THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA Rania Khalek Rights and Accountability 26 August 2015 Relatives mourn 16-year-old Muhammad Abu al-Thahir a day after he and 17-year-old Nadim Nuwara were shot dead by Israeli snipers on 15 May 2014. Issam Rimawi APA images For the second time in two months, a member of the US House of Representatives wrote a letter to the US State […]
By Josh Ruebner, contributor “I usually wear a suit, but I wanted to represent my son today,” Siam Nawarah explained after walking the halls of Congress and meeting with the State Department earlier this month. The 43-year-old Palestinian father and successful salon owner from the West Bank city of Ramallah, with a youthful face that breaks into a […]
Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen Would any other country have gotten away with it? It might be best called Israeli Exceptionalism. After a 51 day war on the Gaza Strip, more than 2,200 Palestinians died and the infrastructure was devastated. Seventy seven Israelis died, all but one a soldier inside Gaza. Today there is […]
August 13, 2015, 07:00 am US must take action on Israeli settler violence By Josh Ruebner, contributor The sound of shattering glass startles you awake. Your lungs fill with the acrid smell of burning petrol. You lunge out of bed, the house ablaze, your body engulfed by the flames. In your haste to escape the inferno, […]
By Josh Ruebner, contributor Getty Images Imagine if Congress held its first-ever hearing in the 1980s on the impact of boycott, divestment and sanctions campaigns against the apartheid regime of South Africa and failed to call a single witness who supported them. Would anyone take seriously such a blatantly biased hearing as an accurate indication […]
I was honored to moderate this Capitol Hill briefing, July 29, 2015, featuring Eman Mohammed, Gaza-based photojournalist; Brad Parker, Defense for Children International Palestine; and Nadia Ben-Youssef, Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel.
The Electronic Intifada Nora Barrows-Friedman Activism and BDS Beat 24 July 2015 Israel-aligned organizations are attempting to crush boycott organizing in the US. (Stephen Melkisethian/Flickr) On Thursday, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner signed into law a measure that will seek to punish international companies that boycott Israel. The law, SB 1761, was approved by the state legislature earlier this year. In a press release, attorneys […]
Mondoweiss: The War of Ideas in The Middle East Josh Ruebner on July 14, 2015 One year has passed since Israel began its devastating assault on the occupied and besieged Palestinian Gaza Strip. The 50-day attack, which killed more than 2,200 Palestinians—more than two-thirds of whom were civilians—including more than 550 children, made last year the deadliest […]
Mondoweiss: The War of Ideas in the Middle East The case for US government sanctions on Israel Jeff Warner and Dick Platkin on July 11, 2015 The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) is an important, nonviolent tool to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict under the umbrella of international law and human rights. The movement is growing in Palestine, Israel, […]
Huffington Post Posted: 07/10/2015 12:06 pm EDT More troubling news emerged this past weekend for those trying to prop up the once solid, now faltering, bipartisan backing for Israel. GOP pollster Frank Luntz worriedly concluded that “Israel can no longer claim to have the bipartisan support of America” after finding “blatant” and “deep” animosity among Democratic “opinion elites” […]
