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…
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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…
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.…
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…
Making occupation clean and friendly
Being here in Israel and Palestine, something I hear time and time again is the desperate need for life to be “normal”. Both sides want it, but only one is living under occupation. Due to Israeli human rights groups, the US and even Israeli pragmatism, the West Bank occupation is getting nicer by the day.…
Film-making is always political
Independent Australian Jewish Voices opinion editor Sara Dowse writes about the ways in which activists are increasingly intolerant of Zionists trying to white-wash Israeli crimes through artistic sponsorship. Hello Melbourne International Film Festival.
Colonies are wrong now and forever
Why oh why are the illegal settlements in the West Bank demonised so much in Israel and the West? A Zionist wonders: One of the unwritten laws of war is that the winning side is allowed to do as it pleases after the cessation of hostilities. This law is even more relevant when the victor…
How to confront an illegal outpost
I recently accompanied Israeli peace group Ta’ayush into the West Bank. My friend and colleague Joseph Dana, an American Jew who moved here a number of years ago, weekly documents the actions and films the proceedings. Here’s his report: Yesterday, members of Ta’ayush set out to have a picnic at an illegal outpost built on…