Tikkun Daily Blog Archive (https://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/category/politics/page/131/)
Posts about politics and social change, from a spiritual progressive perspective
A review of Ali Abunimah’s latest book, The Battle for Justice in Palestine, which offers a careful explanation of what is lacking in the proposed two-state solution, and what is abundantly present in his proposed solution: self-determination for the Palestinian people.
To many, Bob Bergdahl himself is a traitor, learning about the enemy in a way that many just don’t understand. The controversy surrounding him is almost as big as that surrounding his son Bowie. Yet that is all politics, and we must recognize it as such. Muslims are not evil, Islam is not evil, and understanding the enemy is not the same as being a traitor. Let’s focus on the real – humanitarian – issues, not the political ones.
Monday on CNN’s “Crossfire,” cohost S.E. Cupp prepared the viewing audience to brace themselves for a “doosy” of a statement embedded deep in Hillary Clinton’s new book, Hard Choices.
Curious to know what this controversial statement might be? It’s a sentence from her recollections of a trip taken with Bill Clinton to the Palestinian city of Jericho in 1981. Of that trip, Clinton writes:
“In the West Bank, I got my first glimpse of life under occupation for Palestinians, who were denied the dignity and self-determination that Americans take for granted.”
The lesson we ought to learn from D-Day and the promise we each ought to keep is that we will never perpetrate such carnage again, that we will honor those who fought and died on that day with our daily effort to make and keep peace.
Author Warren J. Blumenfeld asks what it will take for this country and its politicians to wake up to the reality that, contrary to the NRA’s assertions, guns in the hands of anyone, in any and all stations of life, kill people?
‘A letter to Bob Bergdahl’ is a beautiful display of support and camaraderie for the man who overcame pain and grief in the face of his son’s capture, and learned that empathy and understanding of one’s so-called ‘enemies’ can be the most effective path to healing.
During his time here, Harvey Milk he did not simply walk, but in fact, he paved a path of justice and decency. This year, the US Postal Service honors him with a ‘forever stamp’ but the American Family Association (AFA) is encouraging a boycott of the stamp, calling the tribute “disturbing.”
It’s upsetting how many people imagine the entire continent of Africa either as a prehistoric theme park, where lions and elephants cavort across thick jungles and dusty savannas, or as a place of hunger, disease, and death. Despite great progress, many Americans still approach the African continent as a sort of fictional container for their fantasies and fears.
Sitting in the Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, nearing the anniversary of Shavuot, author Rae Abileah considers the commandment “love thy neighbor” in regards to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
One women is breaking the silence – telling just a few of her personal experiences dealing with sexual violence, both physical and emotional, in hopes that it will encourage others to break the silence and speak up against misogyny, violence and oppression experienced every single day by women around the world.