Hypermetric Asymmetry in A-WA’s ‘Habib Galbi’
A hit song has been sweeping across Israel and the Middle East: “Habib Galbi,” by A-WA, a group of three Yemenite Jewish sisters who combine traditional Yemeni-Arabic folk music with electronic dance...
View ArticleIsrael’s UN Amb. Called for Annexing West Bank, Tries to Delete Evidence
(This article is published in Mondoweiss.) Danny Danon, Israel’s new ambassador to the United Nations, has been described by Israeli Labor Party lawmaker Erel Margalit as “a right-wing extremist with...
View ArticleDueling pro-Palestine and pro-Israel “Third Intifada” rallies in Times Square
Hundreds of Palestinian solidarity activists gathered in the cold in Times Square in New York City on 18 October 2015 to stand in solidarity with Palestinians in what some are calling the Third...
View Article‘Your walls will never cage our freedom’: Black-Palestinian solidarity video...
(This article is published in Salon.) “We are not statistics,” Black and Palestinian narrators proclaim in unison, as they draw attention to the racist violence to which both of their communities are...
View ArticleRight-wing Israeli PM Netanyahu blasted for “distorting” Holocaust history...
(This article is published in Salon.) Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s hard-line right-wing prime minister, is flirting with Holocaust revisionism, and people around the world, and especially within his...
View Article“Occupation is root cause of violence”: Jewish-Americans protest at Israel’s...
(This article is published in Salon.) Jewish-American activists with the peace organization CODEPINK protested at Israel’s Western Wall (also known as the Kotel or Wailing Wall) on Tuesday morning....
View Article“I don’t think she can call herself a feminist”: Palestinian blasts Hillary...
(This article is published in Salon.) “There are millions of women and girls like me. What about us? According to [Hillary Clinton], we do not exist. We are invisible, like women have been treated...
View ArticleUS and Israel rewrite history of UN resolution that declared Zionism is racism
(This article is published in Mondoweiss.) is a form of racism and racial discrimination,” reads UN General Assembly Resolution 3379. The measure was adopted 40 years ago, on Nov. 10, 1975, and the...
View ArticleDeferring Justice: Clinton emails show how State Dept. undermined UN action...
(This article is published in Salon.) The State Department devoted itself to, in its own words, “deferring” U.N. action on Israeli war crimes, “reframing the debate” about the atrocities, and “moving...
View ArticleTop Clinton donor, “Koch Brother of Israel” Haim Saban, supports profiling...
(This article is published in Salon.) “Profiling, listening in on anyone and everybody who looks suspicious, or interviewing Muslims in a more intense way than interviewing Christian refugees is all...
View Article“Amplify your voice for justice”: Roger Waters and prominent artists call for...
(This article is published in Salon.) “How can I perform in Israel when millions of Palestinians cannot attend?” asks renowned musician Roger Waters in a new video. The video, released by Adalah-N.Y.:...
View ArticleUN voted to partition Palestine 68 years ago, in an unfair plan made even...
68 years ago yesterday, the United Nations voted to partition Palestine, with General Assembly Resolution 181. The front page of the November 29, 1947 edition of the New York Times read “[General]...
View ArticleIsraeli military officer detained in Britain for war crimes
An Israeli military officer was detained in the U.K. a few weeks ago on war crimes charges, according to reports in the Israeli media. The officer, who was not identified but fought in Israel’s 2014...
View ArticlePro-Israel bias in the US media — Democracy Now interview
I had the privilege of going on Democracy Now today to discuss pro-Israel bias in the US media. Jane Hirschmann of the activist group Jews Say No! and I were invited on to talk about a parody issue of...
View ArticleChomsky: “You have human rights to the extent that you serve power”
Legendary scholar and dissident Noam Chomsky gave a speech at the Palestine Cultural Center for Peace in Boston on 21 January 2009 — mere days after the end of Israel’s brutal war on Gaza, Operation...
View ArticleUS systemic racism, M4BL platform, Saudi Arabia, Clinton’s hawkish foreign...
On the program “By Any Means Necessary” with Eugene Puryear, I had the pleasure of discussing a recent UN expert’s report on systemic racism in the US, the Movement for Black Lives platform and its...
View ArticleOn its 50th anniversary, the revolutionary legacy of the Black Panther Party...
Today, October 15, 2016, is the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, one of the most important revolutionary organizations in US history. The party was brutally...
View ArticleGerman bank closes Jewish NGO’s account because it supports boycott of Israel
Germany’s Bank for Social Economy (Bank für Sozialwirtschaft) terminated its account with the non-profit organization Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East (Jüdischen Stimme) because it...
View ArticleTrump’s Middle East adviser Jared Kushner is so close to Israel, Prime...
(This article is published in AlterNet.) The man overseeing U.S. policy on Israel-Palestine under the Trump administration is so close to Israel, he once let its longtime prime minister spend the night...
View ArticleFar-right Israeli ambassador Danny Danon, who calls African refugees a...
(A modified version of this article is published in AlterNet.) Hundreds of students gathered in the streets of New York City on February 13 to protest a speech at Columbia University by an extreme,...
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