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Rick’s Weekly Wrap: This local trend of burning mosques

What’s the difference between the torching of mosques at a Galilean Bedouin village and at a West Bank village? Nothing, except that the latter won’t get all the “defenders of democracy” rushing for photo-ops at the site! | Raging Rechavia “Rick” Berman gives you the week’s top stories as they ought to be told. A…

By +972 Magazine October 9, 2011

Social protest in Jaffa, 27 August, 2011 (Photo: Keren Manor/Activestills)

Arab social justice needs heard by the gov’t-what about J14?

The leaders of a civil society organization working for equality for the Palestinian citizens of Israel spoke on Tuesday before the Trachtenberg committee – the government-appointed panel charged with recommending steps to improve economic and social justice in Israel. The committee’s invitation to Ron Gerlitz and Dr. Mary Totry of Sikkuy, the Association for Civil…

By Dahlia Scheindlin August 30, 2011