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Friday, December 14th, 2007My younger brother Waseem Salahi is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of his high school’s newspaper, “The Smoke Signal.” As is standard with almost all high school newspapers, the administration “reviews” the paper before it goes to press every month. This month, the administration called Waseem into the office 1-2 hours before deadline, where he was met by [...]
Responding to Campus Battleground
Monday, November 26th, 2007Background
Throughout the spring of 2006, students from the Israel Action Committee and Students for Justice in Palestine at UC Berkeley were filmed while organizing their activities. Many individual members of each group were interviewed by the documentarians, who had said they were making a documentary for the “America at a Crossroads” series about campus activism [...]
The puffery of Israel “activists” and a woefully reckless ASUC resolution
Friday, November 2nd, 2007On Wednesday evening, the ASUC Senate, in a vote of 11-7-2, narrowly passed SB75, a resolution “affirming the US-Israel relationship.” Among other things, the resolution suggested that the “relationship” between the US and Israel was based on “shared ideals” including “commitments to freedom, equality, and tolerance for all people.” The resolution, void of any mention [...]
Marcel Khalife and the war for “objective” art
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007What would happen if a venue told a group like Rage Against the Machine or Public Enemy that it could not perform unless it allowed the US Military Band to open for it?
I doubt the request would be met with much support, or that any venue would ever impose such restrictions on its performing [...]
Will Hussein Ibish save the Palestinians?
Sunday, September 16th, 2007Hussein Ibish, above, believes he will single-handedly free Palestine with his American passport.
In his column of September 14, 2007, Hussein Ibish made one telling statement: “Any successful approach to pro-Palestinian advocacy in the United States should therefore emphasize the benefits to the United States, and indeed to Israel, of freedom for the Palestinian people.” [...]
