The United States Wants the World to Forget These Prisoners By Molly Crabapple, July 21, 2014 Andy Stepanian is one of the kindest humans I’ve ever met. An activist publicist, Andy draws attention to Americans imprisoned for their beliefs. He is straitlaced and gentle, and the only time he ever declined to buy me …
Category: Israel
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Jul 25 2014
The definition of anti-Semitism
Israel-Gaza conflict: ‘There’s nothing new about conflating criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism’ By Mira Bar-Hillel, Friday 25 July 2014 I have arrived! On Tuesday morning at 7.55am, live on Radio 4, I said something so horrible that the usually mild-mannered husband of a fellow hack stood up and left his breakfast table in disgust. …
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Jul 25 2014
We don’t care so much about the Palestinians, do we?
Eight hundred dead Palestinians. But Israel has impunity By Robert Fisk, Friday 25 July 2014 Impunity is the word that comes to mind. Eight hundred dead Palestinians. Eight hundred. That’s infinitely more than twice the total dead of flight MH17 over Ukraine. And if you refer only to the “innocent” dead – ie no …
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Jul 24 2014
Even Hitler was a child
Images from Gaza should trouble every Israeli By Gideon Levy, Jul. 24, 2014 8:50 AM That’s the number, as of Wednesday: 155 children. On Wednesday morning, another three were killed. Ten children per day, on average. According to the UN, it’s more than the number of Hamas combatants that were killed. The Al Mezan …
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Jul 21 2014
Our very own version of Somalia
Reaping what we have sown in Gaza By Amira Hass, Jul. 21, 2014 5:42 AM I’ve already raised the white flag. I’ve stopped searching the dictionary for the word to describe half of a boy’s missing head while his father screams “Wake up, wake up, I bought you a toy!” How did Angela Merkel, …
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Jul 20 2014
The problem at its core
The heart of the problem with Israel: The mass expulsion of the Palestinian people By Donna Nevel, July 19, 2014 As Israeli government violence against the Palestinians in Gaza intensifies (the latest news being an aggressive ground invasion), I saw a discussion on-line about whether Israel has become more brutal or the brutality has …
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Jul 18 2014
Complicity with aggression and oppression
Israel-Gaza conflict: Medical charity official likens job to ‘patching up torture victims in an open-air prison’ By Robert Fisk, Thursday 17 July 2014 In an unprecedented criticism of the Israeli siege of Gaza, a senior official in the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) humanitarian charity has described his organisation’s work among the 1.8 million besieged …
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