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Anybody wanna go boating?
June 5, 2010Mondoweiss picks up the story from Ma’an: ”In attacking the Freedom Flotilla, Israel has once again demonstrated to the world a heinous brutality. But I know that there are very many Israelis who compassionately and bravely campaign for a just peace. With broadcasting journalists from mainstream television programmes accompanying our boat, Israel will have a [...]
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Finally, some clarity
June 4, 2010Well, this was the week that was. As a service to all you loyal readers I bring you the following analysis of the week’s events which will put everything into perspective. (Courtesy of Arutz Sheva, of course.) Rabbis: Flotilla Clash Similar to Gog and Magog Prophecy Sivan 21, 5770, 03 June 10 07:34by Gil Ronen [...]
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Happy Birthday Allen Ginsberg wherever you are
June 4, 2010The Lion For Real by Allen Ginsberg “Soyez muette pour moi, Idole contemplative…” I came home and found a lion in my living room Rushed out on the fire escape screaming Lion! Lion! Two stenographers pulled their brunnette hair and banged the window shut I hurried home to Patterson and stayed two days Called up [...]
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Watch as I take this symbol of resistanceand *poof*it becomes a new symbol of oppression!
June 3, 2010Shemspeed should stay in the music business–where, as a music reviewing blogger, I quite like it–and leave the political fashion statements to someone else. They previously released their Israeli keffiyeh earlier this year. Today they proudly announced that they’re also selling a version of their Israeli keffiyeh with familiar yellow and army green colors–the IDF [...]
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Israel Activism 101
June 2, 2010In the wake of Israel’s colossal blunder, how can its supporters help defuse the escalating tensions? Maybe, say, apologize for the deaths, work to reverse Israel’s near-total international isolation, and rethink the wisdom of a French fry embargo on Gaza? Or, alternatively, maybe they should stage triumphalist rallies at Turkish consulates [...]
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The Further Adventures of the Fantastic Flotilla!
June 2, 2010On the Jewschool contributors email list, we’ve been talking today about presenting a selection of the most compelling things we’ve read about the flotilla. Here’s what we came up with. First, what we’ve already said here at Jewschool. Amos Oz writing at the New York Times: For 2,000 years, the Jews knew the force of force [...]
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Meanwhile
June 1, 2010Well, with the TV burning up with images of Israeli MADNESS, I’m reminded that we ain’t the only ones with NATIONAL PROBLEMS. The Jamaica Daily Gleaner reports that mothers in the West Kingston Slums are asking the Jamaican Defense Forces to give them their son’s dead bodies back.
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Gaza flotillas and Israels allies talespin to suit their agendas
June 1, 2010What is grating on my nerves about the Freedom Flotilla matters now that the passengers have been unloaded in Ashdod is the rhetoric around the event. Chillul Who said it well: You can trust both sides to tell only the truths that paint them in the best light. Call me a liberal, but the pursuit [...]
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#JEd21
June 1, 2010Jewish educators on Twitter who want to be part of a bigger conversation know the hashtag of choice is #JEd21. This hashtag was created by Phil Brodsky (yes, hashtags do have creators!) when he was the Hornstein Intern at Darim Online. Much of the conversation tagged with #JEd21 involves the application of technology [...]
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Implications of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla assault/massacre/tragedy/debacle
May 31, 2010I’ve seen footage of the confrontations aboard the flotilla that suggest that the passengers on the ships were ready for an armed attack. @IsraelMFA (on Twitter) is already using this to claim that the IDF was right to board the ships. I’m not so sure. Obviously the passengers knew Israel wasn’t just going to let [...]
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Gaza flotilla: multiple tragedies at sea
May 31, 2010Truly disturbing news from the Mediterranean: 10 dead are reported after Israeli commandos boarded six ships assembled by the Free Gaza Movement to break the Gaza seige. (Read Noam Sheizaf for background and liveblogging.) In addition to the international condemnation for boarding a boat in international waters, guarded statements from the US, and another dramatic recalling of [...]
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More Eviction Orders in Sheikh Jarrah
May 30, 2010And this in the same week that 700-800 students and professors marched from Hebrew U to Sheikh Jarrah in protest of the families who have already been evicted from their homes. Haaretz reports: As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads to Washington in a much-feted effort to restore damaged ties with the United States, new tensions [...]
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Israel Threatens (another) Palestinian Advocate of Non-Violence
May 29, 2010Daoud Nasser is one of my heroes. His family owns a plot on top of a hill between the village of Nahalin and the illegal settlement of Neve Daniel. When you enter the land, there is a stone which reads “We Refuse to Be Enemies.” I’ve been there many times, and [...]
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So Wots it Like?*
May 28, 2010Thursday May 27th is a typical DC summer day: hot, humid as a sauna, and threatening rain. What wasn’t typical were the 200 or so Jewish guests of the White House. Although President George W. Bush established May as Jewish Heritage Month in 2007, this was the first time the White House hosted an event [...]
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Jew-on-Jew Racism or Cultural Autonomy?
May 28, 2010Anshey Shlomenu! There has been a mild buzz lately about just how attractive the settlements are to low-income Israelis. Looking for land on the cheap, haredim are especially attracted to life in the West Bank. Yet, one particular settlement, Emmanuel has such a low public image that no one really wants to move there. A [...]