Category Archives: UncategorizedAlmost exactly 10 years ago, on the second day of the Second Intifada, a 12 year-old Palestinian boy named Muhammad al-Durrah was shot and killed during an exchange of gunfire between Israeli and Palestinian forces in Gaza. Several other Palestinian children were killed by gunfire that day, and hundreds more in the months and years [...]
Breaking the Silence (BTS), an Israeli NGO that works to raise awareness of what goes on in the occupied territories by giving voice to combat soldiers who served there, has been nominated for the Sakharov Prize. The prize, named for Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, honors individuals or organizations that have dedicated themselves to defending human [...]
There has been a development in the case of an 18 month-old Palestinian baby who died, apparently due to tear gas inhalation, during riots in East Jerusalem on Friday (24 September). The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), the Israeli equivalent to the ACLU, is demanding that the police investigate the incident. In Israel [...]
On a chilly winter night about two years ago, Muhammad, a taxi driver from East Jerusalem, waited for me in the parking lot at Qalandiya Checkpoint, reading a newspaper by the car’s interior light. I’d originally called him to pick me up from a cafe in Ramallah, but my coffee companion, also called Muhammad, interrupted [...]
For her senior project in visual communications at the Holon Institute of Technology (HIT), artist Sivan Hurvitz exhibited a series of illustrations called “Turn right at the end: the future of a country that gave up on democracy.” It is featured on the website of The Project for Democracy, under the auspices of the Association [...]
A few weeks ago, a story about a Palestinian man convicted by an Israeli court of raping a Jewish woman made headlines around the world. Sabbar Kashur, a 30 year-old resident of East Jerusalem, was convicted not of rape by physical force, but rather of rape by deception: according to the verdict, he presented himself [...]
Gone are the days, it seems, when the slogan was, “Visiting Israel? Come see the holy sites!” On Arutz 7, a right-wing news outlet that takes a pro-settler editorial stance, one of the banner ads that appears most frequently bears the slogan “Visiting Israel? Learn to shoot!” The click-through ads lead to the website of [...]
Sarit Hadad, an Israeli pop singer of Mizrachi extraction, just released a new single. The song, actually a cover of a Lebanse pop hit of the 1970s, is called “Do You Love Me” and it seems that the answer is, “Some of us do, but a lot of us really, really don’t.” For every fan [...]
Credit: Emil Salman The man in the choke-hold is Chaim Levinson, Haaretz’s correspondent for issues related to West Bank Jewish settlements. Soldiers assaulted him and confiscated his mobile phone on August 10, while he was covering a march of right-wing activists on their way to establish another illegal outpost at the site of an ancient [...]
The following is my translation of a piece that was published yesterday on Walla!, a popular Israeli news and information site. Auspicious appointments By Emily Grunzweig 22 July 2010 The Office of the Civil Service issued an external tender for the position of director of the Government Press Office (GPO). Danny Seaman, who has been [...]
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