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Mob or lynching, are words reserved for Palestinians only!

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

I kicked the Arab, I stepped on his head
By Uri Blau

Dozens of teenage boys from Jerusalem received the same ICQ message: “We’re putting an end to all the Arabs who hang out in ‘Pisga’ [Pisgat Ze'ev] and the mall, whistle at the girls, curse, threaten little kids. Anyone who is Jewish and wants to put [...]

My message to the Jews

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Settler Graffiti in Hebron
I realize very well that you are not carbon copies of each other. And I also know that there are many Jews around the world who truly despise what Israel has been doing to the Palestinian people in your name.

I earnestly commend these conscientious Jews for their morality and human [...]

Israel Burns a Historic Mosque in Bethlehem

Friday, January 4th, 2008

A group of Israeli settlers torched an historic mosque in the town of Al-Khader, near Bethlehem, on Tuesday. The settlers used 20 beehives as fuel for the fire, after stealing the beehives from a Palestinian farm located near the mosque.

The Al-Hamadiyya Mosque is the main center for prayer for most of the villagers in Al-Khader [...]

Torture Debate Heats Up, Jewish Groups Stay Mum

Friday, December 21st, 2007

“There was a shocking silence of the Jewish community on the issue of torture, and there is still a lacuna on this vital issue, to my eye,” said Felice Gaer, director of the AJCommittee’s Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights. “All Americans, Jewish and non-Jewish, need to be more vocal on this [...]

Hate crime investigation surprise ending

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

George Washington University hate crime investigation has a surprise ending

NBC - Jewish GW Student Admits Putting Swastikas On Her Door

WASHINGTON — George Washington University officials said a Jewish student who complained about swastikas showing up on her door put them there herself.

The student lives in Mitchell Hall, where half a dozen swastikas had shown up [...]

The crime of sitting next to women

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Stop! Don’t start predicting. This did NOT happen in any ‘Arabian State’. NOT in a Muslim country/society, but the so called ‘Democracy of Israel’.

Bus: 5 ultra orthodox men beat religious woman & soldier for sitting next to each other

Ha’artz - Five assailants believed to be Ultra-Orthodox Jews assaulted a woman and an Israel Defense Forces [...]

Jewish are Jewish, Arab are foreigners!

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Jewish & Arab Congressmen appeal for more Palestinian funding

A Jewish and an Arab-American congressman are seeking co-signers for a letter urging greater U.S. funding for Palestinian Authority reforms.

Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.), the Jewish chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Middle East subcommittee, and Rep. Charles Boustany (R-La.) initiated the letter.

“We are writing to both [...]

Dissenting at your own risk

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Below is an Op-Ed by Jewish Voice for Peace Communications Director, Cecilie Surasky which appeared in today’s Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
(In case you are interested in publishing it on your website or email list. Surasky has given her permission for it to be run in full.)

Dissenting at your own risk
By CECILIE SURASKY
Special to the Star-Telegram

Last [...]

This makes news headlines: Jews Attacked in Uzbekistan and Germany

Monday, September 10th, 2007

As usual, an attack on the Rabbi in Frankfurt and a murdered Jew in Uzbekistan are surely in all the newspapers… but neo-Nazi arrests in Israel surely is NOT! (It happened one month ago, but a GAG ORDER was only lifted yesterday… what other news do the Israelis have gag orders on??)

Iran’s Jews not for sale

Saturday, July 14th, 2007

Unlike many other millions:

Iran’s Jews reject cash offer to move to Israel

· Expats offer families £30,000 to emigrate
· Our identity is not for sale, say community leaders

Robert Tait in Tehran
Thursday July 12, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

Iran’s Jews have given the country a loyalty pledge in the face of cash offers aimed at encouraging them to move to [...]