In 2017, MCC launched the A Cry for Home campaign which advocates for a just peace that enables the people in Palestine and Israel to live without fear and in dignity, where everyone has a place to call home. 929 more words
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Israeli Occupation and Jerusalem's Palestinian Cabbies
Jerusalem’s Palestinian Cabbies
Al Jazeera (2019)
Film Review
This film provides an interesting glimpse into the working lives of Palestinian cab drivers in West Jerusalem. Divided into East and West Jerusalem since the founding of Israel in 1948, East Jerusalem has been under Israeli occupation since the 1967 six-day war. 158 more words
Annual West Bank marathon kicks off to draw attention to Israeli occupation
DAILY SABAH
ISTANBUL
Published23.03.2019
Runners pass by the Israeli separation barrier during the Palestine Marathon, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Friday, March 22, 2019. 188 more words
Abby Zimet: We Know What Hate Looks Like -- Standing With Ilhan
Screenshot of the progressive town hall at D.C.’s Busboys and Poets
Amidst the ongoing, breathtaking hypocrisy of rabid charges of anti-Semitism – aka daring to criticize America’s toxic complicity with Israeli war crimes – heedlessly leveled against her, often from down-and-dirty bigots, Ilhan Omar is all done apologizing. 407 more words
Abby Zimet: They Took My House, They Took My Life, They Took Everything.
Arresting Hatem Abu Asab for living in his house. Photo by Sahl Zighari
Israeli police forcibly expelled a Palestinian family from their home in the occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday and promptly turned it over to right-wing Jewish settlers, who… 282 more words
Stephen Zunes: ‘More AIPAC Than J Street’ -- Kamala Harris Runs to the Right on Foreign Policy
The California senator’s hardline positions on Israel-Palestine point to a dangerous disregard for international law.
California’s junior senator Kamala Harris has announced her presidential candidacy, joining what will likely become an unusually large field of Democrats seeking the nomination. 1,417 more words
Murtaza Hussain: U.S. News Headlines on Israel-Palestine Show Systemic Bias
A new study calls to attention the need to more critically evaluate the scope of coverage of the Israeli occupation and recognize that readers are getting, at best, a heavily filtered rendering of the issue. 384 more words
