From the US-based Media Education Foundation, an incisive documentary with a roster of eloquent witnesses. Its title is self-explanatory: Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land.
An essential counter to the relentless wash of misinformation on Israel and Palestine that we get from mainstream media.
See it here, on Vimeo.
And please, pass it on.
Two Jewish responses to yesterday’s elections in Israel. Both are published on Mondoweiss, March 18, 2015.
Netanyahu won. Now what? Avigail Abarbanel.
Who can save Israel now? Philip Weiss.
Avigail Abarbanel: “The message to those of us who support the Palestinians is to get ready to escalate our support. It is about to get very very tough.”
BDS: more than ever, the best chance for real change.
Gaza rally, London, July 2014
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, August 14, 2014:
“If you add together all the people who gathered over the past weekend to demand justice in Israel and Palestine – in Cape Town, Washington, D.C., New York, New Delhi, London, Dublin, Sydney, and all the other cities – this was arguably the largest active outcry by citizens around a single cause ever in the history of the world.”
Read Desmond Tutu’s stirring call to liberation here.
Gaza City, July 27, 2014. Photo: Oxfam International.
“For the last eight years, Israel and the U.S. had repeated opportunities to opt for a diplomatic solution in Gaza. Each time, they have chosen war, with devastating consequences for the families of Gaza.”
Why?
The answer is here, in a well-documented account by Sandy Tolan, author of The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, and an associate professor at the University of Southern California.
The only practical response that does not depend on goodwill or common sense from the Israeli or American authorities: the growing international grassroots movement for BDS – boycott, divestment and sanctions.
Michael Riordon 