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der khurbn gaza

By: daniel on: Dec 29,2008 In: 60 years later, Anti-war, Gaza, Global Jewish Life, Human Rights, Humanitarian Crisis, Imperialism, Israel, Media, Middle East, Murder, Occupation, Palestine, Protest, Racial Justice, Racism, Resistance, Take Action, Violence, War

all of the journalistic words have been, are being, said already.

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to me, there’s only one thing worth saying on the journalistic side:
24 israelis have been killed by rocket or mortar attacks from gaza, ever.
more than 300 palestinians have been killed by the israeli blitzkrieg in gaza in the past 2 days.
more than 3,300 palestinians have been killed by the israeli military in gaza since 2000.
and it needs to be said over and over and over again.

beyond the journalistic. words aren’t worth much, or are everything.

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Zochrot: Imwas, Yalyu & Beit Nuba

By: oneluckyfellow on: Aug 11,2008 In: 60 years later, History, Imperialism, Israel, Jewish Life, Jewish Organizations, Jews, Martin Luther King Jr., Middle East, Occupation, Palestine, Social Justice

On August 1st, I participated in a small tour through Canada Park lead by Eitan Bronstein, the Director of Zochrot [Remembering], an organization of Israeli citizens working to raise awareness of the Nakba, the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948. Canada Park is run by the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and lies thirty minutes outside of Tel [...]

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Tags: Beit Nuba, Canada Park, Imwas, Jewish National Fund, Memory, Yalyu, Zochrot

missionaries at work

By: daniel on: Sep 11,2007 In: Christian Right, Community Building and Organizing, Economic Justice, Education, Giuliani, History, Ideas, Imperialism, Jewish Identity, Jewish Left, Jewish Life, Jewish Organizations, Jewish Plurality, Local Organizing, Mishegaas, Opinion, Policy, Politics, Progressive Jews, Religion, Secular, Social Action, Social Justice, Spirituality, Synagogue Life, Tradition, Vision

whenever i start to get bored with the idea of staying vocal as one of the surprisingly few non-closeted secularists in most of the electronic jewish spaces i frequent, something like this comes up.
ruth messinger, former manhattan borough president, american jewish world service president, and makher-in-chief of the current (and problematic as well as important, [...]

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A Quality of Mercy

By: Tucker Lieberman on: Jul 19,2007 In: Anti-war, Imperialism, Peace, War

Sixteen years after the atom bomb was dropped on Japan, the Twilight Zone episode “A Quality of Mercy” aired in the United States. The story was set at the end of World War II and involved an American soldier who found himself more or less literally walking in the shoes of a Japanese soldier. [...]

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Police Brutality by UCLA Police Who Tasered a Student without ID

By: Cole on: Nov 18,2006 In: Imperialism, Police Brutality, Racism, Social Justice, Violence, Xenophobia

I’m adding my own categories to this: police brutality, xenophobia, imperialism, violence
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The following are two videos documenting the police brutality of Mostafa Tabatabainejad, a UCLA student, who was repeatedly stunned with a Taser and then taken into custody when he did not exit the CLICC Lab in Powell Library in what was [...]