A Killing (An Awful Story) This past weekend, a small kid was nationalistically murdered. Which is to say: This past weekend, Wajih Wajdi al-Ramahi, a 14-year old Palestinian boy from the Jalazun refugee camp near […]
Category: Israel’s Military Occupation
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Sheikh Jarrah becomes Shimon HaTzadik. Silwan becomes the City of David. Susiya is replaced by Susya. Lest we see this phenomenon as unique to the 1967 Occupation: Sheikh Muwanis becomes Ramat Aviv. Saffuriya becomes Tzippori. […]
CS Monitor: Why Rabbis Are Helping Palestinians Defend Their Olive Harvest
By Mairav Zonszein On Sunday, four people were attacked by masked Israeli settlers wielding iron bars and stones as they picked olives in the West Bank village of Burin, resulting in light injuries – a […]
What’s Wrong with the Discourse About Throwing Rocks?
[This piece was originally published on the Daily Beast’s Open Zion Blog] The first time I saw a house being demolished in the West Bank village of Al-Khalayleh, I wanted to pick up a stone […]
All That’s Left– Redrawing the Green Line (Video and Flyers)
June 5th, 2013, 46 years after Israel occupied the Palestinian Territories, All That’s Left members came to Jerusalem to repaint the Green Line. Here’s how and why and my super-objective, wholly-unbiased analysis: And five reasons […]
“If Only You Were More Polite…” (On MASA, Naftali Bennett and a Common Critique of the Left)
Last Sunday, a group of young Jewish members of a new diaspora anti-occupation collective called “All That’s Left” interrupted Naftali Bennett’s keynote address at an End of Year “MASA” gathering, chanting “Diaspora Jews say end […]
A Truck to Break the Occupation (Ezra Nawi Truck Campaign)
I. A Portrait from South Hebron The hills are rolling and crumbling at the same time. The wheat that whispers in the wind sticks sharply into my legs as I shuffle across the field to […]
Slingshot and Guard Tower: An Image
We are driving through the West Bank. It is Friday. The sun is glancing off of heavygreen hills. We arrive at a juncture, plastered with one of the ubiquitous red signs in Hebrew: Israeli! Do […]
Five Actually Really Positive Points in Obama’s Speech (!)
(Palestine. Foreign Army. Anti-Violence. Pro-Nonviolence. Occupation and Expulsion). So. Huh. President Barack Obama just finished his speech here in Jerusalem, a few blocks away from where I am sitting. I want to get some thoughts […]
Cracks in the wall: A glimmer of hope for Israel-Palestine
[This piece was originally published on +972 Magazine] I’ve been in the U.S. for almost two weeks now, and I’ve begun to see cracks in the “Despair-Wall” that I wasn’t seeing – or wasn’t able to […]
The Leftern Wall 