Jewlicious’ themiddle (TM henceforth) and former Maariv editor turned blogger Noam Shiezaf are exchanging fire over the rights and legality of Israel’s construction in East Jerusalem. Shiezaf commands such a greater understanding of the practical issues at play, which is why I encourage you to read at least his final post (see below). The dispute involves Israel’s jurisdiction [...]
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And the occupation marches on…
If you stop paying attention to the news, as I’ve almost done over the past couple weeks, the occupation seems to continue after I start again. Not in the media: Ezra Nawi, Israeli human rights activist, has been found guilty of “assaulting an officer” in a routine housing demolition pageant. By pageant I mean: you stand [...]
May 11th, 2009 Israel and On the Web 2 Comments
I have a cool boss
My boss is presently in Ghana on an AJWS fellowship for several months and took the photo above. I found his travel journal notes lend extra context to this mesmerizing photo: So I recovered quick enough to join 3 of my other AJWS volunteers for an excursion up to Kumasi, the center of the ancient Ashanti [...]
Mar 3rd, 2009 On the Web 0 Comments
Zionism *is* racism…and that’s “just fine”?
Over at Jewschool, we get into heated battles over Israel, Arabs, the Israeli Arab minority, etc. We get visits from plenty of right-wingers and independent thinkers who say some pretty outrageous things. But one our more conservative fans (readers?) just dropped the Z-bomb as the r-bomb: That part of the Declaration of Independence [guaranteeing equal [...]
Jun 17th, 2008 Israel and On the Web 8 Comments
Another quote in the Jewish press
From the Boston Jewish Advocate’s surprisingly fair article about Breaking the Silence: “Any solution to the conflict, whether from the right or left, must be informed by the realities on the ground,” he said. “These soldiers are trying to dispel the idea of bad apples in terms of military misconduct and to dispel the idea [...]
Mar 15th, 2008 Israel and On the Web 0 Comments
Disunited UJC
This is too awesome to be true: a disgruntled employee of the UJC blogs from inside at Disunited UJC. Not that I delight too much at the stumblings of larger Jewish organizations, but sometimes it’s really nice to see them get their due! But more seriously, the only thing keeping larger organizations accountable (and keeping [...]
Jan 14th, 2008 On the Web and Politics 0 Comments