Tag Archives: israel-palestine

“Palestinians Must Have Hope for a Brighter Future,” urges a New York Times headline. It tops a Thanksgiving Day opinion piece authored by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Hope for what? To kill more Jews? What about hope for the Jewish people?

Peter and Beth Ornstein have been named Boulder Rotary’s 2023 recipients of the Jim Swaeby Peace Award for their work with the nonprofit organization Sustainable Israeli-Palestinian Projects (SIPP).

Their offense was to shake hands with the devil.

I’m writing to provide some background for the situation in which Rep. Jamila Jayapal characterized Israel as a “racist state.” And to comment on media misrepresentation of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.

By his own standards, President Biden undermined his expansive project to confront antisemitism in America that he introduced Wednesday last week, and 15 days before that he ignored an opportunity to directly take on an act that threatens the Jewish community.

The word “Dugri” comes from Arabic – meaning straight. Israelis and Palestinians both speak their minds. Straightforward talk with no apologies.  For better or for worse… you will know exactly what they think. 

Bruce Ticker (“Israel is Our Business,” March 2) claims that the current Israeli government “has proposed annexing the Palestinian territories.” In fact, the government has not made any such proposal, and the platform of the ruling Likud party says nothing about annexing territories.

Find out what SIPP is doing to heal the environment, bring people together, and empower small organizations in Israel and Palestine. Meet our 2023 Min-Grant recipients, and learn about their projects, involving agriculture, language, community-building, and music.

It is astounding how Israel’s foes have assembled an immense if bulky movement in America and Canada to advocate for the Palestinian cause.

We must wonder what Lina Abu Akleh refers to when she charges: “We don’t expect war criminals to investigate their own crimes.”

We are excited to announce our first in-person event since 2019! Our outdoor Celebrate SIPP 2022 event will feature brief presentations by Lindsey Zemler, the Sustainability Coordinator for SIPP mini-grant recipient Eastern Mediterranean International School (EMIS), and SIPP's newest Board member Nidal Allis, the president and CEO at Techno Rescue. 

Israel is presumed guilty even after it proves itself innocent. It is fair to conclude that the Palestinians sent this very message when the American government announced that a Palestinian-American journalist was probably shot to death unintentionally by a bullet fired from Israeli military lines. Washington also stated that the …

Two Boulder men named Bruce are working on a documentary of interviews filmed by and of Palestinian young adults talking about their hopes and dreams for the future.

If only Israel would end its “belligerent occupation.” Most of us know better, but don’t tell that to the United Nations Human Rights Council. Its Commission of Inquiry last week released the first of what they hope will be decades of annual reports on Israel’s oppression of the poor Palestinians.

Amid the varied dissections of Shireen Abu Akleh’s death, the Palestinian Authority was consistent. To paraphrase Israeli diplomat Abba Eban, they did not miss an opportunity to miss the opportunity to sound credible.

Bruce Ticker rightly questions the meaning of "Palestine" as presented by three individuals whose backgrounds do not lend themselves to Middle East expertise.

In his address to the U.N. last Friday, Abbas demanded that Israel turn over its territories to the Palestinians within a year or he would reconsider recognition of Israel, according to the Associated Press.

Boulder-based Sustainable Israeli-Palestinian Projects (SIPP) is hosting a Community Update via Zoom from 11:00 am to 12:00 noon Mountain Daylight Time on Sunday, August 15th.

challenge letter writer Bob Holden's claim that "during  the 1948 war Israel expelled more than half the Palestinian population (some 700,00),".

Boulder-based Sustainable Israeli-Palestinian Projects (SIPP) is hosting a Community Update via Zoom from 11:00 am to 12:00 noon Mountain Daylight Time on Sunday, August 15th.

As the saying goes, so many distortions, so little time. Bruce Ticker debunks a few popular ones.

The Palestine Return Coalition wants the right for Palestinians to live anywhere they want including within Israel, yet the Palestinian Authority has stated that Palestinian refugees will not be awarded citizenship in the state of Palestine nor will they be allowed to settle within the Palestinian governed areas.

Amani Barakat must be joking when she twice touts the “peaceful” tactics of an anti-Israel drive among West Coast teachers’ unions. Simultaneously, Barakat continues in a leading role in an organization that seeks the right of return for Palestinians to Israel, a mission that could readily lead to war.

Advocates for the Palestinians exerted their terrorism talents in or near two prominent American cities 3,000 miles apart in recent weeks.

When a parent buries a child, little else matters. So how does the Black Lives Matter movement find the time and energy to brand Israel as an apartheid and genocidal state and equate its policies with police brutality?