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What Trumpiness and Occupation Denial Have in Common Op-Eds & Analysis
Chaim Landau, Haaretz

What Trumpiness and Occupation Denial Have in Common

Trumpiness, the deliberate confusion of feelings, beliefs and opinion as fact, is about what people feel, not think. It is an extension of what political comedian Stephen Colbert first called "truthiness" – believing something is true even if not supported by fact.

12 hours ago
Right-Wing Group Targets University Of Chicago Students News Roundup
Odette Yousef, WBEZ Chicago

Right-Wing Group Targets University Of Chicago Students

A conservative group is targeting students at the University of Chicago for their involvement in Palestinian rights activities. Last week, flyers were posted on campus listing—by name—some student members of a group called Students for Justice in Palestine.

12 hours ago
Boycotting “The Occupation” Is Not Enough Op-Eds & Analysis
Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada

Boycotting “The Occupation” Is Not Enough

Earlier this month, The New York Review of Books published a call for “a targeted boycott of all goods and services from all Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, and any investments that promote the occupation, until such time as a peace settlement...

about 1 day ago
Keeping Campuses Safe for Free Speech Op-Eds & Analysis
Saree Makdisi, LA Times

Keeping Campuses Safe for Free Speech

Last week, my email inbox and Twitter feeds were flooded with hateful messages impugning my integrity. The source of this invective was a shadowy organization called Canary Mission, which maintains what it hopes will function as a blacklist of of professors and students...

about 1 day ago
Palestinian Villages ‘Get Two Hours of Water a Week’ News Roundup
Eloise Bollack, Al Jazeera

Palestinian Villages ‘Get Two Hours of Water a Week’

Ramallah, occupied West Bank - Enas Taha, a resident of the Palestinian village of Kafr al-Deek in the occupied West Bank, has become desperate. "Since the [water] crisis started in June, the municipality has been able to supply water for only one hour...

about 2 days ago
Protect Free Speech in Pa. Op-Eds & Analysis
Rabbi Alissa Wise, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Protect Free Speech in Pa.

Our state legislators are considering a bill that would infringe on the First Amendment rights of Pennsylvanians. House Bill 2107 targets the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian human rights and would deny government contracts...

about 3 days ago
Coalition Chairman Threatens to Strip Citizenship of Israeli Activist Who Criticized Occupation News Roundup
Jonathan Lis, Haaretz

Coalition Chairman Threatens to Strip Citizenship of Israeli Activist Who Criticized Occupation

In a further escalation of the backlash against the anti-occupation nonprofit B'Tselem after it addressed the UN Security Council, the chairman of the coalition said Friday that he will seek to have the citizenship of the group's CEO revoked.

about 5 days ago
Denied a Human Standard of Living: The Gaza Blockade Has Entered Its Tenth Year Op-Eds & Analysis
Bo Schack, UNRWA

Denied a Human Standard of Living: The Gaza Blockade Has Entered Its Tenth Year

“I have survived the past three wars, but that is not the problem. In this place, wars come and go. The bigger struggle is not to lose hope. The only way I can do that is to retreat, and create my own world, and become oblivious.” This was told to me by 36-year old Ali...

about 6 days ago
Trump Is Reaching Into Netanyahu’s Election Playbook Op-Eds & Analysis
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man, +972

Trump Is Reaching Into Netanyahu’s Election Playbook

There is a lot about Donald Trump’s presidential campaign that is worryingly reminiscent of Benjamin Netanyahu’s electoral antics, particularly his willingness to say just about anything, regardless of the consequences as long as he thinks it might be politically expedient.

about 1 week ago