Category: In the Media

  • Israel 2007: Worse than Apartheid

    by Ronnie Kasrils | Mail & Guardian Travelling into Palestine’s West Bank and Gaza Strip, which I visited recently, is like a surreal trip back into an apartheid state of emergency. It is chilling to pass through the myriad checkpoints – more than 500 in the West Bank. They are controlled by heavily armed soldiers,…

  • YNet: Who’s normal here?

    IDF violence and lying politicians have become the norm in Israel by Aviad Kleinberg, 19 May 2007 The IDF was quick to investigate the incident where IDF soldiers recently attacked protestors on Mount Hebron. Apparently, the incident where our fine soldiers mercilessly beat up protestors who didn’t endanger anyone was a “professional mishap” or a…

  • NY Times: Red Cross Report Says Israel Disregards Humanitarian Law

    By STEVEN ERLANGER, 15 May 2007 JERUSALEM, May 14 — The International Committee of the Red Cross, in a confidential report about East Jerusalem and its surrounding areas, accuses Israel of a “general disregard” for “its obligations under international humanitarian law — and the law of occupation in particular.” The committee, which does not accept…

  • Ma’ariv: Wanted at Harvard, Dan Halutz

    By Ben Caspit, Ma’ariv, 15 May 2007 “Academic hunt” for Halutz A group of students at Harvard, including Jews and Israelis, calls for the Commander-in-Chief to be tried for war crimes Even at Harvard University the former Commander-in-Chief, Dan Halutz, can’t find peace; a group of radical and pro-Palestinian students and lecturers, among them Jews…

  • Newsweek: A Grittier Trip to the Holy Land

    A Grittier Trip to the Holy Land, Sarina Rosenberg, May 21 issue The Israel that 18,000 young Jewish Americans will see this summer on the free, 10-day trip offered by Taglit-birthright Israel is a land of ancient religious sites, sandy beaches and buff young soldiers. “It’s a Jewish identity trip,” says Wayne L. Firestone, president…