Israeli forces carried out a series of raids in the West Bank the night of Dec. 5. Soliders invaded the village of Beit Sira, near the Green Line west of Ramallah, conducting house-to-house raids and seizing more than 20 Palestinians…. Read moreIsrael abducts Palestinians in West Bank raids
A nuclear war between Israel and Iran would be mutually devastating, but Israel might survive as a state, according to a new study by Anthony Cordesman of the DC-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. According to “Iran, Israel and… Read moreIsrael could “survive” nuke war with Iran: wonk
With all eyes on the Israeli-Palestinian “breakthrough” at the Annapolis talks, the West Bank is under siege—this time by Palestinian security forces. Hisham Baradi, 36, an anti-Annapolis protester with the Hizb al-Tahrir (Party of Liberation), was killed when Palestinian Authority… Read moreMilitant Jews, Palestinians united —against Annapolis
The New York Times reports Nov. 5 on an initiative to win justice for Jews who fled Arab countries after 1948, and their descendants. But the first paragraph makes nearly explicitly clear that they are being exploited as bargaining chips… Read moreMizrahi Jews as political cannon fodder?
Setting a new standard for accuracy in the blogosphere, the New York Times editorial board makes a major error in their Oct. 31 blog post, “A Visit From: Eli Khoury, Lebanese Activist.” On “The Board,” the editorial staff of the… Read moreNYT edit board goes bloggo, makes major screamer
The northern Israeli village of Pekiin turned into a battleground Oct. 30 as clashes between police and Druze protesters left some 16 police officers and a similar number of medics and residents injured. One resident was in serious condition after… Read moreIsrael: Druze riot against cellphone antennae
Amos Schocken, the publisher of Israel’s liberal daily Ha’aretz newspaper, has defended his paper’s applying the word “apartheid” to the Israeli- occupied West Bank, as well as the phrase “Jews-only roads.” According to journalist and blogger Phillip Weiss, who attended… Read moreIsraeli publisher defends paper’s use of terms “Jews-only,” “apartheid”
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
