Posts tagged "palestine"
In the News: Bill Nye, Depression, Antarctica, The Dalai Lama & More
A round-up of religion in the recent news.
Brothers All Are We? The GOP’s Designs for Israel
The GOP cites Leviticus as just cause for a one-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians.
Paul Mutter: Mitchell Plitnick reports that in a closed meeting in January, the Republican National Committee (RNC) adopted an official resolution supporting "united Israel governed under one law for all people." What?
Yes, according to the resolution, "the members of...
Give Us This Day Our Load of Links
Some of the best reads from the past week, right here, still hot.
Wiesenfeld’s Obsessions
Examine what is said, not him who speaks. - Arab Proverb
According to The Forward, it's tough times for City University of New York trustee, Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, the man who opposed awarding winning playwright Tony Kusher an honorary degree last week. But Wiesenfeld, a former FBI counterintelligence agent who grew up on the Bronx streets...
Incitement Double Standards
by Matthew Berkman
This article is reposted in whole from Foreign Policy. The original article can be found here.
This week, in response to the highly publicized murder of a Jewish family in the West Bank settlement of Itamar, a group of 27 U.S. senators signed a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urging her...
Journos in Israel-Palestine
Diane Winston (the Knight chair in Media and Religion at the Annenberg School for Communication at USC, master of the blog Trans/missions, and a friend of The Revealer) has a new project with her journalism students that is dedicated to deeper examination of Israeli/Palestinian relations: The Israel-Palestine Project. Winston and students blogged their...
Israel’s Flotilla Fallout
Updated:
6.5 Israeli navy has boarded the second flotilla bound for Gaza.
Political cartoons from around the Arab world. (The post is a chance to reexamine the distinctions between anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, and anti-current Israeli policy -- as well as anti-Americanism.)
6.4 Spender Ackerman on the "milestone" in Turkey-Israel relations.
Glenn Greenwald on the methods used by Israel...
6.5 Israeli navy has boarded the second flotilla bound for Gaza.
Political cartoons from around the Arab world. (The post is a chance to reexamine the distinctions between anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, and anti-current Israeli policy -- as well as anti-Americanism.)
6.4 Spender Ackerman on the "milestone" in Turkey-Israel relations.
Glenn Greenwald on the methods used by Israel...
Israel Studies, A Form of Public Diplomacy?
“I know what the podium I stand behind represents, what Israel studies represents. I know this is a form of public diplomacy.” -- Amal Jamal, "Israeli-Arab" professor of political science, Tel-Aviv University, one of two Palestinian scholars (of a total of 300 attendees) at the annual meeting of the Association for Israel Studies...
Caterpillar Divestment
07 February 2006 The Church of England’s general synod, backed by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, has voted to disinvest from the U.S. Caterpillar company as part of its decision to disinvest from corporations that profit off Israel’s occupation of Palestine. The Church has invested 2.5 million pounds in Caterpillar, Inc., which manufactures armored earth-moving equipment used...
Polite Sharia
30 January 2006 For liberal Palestinians fearful that the newly-elected Hamas party intends to enforce Islamic law on the country’s citizens, senior Hamas leaders say, take heart: yes, Sharia will be used as a guide for legislation, but only in a “polite way” meant to convince people. Such polite theocratic manipulation, Hamas leaders told Reuters,...
“Paradise Now” and Power of Transformation
By Meera Subramanian In Palestine, the enemy is many things. The enemy takes your land and holds you captive. The enemy launches bombs that leave the whitened stones of the West Bank in a mass of rubble that merges with the dust of the land. The enemy walks along the beachside boardwalk unaware of your...
