Noam Sheizaf, the wonderful Israel blogger at Promised Land, issues a challenge to whatever still exists of the useful Left in the Jewish state (what, two or three people these days?) and tells in the US Forward that it’s time to ship up or face even greater irrelevance: The future of the Israeli left does…
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Some in the American political elite want to help Gaza (but you can count them on one hand)
When one thinks of the American political elite, it’s far too easy (and correct) to presume that the vast majority of Congressmen and women are either utterly petrified of the Zionist lobby or simply believe that Israel’s occupation policies are acceptable. A few do not, including Brian Baird and Keith Ellison, and they should be…
The Guardian covers the Gaza Freedom March
Following extensive global media coverage of our massive Cairo protest on 31 December to protest the siege on Gaza, the Guardian also filmed proceedings but didn’t cover the violence handed out to us by Egyptian security services.
A civic duty to protest Palestinian removals in Sheikh Jarrah
Public resistance to Israel’s expansion into East Jerusalem is growing. Jerusalem-based David Shulman writes: I think something new is happening in Jerusalem. I see it in the young people who bear the brunt of this demonstration, who organize it and lead it and cheerfully face the Border Police and the blue police and, much worse,…
Why BDS can never be won by usual Zionist tactics
The issues of boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel were discussed regularly this week in Cairo. This movement is feared by Israel and its friends because the Jewish state can no longer hide behind its military might. In the war of ideas, the never-ending occupation is Israel’s weak point. Here’s the Jerusalem Post in late…
We can kill Palestinians with impunity, says Israeli
The depth of depravity in certain sections of the Israeli elite is stripped bare with this shocking piece published in Yediot. It doesn’t really need an introduction, except to say that such rhetoric will simply continue to isolate Israel even further. And they deserve it: A year has passed since Operation Cast Lead. The Gaza…
Press TV shows the Egyptian response to a peaceful rally over Palestine
Some good footage from Press TV yesterday that captured the brutality shown by the Egyptian security forces to a peaceful protest for the Gaza Freedom March in central Cairo. US aid going to good use:
Israeli asks whether his country wants to regain its lost morality
Michael Sfard is the legal adviser of Yesh Din, a leading Israeli human rights organisation. He gave the following speech, via Combatants for Peace on 26 December, in Jaffa. His words are translated by the Middle East News Service editor Sol Salbe: It has been a year, just one year since, but we can already…
Gaza will be free in our life-time
What the Gaza Freedom March is all about: My photos from the last week in Cairo are here.