Ernesto Nazareth - Vol. 1, Brazilian Choro 2nd Edition, Bilingual Portuguese and English
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
By Jonathan Cook - Nazareth Palestine Chronicle "Israel’s finance minister was accused last week of trying to deflect attention from discriminatory policies keeping many of the country’s Arab families in poverty by blaming their economic troubles on what he described as Arab society’s opposition to women working. A recent report from Israel’s National Insurance Institute...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
An Israeli judge has decided not to convict an Arab youth accused of hurling rocks at a police car, claiming the state discriminates against teenage Arab transgressors, media reported on Thursday. "Israel operates on two fundamentally different levels of enforcement for ideological offences committed by Arab and Jewish minors," Nazareth Magistrate Court Judge Yuval Shadmi wrote in his ruling....
My Right Word (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
From Moshe Arens' op-ed on the dangers from extremist within Israel's Arab population:- ...there is an Arab movement..whose objective it is to destroy the State of Israel. That is the Islamic Movement, an ally of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. It is actively engaged in inciting the Arab population to hate Israel and its Jewish citizens. Frequently the incitement leads to riots like the recent ones...
My Right Word (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Here's the schedule of a group that will be wined and dined and feted and shown but one side of the political/ideological elements of the situation. It's all left, progressive, radical and your token Jew is Rabbi Kronish. In Hebron, will they meet any...Jewish residents? In Jerusalem, will they hear anything from a Temple Mount activist? Anyone in the UK who can help on this? FODIP: Forum for Discussion...
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
British journalist Jonathan Cook, based in Nazareth, is an example of the necessary skepticism individuals should display when writing about Palestine. Occupation can’t be hidden. In a new interview, he says: This is a Palestinian grassroots initiative that cannot be bought off by Israel in the way the Fatah leadership was bought off by Oslo. It empowers [...]
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Jeff Gore, The Electronic Intifada , 9 October 2009 "Jonathan Cook is a British journalist based in Nazareth, the largest Palestinian city in Israel, whose work is regularly published by The Electronic Intifada. His latest book , Disappearing Palestine: Israel's Experiments in Human Despair , was published by Zed Books last October. He recently sat with Jeff Gore to discuss his work and his analysis...
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Buying Off the Palestinian Authority By JONATHAN COOK CounterPunch Nazareth "Israel celebrated at the weekend its success at the United Nations in forcing the Palestinians to defer demands that the International Criminal Court investigate allegations of war crimes committed by Israel during its winter assault on the Gaza Strip. The about-turn, following furious lobbying from Israel and the United...
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
By Jonathan Cook - Nazareth Palestine Chronicle "Nine months after he helped to organise protests against Israel's attack on Gaza, Samih Jabareen is a prisoner in his home in Jaffa, near Tel Aviv , an electronic bracelet around his ankle to alert the police should he step outside his front door. The 40-year-old actor and theatre director is one of dozens of Arab political activists in Israel who...
Twelfth Bough (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Whack-jobs: NAZARETH // A local authority in Israel has announced that it is establishing a special team of youth counsellors and psychologists whose job it will be to identify young Jewish women who are dating Arab men and “rescue” them. The move by the municipality of Petah Tikva, a city close to Tel Aviv, is the latest in a series of separate – and little discussed – initiatives...
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
By Jonathan Cook NAZARETH // A local authority in Israel has announced that it is establishing a special team of youth counsellors and psychologists whose job it will be to identify young Jewish women who are dating Arab men and “ rescue ” them. In a related development, the Israeli media reported this month that residents of Pisgat Zeev, a large Jewish settlement in the midst of Palestinian...
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
Rail Firm Pays Price for Link to Settlements By JONATHAN COOK CounterPunch in Nazareth. "An ill-fated light railway under construction in Jerusalem was originally heralded by Israeli officials as a way to cement the city’s “unification” four decades after the city’s Palestinian half was illegally annexed to Israel. But the only unity generated among Jewish and Palestinian...
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
Peace Group Targets Settlement's Charitable Status By JONATHAN COOK, in Nazareth CounterPunch "Israeli peace activists are planning to ratchet up their campaign against groups in the United States that raise money for settlers by highlighting how tax exemptions are helping to fund the expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank ..... Two additional campaigns are mentioned in the memo. In...
Tony Greenstein's Blog (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
The horrendous increase in overt racism in Israel, the targetting of the elected representatives of the Palestinian population, the comments about 'dirty Arabs' by Israeli Ministers, the 'death to the Arab' chants and of course the institutional racism against Israeli Arabs that results in sentences of 15 months and less for killing an Arab (but life of course for killing a Jew because that is 'terrorism')...
BiblePlaces Blog (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Let’s do this post a little differently than the previous ones, with a little reader interaction. Instead of me describing the photo, I’ll give you the opportunity. Write in the comments below as much as you can about this picture, including its name(s), major features visible, and anything else that indicates why this photograph is useful today for understanding the geography and history...
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
Israeli Ads Warn Against Marrying Non-Jews "Lost" American Youth Urged to Come to Israel By JONATHAN COOK CounterPunch Nazareth "The Israeli government has launched a television and internet advertising campaign urging Israelis to inform on Jewish friends and relatives abroad who may be in danger of marrying non-Jews. The advertisements, employing what the Israeli media described as...
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