Category: In the Media

  • 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…

  • AIC: Paying for the Occupation

    The Village of Husan Near Bethlehem by Cara Loverock, 14 May 2007 In the Palestinian village of Husan , Mahmoud, like so many farmers in the West Bank, faces daily challenges in having his land close to a settlement, which brings harassment, destruction and abuse with no help in sight. Mahmoud lives in the village…

  • SF Chronicle: For Palestinians, memory matters

    It provides a blueprint for their future by George Bisharat, 13 May 2007 Why do some people have the power to remember, while others are asked to forget? That question is especially poignant at this time of year, as we move from Holocaust Remembrance day in early spring to Monday’s anniversary of Israel’s declaration of…