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6 months ago
United, Jewish and strong was the narrative projected on the May 8th Independence Day celebrations, where massive military pageants in Tel Aviv had an unfortunate interactive element, as a falling paratrooper missed his mark, injuring onlookers at the city's waterfront. However, the sensitivity of ...
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6 months ago
United, Jewish and strong was the narrative projected on the May 8th Independence Day celebrations, where massive military pageants in Tel Aviv had an unfortunate interactive element, as a falling paratrooper missed his mark, injuring onlookers at the city's waterfront. However, the sensitivity ...
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6 months ago
Over the past few weeks Israel has become a sea of emblems to mark the 60th anniversary of its creation, with blue and white flags cloaking the state's cities, towns and settlements. The celebrations are patriotic bravado, making America's fourth of July celebrations seem like a few weenies snugly ...
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6 months ago
Over the past few weeks Israel has become a sea of emblems to mark the 60th anniversary of its creation, with blue and white flags cloaking the state's cities, towns and settlements. The celebrations are patriotic bravado, making America's fourth of July celebrations seem like a few weenies ...
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7 months ago
Barreling towards the desert from Ramallah at 10p.m is not the traditional way that Jews commemorate their biblical freedom from bondage on Passover seder night. However, the full moon lighting over the Negev crater, Maktesh Ramon, and my hazy state of recovery from the previous night's festivities ...
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7 months ago
Barreling towards the desert from Ramallah at 10p.m is not the traditional way that Jews commemorate their biblical freedom from bondage on Passover seder night. However, the full moon lighting over the Negev crater, Maktesh Ramon, and my hazy state of recovery from the previous night’s ...
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7 months ago
Keeping it real with ‘my attorney' during twilight hours in Ramallah last week, watching Youtube clips of Britpop icons on Top of the Pops, I got buzzed by an old Montreal homie, now living in the midst of the Palestinian national liberation movement. Oldskool allies in Palestinian solidarity ...
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7 months ago
Amidst the Pulp music video chorus, "you wanna live like common people," my friend told me that a mutual buddy, originally from her North American social circle, now beach parked in Tel Aviv, was coming to visit. Evidently I was "Janice's" culturally sensitive tour guide of choice, and being a ...
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7 months ago
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7 months ago
As a wave of settlement expansion continues to wash over the Occupied Territories, the increasingly militant Palestinian-Israeli counter-response was evident at this year's week of Land Day demonstrations.
Identifying gentrification as a form of slow-motion ethnic cleansing, demonstrations in ...