His name was Nadim Nuwara
By Hagai El-Ad | reposted from Ha’aretz He was a premature baby when his mother was in the seventh month of pregnancy. When he was finally released from the hospital he still suffered from jaundice. In second grade, a passing car hit him after he played at the neighbors’ house. He was thrown in the air by the […]
Palestinians Are Paying the Price in the Search for Missing Settler Teens
By Alice Speri | reposted from Vice Palestinians have denounced the sweeping raids, arrests, and travel restrictions that have followed the disappearance of three teenage settlers near Hebron in the occupied West Bank last Thursday, and accused Israeli authorities of dishing out “collective punishment.”
Methodist Church Pension Board Links Divestment to Firm’s Role in Israeli Prisons
reposted from the New York Times A decision by the pension board of the United Methodist Church to sell its stock in a company that provides security equipment to Israel has set off a backlash from supporters of Israel, who are gearing up for another fight over divestment this week at the convention of another mainline […]
Evolution of the Bibi-Barack relationship
Global Solidarity is the Answer to the Nakba
Sometimes, it seems that times are changing. When an Israeli soldier was filmed from multiple angles killing two Palestinian teenagers in the West Bank on Nakba Day, commemorating the 1948 mass expulsion of Palestinians by the nascent state of Israel, the killing was covered by CNN, The Guardian, and the New York Times. Astonishingly, most […]