Tag Archives: Occupation

David Broza sings for peace, but the message is lost on Diaspora Jews

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Mira Sucharov, Board Member
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A recent night spent at a David Broza concert hosted by the Jewish community in Ottawa turned out to be a night of contradictions. Broza’s music that evening – music that I’ve loved since I was 15 at Jewish summer camp, music that accompanied my wedding processional, and music that helps bind Diaspora Jews with Israelis – was, as expected, hauntingly beautiful. David Broza’s voice alternated between husky and pure; his Spanish-inflected acoustic guitar-playing was inspired; his …

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Sheikh Jarrah Revisited

Posted on August 16, 2012 by Brad Rothschild, Chair of the Policy and Advocacy Committee
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Two summers ago, I joined a group of Israelis and Palestinians at their weekly protest in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. The protests, which began in December 2009 following the eviction of four Palestinian families from their homes in the neighborhood, quickly began attracting hundreds of participants a week, including author David Grossman, former Speaker of the Knesset Avrum Burg, and Nobel Prize laureate Daniel Kahneman. By the time I arrived in August 2010, the Sheikh …

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Israel’s Birth Certificate

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Leonard Fein, Board Member
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Considerable attention has, these last several weeks, been focused on the report of Israel’s Levy Commission.  No great surprise: The three-person commission, appointed by Prime Minister Netanyahu to render an advisory opinion regarding Jewish settlement in the West Bank, determined that there is no barrier to such settlement and, indeed, that the legality of all such settlements that may have been thought clouded could and should be retroactively affirmed. Essentially, the Commission …

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Lords of the Land: The War for Israel’s Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Idith Zertal & Akiva Eldar

Lords of the Landtells the tragic story of Jewish settlement in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In the aftermath of the 1967 war and Israel’s devastating victory over its Arab neighbors, catastrophe struck both the soul and psyche of the state of Israel. Based on years of research, and written by one of Israel’s leading historians and journalists, this involving narrative focuses on the settlers themselves — often fueled by messianic zeal but also inspired by the original Zionist …

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