Author Archives: Annie Robbins

About Annie Robbins

Annie Robbins is Writer at Large for Mondoweiss, a mother, a human rights activist and a ceramic artist. She lives in the SF bay area.

The family of 7 stood 20 meters back as the soldiers ripped bags of lentils and rice and destroyed their house

Israel slowly devours Area C in the occupied West Bank

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 5 Comments

Assange’s first guest on RT world premier: Nasrallah says US & Israel seek civil war in Syria

Nasrallah says that Israel and the US want civil war in Syria

Posted in Arab Spring, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Nakba, Neocons, Occupation, Reports/Video, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | 149 Comments

Penny-ante anarchists, pampered eccentrics, masochistic dreamers — activists are the new existential threat!

Angry reaction by Israeli leaders to wave of activists suggests Israeli narrative is coming unglued

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 13 Comments

Iran didn’t threaten to ‘wipe’ Israel out — Israel’s deputy prime minister

Ahmadinejad threatened to wipe Israel off the map, Israel supporters like to say. Except that he didn’t

Posted in Israel/Palestine | Tagged | 148 Comments

P5 +1 Iran nuclear talks went swimmingly! Netanyahu is fuming

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Negotiations with Iran threaten Israel’s hardline approach– Dismantle Fordo now or we’ll bomb it later

Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 144 Comments

The Grass just keeps on growing

German taboo on criticizing Israel fades: 84% of respondents to a German poll say Grass’s thesis that Israeli nukes threaten world peace is correct or at least arguable. Only 4 % see anti-Semitism.

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media | 100 Comments

Sheizaf shreds Oren Op-Ed touting Israeli democracy

Michael Oren is a master hasbarist, but 972′s Noam Sheizaf expertly disessembles his recent Op-Ed “Israel’s Resilient Democracy.”

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media | 37 Comments

The Quartet is worthless

Can the Quartet do anything besides ‘urge’ the parties? What is the point of this ‘process’ if they will do nothing as Israel cuts off East Jerusalem and expands the settlements? Everyone knows there is no prospect for two states without East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine. Haven’t we had this same conversation over and over? The only thing changing here is facts on the ground, as the Quartet and the UN Security Council do nothing.

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 30 Comments

‘Israel’s policy endangers world peace’ — Jakob Augstein and Gideon Levy have Gunter Grass’s back

Leading German and Israeli writers back up Gunter Grass on the importance of his challenge to those who are silent about Israeli nukes’ threat to peace

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, War on Terror | 77 Comments

‘I’ve been duped’ — America’s travel guide Rick Steves says our media black out the brutal occupation

‘NPR’ travel host Rick Steves says that he was ‘bamboozled’ by the media into believing a false story of Israel and Palestine. Palestinians live under ‘inhumane’ conditions

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, US Politics | Tagged | 114 Comments

Connecticut Senate hopeful calls congressman a ‘whore’ for AIPAC in televized debate

Lee Whitnum is anti-Israel-lobby candidate for Senate in CT Dem primary

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Political farce

Settler eviction from Hebron distracts the media’s attention from: More Jewish settlers in Palestine!

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 14 Comments

Showdown in Hebron: Netanyahu steps in to protect illegal settlers facing military eviction orders

A closed military zone has been put in place around a three story building in Hebron taken over and illegally occupied by 100 settlers in an overnight raid last Thursday. Initially the military ordered them to evacuate by 3 pm today, but Netanyahu stepped in and requested a delay.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Settlers/Colonists | 37 Comments

Marwan Barghouti calls for popular uprising for statehood. Israel puts him in solitary confinement

Palestinians will never get a state by turning to Israel, says Marwan Barghouti. They must rise up and demand it from the U.N. and int’l community

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 71 Comments

Sullivan forces American attention on the settlements

Now that Iran’s off the table for a few months, Sullivan forces attention back to the central issue, Israeli expansion and ethnic cleansing

Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | Tagged | 135 Comments

Video: the Gaza onslaught

What does disproportionate and indiscriminate attack mean? And where do these attacks on Gaza originate?

Posted in Gaza, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Neocons, Occupation, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | 31 Comments

Sullivan unmasks Goldberg as a propagandist for Netanyahu’s ‘lies, bluffs and deceptions’ aimed at getting us into war

Jeffrey Goldberg is a propagandist for the Israeli government

Posted in Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | Tagged | 27 Comments

Sfard on Israeli Supreme Court ruling on Migron outpost: ‘It’s Our Brown v. Board’

Human Rights Lawyer Michael Sfard on Israeli Supreme Court Migron decision: ‘It’s Our Brown v. Board’ Continue reading

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Occupation | 20 Comments

US Supreme Court: Courts to decide whether Congress can recognize Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem

The Supreme Court ruled that courts have the power to decide whether Congress can order that passports for U.S. citizens born in Jerusalem list “Israel” as their birthplace.

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 35 Comments

Hundreds of soccer fans crowd Jerusalem mall: ‘Death to Arabs!’

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‘Death to Jews’ in Paris 1890s spurred Herzl. And now it’s ‘Death to Arabs’ at a Jerusalem mall. And scant coverage in Israeli press

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Occupation | Tagged | 142 Comments

Cuba-Gaza parallels explored (by Gaza Center for Political and Developmental Studies)

“Resistance in Latin America”, lecture by Julie Webb-Pullman hosted at The Gaza Center for Political and Development Studies Continue reading

Posted in Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Middle East, On the ground reports | 13 Comments

The ‘folly’ of the ‘war lobby’– What if NYT’s top-pick comments reflect popular opinion?

New York Times most popular commenters decry the idea of war with Iran

Posted in American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Middle East, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 17 Comments

Pentagon fears Israeli strike on Iran would drag US in

Israel wants to attack Iran and they want the US public’s OK

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | 83 Comments

‘Refusing to die quietly’: Israel invades home of Popular Committee leader Abu Husam Tamimi in Nabi Saleh

Last night, the Israeli military invaded the home of Abu Husam Tamimi, a popular resistance leader in Nabi Saleh. Tamimi was part of a group who launched a defense campaign dubbed “Refusing to die quietly” to counter settler violence.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Occupation, Reports/Video | 11 Comments

Ayub Asaliya was on his way to school last Sunday

State terrorism exists too: People around the world respond to photo of 12-year-old Gaza boy killed by Israel as he went to school

Posted in Gaza, Israel/Palestine | 27 Comments