Ruth Bader Ginsburg: at 84, where does she get her PEP (Progressive Except Palestine)?

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is spunky and progressive, but she has blinders on when it comes to Palestine. See this detailed analysis…

The ‘Last Martyr’: Who Killed My Neighbor, Kamal Al-Assar?

During the First Intifada a new Israeli stratagem was devised: the “broken bones” policy. Once captured, youth had their hands and legs broken by soldiers in a systematic manner. In my neighborhood, children with casts and crutches seemed to outnumber those without…. Kamal was perhaps the last martyr in an uprising that was not meant to liberate land, but liberate people from the idea that they were meant to exist as perpetual victims; and it did…

Speaking about the unspeakable crime – 3 pieces on the killing of Ibrahim Abu Thuraya

The Israeli army sharpshooter couldn’t target the lower part of his victim’s body — he didn’t have one. The 29-year-old, who worked washing cars, lost both legs in an Israeli airstrike during Israel’s 2008 invasion of Gaza. He used a wheelchair to get around. On Friday the army finished the job: A sharpshooter aimed at his head and shot him dead…