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Members of the Center for Jewish Nonviolence and All That's Left sing a Jewish hymn during a direct action at the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, October 20, 2015. (photo: Laura Gottesdiener)

Diaspora Jews bring occupation to World Zionist Congress

While Netanyahu was busy blaming a Palestinian for the Holocaust, a group of Jewish activists asked the World Zionist Congress what it was planning to do to end the occupation. Hours before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made headlines for telling the World Zionist Congress that a Palestinian inspired Hitler to exterminate the Jews, a group…

By Edo Konrad October 24, 2015

Palestinian construction workers in an Israeli settlement (Photo by Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

Protecting the secrets of Israel’s settlement enterprise

MK David Rotem unabashedly stopped a vote that would apply Israel’s freedom of information act to the World Zionist Organization’s (WZO) “Settlement Division,” an extra-governmental organization that receives 100 percent of its budget from the State of Israel and is responsible for much of the settlement building in the West Bank. Why would he do…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man April 3, 2014