Jewish history is one of enslavement, exile, and catastrophe. It is also one of rebellion, resistance, redemption, freedom, homecoming, and sovereignty. Tonight’s Passover seder recounts one seminal moment in that history. According to the Biblical narrative, Jacob and his sons originally lived in ancient Israel. But a famine brought them to Egypt. One of the […]
Beinart’s ‘Road to a New Jerusalem’
NOTE: Middle East Eye just published my latest piece on Israel’s attack on Iran’s Natanz centrifuge production facility. Please give it a read. As Christians will know, the founder of the Church, Paul, had a “conversion” on the road to Damascus, (the ‘Damascene Conversion’), which led him to break with his Jewish past and found […]
Black and Palestinian Lives Don’t Matter…to Israeli and American Cops
To many Americans, but especially African-Americans, this time must feel like the worst case of Groundhog Day ever. Like waking up every day to witness yet another Black man or woman shot dead by the police. And each of those days would bring riots and mayhem to cities throughout the country. making you feel like […]
Oren Hazan: Drug-Dealing Pimp and Israeli MK Who Called Palestinians “Insects” and “Dogs”
Tonight we need to get down into the dirt, perhaps even the sewer, where some of Israel’s worst racists and most powerful politicians live. Yesterday, MK Oren Hazan dragged a TV crew and hijacked a bus full of elderly Palestinian mothers headed to visit their children in Israeli prisons. Why Israeli border guards at […]
