As published in Shifting Sands: Jewish Women Confront the Israeli Occupation By Emma Rosenthal I: Year: 1969 “Good Germans,” my father muttered as we walked from door to door petition in hand, collecting signatures, working for an end to the war in Vietnam. Some yelled at us to “go back to Russia!” Others politely said [...]
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Good Germans
Posted in Art and Activism, Dissident Jewish Voices, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, International Solidarity, Israeli Apartheid, Israeli Offense Forces, Palestine, Poetry, Racism, Shifting Sands: Jewish American Women Confront the Israeli Occupation, Shoah, U.S. empire, Women's Lives on May 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Short Animated Film by Formerly Detained Palestinian Child
Posted in Art and Activism, Education, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Palestine, Prison Industrial Complex, Racism, The war against the children, this is what a police state looks like, This is what genocide looks like, U.S. empire on November 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Art and activism What you can do! http://al-awda.org/alert-children2.html
Jeff Blankfort and the Tender Embrace of Opportunism
Posted in Calling out neo-liberalism, Calling out the liberal left!, Dissident Jewish Voices, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, Indigenous Rights, Israeli Apartheid, Palestine, Racism, The Americas, U.S. empire, white supremacist on August 8, 2010 | 63 Comments »
By Elise Hendrick Opportunism makes strange bedfellows. How else can Jeff Blankfort’s prominence in what is supposedly a Palestinian solidarity movement be explained? The Lobby Hypothesis Blankfort’s basic claim is that a Jewish Lobby has absolute control over US policy in the Middle East. This is hardly a novel claim – it’s been advanced by [...]
Links for KPFK Listeners
Posted in Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Art and Activism, Calling out neo-liberalism, Calling out the liberal left!, Cross Referencing Emmalandia, Disability Rights, Dissident Jewish Voices, Emma's Room, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, Immigrant Rights, In Bed With Frida Kahlo, Indigenous Rights, International Solidarity, Israeli Apartheid, Palestine, Racism, Shifting Sands: Jewish American Women Confront the Israeli Occupation, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Stand With Us, This is what genocide looks like, U.S. empire, UTLA, Women's Lives, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on June 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For KPFK listeners, interested in more information: To buy the book: http://cafeintifada.wordpress.com/cafe-intifada-shoppe-available-now-shifting-sands-jewish-american-women-confront-the-israeli-occupation/ Information on the upcoming readings: http://cafeintifada.wordpress.com/¡cafe-intifada-events-and-activities/ for information on the blacklisting: http://cafeintifada.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/anatomy-of-a-blacklisting-a-thread-in-two-blogs/ Emma Rosenthal: http://home.earthlink.net/~emmarosenthal/ and http://emmarosenthal.wordpress.com/ In Bed With Frida Kahlo: http://inbedwithfridakahlo.wordpress.com/ Cindy Sheehan on line: http://cindysheehanssoapbox.blogspot.com/ http://peaceoftheaction.org/
The Attack on the Freedom Flotilla: A facebook status montage
Posted in Art and Activism, Calling out neo-liberalism, Dissident Jewish Voices, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, International Solidarity, Israeli Apartheid, Israeli Offense Forces, Now who's the terrorist?, Palestine, Privatization, Racism, This is what genocide looks like, U.S. empire, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on June 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Facebook Status Montage Facebook provides an amazing network of activists, writers, photographers, artists. Here are commentaries by some of my facebook (and in some cases, real life) friends, allies, comrades. Majed Abusalama “All Gaza people are praying in solidarity with our friends in the flotilla , Gaza is so angry now , Mosques is [...]
Emergency protests against Israeli Violence
Posted in Art and Activism, Building Community, Human Rights, Immigrant Rights, Indigenous Rights, Israeli Apartheid, Israeli Offense Forces, Palestine, Racism, The Americas, this is what a police state looks like, This is what genocide looks like, U.S. empire, white supremacist, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on May 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
and one demo, against racist Aryanzona!!! Busy day L.A.!!!! Come join BDS LA for Justice in Palestine and others today, Monday from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. in front of the Israel Consulate at 6380 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90048-5071 to protest Israel’s unlawful attack on unarmed civilians and to call for an end [...]
Just Released Book: Shifting Sands Available for sale from Cafe Intifada
Posted in Dissident Jewish Voices, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, International Solidarity, Israeli Apartheid, Israeli Offense Forces, Palestine, Poetry, Racism, Shifting Sands: Jewish American Women Confront the Israeli Occupation, U.S. empire, Uncategorized on May 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The newly released book, Shifting Sands, Jewish American Women Confront the Occupation, edited by Osie Adelfang, with forwards by Amira Hass and Cindy Sheehan, and contributions from Cafe Intifada’s Emma Rosenthal as well as: Hanna Mermelstein, Tomi Laine Clark, Starhawk, Alice Rothchild, Hedy Epstein, Sandra Butler, Kim Goldberg, Maia Ettinger, Anna Baltzar, Linda Dittmar and Susan [...]
Tin Soldiers: For the Students at Kent State, 1970
Posted in ADL, Art and Activism, Dissident Jewish Voices, Human Rights, Mumia, Palestine, Poetry, this is what a police state looks like, U.S. empire on May 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
By Emma Rosenthal Posted on the 40th anniversary of the Kent State Massacre. Written on the 30th anniversary of the massacre. On a campus that was 5% Jewish. 75% of the students killed, and 50% of the students who were shot, were Jewish– no word from the ADL. (bold text by Neil Young) “ [...]
Columbia University Stands Down Pressure to Silence Dissent and Quash Academic Freedom
Posted in ADL, Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Calling out the liberal left!, Dissident Jewish Voices, Education, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, Indigenous Rights, Israeli Apartheid, Palestine, Stand With Us, U.S. empire, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on April 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
when the zionist jewish establishment descended on the teachers union in los angeles, after years of monitoring our activities, attacking a class taught at the union hall by the afsc, and attacking a meeting hosted by the human rights committee of the union (utla) to discuss bds, and specifically calling on utla to disassociate from [...]
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised-Redux
Posted in Art and Activism, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, International Solidarity, Palestine, U.S. empire on April 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This redux of Gil Scott Heron’s Classic The Revolution Will Not Be Televised is in response to the recent scheduling of a concert by Heron in Tel Aviv, scheduled for May 25, in violation of the call for a cultural boycott of Israel by Palestinian civil society. (For more information see links at end of [...]
