The article below about DYR Board and Scholarship Committee member Susan Abulhawa and by Lawrence Davidson is reposted from CounterPunch. When we think of the great struggles of our day we almost always think in terms of movements and groups. There are Communists and Fascists, Capitalists and Socialists, Jews and Muslims, Zionists and Christian Fundamentalists, […]

The article below by Michelle J. Kinnucan is reposted from Veterans Today. [T]here is a powerful lobby determined to prevent any view other than its own from being aired, still less to factor in American understanding of trends and events in the Middle East. The tactics of the Israel Lobby plumb the depths of dishonor […]

JWPF Welcomes New Year Jewish Witnesses for Peace and Friends welcomed in the new year by placing nine dedicated peace activists at our non-violent, silent vigils in front of Beth Israel Congregation, one of the local centers of nationalist support of the state of Israel. We note two other active street protest groups and hope […]

AAPER Rhymes with Vapor Vigil Supporter R writes that he planned to assist the American Association for Palestinian Equal Rights (AAPER) in setting up a chapter in his home state. This announcement set our WOLZA (Watch Out! Liberal Zionist Ahead) antennae a-quivering, and we sent R some literature from AAPER’s own website: specifically, that we […]

The article below by DYR Board of Advisers member Susan Abulhawa is reposted from The Huffington Post. Bernard-Henri Levy, the French pop star of philosophy and intellectual elitism, authored an essay that featured my novel, Mornings in Jenin, as one of three distressing developments that led him to ask “is there no end to the […]

Jewish Onslaught in Seattle As we again borrow the title of Tony Martin’s book and his accurate portrayal of attack by the Jewish community of Boston, Massachusetts, our west coast ambassador turns our attention to a similar Jewish onslaught in Seattle, Washington. The Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign (SMAC) had contracted with the King County Metro […]

Access Denied Names have been changed to protect the decent, but here’s a short story of how one local faith-based organization self-capitulated to potential threats and demands. We asked Alfred, head of the social justice organization in his local church, to have his group host a panel of Vigilers. Alfred brought up our request at […]