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For Americans who can’t imagine the occupation — Waldman and Chabon’s collection might do the trick

KINGDOM OF OLIVES AND ASHWriters Confront the Occupation Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman 448 pp. HarperCollins. $16.99. From 1992 to 2014, writers Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon were hesitant to get involved in the question of Israel/Palestine.  “We didn’t want to write or even think, in any kind of sustained way, about Israel and Palestine, about […]

Families Of Death Squad Victims Allowed To Sue Chiquita Executives

(Photo by UggBoy UggGirl/Wikimedia/CC) In what supporters described as “a victory for accountability for corporate crimes,” a U.S. judge ruled in favor of allowing Colombians to sue former Chiquita Brand International executives for the company’s funding of a paramilitary group that murdered plaintiffs’ family members. Chiquita poured $1.7 million between 1997 […]

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