"We Do Not Condemn the Harming of Arabs"
"I shamefully admit that even when a Molotov cocktail was hurled at a children's room in Hawara and I presented a condemnation resolution at the Yesha Council, I was told, 'We do not condemn the harming of Arabs.'”
- Palestinian prisoners arrested in PA sweep report torture, mistreatment - Over a hundred Palestinians were arrested in recent weeks following an assassination attempt on a PA official, many of them with no connection to the crime. (Haaretz)
- Film festival posters depicting a drawing of a woman vandalized in Jerusalem (Haaretz)
- U.S. consulate claims diplomatic immunity, ignores labor court ruling - Consulate insists that Israeli courts have no jurisdiction over its affairs.(Haaretz)
- Israel cancels visit by Hungarian who honored Nazi sympathizer (Ynet)
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Peter Beinart
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book, The Crisis of Zionism, was published by Times Books in April 2012.
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