Category Archives: Middle East

Anne Frank, Rachel Corrie: A Legacy of Two Martyrs

Posted on September 2, 2012 by anewworldsinbirth

A legacy of two martyrs from Mondoweiss by Jennifer Loewenstein Madison, WI Sixty-seven years after the end of World War II, a team of researchers and cameramen from the Anne Frank House in Holland showed up at the Capitol Lakes retirement center in … Continue reading →

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Where’s the Palestinian Gandhi? Soaking in Blood Shed by Settlers

Posted on May 20, 2012 by anewworldsinbirth

Where’s the Palestinian Gandhi? Soaking in Blood Shed by Settlers from Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place by Richard Silverstein Tweet Jewish settler terrorist shoots Nemer Asiara in cold blood Yesterday, in the northern West Bank, outside the village of … Continue reading →

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Learning from the Irish Hunger Strikes of 1981 and the Palestinian Challenge

Posted on May 11, 2012 by anewworldsinbirth

If you recently watched “The Iron Lady” with Meryl Streep, this is a useful reminder of who Margaret Thatcher really was. Learning from the Irish Hunger Strikes of 1981 and the Palestinian Challenge from Richard Falk by Richard Falk   Prefatory Note John … Continue reading →

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Nakba: The Ongoing Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Posted on May 11, 2012 by anewworldsinbirth
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A portrait of a former Zionist (Part 1)

Posted on May 9, 2012 by anewworldsinbirth

A portrait of a former Zionist (Part 1) from Mondoweiss by Philip Weiss A year ago at the counter-AIPAC conference in Washington I met a New Yorker I’ll call Bill. Quiet and darkhaired and serious at 35, Bill told me he had grown … Continue reading →

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Jesse Lieberfeld speaks: When they told me to stand by Israel, ‘that’s the logic of the white south in the 60s’

Posted on May 5, 2012 by anewworldsinbirth

Jesse Lieberfeld speaks: When they told me to stand by Israel, ‘that’s the logic of the white south in the 60s’ from Mondoweiss by Philip Weiss We all wondered what happened to Jesse Lieberfeld, that great kid in Pittsburgh who won a Martin Luther … Continue reading →

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It’s apartheid in the West Bank, but Obama and liberal Jews are too ‘intimidated’ to say anything — Perlstein in Rolling Stone

Posted on May 5, 2012 by anewworldsinbirth

It’s apartheid in the West Bank, but Obama and liberal Jews are too ‘intimidated’ to say anything — Perlstein in Rolling Stone from Mondoweiss by Philip Weiss It’s finally happening. The great slumbering and privileged body of integrated American Jews is lifting its … Continue reading →

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This is What Apartheid Looks Like: Trivial Atrocity…

Posted on March 5, 2012 by anewworldsinbirth

Why/ Who Died? from The Only Democracy? by The Only Democracy? By David Grossman, Translated by Sol Salbe All said and done it is merely a minor story about an illegal alien who stole a car, was injured in an accident, then released … Continue reading →

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Video: Olmert, Livni & Barak were ‘masters of war’ 3 years ago

Posted on February 9, 2012 by anewworldsinbirth

Video: Olmert, Livni & Barak were ‘masters of war’ 3 years ago from Mondoweiss by Philip Weiss New, and wrenching, video from Sana Kassem is up at Norman Finkelstein’s site, using the Bob Dylan anti-war anthem. Popout “The Gaza Massacre” from Sana Kassem on Vimeo.

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Iraqi universities

Posted on February 7, 2012 by anewworldsinbirth

Iraqi universities from The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب by noreply@blogger.com (As’ad AbuKhalil) “Until the 1990s, Iraq had perhaps the best university system in the Middle East. Saddam Hussein’s regime used oil revenues to underwrite free tuition for Iraqi university students … Continue reading →

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