admin | July 23, 2020
Worshipers pray in distance from each other at the Western Wall in Jerusalems Old City, amid coronavirus restrictions, March 26, 2020. Photo: Reuters / Ammar Awad.
admin | July 23, 2020
Support for Palestine and opposing the racist Israeli state is not antisemitic (Pic: Guy Smallman) The left faces further assaults from the right following a huge pay-out and apology to so-called whistleblowers who appeared in a BBC documentary last year. Labours former right wing general secretary Ian McNicol has said he is suing the party
admin | July 23, 2020
Social protests have been gaining momentum over the past few days, but Israel's Arab community has been hesitant to join in. Although many Arab towns are suffering from the worsening economic crisis caused by the country's coronavirus response, prominent figures are not calling on the public to participate in the demonstrations taking place throughout Israel
admin | July 23, 2020
Bari Weisss letter of July 14 announcing her resignation as editor of the New York Times opinion page has received considerable publicity and has won praise from prominent right-wing spokespersons, including Donald Trump, Jr., political commentators Ben Shapiro and Bill Maher, and U.S.
admin | July 23, 2020
Israeli leftist demonstration, photo via Facebook page of Annexation Is Intifada BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,657, July 23, 2020 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Many are wondering: how have retired leading members of the Israeli defense establishment come to locate themselves on the political left, at times even on the radical left
admin | July 23, 2020
Israel has been trying for years to normalise relations with its neighbours, especially in the Arab and Muslim countries.
admin | July 23, 2020
By Orit-Farkash-Hacohen A caricature of a Chinese person is coughing on Uncle Sam, infecting the United States with Covid-19. A German celebrity chef and author, Attila Hildmann, asks in a poll on his Telegram channel with over 60,000 subscribers: Who financed the Holocaust
admin | July 23, 2020
This has been a very telling few weeks to say the least. From protests, to riots, to DeSean Jackson, to Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, black Americans have been speaking loud and clear and our internal divide has not been more evident in decades. Fringe groups who were seen as such are now becoming more mainstream, forcing powerful people to either toe the line or condemn it.
admin | July 19, 2020
Peter Beinart, a bellwether for American Jews, has provoked a storm by renouncing the two-state solution and urging equality for all Peter Beinart, an influential liberal commentator on Israel and Zionism, poked a very large stick into a hornets nest this month by admitting he had finally abandoned his long-cherished commitment to a two-state solution. Variously described as the pope of liberal Zionism and a bellwether for the American Jewish community, Beinart broke ranks in two essays. Writing in the New York Times and in Jewish Currents magazine, he embraced the idea of equality for all Israelis and Palestinians.
admin | July 19, 2020
Dear Members of the Faculty Senate and the Massachusetts Society of Professors, I write to you because we are in urgent times requiring our action. Once again, we are met with news of Israels plan to continue annexing even more of the West Bank, its intention to claim the Jordan Valley as its own
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