admin | March 10, 2020
Palestine My Land, Kofia, Album Cover. (Photo: Supplied) By Louis Brehony Since the Nakba, Palestinian art and culture have walked a fine line between maintaining tradition and absorbing other modes of expression
admin | March 9, 2020
When the television channels presented the results of their exit polls, there was much joy at Yamina headquarters: The right won. In Ofra, residents were invited to celebrate. But Yamina only won six seats you call that victory?
admin | March 9, 2020
Joe Biden told the Israel lobby group AIPAC this week that it is dangerous for Israel to become another issue that divides Democrats and Republicans. But he warned that Israeli moves to build more settlements and annex occupied territories were threatening that divide by alienating young Americans. The former vice president and now Democratic frontrunner made a video statement to AIPAC on March 1 and advocated for the two-state solution and against steps on both sides that take us further from peace.
admin | March 9, 2020
Ballot box voting poll station iStock NOTICE: World Zionist Congress (WZC) Voting Runs from Jan 21, 2020 to March 11, 2020, ending in just three more days. One billion dollars in funding is at stake. Your vote is necessary to block Israel's enemies from using these funds to harm Israel's future.
admin | March 9, 2020
In commemoration of the Battle of Tel Hai, thousands belonging to the Betar Youth Movement gathered at the Roaring Lion Monument in the Upper Galilee this week to mark the centennial of the famous confrontation.The event revolved around the heroism of a Jewish defensive paramilitary group and their commander Joseph Trumpeldor.The battle, which took place on March 1, 1920, in the heat of the Franco-Syrian War, began when several hundred Shi'ite Arabs from Southern Lebanon, accompanied by a large contingency of Bedouin villagers from a nearby town, besieged the Jewish village of Tel Hai.The Arab forces demanded to search the settlement for French soldiers, but most of the town believed that they wanted to enter under false pretenses, their real goal being to drive out the Jewish settlers.In response to the demand, a Tel Hai farmer fired a shot into the air, signalling for nearby reinforcements stationed at Kfar Giladi led by Joseph Trumpeldor. When he arrived with his ten men and saw that he was greatly outnumbered, he initially attempted to send the Arab militia away by negotiating with them.When that failed, he allowed the Bedouin Mukhtar Kamal Affendi into the village to search for French soldiers
admin | March 9, 2020
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admin | March 7, 2020
This weeks AIPAC conference in Washington wrestled with the crisis facing the Israel lobby: the growing partisanship of Israel support. AIPAC featured many Democratic politicians, and its panels offered appeals to progressives, though AIPAC is a rightwing organization (as the young Jewish group IfNotNow reminds us). In an AIPAC forum on Progressive Zionism, Rabbi Noah Zvi Farkas said that Zionists could make common cause with leftwing groups by sharing their vulnerability and pain and trauma from Jewish history as a persecuted minority, and in that way other marginalized and historically-oppressed groups will related to them
admin | March 7, 2020
The Western Wall in Jerusalem. Photo: Reuters / Ammar Awad. Over the past few weeks, I have noted a major shift in the Jewish world, a shift that relates to the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) community in America and the startling decision by their most respected leaders to put up a slate for election to the World Zionist Organization (WZO).
admin | March 7, 2020
Tunisian President Kais Saied claimed that the Tunisian Jews are citizens who have equal rights and duties with the rest of the Tunisians.
admin | March 5, 2020
The Joint Lists impressive, welcome achievement comes tempered with disappointment: The glass ceiling of Jewish voters was not broken. On the eve of the election, in certain circles it seemed that, thanks to Jewish voters, Ayman Odeh would be prime minister and Ahmad Tibi foreign minister.
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