I just posted a recent press release  from the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign entitled “Auschwitz survivor slams Scottish prosecutors for ‘taking sides with Israel’ ” on RighteousJews.org, the sister site to the Deir Yassin Remembered site. The survivor in question is Hajo Meyer, who just had his article, “An Ethical Tradition Betrayed,” published in the [...]

Abuna Chacour and JWPF Abuna Elias Chacour spoke this week at the First Presbyterian Church in Ann Arbor and delivered his message of steadfastness and love. Abuna is noted for founding the Mar Elias Educational Institutions and was hosted by Pilgrims of Ibillin. This writer reminded him of his visit to Ann Arbor four years [...]

Ten, the Hard Way JWPF’s Head Statistician reports that last Saturday was the first time we placed ten vigilers on Washtenaw Avenue since June of 2008, but we did! And for the story behind the headline: Ms. D is the wife of the owner of a local motorcycle shop; this fall she was raising funds [...]

The Jewish massacre of Palestinians at Deir Yassin in 1948, along with several other similar massacres, gets a mention in Paul de Rooij’s recent CounterPunch review of Joe Sacco’s new book, Footnotes in Gaza: A Graphic Novel.

Exposing Another Zionist in the Peace Movement The following section is offered as a case study in how to distinguish those activists who support a Jewish state from those who recognize that deadly symptoms of Zionism are connected at the root, and that it is this root of the conflict that must be eliminated, not [...]

The subject of the Palestine Center’s inaugural book review is Jewish Terrorism in Israel by Ami Pedahzur and Arie Perliger (Columbia UP, 2009). You can read the entire review here. Below is a relevant excerpt from the review concerning the book authors’ omission of the Deir Yassin massacre. Reading through the book, it becomes evident [...]

Our First Offer Received Beth Israel Congregant Victor Lieberman stepped up to the plate in his own fashion and sent Jewish Witnesses for Peace and Friends an invitation to consider his offer to approach Rabbi Dobrusin and the Board of Directors of Beth Israel. His full offering can be read here, but at the core [...]