simmons | March 19, 2017
byDavid Sarna Galdi Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week told a delegation led by Reform Movement head Rabbi Rick Jacobs what it wanted to hear that he was attuned to their concerns. But Netanyahus shocking silence during the recent wave of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States was far louder than his words.
admin | March 19, 2017
Linda Sarsour. (Photo: Ford Foundation) It used to be that PEP was a safe place: Progressive Except Palestine. But since Trumps election and the wave of activism to create a coalition of liberals, lefties, progressives, radicals, Zionism is having a rougher time in leftwing spaces
admin | March 17, 2017
On March 8, women abstained from work as part of the International Women's Strike a grassroots feminist movement aimed at bringing attention "to the current social, legal, political, moral and verbal violence experienced by contemporary women at various latitudes." But these positive goals were distorted by the inclusion of anti-Israel rhetoric in the platform of the IWS. There are many countries and movements throughout the world that treat women as second-class citizens: Israel is not among them. Yet this platform singles out for condemnation only Israel, the nation-state of the Jewish people.
simmons | March 17, 2017
Instead of firmly speaking out against the more than 190 anti-Semitic threats and attacks over the past few weeks, Netanyahu has decided to throwthe American Jewish community under the bus of right-wing Israeli fanaticism.
admin | March 17, 2017
Rod Such The Electronic Intifada 15 March 2017 State of Terror: How Terrorism Created Modern Israel, Thomas Surez, Olive Branch Press (2017) Israels propaganda playbook attempts to reframe the Palestinian liberation struggle as a question of terror, not territory. Thanks to a dutiful media, this effort to portray Palestinians as terrorists has had significant traction among some demographics. But how did terrorism originate in Palestine and what was its outcome, both historically and today
admin | March 15, 2017
NEW YORK Two weeks ago the Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour started a fundraising campaign to help restore the graves at a St.
simmons | March 15, 2017
Palestinian-American women in social justice movements cannot be as visible as other women because they're the target of attacks from 'right-wing Zionists,' the activist says. Liberal American Jews, many of whom are involved in causes for gender and racial justice, have recently found themselves alienated by those movements stances on Israel. That conflict was seen last year when a platform associated with the Black Lives Matter movement accused Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinians and called it an apartheid state
admin | March 15, 2017
Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump at a joint press conference in the White House A WAVE of anti-Semitic attacks is sweeping the U.S. On March 2, vandals attacked the third Jewish cemetery in less than two weeks, in one case knocking down or damaging 539 large headstones. Since the beginning of 2017, there have been at least 128 bomb threats at 87 different Jewish community centers and schools across the country.
admin | March 15, 2017
Colonel (Res.) Jonathan Baransky announced Tuesday that he would submit his candidacy for head of the Jewish Home party and contest Naftali Bennett for the leadership position.
admin | March 13, 2017
Black Lives Movement protest by the group ATLisRising.
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