Al-Awda Conference About 150 people took part in the Ninth Annual International Convention of Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, in Anaheim, California last week. Three representatives from Jewish Witnesses for Peace and Friends participated. In view of our Nobel Peace Prize-winning President’s Moe Greene Special -style assassination of Osama bin Laden, this writer […]

  Counterpunch: The Role of Jews in the Palestine Solidarity Movement In our report of February 5, 2011 we detailed a talk given by this writer in Seattle. At the suggestion of salon-host Ibrahim, we have provided a written description of that talk, and on-line newsmagazine Counterpunch has selected it for publication. Other websites have […]

  Jewish Federation: Vigils Still Relevant In his Sabbath address to the Jewish community in Ann Arbor, Jewish Federation President David Shtulman writes “If Terry Jones Protested at a Synagogue“. Once again a local Jewish leader (it was Rabbi Dobrusin the last time, see: Rabbi Dorbrusin Hijacks Religious Freedom Day Panel) feigns sympathy with their […]

  Two “Off-Topic” Messages Jewish Witnesses for Peace and Friends sees clear linkages between the financially-ailing State of Michigan and a US foreign policy that sends our taxes to support Israeli Apartheid. We took this message to the “We Are One” protest on the University of Michigan campus this week. The protest focused on Governor […]

Forum Draws Forty People Our forum, “Seven Years of Synagogue Vigils: Why We Still Do It,” played to a receptive audience this week. Approximately forty people, including a strong showing from the Unitarian Universalists and Dearborn communities, witnessed five presentations, followed by a Q&A period. This writer attempted to explain the origin of the vigils, […]

  Vigils Debated in Arab American News Article Two weeks ago we reported that the Washtenaw Jewish News published, in their March edition, the opinion of Imam Dawud Walid that our vigils are “Un-Islamic”. Arab American News reporter Nick Meyer followed up with a short phone interview with this writer, and assembled an informative “dialogue” […]

  Heard on the Road Mazin Qumsiyeh, Professor at Bethlehem University, gave an excellent presentation this week on non-violent resistance in Palestine, and documented a full history of non-violent actions from 1939 onward. He noted that after the expulsion of Palestinians in 1948 (al-Nakba), that orders were given to shoot Palestinians attempting to return to […]