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Below is a piece by Susan Abulhawa about Jeff Halper. Susan is a Palestinian currently exiled in the USA and a member of the Deir Yassin Remembered Board of…
(From a post by Dan McGowan, Director (US) Deir Yassin Remembered) Deir Yassin Day 2012 was commemorated (in part) in Geneva, New York. Eighteen people came, including an Israeli and two…
Over the years, our attention has been drawn to the close proximity of the village of Deir Yassin to the Jewish Holocaust memorial at Yad Vashem. Jews have been encouraged…
This year on the 9th April, Deir Yassin Day – the 64th anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre – falls as so often, in Easter when Christians commemorate the crucifixion and…
(With thanks to Stuart Littlewood http://www.deliberation.info/flying-into-tel-aviv-then-its-welcome-to-palestine/) On April 23 inLondon, Deir Yassin Remembered and The General Union of Palestinian Students will be commemorating Deir Yassin Day 2012. Deir Yassin Day…
We’re all agreed then, we’re all anti-Semites now but lurking underneath are the questions: What is a Jew? And, once a Jew, always a Jew? Up till now, or at…
Solar, one of our commentators asks me to name one living anti-Semite. I’m happy enough to do this but before I do, I ask him what he means by the term. Solar is reluctant to…
Ali Abunimah’s intervention and denunciation of Gilad is nothing new. Over five years ago he did exactly the same to Israel Shamir, Deir Yassin Remembered and me. But why then…
I’m not sure how this will be received at deLiberation. It’s “Chorus of Palestinian Exiles” from the 2003 film of the opera “Death of Klinghoffer”. I got it from Harry’s…
I can’t vouch for the absolute accuracy of the list below, but I’m confident it gives a truthful picture of Jewish expulsions over the last 1700 years. I also don’t…
Listen to this man I love Ken O’ Keefe. I love the way he looks. I love the way he sounds, I even love his accent. But most of all…
Written by Henry Herskovitz GPS and Google-map geeks may refer to the following coordinates to locate what we believe is the only billboard in the entire Midwest (we could be…
For all its notoriety the attack on Dresden was nothing like as severe as those on, for example, Berlin Cologne, Essen and Hamburg. But the German town whose fate moves me most is…
Watching Norman Finkelstein on BDS and reading the comments I just get more questions than answers. We’re all opposed to Israel – either to its existence or just because it…
I’m a bit nervous about posting this. It describes the impact of the 1967 June War on a seventeen-year old Jewish kid. I’m nervous because I can see how it could…
Today is Valentine’s Day. It’s also the middle of three days when, in 1945 the German city of Dresden was bombed by the Anglo-Americans. On a visit to Germany with…
Genius! What’s strange is that, on face-value, there’s not a word with which I would disagree.…
This is crying out for a “Downfall”- type new soundtrack. Gilad?…
In a little Polish village a drunken priest habitually drinks in a tavern owned by a Jewish tavern-keeper. One Sunday the local priest, deep into his cups, cannot pay his…
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