By Hassan Ali Paris, October 7 – In the final reckoning, when the time comes to reward those who contributed to the greater good and to assess the penalty for those who stood by – or worse, impeded progress toward ...
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Feed SubscriptionPenitence Season Allows Me To Call Out Fellow Jews For Insufficient Progressiveness
by Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Truah – the Rabbinic Call for Human Rights New York, September 23 – The period from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur has always loomed large in my calendar, given its centrality in Jewish synagogue life and ...
Read More »If We In The EU Undermine Israeli Sovereignty, That Undoes the Holocaust, Right?
by Josep Borell, Chief of Foreign Policy, European Union Brussels, September 10 – Europe’s unified approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict grows in large part out of the Continent’s ambiguous legacy when it comes to the wholesale slaughter of Jews under ...
Read More »It’s Harder To Instill Jew-Hate In My Students Via Zoom
by Hassan Kiswani, Palestinian educator Jenin, September 2 – Coronavirus has upended routine in numerous ways, chief among them the regular attendance of children at school or childcare. Teachers, parents, and students throughout the world struggle this week to resume ...
Read More »We Will Recognize Israel In Exchange For Destroying Israel
by Javad Zarif, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Iran Tehran, August 21 – Diplomacy and politics are all about compromise. Both arts require flexibility, creative thinking, and efforts to craft win-win situations in which all parties to the ...
Read More »At Least The Beirut Blast Looked Symmetrical
by Detective Adrian Monk San Francisco, August 12 – Numerous elements of the disastrous ammonium nitrate explosion in the Lebanese capital last week give cause for alarm. Nevertheless, one the more common features of such incidents remained noticeably absent: the ...
Read More »How Dare You Weaponize My Antisemitism By Mentioning It!
By Congresswoman Wata Bout Washington, August 3 – My political allies and I are sick and tired of finding our past statements invoking classic notions of Jewish power and perfidy used against us as a political cudgel, as if our ...
Read More »Stop Noodging; We’ll BDS The Non-Jewish Causes As Soon As We Get Rid Of The Jews
by Roger Waters, washed-up musician London, July 23 – My social justice allies and I have grown weary of partisan accusations of “hypocrisy” surrounding my support for Boycott, Divest, Sanctions measures against Israel over its treatment of the Palestinians, while ...
Read More »By ‘From The River To The Sea Palestine Will Be Free’ I Obviously Mean ‘The 1967 Lines’
by Saeb Erekat Ramallah, July 14 – Don’t believe the Zionist apologist distortions of the English language. Trust me, when we Palestinians repeat as we always have that only an Arab Muslim state is acceptable between the Jordan and Mediterranean, ...
Read More »At Our ‘Day Of Rage’ Gathering We Almost Had A Minyan To Say Kaddish For Terrorists
by Yonah Lieberman, If Not Now New York, July 3 – Yesterday’s series of protests in solidarity with Palestine and against Israeli annexation of Palestinian land attracted so many attendees that at our best-attended event, in Philadelphia, we could almost ...
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