Have We Learned Nothing?

David Klion in n+1

[I] can’t remember a time since 9/11 when emotion and bloodlust overwhelmed reason as thoroughly as they do now, including among liberal elites in media and politics. Read.

We Cannot Cross Until We Carry Each Other

Arielle Angel in Jewish Currents

Many of us are only a matter of degrees from someone who died or was taken hostage. How can we publicly grieve the death and suffering of Israelis without these feelings being politically metabolized against Palestinians? Read.

Israeli Apartheid Is at the Heart of the Brutality in Gaza and Israel

Phyllis Bennis in In These Times

Sending more bombs, warplanes, guns and bullets won’t solve the problem. We’ve been providing Israel billions of our tax dollars — supplying about 20% of Israel’s entire military budget — for years. . . . without putting any conditions on an Israeli military that’s enforced a brutal siege. . . Palestinians have been paying the price for this apartheid system for generations. In the recent attacks, innocent Israelis paid a huge price for that system, as well. It’s time to end it. Read.

Gaza Is a Prison Under Siege. This Is My Letter to the World Outside

Ahmed Abu Artema in Truthout

The Palestinian people aren’t targeting the Jews . . . Jews were living peacefully in the Arab countries before 1948. Our problem is that we are under a colonial power. The Zionist movement, when they came to Palestine in 1948, . . . committed ethnic cleansing against the native people. They treated us as if Palestinian people didn’t exist. . . Just a few days ago, Yoav Gallant, the Israeli minister of defense, said that Israel is dealing with “human animals.” Read