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Author: Team Palsy
Who Wants To Be Prime Minister? Not Rami Hamdallah
Rami Hamdallah has left the building. A mere 18 days into his new gig as Palestine’s Prime Minister, Hamdallah handed Mahmoud Abbas his resignation citing irreconcilable differences. The newly appointed PM’s love affair with the Palestinian Authority lasted only a quarter of the length of Kim Kardashian’s marriage, to that random basketball player she exploited…
Alicia Keys: Come Visit Palestine
Article originally written for The Daily Beast, published on June 11th, 2013. Alicia Keys is going to play Israel, and no one is going to stop her. When Keys announced Tel Aviv would be one of the stops on her “Set the World on Fire” Tour, the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction Brigade collectively let out…
Google ‘Palestine’—It Exists, And So Do Palestinians
Article originally written for The Daily Beast, published on June 4th, 2013. On May 4, Google did something President Obama didn’t have the guts to do: they recognized Palestine as a state and gave us our very own homepage. This is far better than being verified on Twitter or having the U.N. General Assembly vote…
Sheldon Adelson Gets a Free Pass for Bigotry
Money can’t buy you happiness, but it sure makes bigotry a lot easier. Sheldon Adelson is proof of that. Adelson’s nastiness was on full display this week at the Israeli Tourism Conference. After receiving some trumped-up honor, he decided to entertain reporters with the same old song and dance about Palestinians not existing. Sheldon Adelson…
The Next Arab Idol: Palestine’s Boy Wonder and Stereotype Buster
Article originally written for The Daily Beast, published on , 2013. A phenomenon is sweeping the Middle East. Arabs young and old are voting in record numbers—and this time it’s not for the Muslim Brotherhood. Armed with nothing but their cellphones, they have set aside their differences and united to watch and vote for the…
No Place Like Home
Article originally written for The Daily Beast, published on May 15th, 2013. A rusty, iron key to the past sits on a windowsill in my home. Three years ago, when the man I married left the refugee camp he was born and raised in to move to The States, this clunky key came with him.…
What Hawking and Jerusalem Day Have in Common
Article originally written for The Daily Beast, published on May 13th, 2013. On May 8th, Israelis marked the 46th anniversary of Jerusalem Day. For those of you unfamiliar with the holiday, this annual love fest features angry mobs of Israelis of all ages, marching through the streets of the Old City in celebration of the reunification…
Barbara Boxer: Withdraw Your Biased Bill
Senator Barbara Boxer needs to take aseat—just not the one she’s currently abusing on Capitol Hill. The senator from California completely lost the plot when she introduced a new bill, Senate Bill 462, the U.S.-Israel Strategic Partnership Act of 2013, which would codify Israel’s ability to discriminate against Palestinian Americans and those who love them.…
How The Media Chose Its Boston ‘Suspects’
On tax day, Monday April 15, I was enjoying my daily ritual of watching General Hospital when my soaps were interrupted by the shocking breaking news that there had been a bombing at the Boston Marathon. As the chaos and carnage unfolded live on television, the media immediately began to guess out loud, the race…
Why Palestinians Welcomed Fayyad’s Resignation
Salam Fayyad has achieved what the world thought was impossible. He finally got Fatah and Hamas to agree on something: the two bitterly divided factions both happily accepted his resignation. During the 2006 legislative elections, the American-educated Dr. Fayyad ran alongside Hanan Ashrawi as part of the Third Way party. Both won their seats. Fayyad…
