Category Archives: Palestine & Israel

So This Is Really Spooky

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

When I was in yeshiva, our tenth grade gemara teacher was Rabbi Wehl, and he would often take time in class to talk to us about Israel and how important it was to the Jewish people, how miraculous its very … Continue reading →

Posted in Palestine & Israel | 3 Comments

Architectural Occupation and Israel’s Borders

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Jack Stephens

Hello, again, to everyone here in Amptoons Int3rWebzzz L4nd!  It’s been a while since I’ve been posting on here, not sure why, crazy life got in the way, I guess.  But I have been posting regularly at my blog The … Continue reading →

Posted in Colonialism, In the news, Palestine & Israel | 6 Comments

Went to See Maz Jobrani Last Night

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

I took my wife and my son for their birthdays, which are a day apart later this month, to see the Iranian-American comic Maz Jobrani last night at Town Hall. He is very talented and very funny. One of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Iran, literature, Palestine & Israel | 4 Comments

UCI Suspends Muslim Student Union

Posted on June 20, 2010 by Julie

I’m embarrassed that I didn’t hear about this until last night, especially since my husband attends the very campus in question. (In my defense, I was in the mountains for most of last week.) In response to Muslim students’ protest* … Continue reading →

Posted in Free speech, censorship, copyright law, etc., Palestine & Israel | 26 Comments

A wee bit more on Helen Thomas

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Julie

I’d really rather stop writing about this – I have a post about compost (a com-post?) that’s been sitting on the backburner for about two weeks now – but I’ve been absolutely gobsmacked by the tropes people are pulling out … Continue reading →

Posted in International issues, Palestine & Israel | 4 Comments

Why Does Egypt Support The Gaza Blockade?

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Ampersand

One question I’ve seen come up again and again this week is, why has Egypt’s Mubarak regime been blockading Gaza — an extraordinarily unpopular move not only worldwide, but within Egypt? The best answer I’ve seen comes from Issandr Amrani, … Continue reading →

Posted in International issues, Palestine & Israel | 11 Comments

Some facts that people with an opinion on Israel need to have.

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Julie

The context (via Feministe). 1. Jews have lived continuously in Palestine, in varying numbers, since before the destruction of the second temple. To say that Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine” implies that the actions of the Israeli … Continue reading →

Posted in Anti-Semitism, International issues, Jews and Judaism, Palestine & Israel | 44 Comments

Thousands Protest Settlers In Jerusalem

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Ampersand

For me, this was the most exciting news all week. The Magnes Zionist describes the scene: Around five thousand demonstrators protested the eviction of Arab families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem and the settlement … Continue reading →

Posted in Palestine & Israel | 3 Comments

J Street and Poetry and Jewish Politics and Jewish Poets and Jewish Poetics and Holocaust Trivialization and Israel and Palestine and antisemitism and How Can Culture be a Tool for Change if You Won't Let Culture do its Work? – Part 1

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Note: Portions of this post were edited on January 19 to correct problems that resulted from careless cutting and pasting. Oy! So I was, with mild interest, reading the conversation that was beginning to develop around the post written by … Continue reading →

Posted in Anti-Semitism, Jews and Judaism, Palestine & Israel | 30 Comments

J Street Los Angeles!

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Julie

Because I am a glutton for punishment with no sense of restraint, when the email came in saying that J Street was opening up local chapters, not only did I immediately sign up, but I checked off every single skills/interests … Continue reading →

Posted in Jews and Judaism, Palestine & Israel | 37 Comments