Independent journalist David Sheen sheds light on the rehabilitation of the most reactionary American-born rabbis by the Netanyahu Likud Party and their decades-long efforts to turn all of Israel*Palestine (and territories beyond) into a single racially pure religious state.
Independent journalist and human rights defender David Sheen gives an unflinching interrogation and a compelling analysis of the state of Israel*Palestine under Trump and Netanyahu.
By Palestine Center Interns — Mirvat Salameh and Abby Massell
Benjamin Netanyahu has established the most conservative government in Israeli history that is responsible for launching multiple and brutal military assaults on Gaza, expanding illegal settlements, and pushing the declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. As leader and long-term member of Israel’s Likud party, Netanyahu has positioned the party away from its formerly secular and centrist position and toward hard-line right-wing policies. Aside from the surge in settler-violence in the last year, a recent decision to restrict access to Israel’s National Archives has created controversy among Israeli historians and human rights activists.
The new prominence of Ayman Odeh, the dynamic and popular Palestinian Israeli political leader, means that the apologists for Israel can no longer even pretend that there are no significant non-violent movements for justice there. Odeh is the 40-year-old head of the Joint List, the coalition of Arab parties which won 13 seats in last March’s elections, making it the third-largest political group in the Knesset. He is on a busy 2-week tour of the United States, and he made a point of visiting the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s home congregation, where he was introduced from the pulpit to a standing ovation.
Mr. Antony Loewenstein and Mr. Ahmed Moor discuss the possibilities for a one-state solution to the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.
Yousef Munayyer: Demographic engineering is central to Zionism and has been through every stage of Zionist history. I suppose when a political movement seeks to transplant millions of non-natives into a land of indigenous Arabs, to borrow “father of Zionism” Theodore Herzl’s phraseology, demography must become a central obsession.
Yousef Munayyer: Levy is right, this isn’t occupation. Well, not JUST occupation. When an Israeli panel appointed by Benjamin Netanyahu to investigate the question of outposts issued its findings (that there was no occupation and the settlements were legal), most sensible people responded with contempt.
Phyllis Bennis and Adam Gallagher discuss the ability of grassroots movements to achieve political aims without party politics and their response to political shortcomings. This was the first in our annual Palestine Center Interns Summer Lecture Series entitled, “Reevaluating Palestinian Stakeholder Legitimacy.”
The son of an Israeli general and grandson of the man who signed the Israeli declaration of independence, activist Miko Peled discusses his journey to re-examine his beliefs after his niece was tragically killed by a suicide bomber in Jerusalem.
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