We reported last week about the spraying of graffiti about Palestine in Warsaw. Now, some more details: A group of Israeli left-wing activists and pro-Palestinian demonstrators last week sprayed graffiti on remnants of the Warsaw Ghetto, calling for all ghettos to be liberated, including Gaza. One of the activists was conscientious objector Yonatan Shapira, an…
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Young Australian Jews taken to Hebron and asked to smell freedom
While Jewish settlers bleat about human rights – not of Palestinians, of course, but themselves – we learn that a Birthright trip has visited the illegal settlement of Hebron. Australians, no less, talking about how much they love being there and the connection to the Jewish people. Nothing about Palestinians:
Insulated Jews turn away from actions down the road
Joseph Dana on another day protesting in the West Bank and then returning to Israel: Often the subject of the West Bank will end conversations in Tel Aviv bars. It is a sad reality of this country. My reality of living in Tel Aviv but spending most of my time in the West Bank reinforces…
New York Times readers start to see the darkness in Gaza
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has been travelling around Palestine (here’s his recent strong piece from the West Bank). Now it’s Gaza. Although his words are couched in too many cautious tones, his blog offers the reality of what he really saw: My Sunday column is from Gaza, where I argue that Israel should…
Better find another country to visit, Hebron oppressor
Watching every step. Israeli officers and politicians will soon be before international courts. That day is coming: The IDF was forced to cancel the departure of the outgoing Hebron Brigade commander, Col. Udi Ben-Moha, to study in the UK. Yedioth Ahronoth has learned that the army feared that Ben Moha would be arrested upon landing…
The nightmare in Hebron
Another day and another violent arrest of peaceful protesters in the West Bank (Max Blumenthal and Joseph Dana explain). For Palestinians, however, every day is a potential nightmare. Here’s Gideon Levy on one painful story: The scars speak for themselves: a scorched hole in the middle of his forehead, like a mark of Cain, two…
Fayyadism is a dead-end road
While Palestinian dictator Mahmoud Abbas reportedly offers parts of Palestine to the Jewish state – an unelected man with no legitimate credentials, just how Washington and Tel Aviv likes it – nobody serious (except some gullible New York Times commentators) actually believes the Palestinian Authority has any real power to bring change: Since June 2007…
The paper of record waking up to Israeli colonies?
Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times today: The Israeli occupation of the West Bank is widely acknowledged to be unsustainable and costly to the country’s image. But one more blunt truth must be acknowledged: the occupation is morally repugnant. On one side of a barbed-wire fence here in the southern Hebron hills is the…
West Bank poverty “worse than Gaza”, says UK charity
Despite what the New York Times tells its readers about the wonders of life in the West Bank, the facts just keep on getting in the way: Children living in the poorest parts of the West Bank face significantly worse conditions than their counterparts in Gaza, a study conducted by an international youth charity has…
Caring about Shalit is so touching (but shame about those imprisoned Arabs)
The cynicism here is almost comical. The Australian Jewish community and their American Jewish friends are deeply concerned about the plight of Gilad Shalit currently in Gaza. They are ably assisted by pieces such as this in the Washington Post, comparing Hamas to the Nazis. Leaders of the Zionist lobby in the US write articles…