Apartheid Is Israel’s “Desired Reality”
An interview with Haaretz journalist Amira Hass about occupation, the diaspora, and what comes next.
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Building the Occupation — Since 1963
by Marty Roth Discussed in this essay: The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories, by Ilan Pappe. Oneworld, 2017, 304 pages. ILAN PAPPE’S new book is a history of Israel’s steady absorption and/or constriction of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip after the 1967 war with Jordan, Egypt and Syria. Pappe’s work […]
Read MoreAhed Tamimi Sentenced
by Noah Kulwin Photo: Haim Schwarczenberg, https://schwarczenberg.com AHED TAMIMI WILL BE GOING TO JAIL for 8 months, as part of a plea bargain announced by the 17-year-old’s lawyer on Wednesday. According to her lawyer, Tamimi was staring down a three year sentence for 12 charges, stemming from a December viral video in which Tamimi was filmed slapping […]
Read MoreRachel Corrie
Rachel Corrie died on this date in 2003 when she was crushed by demolition debris pushed onto her by an Israeli military bulldozer which she believed was sent to destroy a Palestinian home in the Gaza Strip’s Rafah area. Corrie (not Jewish), 23, was an American active with the Palestinian-led International Solidarity Movement and had been […]
Read MoreInside the Israeli-Government-Sponsored Settler Party Too Extreme for AIPAC
by Noah Kulwin Image credit: Ryan Rodrick Beiler / Shutterstock.com CRAMMED INSIDE THE BASEMENT of the Sixth and I Historic Synagogue in Washington, D.C. on Monday afternoon, the leading lights of the Israeli settler movement and their allies had a little celebration. Just a few blocks from the comparatively moderate 2018 AIPAC Policy Conference, the Israeli Ministry of […]
Read MoreFive Days in Palestine
by Dina Heisler and Susan Nobel PEOPLE around the world and across time crave similar things. They want the chance to raise their families within a peaceful and fair environment, one that affords a decent quality of life without fear of one’s fellow man. This was the main takeaway from our voyage into another world: […]
Read MoreSupport for the Two-State Solution in Israel
According to a poll released on this date in 2012 by Blue White Future (Atid Kachol Lavan), a movement co-founded by Ami Ayalon, the former director of Israel’s Shin Bet, nearly half of Israeli Jews support a unilateral withdrawal from large sections of the Palestinian territories based on the pre-1967 borders. Blue White Future believes it to be “imperative that […]
Read MoreWhy Jerusalem? Why Not Beijing? Or Washington DC?
by Dan Brook GIDEON ARONOFF, the leader of Ameinu, was wise in saying that truth is not always wisdom. Of course Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, as is universally known. What other city would be its capital? But East Jerusalem is also the future capital of Israeli-occupied Palestine, as is perhaps less universally known. […]
Read MoreNir Baram’s Search for an Israeli-Palestinian Solution
by Bennett Muraskin Discussed in this essay: A Land Without Borders: My Journey Around East Jerusalem and the West Bank, by Nir Baram, translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen. Text Publishing, Melbourne, Australia, 2017, 284 pages. FOR DECADES, Jewish Currents and others on the left have beat the drum for a two-state solution to the […]
Read MoreHebrew as the Language of the Progressive Jewish Future
THE YIDDISH REVIVAL SIDESTEPS TODAY’S REALITY by Rafi Ellenson IN LEARNING YIDDISH, the language of our past, we should not neglect the language of our future: Modern Hebrew. The radical and dynamic linguistic adaptation of the Jewish people is arguably one of our defining characteristics, and the Yiddish Revival is a testament to our […]
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