Latest Mideast

• Koehler: A national rite of passage: Beyond war

  I couldn’t help but sense an order of importance here: American lives first, “innocent” Iraqi and Afghan lives last. And there’s one category of war deaths he fails completely to mention: vet suicides
• Pearlman: Congresswoman Barbara Lee Drops Out of “Peacemaker” Award Ceremony

  A northern California peace organization has inscribed the name of Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) on its “peacemaker” wall despite objections by Palestinian activists
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  Zunes: Many Americans Refused to Consider Why 9/11 Happened

  Middle East experts who opposed America’s post-9/11 wars were ridiculed as anti-American extremists. In reality, it was the pro-war right that was making us less safe
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  Bello: September 11 and the Debacle of ‘Nation-Building’ in Iraq and Afghanistan

  Nation-building in Afghanistan and Iraq was the resurrection of a doctrine that should have been buried after Vietnam
• Baskin: Build housing projects with 50/50 Jewish, Palestinian residents

  There are whole neighborhoods in Israel designated for these specific identity groups
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  Baroud: How Many More Palestinians Must Die for Israel’s ‘Security’?

  Far more bewildering is the international community’s apathy while Israelis debate about how many more Palestinians ought to be killed
• Perets: ‘I Don’t Want to Wear a Uniform That Symbolizes Violence and Pain’

  Shahar Perets, who was sentenced to prison for refusing to join the Israeli army, talks about meeting Palestinians for the first time, her visits to the West Bank, and how Israeli society represses the occupation
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  Hempel: Organizing against militarism from Israel to Europe

  The EU has invested billions in Israeli arms companies to further militarize its border agency Frontex. Building a global antimilitarist movement is essential
• Adely: Bottom-Up Labor Solidarity for Palestine Is Growing

  While still at the margins, this unprecedented and rapidly-expanding worker-based Palestine solidarity has the potential to finally break Zionism’s century-long stranglehold on U.S. labor
• Baskin: Can Zionism and Palestinian nationalism live together?

  At the root of this conflict has been a majority of people on both sides demand for the right to attain a territorial expression of their collective identity
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  Baroud: Palestine’s Africa Dichotomy: Is Israel Really ‘Winning’ Africa?

  Why is Israel so keen on penetrating Africa? What made African countries finally succumb to Israeli pressure and lobbying?
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  Falk: Demonizing Durban

  It is no longer plausible to contend that associating Israeli treatment of the Palestinian people as antisemitic
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  Baroud: The Quiet Rebellion

  Why US Jews Turning against Israel is Good for Palestinians  
• Baskin: If no more two-state solution, then what?

  What we need to do now is to begin to change our mindset and understand that we can live together and we can learn to share this land
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  Cohn: Israel Lashes Out at Ben & Jerry’s

  "As Jewish supporters of the State of Israel, we fundamentally reject the notion that it is anti-Semitic to question the policies of the State of Israel." - Ben and Jerry
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  Ganji: Protesting settler colonialism in the neoliberal university

  When Dutch art students wanted to show solidarity with Palestine, their school attempted to silence them. Students resisted with artistic forms of protest
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  Wilkins: Palestinians Refuse to Concede Land Rights to Israelis

  "The minute we pay rent for our homes, it means we have given up ownership," said one woman who could be expelled to make way for Jewish settlers
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  Baroud: The Politics of Cheering and Booing

  On Palestine, Solidarity and the Tokyo Olympics
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  Winstanley: The plight of Palestinians is well understood, now action needs to be taken

  There is no political will in the West to hold Israel to account for its crimes
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  Baroud: ‘New Form’ of Ice Cream ‘Terrorism’

  How Ben & Jerry’s has Exposed Israel’s anti-BDS Strategy
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  Freeman-Maloy: Israel’s Antisemitism Ruse

  When Racists Claim Victimhood
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  Cole: “No ice cream for you”

  Ben & Jerry’s ceases distribution to Israeli Squatter-Settlements in Palestinian West Bank
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  Abunimah: A third of young US Jews see Israel as genocidal, poll finds

  Efforts by Israel and its lobby to equate criticism of Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people with anti-Jewish bigotry are in overdrive
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  Hass: The Problem With Talking About Israeli Apartheid

  The problem is that in all the heat of the talk about apartheid, a dynamic, active and dangerous dimension of it – the Jewish settler colonialism – has become dulled and blunted
• Walawalker: The uses and limits of celebrity solidarity with Palestine

  Famous voices can shape public opinion on Palestine, argues Raoul Walawalker, but walking back solidarity statements does more harm than good