Links (MECR)

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Mondoweiss

http://mondoweiss.net/about-mondoweiss

Mondoweiss is a news website devoted to covering American foreign policy in the Middle East, chiefly from a progressive Jewish perspective.

It has four principal aims:

1. To publish important developments touching on Israel/Palestine, the American Jewish community and the shifting debate over US foreign policy in a timely fashion;

2. To publish a diversity of voices to promote dialogue on these important issues;

3. To foster the movement for greater fairness and justice for Palestinians in American foreign policy;

4. To offer alternatives to pro-Zionist ideology as a basis for American Jewish identity.
Biography

This blog is maintained by Philip Weiss and Adam Horowitz. Weiss is 53 and lives in New York state. Horowitz is 35 and lives in Pennsylvania.

We maintain this blog because of 9/11, Iraq, Gaza, the Nakba, the struggling people of Israel and Palestine, and our Jewish background.
Contact

Email Address: mondoweiss@gmail.com

Philip: weissphilip@yahoo.com
Adam: adamh2@gmail.com

Monday, May 4, 2009

Coalition to Stop $30 Billion to Israel

http://stop30billion.com/

The Coalition to Stop $30 Billion to Israel launched a billboard campaign calling on the public to take action against the US military aid supplied to Israel. To read the press release and see the billboard, click

Palestinian House of Friendship

The Palestinian House of Friendship (PHF) is a non-profit organization established in 1994 in the city of Nablus in the West Bank, Palestine. It is governed by an elected board of trustees. The goal of the PHF is to invest in the Palestinian individual and encourage an ethics based on democracy, human rights, and a love for the other.

General program and support

PHF has been engaged in a variety of activities that include education in civics and democracy and expressions of local culture. The targets of these activities are the youth and children of Palestine who have not had the benefit of such enriching and educational experiences because of the stress of their civil society. The activities include workshops, lectures, seminars, concerts and folkloric festivals. These efforts have been supported in part by international bodies such as UNESCO, UNICEF, the National Democracy Institute and the Canadian Embassy, as well as local companies and individual donors. In 1996 PHF coordinated the Palestinian Domestic Monitoring Committee (PDMC) to observe legislative elections and helped recruit over 500 volunteers.