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American Non-Profit making peace less likely

by Nada Khader | Oct 30, 2014 | Communities & Focus Areas, Militarism and Foreign Policy

An American nonprofit is making peace even less likely – At 2 a.m. one day last week, a group of Israeli settlers, protected by riot police, moved into 25 apartments in seven Palestinian-owned buildings in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem. Some of these...

An Open Letter to the U.S. and Israel by award winning film maker Paul Laverty

by Nada Khader | Oct 22, 2014 | Communities & Focus Areas, Militarism and Foreign Policy

http://www.alternet.org/world/open-letter-us-and-israel-you-can-rescue-rule-law-laughter An Open Letter to the U.S. and Israel: You Can Rescue the Rule of Law From Laughter A member of the jury at the Russell Tribunal in Brussels recalls witnesses’ accounts on...

Gaza and America’s Bipartisan War on Human Rights

by Nada Khader | Oct 22, 2014 | Communities & Focus Areas, Militarism and Foreign Policy

During and after Israel’s war on Gaza, bipartisan congressional majorities have worked to undermine war crimes investigations by the United Nations and human rights groups. Stephen Zunes Antiwar.com October 17, 2014 Israel’s seven weeks of attacks this summer on...

US Siding With Israel in Death of Its Own Citizen

by Nada Khader | Oct 22, 2014 | Communities & Focus Areas, Militarism and Foreign Policy

http://shar.es/1mFudUThe US was complicit in hindering investigation of Israel’s execution of a US citizen and other crimes in halting the 2010 Gaza Freedom flotilla, according to documents.This message was sent using ShareThis (http://www.sharethis.com) This...

The Open Hillel movement: A serious challenge to Jewish institutions’ stifling of debate

by Nada Khader | Oct 17, 2014 | Blogs, Communities & Focus Areas, Director's Blog, Militarism and Foreign Policy, Movement Building, Racial Justice

From Rebecca Volkomersom: I had the enormous privilege of participating in the first “Open Hillel” conference at Harvard University this past weekend. Organized by and for students, Open Hillel is a historic effort to challenge the “red lines” that Hillel...