The time has come to admit that Israel is a sick society, with an illness that demands treatment, President Reuven Rivlin said at the opening session on Sunday of a conference on From Hatred of the Stranger to Acceptance of… Read More ›
Ethnic discrimination
How One Man Refused to Spy on Fellow Muslims for the FBI—and Then Lost Everything
On the night of December 9, 2011, Siham Stewart called her husband, Ayyub Abdul-Alim, as he closed down his corner store, Nature’s Garden, in Springfield, Massachusetts. She asked him to bring home a gallon of milk. A few minutes later,… Read More ›
Conflict Kitchen’s Palestinian focus criticized as one-sided
By Melissa McCart / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Conflict Kitchen in Oakland’s Schenley Plaza debuted its rotation of Palestinian dishes Monday. By noon, more than 30 customers stood in line to order fattoush, falafel, musakhan and other foods. Though the lunch hour… Read More ›
Netanyahu says US criticism of settlements is ‘against American values’
Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has dismissed a recent White House rebuke of Israeli settlement construction, saying such criticism goes “against American values”.Israel came under fire last week after a Jerusalem city official signed the final go-ahead for construction of… Read More ›
Matthew Barber Reports On the Crisis in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region
By Matthew Barber in Syria Comment The calm is slowly unraveling in Kurdistan, and a growing, pervasive anxiety is beginning to afflict us all. We know that the fighting between the Kurdish Peshmerga forces and the Islamic State jihadis continues… Read More ›
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