Calling the Faithful to Freedom!

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer noted that this is the first time that a member of America’s “third largest religion … will become the first to ever serve as an Article III judge”: Senate Confirms Zahid Quraishi as First Muslim American Federal Judge in US History (CNN) The Israeli authorities’ decision to shut down the…

Israeli police arrested leading Sheikh Jarrah activist Muna El-Kurd at her family’s home on June 6, claiming that she was accused of “participating in riots” … Israel Arrests Palestinian Activist Muna el-Kurd in East Jerusalem (BBC) … and ordered Arabs in the city of Nazareth detained suspected of participating in riots “to sit on the…

An “estimated one million public and private bomb shelters” across Israel do not benefit “unrecognized” Palestinian-majority  villages such as Dahmash, which does not have access to a single one, and lack “basic services and infrastructure”: Israeli Ambassador Slammed for Exploiting Death of Young Palestinian Citizen of Israel (Middle East Eye) Marathon runners peacefully protesting the…

Facebook has repeatedly bowed down to government demands to take down content that is against their interests including removing “posts from prominent Palestinian activists” and helped Indian PM Narendra Modi “stifle criticism of his government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic”: India and Israel Inflame Facebook’s Fights With Its Own Employees (NY Times) UN decision to…

Unconditional support for Israel has made it increasingly difficult for the US to claim “moral high ground on the world stage” as Israel employs its “superior military power” to “kill and terrorize residents of Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon with near impunity”: It’s Time to End the ‘Special Relationship’ With Israel (Foreign Policy) Increasing…

At least 61 children were among the victims arrested as Israeli forces are rounding up Palestinians en masse inside Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory: ‘Terrorizing a Generation’: Israel Arresting Palestinian Children (Al-Jazeera) The War on Palestinians Continues—Now in the Form of Mass Arrests (The Nation) The tipping point in public willingness to close its…

Once Palestine’s cultural and economic capital, Jaffa is still home to around 20,000 Palestinians that lived there before Israel’s establishment in 1948, but government backed gentrification aims to push them out: The Other War in Israel: Gentrification (Intelligencer) Undercover Israeli forces, known as “Mista’arvim”, sneaked their way into the Umm Al-Sharayet neighborhood, where they shot…

As popular perception continues to shift in favor of Palestinians, many young American Jews begin to separate their Jewish American identities from Israel. “Killing more that 200 Palestinians in two weeks won’t bring back our ancestors who perished in the Holocaust”: Young American Jews Have Reached a Tipping Point With Israel (Rolling Stone) As if…

[The following letter to the editor was submitted to The Washington Post on May 5. The editors elected not to  publish it.  We are pleased to print it here]: The Washington Post editorial “An election fiasco leaves the Palestinian government weaker than ever” (5/3/21) tries to blame the Palestinian leadership for the delay in the…