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“Lynch”, “Attack” and “Massacre”– Shooting Down Words in International Waters
Words The first post I wrote after I heard the news that 10 activists had been killed and several soldiers wounded on the flotilla headed for Gaza, was about how the media uses language to describe...
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Thousands Protest the Occupation and Flotilla Raid Across Israel and the...
To mark 43 years of Israeli occupation, Israelis and Palestinians held protests throughout Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories this weekend. While many of these protests were planned in...
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Cultural Boycott? Recent Cancellations by International Musicians Spur Debate...
While I love posting my work here on my blog, I’m also working on getting guest posts up around the web. My latest piece, that I wrote with Ronnie Gross, covers the reaction that Israelis are having to...
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Removed YouTube Video of Israeli Soldiers Dancing in Hebron
Just as a new YouTube video of IDF soldiers dancing in Occupied Hebron started to go viral, the creator of the video removed it from YouTube. Luckily, I was in the middle of writing a post about the...
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Twenty-Three Injured and House Occupied in Weekly Demonstration in Nabi Saleh
Nabi Saleh, Occupied Palestinian Territories — This week the Israeli Army and the Border Police invaded Nabi Saleh and violently tried to repress Palestinian and international civilians who demonstrate...
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The Fire We Kindled – Alison Carmel Ramer
Photo from The Political Assistant In the wake of being burned by my facebook “friends” and family over criticizing Israel during one of the most horrific natural disasters in the nation’s history, I...
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Riot Material
Its two days into the new year and my heart is aching–well perhaps screaming. Saturday, after a demonstration of nearly a thousand people in Bi’lin, we lost Jawaher Abu Rahma, 36, who died from the...
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Round Up: If it weren’t for +972 we’d think there were no leftists left
“Its got to get worse before it gets better,” a South African filmmaker told me this summer as he shared his experience of apartheid South Africa with me. At the time, I didn’t quite see the wave of...
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The Palestine Papers and the Road “Home”
With The Palestine Papers on my mind, I start my journey “home” from “work” in al-Ram, on the other side of the separation wall. I climb on the Palestinian taxi and we drive along the road lined with...
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Now writing for PolicyMic
I’m excited to announce that I will now be writing for PolicyMic, “an online political platform that promotes high-quality political discussion amongst young thinkers.” PolicyMic is still in beta, but...
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Response to Peter Beinart – Your Uncomfortable Zionist is Here
Sheik Jarrah, East Jerusalem 5/21/10 Peter Beinart I’m here–I’m that “uncomfortable Zionist” you called for in your recent essay in the New York Review of Books. And while some may think that the...
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