Protesters against the BDS movement during the Celebrate Israel Parade in New York. June 1, 2014. / Photo by AP – Courtesy Haaretz.com
How the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement is changing organized American Jewish life.
Umm el-Hieran. (Photo: Adalah)
The Bedouin village of Umm el-Hieran in Israel’s southern Negev desert is running out of time and appeals before it will be razed to the ground and an exclusively Jewish town will be built in its place.
by Allison Deger Mondoweiss
Jibril Rajoub shakes hands with Israeli soccer federation president, Ofer Eini
by Richard Silverstein
Photo: Israeli Use of Palestinians As Human Shields is an atrocious human rights violation.
A late report from Washington has it that U.S. President Barack Obama is considering an NSA recommendation that Special Forces “boots on the ground” at least be discussed and that the US may direct its war against Da’ish to save Palmyra.
Can One of the World’s Greatest Archaeological Sites Be Saved?
by Franklin Lamb
Office of the Director-General of Antiquities and Museums (DGAM), Damascus.
by Ali Abunimah The Electonic Intifada
Thousands of young Israelis, many of them children, rampaged through the Old City of occupied Jerusalem on Sunday chanting “Death to the Arabs” and other racist and anti-Muslim slogans.
Some attacked bystanders and journalists and banged on the shutters of Palestinian stores that had been ordered to close at midday.
Photo of an Israeli sniper during the 40 day siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethleham in 2002
Image credit: Aljazeera
The Zionist project; Greater Israel in the Middle East, was established on “uprooting, expulsion and occupation” colonial ideology. This means forceful uprooting, expulsion and transfer of indigenous Palestinians into other Arab states, and importing Jews from all over the world to occupy the country.
Of all the lame-brained, lumpen-brained, hare-brained schemes emanating from Aipac’s lobby shop, this is one of the truly lamest.
