My following video and article appears on Mondoweiss: The Western view of Gaza is of a desperate and violent place. Terrorism, extremism, Jew-hatred and poverty merge to create a dangerous brew. The Hamas-controlled territory poses a supposedly existential threat to Israel (and Jews everywhere.) But this is only one side of the besieged Strip. And…
Articles in Mondoweiss
Hope lives in Gaza despite siege, desperation and anger
My following essay appeared this week on Mondoweiss: The drive from Gaza City to Khan Younis takes around 40 minutes. The roads are rocky and the landscape barren, with destroyed houses and factories along the way. Cars and donkey-drawn carts populate the road. Last Friday I rode in a battered taxi towards the city to…
Cruel but Necessary: Israeli Opinions about the Settlements and Obama
The following article recently appeared on Mondoweiss: Antony Loewenstein and Joseph Dana write: With all the current rhetoric out of Washington regarding an Israeli settlement freeze in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, we wanted to gauge public opinion on the streets of Jerusalem on a sunny, Sunday afternoon last weekend. What we found was…
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…
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…
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.…
Loewenstein: Looking for God in a West Bank colony, Jews shoot me death stares
My following article was recently published on Mondoweiss: Antony Loewenstein writes from East Jerusalem: The occupation hits you from the very beginning. Arriving at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, I caught a shared shuttle to East Jerusalem. I noticed an advertisement mentioning service to a number of settlements. It’s simply a normal part of…
Why would anyone who can get along with Arabs want to exalt the two-state solution?
Mondoweiss writes: The other day I wrote that now that non-Zionists are finally gaining a voice in the discourse on Israel/Palestine, we have to bring our bat and ball– positive ideas about how to solve things in the Middle East, not just a litany of Palestinian suffering. I’m planning to have a rolling roundtable on…
Israel’s beach in Central Park brings frenzy and protest
My following article is published today on the popular US website Mondoweiss: The recent Salute to Israel parade in New York was symptomatic of a mainstream Jewish community desperate to appear normal, relaxed yet determined. Sunday’s “Tel Aviv beach in Central Park” was another day in the life of Israeli propaganda, estimated to have cost…
Obama in Cairo
My following article was published today on the popular US website Mondoweiss: Back in 2005, then US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave a rousing speech at Cairo’s American University. “For sixty years”, she argued, “my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region here in the Middle East…
More articles in Mondoweiss
- In photos: the dark reality in the occupied Jordan Valley — March 27, 2019
- Meeting Alan Dershowitz — October 3, 2010
- Antony Loewenstein, on Racism and ‘Jewish-Born’ Critics of Zionism — April 24, 2007