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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Israeli Legal System – Designed for Discrimination

By SylviaSchwarz, Free Speech Zone

Taiser Khatib, a Palestinian Israeli citizen, met his wife in the West Bank. It could have been a one of a kind American fairy tale romance: love at first sight, engagement, wedding, two young children, two working parents. It could have been, but for one huge difference.MORE »

FREE SPEECH ZONE | Two Jewish Men

By SylviaSchwarz, Free Speech Zone

January 27 is the UN designated International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the anniversary of the day in 1945 when the Nazi death camp Auschwitz was liberated. Two Jewish men, who had survived months in that hell, finally tasted freedom that day, and went on to teach the world the lessons of the Holocaust.MORE »

FREE SPEECH ZONE | The Destruction of the Mamilla Cemetery: Desecration of a Sacred Site

By SylviaSchwarz, Free Speech Zone

The Ma'man Allah (Mamilla) Cemetery was the oldest Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem with graves dating back to the seventh century, comprised of 33 acres and tens of thousands of graves. After 1948 the Israeli ministry that maintained the site reassured world leaders that this important religious site would be cared for in perpetuity.MORE »

FREE SPEECH ZONE | The Gaza Freedom Flotilla

By SylviaSchwarz, TC Daily Planet

As I write this the Israeli Navy may be surrounding, boarding, detaining the crew and passengers of, and possibly disabling the six ships left in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. (Two ships have experienced suspicious mechanical problems.) Israel has said that the ships are a "provocation," and that therefore it has a right to stop the mission.MORE »