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Matt Lee speaks like an intelligent, principled journalist. But he writes like every other media lackey of the pro-Israel establishment.
As critics of Israeli policies we should be alarmed at the role that Israeli technology firms Nerus and Verint have in U.S. domestic electronic snooping. Both firms have ties to IDF intelligence-gathering unit 8200.
I wouldn't be surprised if in the future we may not have to show our Facebook and Gmail accounts to security at Ben Gurion--they could already have them.
I think the Sharafat reference is from Amos Oz not Tom Friedman--
Ray McGovern endorses James W. Douglass' JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters.
The book also has this blurb:
I'm going to have to read it now.
This link works: link to mondoweiss.net
Here is an opinion piece in the Times of Israel (6/2012) titled The Lie that Won’t Die: The U.S.S. Liberty Attack Slander:
Not sure why the MW link doesn't appear to work.
@Nima @Light
If the perpetrators are white, they will undoubtedly be described as unstable or mentally ill. This assessment of mental illness will then be accompanied by pleas for better mental health support and understanding. Non-white perpetrators of violence, in contrast, never suffer mental illness, we must assume.
Baruch Goldstein was "emotionally unstable."
It would have been nice if Edmund Saunders had informed his LA Times readers that Adelson is an ally and backer of potential LA Times buyers David and Charles Koch.
Are you sure Elon Musk is Israeli? Wikipedia describes him as South African.
If Friedman gets around to commenting on Better Place's bankruptcy, he will probably defend his gushing support for them by saying it was about telling Detroit, "Suck on this."
How can one man -- Tom Friedman -- be so wrong about everything?
Heilbrunn wrote that Israel "must strike out on a new course or risk becoming an international pariah."
Alea iacta est--the die is cast. Take a look at this BBC poll. Anyone can see that there are four pariah states: Iran, Pakistan, North Korea, and Israel. American media reports of the poll at CNBC and Time laughably and predictably ignore Israel's presence in the class of pariah states. Comments at Israeli media sites here and here predictably blame anti-semitism for Israel's poor showing and evoke Germany's WWII past to discredit the poll, in which Germany ranked first in popularity.
There is no explanation yet posted on the Guardian CiF site, as far as I know.
This is even more shocking since Greenwald's columns at the Guardian appear to regularly produce more comments--mostly supportive-- than all other columns in Comment is Free combined. Judging from the vast number of comments on all of Greenwald's columns, the CIF site seems like a one man show where Greenwald may draw half the traffic to the site. Why would the Guardian kill the goose that lays the golden egg?
From GG's post today May 25:
The comments sections on his post today is not open.
Is the Guardian throwing Greenwald under the bus? Shocking.
Nice post, Pamela. I’m sober about changing perceptions of I/P. The CUFI Facebook page has over 1 million ‘likes’. The ‘United with Israel’ Facebook page has 1.8 million ‘likes’. The Mondoweiss Facebook page has around 6 thousand ‘likes’. And the excellent ‘I Acknowledge Apartheid Exists’ page has almost 25 thousand ‘likes’. The numbers are depressing.
Nearly thirty years ago I accepted a job at a very large auto manufacturer in Dearborn Michigan. I asked my boss then why he lived in Detroit and not Dearborn. He explained that the realtor showed him many homes in Dearborn and always added the comment "nice neighborhood--no blacks, no Jews". My boss had had enough with this bigoted realtor and moved to Detroit.
The masks change, but the prejudices do not.
Speaking of Islamophobia, Terry Jones and a guy from California parading with a pig's head have managed yesterday to get Dearborn Michigan to cancel its annual Arab International Festival, due to rising insurance costs associated with the financial risk of confrontations and lawsuits. From the Detroit Free Press: link to freep.com
I'm sure I'm not alone among this site's readers in acknowledging that Greenwald is the best columnist in the business. Kudos to the Guardian for hiring him.
I wish Mondoweiss would investigate further the apparent eye-opening Chomsky link. Chomsky, like his protege Finkelstein, has never endorsed BDS, unless I'm mistaken. But I would love to be mistaken here. Please prove me wrong.
You called him "Hawkings" too when the story broke four days ago. Those familiar enough with him to at least know how to spell his name know that his views are of great importance. And no one has EVER had Prof. Hawking "brought into" ANY argument. If you think that then you REALLY don't know Stephen Hawking.
Algemeiner called the Guardian piece a "fraud". Note that one of the 4 responses to the Algemeiner post was from Matt Kalman, who co-authored the original Guardian scoop. Kalman told Algemeiner, "You are wrong. Watch this space."
hophmi-- both The Commentator and Haaretz have now made their corrections. Washington Post/AP had correction time too. lol
AP reports now that Cambridge retracts the "health" reason:
link to washingtonpost.com
I see the committee updated its posting and added this:
Adam--please keep updating us on any new information. Reuters and AP wires are entirely contradictory.
AP apparently in the last few minutes updated its feed and added this
Confused. Compare the Guardian headline "Stephen Hawking joins academic boycott of Israel---Physicist pulls out of conference hosted by president Shimon Peres in protest at treatment of Palestinians" to the Washington Post AP headline "Physicist Stephen Hawking won’t attend Israeli conference, cites health." The Guardian quotes British Committee for the Universities of Palestine, but AP quotes the media director spokesman at Cambridge, who said Hawking’s decision was based strictly on health concerns.
Phil--I'm definitely no admirer of Bob Jones University but I am pretty sure the political opprobrium was directed at its no-interracial dating policy. It's also protestant and fundamentalist--not Catholic--and the 2nd university president Bob Jones Jr.once said that Catholicism was "not another Christian denomination. It is a satanic counterfeit, an ecclesiastic tyranny over the souls of men....It is the old harlot of the book of the Revelation—'the Mother of Harlots.'" source
Pabelmont & W. Jones-- you both have a point. Christian Palestinians as a group exhibit a modicum of physical features which may reflect western intermarriage from both 12th/13th and 20th/21st centuries.
Great book. She reveals that which is, and which was, and which is to become. Have some faith. :)
That was my jaw-dropping reaction too. But kudos to the other AAAS.
Terrorist group MEK paid Bernstein $12K last year to have him give a speech. It appears the wages of shilling for dubious causes is increasing.
MJ Rosenberg. Always been a big fan of yours, and also Phil and his website. I'm sure you have read Finkelstein's Holocaust Industry, as most of us here have. Do you have any comments or critiques of it?
In Obama's speech I am reminded of Rick Perry's JPost/WSJ 2011 OpEd which stated "Historian T.R. Fehrenbach once observed that my home state of Texas and Israel share the experience of 'civilized men and women thrown into new and harsh conditions, beset by enemies.'"
You have a point. Hitchens is not guilty of careerism. He is guilty of eloquent stupidity.
The Rockford College speech on Youtube:
Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4.
Text of the speech
Democracy Now coverage of the speech.
The departure of Hedges from the NYT in 2003 followed the paper's formal reprimand of him for his commencement address at Rockford College that spring. The prescient and eloquent anti-war address, which also touches on the plight of Palestinians, can be viewed on youtube and is shocking for the hostility displayed by the graduating class and their family members. His microphone was cut off twice, much of the audience stood and turned their backs, the stage was rushed, fog-horns and jeers drowned out his words, and he was booed from the stage. In retrospect, it is a classic.
Thank you, Donald. But I have no problem viewing the excellent Ehrenreich piece from your link or by browsing the previous magazine edition directly from the NYT website. link to nytimes.com Perhaps a temporary NYT glitch?
Yes. From a Easter 2010 BBC audio slideshow on Palestinian bagpipes:
Shameful.
It's kind of amusing that Haaretz obscures the name and photo of Chen Shaptiban a full three days after Ali Abunimah revealed them on his blog. Little good that will do now.
In November the blog Elder of Ziyon argued that an errant Gaza rocket may have fallen short here and provided plausible evidence.
Regardless of the cause of the damage in this incident, it will be more difficult now for Israel to continue to claim that OHCHR-UNCHR is so hopelessly biased against it that it can just ignore it.
Pamela--I first heard of the story reading the 2011 edition of Fast Times, in the 'Days of Penitence' section of Chapter 6. Good luck on your book tour.
And then there is Meyer Lansky, the real-life mobster who is the basis for the Hyman Roth character in Godfather II. Like Roth, Lansky fled to Israel to escape U.S. prosecution. It took the FBI two years to extradite him.
Arab-American Alex Odeh's alleged murderers, all Kahanists, fled to an Israeli settlement on the West Bank to escape U.S. justice.
Cliff--http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/nov/16/israel2
I wish them luck. I'm a little puzzled by Arraf's comment:
Arraf was born in Michigan to a Palestinian father with Israeli citizenship. How was her father able to pass down his Israeli citizenship to her, but she can't pass down her Israeli citizenship to her son unless he is born in Israel? Have the rules changed, or do the rules differ by whether a citizen is native-born?
Dodge. Never Neutral.
In 2008 Alisha Keys told Blender magazine that she has read "several Black Panther autobiographies". It would be nice if Angela Davis, who supports BDS, gets in touch with her.
Unfortunately, future Republican leaders at Liberty University are fawning over Israel.
I hate to be sounding like Nate Silver here, but I don't know if there is much empirical evidence to support a changing image of Israel other than Dick Morris style optimism. Pew Research Center analysis does not show a decline in U.S. public support for Israel. If there is a trend over time in the Pew data, it is not what we desire. And CUFI now has well over a million members plus over a million followers on Facebook.
Husam Zomlot p. 3
Corey Robin, if you're reading this, please consider asking the biology department to co-sponser the event, with Rachel Abrams as an additional speaker. It would be enlightening to have an academic discussion on whether it is likely, or even possible, for stargazers to dine on Palestinian children who have been thrown into the sea.
I wonder if Abrams will bring his wife Rachel, who said that Palestinian children are devils' spawn who should be thrown into the sea to be food for sharks.
The discussion later about the possibility of the 2SS led to these Freeman remarks:
He sounds like a realist to me.
No gag order?
The author of Uganda's "Kill the Gays" bill endorses Inhofe:
"You can't get any cozier than that."
Brennan will indeed be confirmed without answering any of the questions civil liberties groups want known. His only real concern is how to defend himself against accusations that he is secretly Muslim. Will the Senate commitee throw him in a lake and see if he floats?
It is also instructive to read historical defenses of South African and Rhodesia, such as this one: A. L. Geyer: The Case for Apartheid, 1953
link to fordham.edu and this one John Ray: Rhodesia: In Defense of Mr. Smith, 1973 link to jonjayray.tripod.com -- The hasbara talking points are evident.
Interesting tidbit here about Tutu and the Stevie Wonder-IDF affair:
Up until now, I had assumed that Tutu had no active role in Stevie Wonder's decision, but rather that his name and views were merely referentially invoked by activists, as in this petition on change.org:
Kudos to Tutu.
I hope CODEPINK brings a donkey to the AIPAC convention.
Corey Robin asks a relevant question today: "Who Really Supports Hate Speech at Brooklyn College?" link to coreyrobin.com Mondoweiss comments section is mentioned in the post replies.
Barghouti is correct to speak of the rise of a new McCarthyism, directed at supporters of Palestinian rights. But incredibly, Dershowitz now claims victimhood and that he is the one being subjected to McCarthyite tactics: link to guardian.co.uk
With all the specious and spiteful misrepresentations of BDS being voiced by its critics in the press this past week, it is very helpful that Prof. Butler released her prepared remarks, and even more so since media and public access to the event was limited. I hope Mr. Barghouti releases his prepared remarks too.
If Omar Barghouti were ever to say he "violently" opposes Israeli policies, can you imagine the reaction in the NY press?
So Michael Bloomberg, who earned two Ivy League degrees, says he "violently" opposes BDS. What does he mean by that? I vehemently support BDS.
I get it now. You might be an anti-Semite if...
If you affirm multi-cultural co-habitation, you might be an anti-Semite.
If you believe all humans deserve equal rights, you might be an anti-Semite.
If you distinguish between Israel and Jewry, you might be an anti-Semite.
If you oppose state violence, you might be an anti-Semite.
If you think the Palestinian people's right of self-determination is equal to Israel's, you might be an anti-Semite.
If you think those forcibly dispossed of their land have a right to it, you might be an anti-Semite.
If you think Israel will end the occupation with external pressure, you might be an anti-Semite.
Dershowitz has an op-ed in the NY Daily News "Brooklyn College’s anti-Israel hatefest" and it's open for comments. Have at it.
Hamde's injury is maddening--he has a heart of gold and bravery to match.
Labna's death is truly horrible--the images are seering--what a dear young woman.
Thom Hartmann, Ed Schultz, Bill Press, and Stephanie Miller: Are you listening?
It reminds me of the "NATIVE" Colorado bumper stickers, displayed by obviously non-indigenous residents, to protest the arrival of relatively recent newcomers.
Five years ago Fallows himself was being smeared by the neocons: "Is James Fallows a Disloyal American?" by Gabriel Schoenfeld in Commentary. link to commentarymagazine.com
I recently heard a caller bring up Israel's human rights abuses. Hartmann went off on a long monologue of talking points and never let the caller speak again.
To clarify, I have never heard Bill Press or Stephanie Miller shill for SodaStream, but I have heard that they do--I may be wrong. But every radio listener of Thom Hartmann is subjected to a barrage of SodaStream ads--Jeesh, does he own stock in it?. Ed Shultz's radio show shilling is less frequent than Hartmann's, but when he does he reads from the same advertising script as Hartmann.
Here's an online petition at change.org
link to change.org
"CBS: Do not air a Sodastream commercial during the Super Bowl"
Not only do Schultz and Hartmann have SodaStream as radio show sponsors, but Ed and Thom personally read the advertising copy, so it sounds just like an endorsement.
Kudos to Hayes. I hope SodaStream hucksters Ed Shultz, Bill Press, Thom Hartmann, and Stephanie Miller get the message.
Is this the same Chris Matthews who, less than two months into the Iraq War, gushed over Bush's leadership which "won the war"?
link to mediamatters.org
That was when I stopped listening to him.
It seems that the debate in Israel (excluding the minority parties) is whether to allow a Bantustan solution or an Apartheid solution. Meanwhile Americans' support for Israel vs the Palestinians is on the rise, at least according to Pew polling. Hasbara has won. Either "solution" will find support here in the U.S. The darkness drops again.
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Following now.
Gainesville Sun, June 20, 1986
Presbyterian assembly approves resolution condemning apartheid.
Minneapolis (AP) – In its strongest anti-apartheid position to date, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) urged its members to lobby for stiff economic sanctions against [South] Africa.
The resolution Tuesday urged the nation’s 3.1 million Presbyterians to encourage U.S. lenders not to renew loans with South Africa.
The Assembly also approved a resolution calling on the U.S. government to apply direct economic and political pressure on South Africa, insisting on the total dismantling of apartheid.
The lyrics of Stevie Wonder's "It's Wrong (Apartheid)":
Isn't it ironic?
As'ad AbuKhalil weighs in
From Haaretz:
Julian Pecquet in The Hill reported the results incorrectly, which led to some confusion:
The PFMEP web site says "If you would like join us in our efforts, either financially through tax deductible contributions or through volunteer activity, please contact Gary J. Green," I assume PFMEP must file IRS 990 forms to make these contributions tax deductible. These forms, which would list large sources of funding, are required by the IRS to be available upon request.
Arthur Finkelstein also had Bono Mack winning big:
Today Ruiz sees his narrow lead widening but Bono Mack hasn't yet conceded defeat.
Nokia Maps thinks Ramallah is in Israel.
The Jewish Council for Public Affairs and the Anti-Defamation League can take some comfort in knowing that there are many Christians who believe that Sandy was divine punishment for the U.S. applying pressure on Israel. Maybe the JCPA and ADL can help settle the debate raging among their favored wing of Christianity as to whether Sandy was punishment for criticizing Israel or for LGBTQ-tolerance.
Raimondo's comparison of 'Exodus' and 'Birth of a Nation' reminds me of Roger Ebert's assessment of the latter:
And the importance of 'Exodus' includes how racist a Zionist in 1960 could be without realizing he is racist at all.
From the footnotes of Finkelstein's Beyond Chutzpah:
For the standard classification of U.S. Protestant denominations into mainline, evangelical, and historically black segments, see the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life / U.S. Religious Landscape Survey Appendix 3 . ELCA, PC(USA), UMC, and UCC are all classified as mainline.
Yesterday the new board of Free Gaza issued a statement in support of Greta Berlin.
Individual board member comments followed.
This whole affair is tragic for the movement.
Naomi Klein, in announcing her board resignation, made no reference to co-founder Berlins's controversial twitter post, only that the leadership had changed. In fact, the new board membership was announced over a month ago: link to freegaza.org
Klein's resignation is being inserted into this debate by critics of Berlin, but it does not appear germane.
I haven't see the film Exodus but I am reminded of Finkelstein's estimate of Leon Uris' novel in Beyond Chutzpah:
Uris sounds a lot like Pamela Geller.