Omar Barghouti, Welcome to New Haven
Omar Barghouti was in New Haven last week to receive the Gandhi Peace Prize from a local organization, Promoting Enduring Peace. The award was presented in a Yale building, but Yale quickly declared that...
Category: Sunday Vigil Fliers
Dancing Under Occupation
Approximately 750,000 Palestinians were displaced and became refugees as a result of the 1948 war which led to the founding of Israel. None of these displaced persons were ever allowed to return to the...
Defend Your Right of Free Speech
Please contact our senators to let them know that you do not approve of the U.S. Congress legislating away your first amendment right of free speech. Do not pass bill S.170. Richard Blumenthal (860)...
Tell the Truth About Israel and Palestine Too…
For nearly 50 years, Israel has occupied the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. Occupiers have very specific responsibilities under international law: Their presence should be brief and solely for the benefit of the...
Gideon Levy Tells It Like It Is: Bi-national Israel Oppresses Half Its People
Without a doubt the Jewish establishment in the US is pro-Israel and uses every means it can to convince the rest of the US establishment that it must support Israel as a “Jewish and...
When the Parties Agree…
The 2016 political conventions are over. And the American people are trying to figure out what is going on. Both parties saw energetic insurgent movements challenging their “establishment” leadership during the primaries. Republican insurgents...
No Way to Treat a Child (continued)
Overview June of 2016 marks the beginning of the 50th year of Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. This illegal and immoral occupation is marked by...
No Way To Treat A Child (and how you can help)
Many human rights violations are associated with the illegal Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza. But one of the most brutal is the abusive treatment of Palestinian children by the occupying...
From Rosa Parks to Richard Blumenthal
What do Rosa Parks and US Senator Richard Blumenthal have in common? They both have taken a stand on the role of boycotts in a free society. How do they differ? She used a...
Why the violence in Israel and Palestine since October 1?
Since October 1, we have seen a low-level but on-going string of attacks by youthful Palestinians on Israelis, particularly Israeli police, IDF military personnel and residents of illegal settlements encroaching on Palestinian land in...
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