a review of religion and media
Diane Winston (the Knight chair in Media and Religion at the Annenberg School for Communication at USC, master of the blog Trans/missions, and a friend of The Revealer) has a new project with her journalism students that is dedicated to deeper examination of Israeli/Palestinian relations: The Israel-Palestine Project. Winston and students blogged their recent trip to Israel here. You can read more about the project here. Continue Reading →
Updated:
6.5
Israeli navy has boarded the second flotilla bound for Gaza.
Political cartoons from around the Arab world. (The post is a chance to reexamine the distinctions between anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, and anti-current Israeli policy — as well as anti-Americanism.)
6.4
Spender Ackerman on the “milestone” in Turkey-Israel relations.
Glenn Greenwald on the methods used by Israel to influence reporting in the US media.
Richard Bartholomew reports on the English Defense League and the London Pro-Israel rally.
The Rachel Corrie, a second aid flotilla, is set to arrive in Gaza tomorrow.
6.3
Max Blumenthal cites an article in Hebrew that denies current Israeli claims that the violence was the result of a “bungled” operation.
Charisma Magazine reports that Israeli officials are defending their actions to Christian supporters like Christians United for Israel (CUFI).
Gordon Lynch writes at Diane Winston’s The Scoop about “The Gaza Flotilla as Sacred Drama”.
Paul Woodward at AlterNet (via War in Context) on the recent report that one of those killed on the flotilla was a 19 year old American.
Eric Alterman at The Nation on Beinart’s recent column on American support of Israel and its subsequent commentary.
The National Council of Churches has called on Israel to end the blockade of Gaza.
6.2
From the AP (via Huffington Post) an update of world reactions, including Netanyahu’s defense of Israel’s actions.
Nathan Schneider, senior editor of our sister site, Killing the Buddha, writes at Sojourners about nonviolence and the Gaza Freedom Movement.
Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic notes Noah Millman’s insight and comments, “Now let’s not delude ourselves: the reason so many of us find the policy toward Gaza repellent is that it is quite obviously an attempt to collectively punish the people of Gaza for voting for Hamas, and then for lobbing missiles after Israel’s withdrawal.”
Daniel Larison at The American Conservative asks the right questions, including: “…how has it reached a point that Turkish unwillingness to go to war with Israel has become proof of Israeli success?” (via John Cole at Baloon Juice)
AlterNet is promoting American Near East Refugee Aid’s (ANERA) fundraising efforts for Gaza relief via a special email.
Continue Reading →
Updated:
6.5
Israeli navy has boarded the second flotilla bound for Gaza.
Political cartoons from around the Arab world. (The post is a chance to reexamine the distinctions between anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, and anti-current Israeli policy — as well as anti-Americanism.)
6.4
Spender Ackerman on the “milestone” in Turkey-Israel relations.
Glenn Greenwald on the methods used by Israel to influence reporting in the US media.
Richard Bartholomew reports on the English Defense League and the London Pro-Israel rally.
The Rachel Corrie, a second aid flotilla, is set to arrive in Gaza tomorrow.
6.3
Max Blumenthal cites an article in Hebrew that denies current Israeli claims that the violence was the result of a “bungled” operation.
Charisma Magazine reports that Israeli officials are defending their actions to Christian supporters like Christians United for Israel (CUFI).
Gordon Lynch writes at Diane Winston’s The Scoop about “The Gaza Flotilla as Sacred Drama”.
Paul Woodward at AlterNet (via War in Context) on the recent report that one of those killed on the flotilla was a 19 year old American.
Eric Alterman at The Nation on Beinart’s recent column on American support of Israel and its subsequent commentary.
The National Council of Churches has called on Israel to end the blockade of Gaza.
6.2
From the AP (via Huffington Post) an update of world reactions, including Netanyahu’s defense of Israel’s actions.
Nathan Schneider, senior editor of our sister site, Killing the Buddha, writes at Sojourners about nonviolence and the Gaza Freedom Movement.
Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic notes Noah Millman’s insight and comments, “Now let’s not delude ourselves: the reason so many of us find the policy toward Gaza repellent is that it is quite obviously an attempt to collectively punish the people of Gaza for voting for Hamas, and then for lobbing missiles after Israel’s withdrawal.”
Daniel Larison at The American Conservative asks the right questions, including: “…how has it reached a point that Turkish unwillingness to go to war with Israel has become proof of Israeli success?” (via John Cole at Baloon Juice)
AlterNet is promoting American Near East Refugee Aid’s (ANERA) fundraising efforts for Gaza relief via a special email.
Continue Reading →
Updated:
6.5
Israeli navy has boarded the second flotilla bound for Gaza.
Political cartoons from around the Arab world. (The post is a chance to reexamine the distinctions between anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, and anti-current Israeli policy — as well as anti-Americanism.)
6.4
Spender Ackerman on the “milestone” in Turkey-Israel relations.
Glenn Greenwald on the methods used by Israel to influence reporting in the US media.
Richard Bartholomew reports on the English Defense League and the London Pro-Israel rally.
The Rachel Corrie, a second aid flotilla, is set to arrive in Gaza tomorrow.
6.3
Max Blumenthal cites an article in Hebrew that denies current Israeli claims that the violence was the result of a “bungled” operation.
Charisma Magazine reports that Israeli officials are defending their actions to Christian supporters like Christians United for Israel (CUFI).
Gordon Lynch writes at Diane Winston’s The Scoop about “The Gaza Flotilla as Sacred Drama”.
Paul Woodward at AlterNet (via War in Context) on the recent report that one of those killed on the flotilla was a 19 year old American.
Eric Alterman at The Nation on Beinart’s recent column on American support of Israel and its subsequent commentary.
The National Council of Churches has called on Israel to end the blockade of Gaza.
6.2
From the AP (via Huffington Post) an update of world reactions, including Netanyahu’s defense of Israel’s actions.
Nathan Schneider, senior editor of our sister site, Killing the Buddha, writes at Sojourners about nonviolence and the Gaza Freedom Movement.
Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic notes Noah Millman’s insight and comments, “Now let’s not delude ourselves: the reason so many of us find the policy toward Gaza repellent is that it is quite obviously an attempt to collectively punish the people of Gaza for voting for Hamas, and then for lobbing missiles after Israel’s withdrawal.”
Daniel Larison at The American Conservative asks the right questions, including: “…how has it reached a point that Turkish unwillingness to go to war with Israel has become proof of Israeli success?” (via John Cole at Baloon Juice)
AlterNet is promoting American Near East Refugee Aid’s (ANERA) fundraising efforts for Gaza relief via a special email.
Continue Reading →
“I know what the podium I stand behind represents, what Israel studies represents. I know this is a form of public diplomacy.” — Amal Jamal, “Israeli-Arab” professor of political science, Tel-Aviv University, one of two Palestinian scholars (of a total of 300 attendees) at the annual meeting of the Association for Israel Studies in Toronto in early May.
This week The Forward, a Jewish daily newspaper, published an article by Gal Beckerman that examines the swift increase of Israel Studies programs on American university campuses — often funded by wealthy Israeli donors as a reaction to established “left-leaning” Middle Eastern Studies programs. Continue Reading →
07 February 2006 The Church of England’s general synod, backed by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, has voted to disinvest from the U.S. Caterpillar company as part of its decision to disinvest Continue Reading →
30 January 2006 For liberal Palestinians fearful that the newly-elected Hamas party intends to enforce Islamic law on the country’s citizens, senior Hamas leaders say, take heart: yes, Sharia will Continue Reading →
By Meera Subramanian In Palestine, the enemy is many things. The enemy takes your land and holds you captive. The enemy launches bombs that leave the whitened stones of the Continue Reading →
“‘We had to use the heaviest tools we had in order to shock the State of Israel. As someone said to me, we had to make people understand that this Continue Reading →
Fiddler Beneath the Gun Impaling a head on a pole and putting a cigarette in his mouth? That was pretty bad. Audio tape of “an Israeli officer pumping the body Continue Reading →