This above is what Peter Beinart is talking about when he said yesterday that Israel’s discrimination against women is linked directly to Israel’s discrimination against Palestinian citizens. Netanyahu created a coalition comprised of: Likud: secular right Yisrael Beiteinu: secular far-right (Russian) Shas: ultra-Orthodox right (Sephardi) United Torah Judaism: ultra-Orthodox right (Ashkenazi) Independence: center-left The Jewish [...]
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Mitvim, a new progressive foreign policy think tank
Led by my colleague Nimrod Goren. I like seeing the names of Akiva Eldar and Alon Liel on their steering committee. Lord knows, the world needs more Israelis thinking strategically about integrating themselves into the region, not just on how to bomb Iran. Follow them on Facebook. Mitvim – The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign [...]
Dec 29th, 2011 Israel 0 Comments
“Israel will become a haredi nation, whether you like it or not”
So says the haredi gentleman in this Israeli Channel 2 news segment about the separation of men and women in Beit Shemesh, a city that is an example of the creeping rule of ultra-Orthodox over public spaces and their treatment of non-haredi Israelis around them.
Dec 27th, 2011 Israel 0 Comments
Donate to social justice, equality and peace in Israel-Palestine
New Israel Fund, because no other diaspora org is supporting Israel’s social movement and fighting against the anti-democratic legislation there. www.nif.org/donate J Street, because they’re building vibrant political support for peace within the American Jewry. www.jstreet.org/donate The Jewish Dialogue Group, because they’re enabling hundreds of Jewish communities to talk openly and safely about the Israeli-Palestinian [...]
Dec 21st, 2011 Israel 0 Comments
Hagai El-Ad of ACRI accepts Gruber Justice Prize
The head of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, the country’s central civil and human rights organization, here accepts one of the five 2011 Gruber Justice Prizes. Former Israeli Supreme Court Justice Aharon Barack won the prize for Israel last in 2006 and the other four honorees represented cutting-edge human rights advocates from Kurdish [...]
Oct 11th, 2011 Israel 0 Comments
Maariv cover: Obama “Zioinist Captain America”
Strangle change of fortunes for Obama, first distrusted by Israelis and now worshiped as a superhero. Life is a comic book after all. (Photo courtesy of Didi Remez.)
Sep 23rd, 2011 Israel 0 Comments
Who’s more pro-Israel: William Kristol or Barack Obama?
In response to this ad by disgraced neo-con William Kristol’s attack shop, the Emergency Committee for Israel, our dear friend Mobius has produced a fitting parody: Obama has overseen the largest increase in military aid to Israel than any president. Just this weekend, he ordered the US military to save Israel’s foreign service employees from [...]
Sep 12th, 2011 Israel 0 Comments
Settlers prepare to fight non-violent protests?
A new plan reported by Amihai Attali in Ma’ariv (Sept. 1, 2011, p. 16) and to be distributed in West Bank settlements in preparation for the aftermath of the September vote encourages a settlers to attack Palestinian demonstrators, reading: “No longer soldiers and Border Police against Arab women and children, but rather children against children [...]
Sep 1st, 2011 Israel 0 Comments
VIDEO: How to say “The people demand social justice!” in Hebrew
Video courtesy Israeli journalist David Sheen.
Aug 24th, 2011 Israel 1 Comment