April 15, 2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:  Daniel McGowan Telephone: 315-789-3524 Email: mcgowan@hws.edu Most people recognize that the apartheid wall Israel has been building for the past twelve years will one day be removed. But few have given serious consideration to how best to recycle hundreds of miles of this “separation barrier.” The idea of offering […]

Below is the first stanza of “Semitic Blood Feud” by Gregory M. DeSylva. You can read the entire poem on the DYR main website. “Come, let us go down and confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” – Genesis 11:7 Why such discord between Arab and Jew? Descended from Semites of […]

Most people recognize that the apartheid wall Israel has been building for the past ten years will one day be removed. But few have given serious consideration to how best to recycle hundreds of miles of this “separation barrier.” Now RighteousJews.org, Gilad Atzmon, and several human rights organizations are offering a significant prize for the […]

The text that follows was submitted to Deir Yassin Remembered by someone who wishes to remain anonymous. It is presented here for your consideration and discussion. Foreword to Model Palestinian Declaration of Independence The chances for a Palestinian state seem to be evaporating, yet things aren’t hopeless. “Facts on the ground” are not immutable unless […]

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, […]