Journalist Blows the Lid off Police Spying on NYC Muslims in Schools, Mosques and NGOs
Two weeks after an Associated Press investigation exposed the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) ”demographic units” used to spy…
The Indypendent
Two weeks after an Associated Press investigation exposed the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) ”demographic units” used to spy…
The Upshot of the Tony Kushner Muzzling
The decision by the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Board of Trustees to block famous playwright Tony Kushner’s…
The slogans are simple enough: “the people want an end to the division,” tens of thousands of young protesters…
The NYPD’s Islamophobia Problem
Tom Robbins of the Village Voice has a disturbing report on the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) use of…
Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity Movement Expands to Lyd
Lyd, Israel–For the past year and a half, Israelis, Palestinians and international activists have held weekly demonstrations in the…
Ramallah, West Bank–I was a witness to the destruction of a historic hotel in occupied East Jerusalem today, but…
In Ajami and Mas’ha, Evidence of the Continuing Nakba
Ramallah, West Bank–The Palestinian catastrophe, the Nakba of 1948, never really ended. What happened since then, as Yehouda Shenhav,…
A Tiny Slice of the Palestinian Experience
Ramallah, West Bank–It’s a far cry from the daily checkpoints, beatings, tear-gassing and harassment that Palestinians have to go…
WikiLeaks Docs Expose Egyptian Complicity with Israeli War Crimes (Again)
One of the most striking things that I took away from my time in Egypt last winter was the…
Ever since Lawrence Swaim of the California-based Interfaith Freedom Foundation articulated his valuable insight to me that the question…