tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342905394291688934Fri, 04 Jan 2013 19:29:54 +0000Jewish Peace News (JPN) is an information service that circulates news clippings, analyses, editorial commentary, and action alerts concerning the Israel / Palestine conflict. We work to promote a just resolution to the conflict; we believe that the cause of both peace and justice will be served when Israel ends the occupation, withdrawing completely from the Palestinian territories and finding a solution to the Palestinian refugee crisis within the framework of international law.http://jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Lincoln Z. Shlensky)Blogger385125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342905394291688934.post-7563764071722802512Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:15:00 +00002011-11-10T10:36:45.246-08:00The Russel Tribunal on Palestine - Cape Town sessionSummary of findings.November 7, 2011The summary consists of 4 parts: 1- APARTHEID: "The Tribunal finds that Israel subjects the Palestinian people to an institutionalised regime of domination amounting to apartheid as defined under international law."2- Persecution as a Crime against Humanity: The summary enumerates which Israeli actions http://jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com/2011/11/russel-tribunal-on-palestine-cape-town.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JPN Editors)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342905394291688934.post-687746769306335591Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:50:00 +00002011-10-30T08:59:55.096-07:00The Russell Tribunal on Palestine -RToP - "is an international people's tribunal, created in 2009 as a response to the failure of the international community to act appropriately to bring to an end Israel's recognised violations of international law. In particular, the organisers of the RToP were very concerned by the inadequate international response to the Advisory Opinion of July 9, 2004, of http://jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com/2011/10/russell-tribunal-on-palestine.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JPN Editors)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342905394291688934.post-3330554844137931594Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:29:00 +00002011-10-04T07:44:25.723-07:00Dear readers,The Mondoweiss piece was planned to be sent out a while ago. Because of technical difficulties it has not happened until now. Which might be for the best, since as of yesterday a youtube video of the event described in the piece by Philip Weiss (and commented on by Ofer and myself) became available. A link for it is enclosed below.Racheli.The relationship between American Jews and http://jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com/2011/10/panel-on-bds-in-synagogue.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JPN Editors)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342905394291688934.post-2108886834411110735Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:17:00 +00002011-09-23T11:43:32.944-07:00David Shasha publishes a weekly newsletter called Sephardic Heritage Update. The commentary below has been written for SHU, and David agreed to let me use it here, as a preface for the video clip "Where is Sa'adya?"Racheli Gai. The KEDMA website which is devoted to presenting issues of importance to the Arab Jewish community in Israel has just posted a very important video that presents ahttp://jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com/2011/09/where-is-saaday-with-commentary-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JPN Editors)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342905394291688934.post-4791106226299261388Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:25:00 +00002011-09-11T08:34:35.839-07:00I chose to send this article because it doesn't cover only this particular event, but is giving background information and is putting this cancellation of an art exhibit in the context of ongoing (and growing) efforts to silence efforts to bring to light artistic expression by Palestinians.Below the article, I'm enclosing an open letter to the Oakland Children's museum, which you can sign if you http://jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com/2011/09/oakland-childrens-museum-cancels.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JPN Editors)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342905394291688934.post-866195801918106833Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:07:00 +00002011-09-09T08:20:47.481-07:00A fine piece of work by the Electronic Intifada's Ali Abunimah, exposing Israeli collusion in efforts to harass and silence pro-BDS activists in Olympia, Washington.This is important, because if an effort to sue Olympia's food coop works, it will no doubt open the way to similar efforts elsewhere. "Success" could meanforcing the coop to spend a lot of money countering a law suit, even if the lawhttp://jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com/2011/09/ali-abunimah-uncovered-israels-role-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JPN Editors)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342905394291688934.post-1328683386796233044Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:46:00 +00002011-08-23T06:51:33.883-07:00The article below describes a survey done in Israel, in 5 cities, by Eli Ungar-Sargon and his wife Sharon. This was part of their work on a documentary on the Israel/Palestine conflict.The survey provides substantiation for the following: 1- Anti-Arab sentiment is a mainstream phenomenon in Israel. 2- More racism among the very young. 3- Support for a 2 state solution (when this involves http://jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com/2011/08/survey-of-israeli-jews-attitudes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JPN Editors)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342905394291688934.post-749388055014105432Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:13:00 +00002011-08-16T08:27:25.470-07:00Josh Ruebner who works with "The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation" has done some digging into the matter of US congress representatives trips to Israel. 81 reps. - nearly 20% of the house - are participating in all expenses paid junkets organized by the American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF) "a so-called charitable affiliate of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), http://jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com/2011/08/josh-ruebner-exposes-illegality-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JPN Editors)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342905394291688934.post-849733126569079819Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:44:00 +00002011-08-12T09:59:47.227-07:00Nurit Peled-Elhanan, a long time peace activist and an academic, has just got her book "Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and Propaganda in Education" published by I.B. Tauris. Part of the publisher's description of the book: "She analyzes the presentation of images, maps, layouts and use of language in History, Geography and Civic Studies textbooks, and reveals how the books might behttp://jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com/2011/08/nurit-peled-elhanans-new-book-exposing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JPN Editors)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342905394291688934.post-7144038116815773407Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:31:00 +00002011-08-11T09:39:03.676-07:00There are 16 days left to reach the financial goal set by makers of this truly worthy project. Please consider helping - any amount will help. As someone who uses films a whole lot in my activist work, I can't wait to show this one...Racheli.Here are some words from Dalit Baum: ***** Last push - let's try and make this happen, please send this email around... Help us support this exciting new http://jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com/2011/08/please-help-this-project-off-ground.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JPN Editors)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342905394291688934.post-1876628941159467946Sun, 07 Aug 2011 20:20:00 +00002011-08-07T13:29:03.834-07:00"Real News" piece on the Israeli demonstrations.A comment from Joel Beinin: Impressive. Something is happening, but too soon to tell what. They want me to lecture about Egypt on Thursday at the Rothschild camp-out (the most yuppie). The numbers in this report are somewhat inflated. But the original call for "Tahrir, Jihad" (see recent MERO) seems to be catching on. But note the Israeli flags http://jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com/2011/08/awakenings-in-israelpalestine.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JPN Editors)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342905394291688934.post-5013141902694627359Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:13:00 +00002011-07-27T12:22:47.392-07:00I'm enclosing a few of the better articles describing and providing analysis for the mass murders in Norway, as well as to the reactions to them in the US.The last link below describes some of the reactions in Israel.An outstanding feature of reactions everywhere has been the tendency to blame Muslims, even before any actual information was available. Then, once it was known that the murderer http://jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com/2011/07/on-mass-murders-in-norway.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JPN Editors)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342905394291688934.post-1871105395818513363Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:27:00 +00002011-07-14T08:44:53.674-07:00 There are good things to be said about Professor Naomi Chazan, a scholar of contemporary Africa and a former member of the Israeli Knesset (on behalf of the center-left Meretz party). When an extreme right-wing and US funded Israeli student group like "Im Tirtzu" runs a venomous campaign against her, smearing her (in the Israeli public eye) as "Naomi Goldstone-Chazan", it is safe to assume shehttp://jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com/2011/07/palestinian-womans-response-to-israels.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JPN Editors)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342905394291688934.post-6496628611547775513Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:40:00 +00002011-07-12T04:49:54.932-07:00On July 15 Palestinians will be marching throughout the West Bank to mobilize in support of the campaign to ask the UN to recognize the state of Palestine. Israelis will be supporting them by organizing solidarity marches – not marches to demand the resumption of negotiations, which have no chance of success with the present Israeli government in office (and very little chance with any http://jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com/2011/07/palestinian-and-israeli-demonstrations.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JPN Editors)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342905394291688934.post-2101169514262329909Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:45:00 +00002011-07-03T16:53:24.948-07:00As many of you may know by now, the US Boat to Gaza - named The Audacity of Hope - has been stopped from sailing by the Greek authorities.It's doubtful that any of the ship in the second Gaza flotilla will get to leave port and sail to their desired destination.This youtube clip - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9s7JuEceN -captures so eloquently what all this effort is about. A second youtube http://jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com/2011/07/gaza-flotilla-background-information.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JPN Editors)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342905394291688934.post-4137520749849514871Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:32:00 +00002011-06-08T09:57:10.639-07:00Joseph Massad: The rights of IsraelMay 6, 2011Israel's "lawfare" against the Palestinian people is rooted in a ficticious narrative of having a "right" to exist.Israel's "right to exist", and lately its "right to exist as a Jewish state" and the lack of commitment by Palestinians to this basic "right", is a major reason (if not the major one) used by Israel to deny Palestinians the rights http://jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com/2011/06/joseph-massad-rights-of-israel.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JPN Editors)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342905394291688934.post-5880371002732748181Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:31:00 +00002011-06-07T08:38:23.391-07:00An amazing lecture by Sara Roy. To my mind, a good piece to read (or re-read) during the week when the occupation began, 44 years ago. This is the Edward Said memorial talk, which was given in Adelaide, Australia, roughly 3 years ago. I'll also be thinking about Said a lot this week. He had such a huge influence on me, and is missed, constantly.Here are a couple of quotes from the lecture:"Why http://jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com/2011/06/sara-roy-impossible-union-of-arab-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JPN Editors)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342905394291688934.post-7273416272014862048Sun, 05 Jun 2011 18:35:00 +00002011-06-05T12:11:27.013-07:00"Two little girls half-fainted from the gas. In their tears the gas and fear mix together. I hug one of them as I put an alcohol pad to her face. Her mother and her sister are on the floor, on the other side of the room. Someone is taking care of them. Several moments go by. They sit and hug, leaning against the wall, trying to breathe, together" (Leehee Rothschild)5/6/2011 - Today is Naksa day, http://jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com/2011/06/war-zone-qalandiya-by-leehee-rothschild.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JPN Editors)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342905394291688934.post-3981374787867512185Thu, 12 May 2011 15:08:00 +00002011-05-13T13:55:08.315-07:00The CUNY board of trustees has reversed its decision to withhold an honorary degree for Tony Kushner.Amy Goodman interviews Tony Kushner. They discuss the CUNY affair, what it means, and Kushner's real views in regards to Israel.Racheli Gai.http://www.democracynow.org/2011/5/10/exclusive_playwright_tony_kushner_speaks_out................................................................--------http://jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com/2011/05/amy-goodman-interviews-tony-kushner.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JPN Editors)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342905394291688934.post-8276435856990698878Fri, 06 May 2011 00:35:00 +00002011-05-06T12:58:50.475-07:00In an unprecedented and crassly politicized decision, City University of New York board members have voted to deny an honorary academic degree to Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright Tony Kushner, who was nominated for the award by CUNY's John Jay College campus this year. Kushner is author of the acclaimed "Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes," "An Intelligent Homosexual's Guide tohttp://jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com/2011/05/animus-in-america.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JPN Editors)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342905394291688934.post-3059724906069168698Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:45:00 +00002011-04-25T16:52:02.846-07:00Young Israelis of Mizrahi descent (that is: of North African and Middle Eastern origin) write an open letter to their Arab peers, calling for an opening of a dialog and evokinga past in which Jews, Muslims and Christians were all part of a thriving Arab culture.They acknowledge the need to move Israel towards real democracy: "We believe that, as Mizrahi Jews in Israel, our struggle for economic, http://jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com/2011/04/young-mizrahi-israelis-open-letter-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JPN Editors)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342905394291688934.post-5893085176593221475Sat, 16 Apr 2011 15:51:00 +00002011-04-16T08:56:19.891-07:00For "Israeli mainstream, the murder of Juliano Mer-Khamis is the perfect parable: naive leftist meets his death at the hands of the inherently hateful Palestinians whose dark side he willfully denied. The Palestinians are evil and the left is in denial. What better way to justify continued oppression of four million than to hold that they are undeserving of human rights and that those who http://jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com/2011/04/daniel-breslau-leftist-has-been.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JPN Editors)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342905394291688934.post-7579006396022110778Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:08:00 +00002011-04-06T09:18:34.125-07:00Goldstone's op-ed in the Washington Post, and its aftermath.Last Friday (April 1) an op-ed piece by Judge Goldstone appeared in the Washington Post. It was titled "Reconsidering the Goldstone Report on Israel and War Crimes". An avalanche of responses followed. Israeli leaders saw it as a complete overturn of the Goldstone Report, and suggested that the UN should retract it, others saw it as http://jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com/2011/04/goldstone-op-ed-in-washington-post-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JPN Editors)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342905394291688934.post-2914099474046469387Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:06:00 +00002011-04-05T10:13:56.532-07:00http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/gideon-levy-remembers-juliano-mer-khamis-an-arab-a-jew-a-human-being-1.354100"Juliano Mer-Khamis was one of the most talented theater actors to ever emerge here was also the most courageous of them."Gideon Levy remembers Juliano Mer-Khamis: An Arab, a Jew, a human beingA little over a month ago, Juliano Mer-Khamis stood on the stage of his Freedom Theaterhttp://jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com/2011/04/gideon-levy-remembers-juliano-mer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JPN Editors)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342905394291688934.post-2036578655236670066Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:31:00 +00002011-04-04T08:49:49.435-07:00An interview with Judith Butler, published in The Immanent Frame.A partial description of The Immanent Frame, taken from its website:"The Immanent Frame publishes interdisciplinary perspectives on secularism, religion, and the public sphere. TIF serves as a forum for ongoing exchanges among leading thinkers across the social sciences and humanities, featuring invited contributions and original http://jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com/2011/04/implicated-and-enraged-nathan-schneider.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JPN Editors)0