On Thursday, July 21st, Americans for Peace Now received one of two inaugural Narrative Champion Awards from New Story Leadership. NSL brings together young emerging Palestinian and Israeli leaders in order to train them into a team ready to help build a better future for their two communities by giving them an experience of living, working and learning together over a summer in Washington DC using the transformative power of stories.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday July 22, 2016
Quote of the day:
“Up till now, we've known that the defense minister was racist and violent. Now, it turns out that he is
also a Holocaust denier.”
--MK Ahmad Tibi reacts to Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman's statement that an Army Radio program about the poetry of national Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish is like a program “glorifying the literary marvels of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf.'"
--MK Ahmad Tibi reacts to Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman's statement that an Army Radio program about the poetry of national Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish is like a program “glorifying the literary marvels of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf.'"
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday July 21, 2016
Quote of the day:
"[Mahmoud] Darwish is like the [Chaim Nahum] Bialik of the Palestinians. He is a figure that the
Arab-Israelis really identify with. At our high school I did a project where I taught both about the poet [Darwish]
and about other Arab and Palestinian writers. But that is unusual and it is not easy to teach Jewish pupils about
Arab writers. My students initially objected to learn about the identity of the Other and to learn the works of
non-Jews. But they went through a process of getting to know that there is another narrative and other quality
poets and authors, Arabs.”
--A Jewish Israeli literature teacher at a high school in Holon tells Maariv about the importance of teaching Mamoud Darwish's works to Jewish students.*
--A Jewish Israeli literature teacher at a high school in Holon tells Maariv about the importance of teaching Mamoud Darwish's works to Jewish students.*
Yedioth Ahronoth
by Nahum Barnea
The failed coup in Turkey holds many lessons for Israel. One of them, and not the least of them, is that we do not sufficiently appreciate the regime bequeathed to us by the state’s founders, and mainly—we are not doing enough to preserve it.
The Turkish Air Force officers who were involved in the attempted coup spoke in the name of democracy; their enemy, Erdogan, also speaks in the name of democracy, and both sides bear the name of democracy in vain. Ataturk, the founding father of modern Turkey, imposed a secular dictatorship on the Turks, in which the army is the supreme source of authority and the guardian of the constitution; Erdogan posed his alternative to this legacy, an Islamic and Ottoman dictatorship. He is photographed with the picture of Ataturk in the background because officially he is still the father of the nation, but his life’s mission is to destroy Ataturk’s legacy. This week’s events bring him another step, an important step, closer to fulfilling his goal.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday July 20, 2016
Quotes of the day:
"Through dirty tricks, the coalition unanimously passed one of the basest laws in its history. This is one
of the most embarrassing moments of the humiliation of the Knesset. This law is designed to remove the Arab MKs
from the Knesset. I am ashamed for the Knesset."
--Meretz MK Zehava Gal-On said at stormy Knesset session in which the impeachment bill was approved.**
"Democracy is not a stable building. There are shocks and you (the opposition) pulled out a brick. This time, it’s against the Arabs, the second time it will be against women, and the next time you will harm some other group, until in the end they get to you. And there will be no one to protect you. When you...allow the Israeli parliament to oust its own members, that is where the trouble starts.”
--MK Nachman Shai (Zionist Camp) said at the same stormy Knesset session.**
--Meretz MK Zehava Gal-On said at stormy Knesset session in which the impeachment bill was approved.**
"Democracy is not a stable building. There are shocks and you (the opposition) pulled out a brick. This time, it’s against the Arabs, the second time it will be against women, and the next time you will harm some other group, until in the end they get to you. And there will be no one to protect you. When you...allow the Israeli parliament to oust its own members, that is where the trouble starts.”
--MK Nachman Shai (Zionist Camp) said at the same stormy Knesset session.**
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"...the law's purpose is to encourage popular hostility against
Israeli advocates of human and minority rights. "
APN will be honored this Thursday for its key role and
partnership in the NSL program that trains young emerging leaders from Palestine
and Israel. APN has hosted interns and programs for the past eight years.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday July 19, 2016
Quote of the day #1:
"Against these two groups we must battle. Otherwise, we will become, sooner or later, a democracy -
Turkish style."
--Yedioth's top political commentator, Nahum Barnea, writes that two groups are challenging Israel's democracy: the government and radical religious Zionism.*
--Opposition leader and Zionist Camp leader MK Isaac Herzog said he fears a civil war.**
--Yedioth's top political commentator, Nahum Barnea, writes that two groups are challenging Israel's democracy: the government and radical religious Zionism.*
Quote of the day #2:
“Israel is witnessing a deep, racist and dark intifada of hatred.”--Opposition leader and Zionist Camp leader MK Isaac Herzog said he fears a civil war.**
Yossi Alpher is an independent security analyst. He is the former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, a former senior official with the Mossad, and a former IDF intelligence officer. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions.
This week, Alpher discusses what’s wrong with the Knesset bill passed July 11th, that stigmatizes human rights NGOs (non-governmental organizations, or non-profits) in Israel by obliging them to constantly and blatantly publicize funding they receive from foreign governments; truck attack in Nice on Bastille Day, July 14; and what was relevant about the failed military coup in Turkey.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday July 18, 2016
You Must Be
Kidding:
“It’s called ‘not harming innocents,' that’s what they call it (...and it) is spreading like wildfire.”
--Rabbi Yigal Levinstein, a leading settler rabbi and head of an IDF pre-conscription academy at Eli settlement, denounced the army's efforts to avoid harming Palestinian civilian noncombatants.**
“It’s called ‘not harming innocents,' that’s what they call it (...and it) is spreading like wildfire.”
--Rabbi Yigal Levinstein, a leading settler rabbi and head of an IDF pre-conscription academy at Eli settlement, denounced the army's efforts to avoid harming Palestinian civilian noncombatants.**
Breaking News:
Two Israelis Soldier Hurt in West Bank Stabbing, Assailant Shot
According to paramedics, both soldiers are conscious after being stabbed in Al-Arroub near Jerusalem. Assailant severely injured and Israeli forces reportedly prevented Palestinian Red Crescent medics from treating him. (Haaretz, Ynet, Israel Hayom and Maan)
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday July 17, 2016
You Must Be Kidding:
"Shapira should die in battle… A negligent commander who wipes the blood of his soldier for a promotion."
--One of many of the invectives posted on Facebook against Brigade Commander Lt. Col. David Shapira, who testified against Elor Azariya, the soldier who executed a wounded and incapacitated Palestinian assailant.*
You Must Be Kidding:
"Shapira should die in battle… A negligent commander who wipes the blood of his soldier for a promotion."
--One of many of the invectives posted on Facebook against Brigade Commander Lt. Col. David Shapira, who testified against Elor Azariya, the soldier who executed a wounded and incapacitated Palestinian assailant.*