I had about an hour to pass at the airport, and ended up watching this speech by Ayman Odeh, chair of the Joint List, at Haaretz’s Democracy Conference. It’s really important, and I couldn’t find […]
Month: February 2015
East Coast Talks: February 25th-March 8th, 2015
Hey all. I’ll be coming the US for a few weeks, and will be giving a few talks while I am there. If any of you are in Vermont, Boston, Princeton or Philly, come on by. Wednesday, February […]
7 Reasons I am Voting for the Joint Arab List
1. There is nothing more urgent than Palestinian-led, joint Jewish-Arab political action in Israel-Palestine of 2015. Following this past summer of extreme violence and casual bigotry, the need for Palestinian-led, joint Arab-Jewish anti-racist democratic action is more pronounced […]
Interview with Jon Wiener on KPFK 90.7 FM (followed by Tavis Smiley on MLK’s Anti-Militarism)
Following my NYT piece last month, I did an interview with Jon Wiener of KPFK radio, a noncommercial, listener-sponsored radio station operating out of Los Angeles, California. In this interview, which aired on Wednesday, February 4th, I addressed some […]
A Jerusalem Protest Against Children’s Arrests
This morning, at 11:00 AM, around 60 or 70 Jerusalemites – Palestinian and Israeli – gathered outside the Jerusalem Municipality’s office in West Jerusalem to protest the practice of children’s arrests in East Jerusalem. The […]
16 Snapshots from an Activist Tour to the South Hebron Hills
On Friday, February 6th, around 70 Israelis went on a tour of the South Hebron Hills, led by the indispensable Breaking the Silence and Ta’ayush, and sparked by the rad group of Jerusalem activists who’ve […]
The Leftern Wall 