San Francisco

A Jordanian bank accused of providing services to Hamas is petitioning the US Supreme Court.

A complaint alleging that organizations supporting Israel’s settlements are aiding “terrorism” has been filed with a New York court.

Almost 30 percent of respondents to a recent survey have suffered physical attacks.

Reports on the killing of four young Palestinians in recent days were heavily reliant on Israeli military sources.

The Palestinian Authority is confiscating privately-owned agricultural land in the West Bank to build industrial parks.

Despite an Israeli high court ruling to open a high school in a Bedouin village, students remained deprived of basic educational facilities.

I wasn’t really surprised by the watchdog group Physicians for Human Rights-Israel’s (PHR-I) latest intervention to Israel’s health ministry, in which they accused Israeli doctors of complicity in the torture of Palestinian detainees in Israeli interrogation centers. Indeed, it sounded all too familiar to what I experienced during 550 days of incarceration in a South African prison from 1990 through 1992. Naji Ali writes for EI.

Frankly, I’ve always been a little uneasy about explicitly Jewish actions around Palestine. Isn’t this a human rights issue in which all voices are equally needed and valued? What difference does one’s background make when one is speaking up for justice? I worry that people will listen more to what a group of Jews has to say than to Palestinians and other activists. I don’t believe in a a special “Jewish position” on Palestine. Deborah Agre writes from San Francisco.

I sit here trying to write the novel about my experiences in Palestine. I went there in August 2000, right before the beginning of the Intifada, searching for some way of aligning my identity. It’s important, I keep telling myself, for the world to hear this perspective. But everyday I find myself reading words I can make no sense of, because everyday the world seems increasingly senseless.