Kate Casa

Israel is fundamentally wrong and must be stopped. That has nothing to do with enmity for Jews.

BRATTLEBORO-Mark Treinkman's full-throated advocacy of genocide provides us with a patronizing litany of reasons why Israel should be able to continue to slaughter babies, torture doctors, rape prisoners, dismember children, bomb ambulances, bulldoze homes, starve an entire population, and carry out other horrors that are illegal under international and U.S. law.

None of this is rhetorical.

If the Gaza genocide has been too much for you lately - if you have chosen to look away - know that it is not only ongoing, but it has spread to the West Bank where, just in the past two weeks, Israeli soldiers executed an American peace activist, shot a Palestinian teenager for looking out the window, and bulldozed the city of Jenin, all while soldier-protected settlers continue their rampage, attacking farmers, schoolchildren and anyone else who happens to cross their ever-expanding paths.

According to Mr. Treinkman, we are supposed to accept all of this because, well, in order to be safe, Jews should have a theocracy centered on apartheid and occupation, which has extended for more than 76 years and grows more brutal by the day.

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False equivalency between the occupied and the occupiers

BRATTLEBORO-John Ungerleider has built a career at SIT and elsewhere around the false equivalency that the people of Israel and Palestine could achieve peace if they would come together to talk as coequal partners. This normalization paints the Israeli occupation of Palestine as a benevolent and paternalistic system that...

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Oct. 7 was not Day 1 of Israel’s war on Palestinians

U.S. mainstream media does not have the courage of its own professed convictions when it comes to Palestine and Israel

What is happening in Palestine and Israel has finally put to a lie the pretense that the United States was or ever could be an "honest broker" - as Washington has long labeled itself - in negotiating a fair and just peace. Since Saturday, Oct. 7, regardless of whether...

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How can all-white municipal government be ‘diverse’?

It was deeply disturbing to hear a member of Brattleboro's decidedly homogenous, all-white Selectboard declare that even though the town has no employees of color, he considers town government “diverse.” I'm not going to try to parse what he meant by that. As a person of privilege, I admit to frequent stumbles in how I talk about race and diversity. In fact, I'm anxious about writing this letter lest I appear to be trying to speak on behalf of people...

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Contact Washington about new USCCR appointments

Below is an e-mail I just sent to President Obama about the recent vote by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to remove Curtiss Reed Jr. as head of the commission's Vermont State Advisory Committee [The Commons, Dec. 9]. I encourage you to use this message, modify it, or write your own to the president, urging him to fill two vacancies on the commission so that the panel may revisit the ill-advised and misguided decision to remove Curtiss. Here's the...

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