Bassam Aramin has taken the major step of filing an Israeli court case seeking to reopen the police investigation into the death of his daughter (see my series on the subject) at the hands of the Israeli border police. Though eight eyewitnesses testified that the Border Police killed 10 year old Abir Aramin, and [...]
Read full post...Those following this blog will know of the Los Angeles Israeli consul general report scurrilously accusing the refusenik groups Combatants for Peace and Breaking the Silence of financing their U.S. tours with U.S. Palestinian funding. The report also claimed the refuseniks were misleading American college students into believing that the former represented the Israeli [...]
Read full post...Brit Tzedek has sponsored a 22 city U.S. tour of the Israeli refusenik group, Combatants for Peace. Shimon Katz and Sulaiman al Hamri reached Seattle this past week for the tour’s final stop and spoke at Seattle University, Temple DeHirsch Sinai and the University of Washington Hillel. I was responsible for media outreach [...]
Read full post...JTA published today a mini-story on the Los Angeles Israeli consul general’s report savagely criticizing Israeli refusenik groups for speaking in the U.S. against the Israeli Occupation. Unfortunately, the impetus for their story came from a rambling press release by Mort Klein of the ZOA full of scurrilous propaganda against the Union of Progressive [...]
Read full post...Headline of scurrilous Yediot article: “U.S. Palestinian Groups Bankroll Refuseniks” (scan courtesy Amir Terkel)
Thanks especially to Amir Terkel (and also Judith Kolokoff), I was the first news source outside Israel to report that Israel’s Los Angeles consul general, Ehud Danoch, smeared Brit Tzedek, Combatants for Peace, and Breaking the Silence, accusing their national tours of [...]
When you’re an Israeli-Palestinian peace activist, you know you’re really rankling the powers that be when they plant outrageous smears against you in the mass media. Those of us working for Israeli-Palestinian peace already know about the vicious lies, smears and calumnies spread by the likes of David Horowitz, Alan Dershowitz, Mort Klein, and [...]
Read full post...Abir Aramin: the wages of war are death…of the innocents
I’ve written two posts about the heartbreaking death (or was it murder or negligent homicide?) of 11 year old Abir Aramin, a Palestinian schoolgirl shot dead by Israeli Border Police recently. But Gideon Levy has published a full profile of Bassam Aramin, her father and [...]
There is much individual suffering in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But more often than not I write less about individual suffering and more about broad concepts and analysis of policy. Today’s post returns to the theme of individual suffering.
I am a member of Brit Tzedek. As such I do various tasks on behalf [...]
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