Advertisements A controversy at Human Rights Watch has illustrated again how foolish it is to ignore the issue of Palestinians’ right of return. It’s a difficult conversation, but Palestinians are not simply going to give up their rights and Israelis are more against this one than any other. Ignoring theContinue Reading
Advertisements Two key employees at HRW quit over the indefinite delay in releasing the report. The incident highlights the importance of bring the conversation about the Palestinian right of return to the forefront. Read more at Cutting Through Continue Reading
Advertisements [Update: After a fierce outcry, the White House issued a statement saying it would raise the number of refugees it expects to allow to enter the United States in 2021 form the pathetically low number of 15,000. The administration did not say what the new number would be, butContinue Reading
Palestinians may be facing a new kind of catastrophe, one that will take another awful toll on them. But they’ve already survived two of them. They may not have flourished, but they have survived and multiplied. Trump’s effort to destroy the Palestinians as a nation won’t succeed, but it will certainly have terrible consequences. After it fails, it will fall on the United States and Western Europe to finally live up to their responsibilities and use their considerable levers of influence to protect the rights of Palestinians as assiduously as those of Israelis.Continue Reading
Advertisements A very large and diverse coalition of groups have come together to launch a web site, United Against the Muslim Ban. The site offers visitors a variety of ways to take action not just against Donald Trump’s recent attempt to close the US off to Muslims from several countriesContinue Reading
