Nearly 80,000 people in the UK signed a petition calling for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on war crimes charges ahead of his diplomatic visit to Britain. The growing global criticism of Israel’s military actions against Palestinians is encouraging, but is also particularly interesting to consider alongside recent acts of settler violence…
Tag: Israel
Links for the Middle of Your Week 3/18/15
My bad, guys. It’s late. Also, though, links posts are a great time to let me know if you are interested in reading a longer/more in-depth post about any of the topics I mention here. Human Rights This week I learned that Australia mandates detention of all asylum seekers until their claims are processed. This…
Links to Start Your Week 3/8/15
International Women’s Day! On this fine day, the Zinn Education Project has a toolkit for educators to teach women’s contributions to history year-round, and for the rest of us to learn. This piece uses recent acts of violence against women in India as a starting point to discuss how to design cities “as if women…
Links to Start Your Week 3/1/15
Middle East Leaked intelligence cables show that Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad, contradicted prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s assertions that Iran was producing a nuclear weapon. Researchers are not sure that ISIS’s social media propaganda is as important to recruitment as is widely believed. They argue that battlefield success is a better predictor of a group’s ability…
Links to Start Your Week 2/2/15
Middle East The New Yorker has a primer on the latest flare-up in tensions between Israel and Hezbollah in the larger context of Middle East politics. Occupied Pleasures is a photo book aiming to undermine the persistent narrative of the Palestinian territories as only a place of suffering. Support their Kickstarter! (For more glimpses of…
Links to Start Your Week 12/7/14
I am in the midst of finals season, so there most likely will not be another post until next Sunday. But here is some reading to tide you over until I can write again. Middle East This is one of the best descriptions of the actual situation on the ground in East Jerusalem that I…
Links to Start Your Week 11/23/14
Links are very extensive this week, since I was more proactive in compiling them all throughout the whole week. Middle East A U.N. panel is urging all countries to seize trucks carrying oil in and out of areas controlled by jihadists in Iraq and Syria to cut into the militants’ finances. ISIL militants are also…
Links to Start Your Week 6/15/14
Sorry for the hiatus. My girlfriend and I are spending the summer in Alaska, and the past two weeks have been completely consumed by travel and training for my summer job working as a counselor at a summer day camp here. I was living at a residential camp for the past week and a half…
Links to Start Your Week 5/20/14
Feminism Women in Thailand are striving to revive an ancient order of female monks. Economics Switzerland will be voting soon on whether to establish the world’s highest minimum wage: 22 francs per hour, the equivalent of $24.65 US. A Chilean student activist burned student debt papers worth $500 million. It is one of the…
Links to Start Your Week 3/30/14
National Security President Obama has a new proposal for ending the NSA collection of bulk phone records, but a lot of specifics are still really unclear about the plan. It’s a good, but still way too small step towards reform. Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law was successfully tried and convicted in a civilian court. The whole…
Links to Start Your Week 2/9/14
Europe What started as a local anti-privatization protest in Bosnia-Herzegovina has morphed into a broader condemnation of corruption and nationalism. A Ukrainian man, reportedly very drunkenly, tried to hijack a plane and force it to land in Sochi. He claimed to have a bomb and was brandishing what looked like a detonator. The pilots were…
Links to Start Your Week 1/26/14
Human Rights The American Psychological Association has decided not to pursue any disciplinary action against a member who was present and participated in torture of a detainee at Guantanamo Bay. National Security Defense spending is a super expensive and inefficient way to create jobs. Drone Wars The Senate sneaked a provision into an appropriations bill…
An International Affair 