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Green Party candidate for President calls for end to Israeli apartheid
Dr. Jill Stein, who recently clinched the Green Party nomination for President, demands: “an end to the discriminatory apartheid policies within the state of Israel, the removal of the Separation Wall, a ban on assassination, movement toward denuclearization, the release of all political prisoners and journalists from Israeli and Palestinian prisons, disarmament of non-state militias, and recognition of the right of self-determination for both Israelis and Palestinians”
Peter Beinart’s cognitive dissonance on ‘threats to Israel’s demographics’
Michael Lerner and Peter Beinart seek to preserve Israel’s Jewish majority from the right of return
The benedictions of Benzion Netanyahu’s racism
Teh late Benzion Netanyahu believed in unending conquest of Arabs till they accepted the higher morality of their overlords
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media
Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Benzion Netanyahu, Bibi, Jabotinsky, new york times, NYT, Propaganda, Revisionist Zionism, The Iron Wall
32 Comments
Beinart’s Blindspot: Israel has always been a non-democratic apartheid state
Beinart’s new book to be brave, important, and blinkered all at once. The biggest problem is Beinart’s false, idealized image of pre-1967 Israel as a “flawed, but genuine democracy.” This doesn’t work because even within the green line Israel has always been a non-democratic apartheid state.
Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, One state/Two states
Tagged A Land of Two Peoples Martin Buber on Jews and Arabs, Gideon Levy, Haaretz, Israel is a Non-Democratic Apartheid State, Israeli Apartheid, Israeli Palestinian Equality Movement, Judah Magnes, Martin Buber, Palestinian Civil Rights Movement, Peter Beinart, right of return, The Crime of Apartheid, The Crisis of Zionism, The Middle East's Only Pretend Democracy
34 Comments
‘When Netanyahu and I look up we see nothing but the sky’ — Deputy Messiah Barak
Ehud Barak has expressed messianism; it’s not just Yuval Diskin diagnosing it
Posted in Iran, Middle East
Tagged Barka, Bibi, Bomb Iran, featured, Messiah, Yuval Diskin
13 Comments
If you deduct the Israelites, Pharaoh’s Egypt was actually a marvelous country
Bibi Netanyahu says if you deduct the Palestinians, Israel is actually a very equal country
Bloomberg warns BDS will lead to ‘massacres’ as Park Slope Co-op holds initial vote on boycott tonight
New York pols are lining up against the effort to boycott Israeli goods in the Park Slope Food Co-op. Bloomberg says it will lead to massacres and Scott Stringer calls it “an anti-Semitic crusade.” Co-op members’ response? You won’t learn it from the ‘New York Times’ who didn’t think to ask.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media
Tagged Bias, Distortion, Jodi Rudoren, Michael Grynbaum, New Israel Times, new york times, Propaganda
33 Comments
Israeli apartheid is never fit to print in the ‘Times’, only in ‘Haaretz’
When has the Times ever filed a serious report on Israeli apartheid policies, and will it ever? Meanwhile, Haaretz today runs an editorial page broadside against the colony/settlement Ariel’s University expansion plans.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media, One state/Two states, US Politics
Tagged Ariel, Ehan Bronner, Haaretz, media bias, new york times, Viable Palestinian State, West Bank
12 Comments
Quoting Israelis, ‘NYT’ front pager says Iran will take a military strike lying down (won’t even raise oil prices!)
Ethan Bronner quotes Israelis saying that Iran won’t retaliate if it is attacked
Security expert formerly in Bush I administration says Holocaust rationalizes Israel’s nuking Iran
Bennett Ramberg, formerly of GHW Bush’s State Department, now a purported expert on international relations, offers this unsettling prediction/threat in the New York Times’s Jan. 25th print edition: If Jerusalem really believes that a nuclear-armed Tehran poses an existential threat –– … Continue reading
Santorum’s pulp hasbara
1974 novel envisioned Israel fighting Native Americans in Texas. Has Santorum been reading this book?
Free graphic novel explores CIA overthrow of Iranian gov’t in 1953
CIA’s Operation Ajax to overthrow Iran government in 1953 helped poison U.S. relations with Persians for decades to come
How to avoid war with Iran
Elided from mainstream media coverage, the root cause of the current standoff with Iran is the 1953 U.S.-orchestrated overthrow of Iran’s democratically-elected government and its Prime Minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. This led to decades of U.S.-backed oppression under the Shah’s brutal dictatorship. The … Continue reading
West’s 1% salivates over spoils of the Libyan 99%
Q: Who is set to financially benefit from the sacrifices of the 99% (okay, maybe it wasn’t quite that many, but you know what I mean) of Libyans who risked their lives in the revolution? A: The 1% of American … Continue reading
Burg, former Knesset speaker, endorses idea of one state from river to sea
Enormous. Former Speaker of the Knesset Avraham Burg has come out of the colonialism closet and endorsed one democratic state from the river to the sea if Israel fails to take real steps toward two states, which of course, it … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
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Will a US veto at the UN invite another 9/11 (followed by an attack on Iran)?
Former U.S. ambassador Charles O. Cecil’s letter to President Obama warns that a U.S. veto of Palestine’s application for U.N. membership will physically endanger American civilians: …if the United States vetoes the Palestinian request for statehood, we will damage our position in … Continue reading
Gideon Levy (unintentionally) lays bare the contradictions of liberal Zionism
Usually Gideon Levy’s razor-sharp commentaries in Haaretz get to the heart of the matter, but I think he blew a gasket with his latest, comparing the P.A.’s bid for statehood to early Zionist politics. Sure, there are a few tenuous … Continue reading
We’ve learned nothing since 9/11
Excepting a few marginalized journalists and thought leaders, most Americans have learned less than nothing about the causes of the September 11, 2001 attacks. In the wake of that dreadful day, and for years afterward, then-President Bush claimed, almost comically, … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East
Tagged 10th Anniversary of 9/11, 9/11, Ariel Sharon, Blowback, Chalmers Johnson, Deir Yassin, Gandhi, George Bush, Hope or Terror, Larry Derfner, Mainstream Media, Metta Center for Nonviolence Education, Nakba, new york times, Propaganda, Satyagraha, September 11, Sharon is a Man of Peace, U.S. Foreign Policy, zinad samouni
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NYT’s Keller implies Iraq War aimed to save Israel from a ‘holocaust’
NYT Executive Editor Bill Keller pens a tortured mea culpa about his support for the Iraq War, stopping short of a full apology because he “couldn’t have known better at the time.” Along the way, he drops this stunning revelation … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Bill Keller, Iraq was a War for Israel, new york times, Propaganda
76 Comments
‘Adbusters’ goes after NYT’s pro-Israel bias
Have we started a mini-earthquake that’s headed straight for the Grey Lady’s department of propaganda? Adbusters ran my piece critiquing Bronner and Kershner’s pro-Israel bias (also in print, Aug/Sept. issue): In June of 2010, a year and a half after the … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Adbusters, ethan bronner, Isabel Kershner, media bias, new york times, Pro-Israel Propaganda
4 Comments
‘NYT’ editorial on stalemate reflects Israeli talking points
Ali Abunimah said it best: you can’t negotiate over sharing a pizza when your adversary is eating the pizza during the negotiations. Well, the New York Times is back with more editorial page propaganda that blames the Palestinian Authority for not … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Ali Abu-Nimah's Pizza Analogy, new york times, Propaganda
5 Comments
Bahour says Palestinians will call for secular democracy after statehood initiative fails
Sam Bahour argues persuasively in The Guardian that one secular state is both the best – and the only – option. Once this foredoomed move toward Palestinian membership in the UN runs its course, a new paradigm will take root, … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine, One state/Two states
Tagged one state, Sam Bahour, The Guardian
202 Comments
The case against circumcision
Alan Dershowitz’s flippant, dismissive remarks about male genital mutilation (aka circumcision) are infuriating, but an apropos Freudian slip. From where I sit, military Zionism shares a lot in common with this barbaric practice. Both involve inflicting violence against an oppressed … Continue reading
More land grab in West Bank
I know there are denialists who will never pronounce the two state solution dead, no matter how old and rotten the corpse. Isn’t this just another shovel of dirt on the quite decayed body? Akiva Eldar in Haaretz:
Posted in Israel/Palestine
33 Comments
Yahoo comments on boycott law suggest American backlash against Israel has begun
For a long time, I’ve wondered if the American people would ever rise up against the pernicious and destructive pro-Israel lobby. Maybe the boycott law is causing that to happen? Check out the comments on the Yahoo News report, for … Continue reading