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Islamophobia: the new anti-Semitism
The Guardian, August 26, 2010
Today the New York Times reported that a pastor in my hometown of Gainesville, Florida is planning to “commemorate” September 11 by publicly burning Korans.
The photograph that accompanied the story showed the pastor, Terry Jones, standing in a field of grass behind signs that read “Islam is of the devil.” The [...]
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Standard-bearer
Tablet, August 25, 2010 In the fourth grade, I stopped saying the pledge of the allegiance. While the other children clapped ...
Behind a Shabak squeeze
Maan News Agency, August 20, 2010 Alarms sounded through Israel’s leftist camps recently when Jewish-Israeli activist Yonatan Shapira was summoned for ...
Falling through the cracks
The Jerusalem Post, August 13, 2010 Despite the imminent deportation of 400 migrant workers’ children, South Tel Aviv’s black market kindergartens ...
Israel’s ‘illegal’ children
Al Jazeera English, July 17, 2010 For most children summer is a carefree time. But for the children of Israel's undocumented ...
Politics
Trapped in Gaza Al Jazeera English, July 31, 2010
Fatma Sharif is a lawyer at Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, a non-partisan, Gaza-based NGO that has voiced sharp criticism of both Hamas and Israel. A women’s rights activist, Sharif planned to study at the West Bank’s Birzeit University for a Master’s in human rights and democracy, a degree [...]
Foreign workers
Nepali community finds comfort in performance arts The Jerusalem Post, August 27, 2010
In the past several weeks, Israel’s Nepali community has hosted a flurry of events to entertain and support its workers.
Nepali artists performed at two of the events put on by Namaste Entertainment, a Kathmandu-based organization that aims to give migrant workers temporary relief from difficult circumstances while promoting Nepali performers [...]
Tel Aviv
An undiplomatic move The Jerusalem Post, August 20, 2010
As Shabbat drew to a close Saturday, more than 2000 protestors marched against the deportation of migrant workers’ children. On August 1, the Israeli cabinet adopted criteria that will make 800 children eligible for naturalization, subjecting another 400 to deportation. Observers have pointed out that many minors who seem to [...]
Israel
Children are just Israel’s latest victims The Guardian, July 20, 2010
Michelle is the 14-year-old daughter of undocumented migrant laborers from the Philippines. In fluent Hebrew, she sums up the inhumanity of Israel’s plans to deport children of foreign workers. “It’s like they’re taking sheep and packing them,” she says, comparing the expulsion to herding animals.
While Michelle will probably be naturalized, Israel is [...]