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Injuries, tear gas in Nabi Saleh, record crowd in Sheikh Jarrah / Personal notes from Friday’s demonstrations
May 21, 2010“Each Friday, there are at least 10 demonstrations involving Israelis and internationals in the West Bank,” tells me Didi Remez, as we drive to Nabi Saleh, the tiny village that has been fighting for months to regain access to a small spring that was taken over by settlers from nearby Halamish. Dozens of Israelis come [...]
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Elvis Costello boycotting Israel, helps Israelis out of their state of denial
May 20, 2010Elvis Costello, who cancelled his shows in Israel for political reasons, is extremely unpopular here these days. I’ve read several articles condemning him for this decision, and not one supporting him. Culture Minister Limor Livnat declared that “Costello is not worthy of performing here,” and many people commented that they would never listen to him [...]
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Yitzhar Rabbi publicly supporting attacks on Palestinians
May 20, 2010Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira from “Od Yosef Chai” Yeshiva in the settlements of Yitzhar has publicly expressed support for settlers’ attacks on Palestinians. Also known as “price tag” policy, these attacks usually occur as retaliation to what the settlers perceive as government action against them. Unable or unwilling to confront IDF soldiers and police officers, the [...]
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“If the line has not yet been crossed, where is the line?”
May 17, 2010An interesting article from Peter Beinart on the the New York Review of Books. Though he overestimate the power and presence of the liberal left in Israel right now, Beinart does hit the point regarding not only the carte blanche the Jewish establishment is giving Israel, but also on the dangerous effect this blind support [...]
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The Chomsky affair: Israel has showed the world today that the West Bank, not just Gaza, is under siege
May 16, 2010Much has been written on Israel’s decision not to allow entry to Left-wing linguist Noam Chomsky today, and I guess even more will be written. Form the official Israeli response, it is not clear who made the decision in this case ‘
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Why the Israeli case against boycott is so weak
May 16, 2010Regarding the discussion we had here on Gil-Scott Heron’s decision to cancel his show in Tel Aviv, here are some wise words from Gidon Levy. The real boycott, argues Levy, is the one that Israel is leading against the Palestinians and their supporters: … entry into Israel and the West Bank is being affected by [...]
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Jerusalem day | remember the words of Mayor Kollek: Arabs are second and third class citizens here
May 13, 2010Yesterday Israel marked “Jerusalem Day”. Established by the government in 1968, this was supposed to become a national holiday, celebrating out return to the most sacred city for Jews and the unification of the Israeli capital. But Jerusalem is anything but unified, and Jerusalem Day is a partisan rightwing celebration, marked through provocative “heritage tours” [...]
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Tel Aviv University professors vs. Alan Dershowitz
May 12, 2010Last Saturday, law Prof. Alan Dershowitz of Harvard received an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University. In his speech (which can be seen here, starting from 50:00. full text here), Derhsowitz, who is not an Israeli, attacked “Israeli academics” for being too anti-Israeli, aiding the international campaign against Israel, teaching their students political and historical [...]
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PM Shamir on terrorism: it’s ok, if you are a Jew
May 11, 2010Here is something funny a friend posted on Facebook: Now, it’s not that I support Palestinian terrorism, and I do think Jews were right to fight the British occupation – though Shamir doesn’t mention the fact that many of the Lehi and Irgun attacks were against Arab civilians, not foreign soldiers – it’s just that [...]
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Gag order partly lifted: Makhoul and Said suspected of espionage, contact with Hezbollah agent
May 10, 2010The Petah Tikva district court had partly lifted the gag order on the arrest of two Arab activists, Ameer Makhoul from Haifa and Omar Said of Kfar Kanna. The two are suspected in espionage, contact with Hezbollah agent Yedioth Ahronoth’s site, which filed the appeal to lift the gag order, reports: Fifty-two-year-old Ameer Makhoul from [...]
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Arab human rights groups to protest against Makhoul’s arrest, gag order
May 10, 2010Haaretz reports today that several Arab human rights group are planning a large rally in Haifa today to protest the arrest of activist Ameer Makhoul. A gag order is preventing Israeli media from reporting the arrest itself. Makhoul, director of the Israeli Palestinian human rights NGO Ittijah, was arrested in his Haifa home at 3.00 [...]
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Poll: Most Israelis don’t believe Netanyahu willing to take “real measures” for peace
May 10, 2010Only 17 percent view President Barack Obama as “hostile” to Israel In their report today of the new poll for the War and Peace Index, Yedioth Ahronoth chose to emphasize the fact that 48 percent of the public blames US President Barack Obama for the recent crisis between Israel and the US. Yet a closer [...]
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“Like Alan Dershowitz, but with a conscience”
May 9, 2010Yesterday, Alan Dershowitz, the attorney for OJ Simpson and IDF occupation, received another honorary doctorate, this time from my very own Tel Aviv University. Dershowitz took the opportunity to declare that “students shouldn’t have the Leftist views of professors imposed upon them,” proving again that The Simpsons got it right on the Harvard’
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Shin Beit continues to make citizens disappear: activist Ameer Makhoul arrested; Israeli media not allowed to report
May 9, 2010Ameer Makhoul, director of the Israeli Palestinian human rights NGO, Ittijah, was arrested last week by Israeli police. The arrest happened Thursday, on 3 AM. According to his wife, Jnan, 16 policemen took part in the raid. They confiscated all the computers in the house, as well as documents, cell phones other personal material. The [...]
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They are deporting clowns now
May 6, 2010It seems that Israel’s security services have lost their mind in their hunt for subversive elements: Ivan Prado, the most famous clown in Spain, did not expect to be put on a return flight back to Madrid soon after arriving at Ben-Gurion International Airport late last month, after spending six hours with officials from the [...]