Our October issue featured the story “Israeli High Court Returns Palestinian Lands? Don’t Believe the Hype!” by WW4 REPORT co-editor David Bloom, finding: “A review of the decisions shows that even in the few cases where the High Court decided… Read moreSeparation walls and the new security state: our readers write
The recent controversy over the cancellation of two concerts sponsored by the group OneVoice, to have been held simultaneously on Oct. 18 in Israeli-occupied Jericho and Tel Aviv, has drawn wide recriminations from its New York-based leadership. OneVoice was founded… Read moreIsraeli “OneVoice” musician played settler Woodstock
From the Alternative Information Center, Oct 16. The general secretary of Peace Now, Yariv Oppenheimer, did his reserve military duty at a checkpoint in the Jordan Valley, deep in the occupied Palestinian territories, acting just like any other good Israeli… Read morePeace Now chief enforces Jordan Valley apartheid?
From the NYC civil service paper The Chief-Leader, Oct 19: Thompson and Israel To the Editor: The undersigned trade-union activists disagree with New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson and the Jewish Labor Committee, who have joined the witch-hunt against… Read moreVeteran NYC labor leaders: boycott Israel
Our September issue featured the story “The Israel Lobby & Global Hegemony: Revisited” by WW4R editor Bill Weinberg, arguing that “Israel replicates the historical cycles of Jewish scapegoating by serving as imperialism’s proxy.” Refuting the thesis of John Mearsheimer and… Read moreThe Mearsheimer-Walt thesis: our readers write
The following was reported by Amit Cohen in the center-right Israeli paper Ma’ariv in Hebrew on Sept. 19: Abu Mazen instructed his general “Slaughter them” The clip [shown at the Ma’ariv link] apparently shows a meeting in Abu-Mazen’s [President Mahmoud… Read morePalestinian president: Slaughter Hamas
Part of a statement from al-Awda and other groups, online at NYC Indymedia, Sept. 13: We believe that it is critical, necessary and essential that the building of the antiwar movement in the United States take place in a manner… Read moreANSWER sells out Palestinians?
Shaker al-Abssi, leader of the al-Qaeda franchise Fatah al-Islam, was reported killed in the Lebanese Army’s assault on a the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp Sept. 2. Lebanese officials said they were awaiting the result of a DNA test before officially… Read moreAl-Qaeda leader killed in Lebanon?
From Amnesty International, Aug. 23: Evictions crisis deepens for Palestinian villagers The Israeli army has increased efforts to force Palestinian villagers out of the Jordan Valley region of the occupied West Bank, by destroying villagers’ homes and restricting their movement… Read moreAI protests Jordan Valley evictions
Some 5,000 Israelis participated in a march around Jerusalem’s Temple Mount July 15, in a monthly event led by Orthodox Jewish groups dedicated to the rebuilding of a Jewish temple on the site. The march usually draws far smaller numbers,… Read moreArchaeology wars rage on at Temple Mount
From Israel Indymedia (via Kibush), June 25: Tonight we, a group of autonomous women activists, have protested against the Akerstein Company and its support for the Separation Wall. We have acted at the Akerstein sales center at Herzlia Pituach- we… Read moreIsrael: activists glue wall company shut
Israeli police detained an Orthodox Jewish man carrying a small homemade bomb in Jerusalem June 21, as thousands marched in support of gay rights in defiance of religious protesters. Some 2,000 Israeli gays marched in the event by police estimates,… Read moreJewish terrorist arrested at Jerusalem gay parade?
