{"id":98,"date":"2008-05-13T08:21:08","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T13:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/2008\/05\/13\/your-birthday-is-our-catastroph"},"modified":"2008-05-13T08:21:08","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T13:21:08","slug":"your-birthday-is-our-catastrophe-broadening-the-israel-60-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/2008\/05\/13\/your-birthday-is-our-catastrophe-broadening-the-israel-60-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Birthday is our Catastrophe; Broadening the Israel @ 60 Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/files\/2008\/05\/support_sanity_desktop_miniflag_set_macro.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"185\" width=\"270\" \/>May 15th is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.za3tar.net\/2008\/05\/01\/blog-about-palestine-day\/\">Blog for Palestine Day<\/a>. 20,000 <a href=\"http:\/\/info.jpost.com\/C004\/Supplements\/SecurityFence\/n01.html\">protesters<\/a> in Nazareth were met with tear gas a couple days ago. If you missed these stories, or if you&#8217;d just like to broaden your perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this is a good time to check out a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalvoicesonline.org\/2008\/05\/12\/global-voices-partners-with-newstrust\/\">partnership<\/a> highlighting Middle East news between three terrific non-profits: <a href=\"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\">Global Voices<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/linktv.org\">LinkTV<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstrust.net\/Topics\/Files\/middle_east\/?@286.xI9waRXSul6@\">NewsTrust.net<\/a>. (Full disclosure, I have friends in all three organizations.) The first two focus on highlighting new sources of news of the world, NewsTrust helps discover high-quality journalism on all topics.  If you have only four and a half minutes to spare, start with Jamal Dajani&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linktv.org\/video\/2542\">Mosiac Intelligencer Report:  Your Independence is our Nakba<\/a>. But it&#8217;s worth diving in to the materials on all three sites, and encouraging any journalists you know covering the story to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Palestine\">Palestine<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Israel\">Israel<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Middle East\">Middle East<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Global Voices\">Global Voices<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/LinkTV\">LinkTV<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/NewsTrust.net\">NewsTrust.net<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/nonprofit journalism\">nonprofit journalism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 15th is Blog for Palestine Day. 20,000 protesters in Nazareth were met with tear gas a couple days ago. If you missed these stories, or if you&#8217;d just like to broaden your perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this is a good time to check out a partnership highlighting Middle East news between three terrific [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1659,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2221,2318],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cappucino","category-the-rest-of-the-world-remember-them"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}