is $500. The losers walk away with little more than…
While the US and Israel spar over settlements, Israel continues ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem
The following story was recently published on Mondoweiss: Joseph Dana, Mairav Zonszein and Antony Loewenstein report from occupied East Jerusalem: Today [19 July] roughly one hundred people gathered to protest the eviction of the Palestinian Hanoun family from their home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem. They are the latest target of the…
Judaizing East Jerusalem
Below is footage (shot by blogger Joseph Dana) and interviews (by yours truly) from a protest on 19 July outside a house in Shiek Jarrah (East Jerusalem) which is slated to be demolished to make room for Jewish settlers. Then nearby, Peace Now’s Hagit Ofran talks about the plan by billionaire Irving Moskowitz to turn…
They don’t want to know about it
Gideon Levy describes an Israel I am seeing and hearing: The Israelis don’t pay any price for the injustice of the occupation, so the occupation will never end. It will not end a moment before the Israelis understand the connection between the occupation and the price they will be forced to pay. They will never…
A day in the West Bank shows ‘the soldiers are settlers but in uniform. They both symbolize the occupation.’
The following piece appeared recently on Mondoweiss: Mairav Zonszein, Antony Loewenstein and Joseph Dana write: The occupation can seem predictably mundane from a distance. To most Israelis the settlement project is seen as a problem, but a problem happening “over there” and utterly removed from their lives. Rampaging settlers are viewed occasionally on television. Violent…
Not from Tel Aviv or Jerusalem
An interesting blog I’ve discovered in Israel, Occupied, written in the city of Jaffa.
These are not the conditions for peace
My latest column for New Matilda is about the realities on the ground here in the Middle East: In Palestine and Israel, Antony Loewenstein is finding that facts on the ground offer little hope for any solution soon, despite optimism elsewhere that change is on the way A few nights ago in Jerusalem I met…
Keeping the pressure on collaborators
Many activists I’m meeting in Israel tell me that this kind of campaign is the only way to save the country from itself: HeidelbergCement, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of building materials, has become the target of legal action in Israel because of its activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). The company’s subsidiary,…
Dirty couches, dogs without water, synagogue seats, and teenage boys with light mustaches (Loewenstein visits an outpost)
My following article was recently published on Mondoweiss: Antony Loewenstein writes: Dining at a hamburger joint on the weekend in Jerusalem with a few members of Israeli… peace group Ta’ayush,including… Joseph Dana, we were struck by the people eating around us. They were mostly young, American Jews laughing and enjoying the atmosphere. They were living the dream.…