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Boycott law is crossroads for U.S.’s liberal Zionists
Thanks to Bradley Burston for calling the fascist spade a spade. It’s better when Israeli Jewish journalists say this stuff about Israeli society, and we American Jews can quote them, thus making it harder to call us self-haters. Burston: The … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Bradley Burston, Haaretz, Israeli Apartheid, Israeli Fascism, New Afrikaners
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Flotilla activists undergo nonviolence training (Israel fears mass nonviolent protest above all)
From Haaretz: “A non-violent protest of 4,000 people or more, even if they only march to a checkpoint or a settlement, and especially if the Palestinian police does not deter them, will be unstoppable,” one IDF officer claims. “Such a … Continue reading
Mr. Spock says ‘beam up the two state solution,’ but ignore the asymmetry
Leonard Nimoy’s on record with Americans for Peace Now in support of the two-state solution. His strangely passionate-for-a-Vulcan argument contains an enormous fallacy: You might recall the episode in the original Star Trek series called, “Let That Be Your Last … Continue reading
Videos of MoveOverAipac disrupting Netanyahu speech last night
Here is a report on the disruptions, from MoveoverAipac. And the videos:
Posted in Israel/Palestine
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‘Colonization is indefensible, not 1967 borders’ – Cohen in NYT
Roger Cohen busts out a brilliant catchphrase in the NY Times that could serve as the basis for the next Young Jewish Proud protest: The 1967 lines are not “indefensible,” as Netanyahu declared in his immediate response to Obama’s speech. … Continue reading
NYT’s Bronner says Netanyahu demonstrates ‘territorial flexibility’ on the basis of no evidence
Ethan Bronner’s NY Times reports are of fantastic comedic value. Check out the latest spin from the Israeli Army Daddy: Days before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to meet with President Obama, he laid out his principles Monday for accepting … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine, One state/Two states
Tagged C.I.A., ethan bronner, new york times, Zionist Propaganda
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The New York Times‘s shameless Nakba distortion
The NYT’s front page leader propagandistically claims (emphasis added): “Israel’s borders erupted as thousands of Palestinians marched from Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, and the West Bank on the anniversary when Arabs mourn Israel’s creation.” I call this a distortion because Palestinians actually … Continue reading
Levy: ‘ethnic cleansing… apartheid… 1948 never ended’
Gideon Levy unbound in Haaretz, following up on Akiva Eldar’s damning report: By the time of the Oslo Accords, Israel had revoked the residency of 140,000 Palestinians from the West Bank… In other words: ethnic cleansing… While we are still … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged 1948, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, Gideon Levy, Nakba, The Middle East's Only Pretend Democracy
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Bin Laden’s last tape said America will have no security till Palestinians do
Osama Bin Laden reportedly recorded a final, thus-far-censored tape shortly before his death, intended for an American audience. Haaretz reports that an Al-Qaida website has the transcript: Bin Laden: “America will not be able to dream of security until we live … Continue reading
‘Geronimo EKIA’– as Indian wars continue in Palestine
When U.S. military officials chose the code name Geronimo for Osama Bin Laden– and then bulletined his death as Geronimo EKIA (Enemy Killed in Action)– they unwittingly cast a harsh historical light on the United States, its ally Israel, and … Continue reading
Zionists’ failure to save Jews from Holocaust was spiked 50 years ago, now in the news
In 1961, Haaretz correspondent Naphtali Lavie wrote a series of exposés critical of the Zionist leadership’s failure to save Jews from the Holocaust. Fearing the repercussions, Lavie shelved the pieces. Haaretz just published the pieces for the first time, a … Continue reading
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Better Haggadah
My father forwarded this, and it’s so damn funny, thought I’d share. (Do you notice the subtle pro-Israel whining in the first scene, 5 seconds in… the CNN headlines?) On a more serious note, if you’re planning a Seder this Passover … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
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Israeli Holocaust Scholar: ‘Apartheid, Colonial, Racist’
Nothing Goldstone (or anyone else) says changes this fact: Israel is an Apartheid State implementing a colonialist-racist project. Israeli Holocaust researcher Prof. Daniel Blatman in Haaretz: Israeli racism, whose natural “hothouse” is the colonialist project in the territories, has long … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged apartheid, Daniel Blatman, Israeli Colonialism, Israeli Racism
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T-minus 5 months ’til UN recognizes Palestine?
Ethan Bronner’s got an analysis of the diplomatic corner Israel has painted itself into in the NYT. Of course Bronner’s piece is filled with the usual elisions and distortions, which I’m sure readers of this site will spot left and … Continue reading
Listen Up: Caterpillar Man song honors Rachel Corrie
Caterpillar Man by Jess Rice Eight years ago, I remember hearing about Rachel Corrie’s death and something inside my soul changed that will never be the same. A few weeks later, my friend and talented singer/songwriter Jess Rice composed a haunting anthem … Continue reading
Frank Rich’s NYT valedictory omits self-censorship on Palestine
On his way out the NYT door, Frank Rich takes inventory. His feelings remain “reverent,” and despite screwing up “the run-up to the Iraq invasion” (clearly a minor point not worth more than a parenthetical!), he says the Times is “our … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Anti-Palestinian Bias, Frank Rich, new york times, The Israel Lobby, Thomas Friedman
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Israeli diplomats agree – Israel is delegitimizing itself
Never thought I’d say this, but apparently Young Jewish Proud shares a significant worldview with more than half of Israel’s career diplomats: we agree that Israel’s policies delegitimize Israel. From Bradley Burston: Former Foreign Ministry director-general Alon Liel told Army Radio last … Continue reading
“Our policies are almost criminal” – Israeli MK Ben-Simon
Roger Cohen’s latest NYT oped on Israel is a mixed bag. On one hand, it’s shot full of the usual subtle and not-so-subtle pro-Israel bias, eg, claiming Israel is a “vibrant democracy,” and a preposterous castigation of Abbas for having the temerity … Continue reading
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Tagged Crime of Apartheid, Daniel Ben-Simon, new york times, Roger Cohen, war crimes
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Arab nonviolent revolutions mark the beginning of the end of the 9/11 era
In the wake of 9/11 and The Second Intifada, neoconservatives and hard-right Zionists brainwashed the American people with dehumanizing stereotypes about Arabs and Muslims. Our unsuspecting, historically amnesiac, critically unaware public was led to believe garbage like “they hate us … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, Middle East Revolutions, new york times, Second Intifada
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‘JVP’ in NYT– and Zionist leader hearts ‘our barbarian’ Mubarak…
The NYT finally gives Jewish Voice for Peace some well-deserved ink: The [Jewish Voice for Peace] activists say they are not working against Israel, but against Israeli government policies they believe are discriminatory. Exactly right. It’s a decent article for … Continue reading
‘J Street’ honorably opposes McCarthyism in Israeli civil society (but what about ethnically-cleansed Palestinians?)
The other day J Street’s Jeremy Ben-Ami sent me another entreaty to help him “save Israel.” This one was grabbed a little more of my attention than the last one. Matthew — Yesterday, in a move ripped from Joe McCarthy’s … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Equality, Israeli McCarthyism, J Street, Jeremy Ben-Ami, Liberal Zionism
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J Street asks: ‘What if Israel Ceases to be a Democracy?’ (Pssst…it never was)
Another J Street fundraising pitch lands in my inbox: Matthew — “What If Israel Ceases to Be a Democracy?” was the provocative headline of a must-read Monday blog post by the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg imagining the unthinkable in Israel… His … Continue reading
Israeli secret service targets Israeli BDS organizers, claiming “terrorist activity”
Amira Haas reports on the Israeli Secret Service, Shin Bet, targeting a variety of Israeli activists who support Palestinian rights, including 22-year-old Matan Cohen. He has quite a resumé: co-founder of Anarchists Against the Wall, an organizer of Hampshire College’s … Continue reading
We’re number one! Bibi protest top global Jewish news story of 2010
JPost is running a poll to measure the #1 biggest Jewish world news event of 2010, and guess what’s in the lead? Right there at the top is the Young Jewish Proud action to disrupt Netanyahu with messages about what really … Continue reading