Support for boycotts, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) targeting Israel is growing, generating
great angst and solution-searching amongst Israel supporters – including pro-peace progressives – in the United
States and elsewhere in the world. From the Adelson-Saban summit earlier this year, which gave
birth to a new anti-BDS organization (to be
led by someone who for years headed a far right-wing, pro-Israel, Evangelical Christian operation), to
Democratic presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton’s letter to Jewish leaders, BDS is now being treated even by many pro-peace progressives as the
new “existential” threat to Israel, despite the fact that the actual track record of the BDS movement, in terms of
concrete impact, is thus far mixed.
Former APN intern Hamze Awawde and Sarah Perle Benazera are a Palestinian and an Israeli who go to Rwanda to learn first hand about the extraordinary path the Rwandan youth has taken on the road to unity and reconciliation following the 1994 genocide. A Production by The Aileen Getty School of Citizen Journalism YaLa Young Leaders
By Yariv Oppenheimer is the secretary-general of Peace Now. This article appeared first on November 20, 2015 in Ynet.com T
he Paris attacks cannot justify for a minute our ongoing control of the Palestinians and do not make the vision of a bi-national state any better for Israel.
If the Islamic State members could, they wouldn't hesitate to hurt Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas too and behead him. As far as the radical Islam created by ISIS is concerned, the Palestinians and their leadership are heretics too.
--Amir Oren writes in Haaretz+ how AIPAC rejected 'walk-in' spy, Jonathan Pollard, but Israeli officials couldn't resist the tempting opportunity he offered and harmed vital interests: relations with the US.
--European Union Ambassador Lars Faaborg-Andersen said in response to remarks by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
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45 days community service.
--The sentence Magistrate’s Court Judge Dana Cohen-Lekach gave to a Border Policeman who was caught on film severely beating an American-Palestinian. The state had requested a seven-month jail term.
-- David Rosenberg writes that the European Union was kind to Israel in labeling settlement products, noting that it didn’t take decades for the EU to slap sanctions on Russia and there weren’t labels reading 'Made in Crimea (Russian occupation').
--Bradley Burston writes in Haaretz that the 'The enemy of my enemy is love.'
This week, Alpher discusses what strategic significance the Paris Massacre might be to the Islamic State; whether it is a sign that ISIS is losing in the Levant; what other countries can we expect ISIS to target now; whether the constellation emerging after the Paris attacks affect Israel’s security; why the former Yemeni prime minister Abdul Karim al-Eryani, who died at age 81 in his Cairo exile, was significant, and what this tells us about the future of Yemen.
--Haggai Matar examines the Israeli media coverage of an illegal Israeli operation.
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"A taxi driver passing by saw the crucifix in my car and started shouting: 'He's an Arab terrorist.' They then started beating me with everything they had: sticks, chains and knives. I shouted at them that I'm a police security guard but it didn't help."
--Christian Arab Israeli security guard hospitalized after attack by Jewish Israelis who suspected he was a terrorist simply because he was Arab.