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Tag Archives: Israel Lobby
Newseum honors newsman who ran guns for ethnic cleansing of Palestine
Newseum glorifies the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by honoring Hank Greenspun’s gun-running to Israel in the 1940s.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media, Nakba
Tagged 9/11, Hank Greenspun, Israel Lobby, JFK, Naqba, Newseum, Propaganda
18 Comments
IDF and Ros-Lehtinen share goal: kill any chance for Palestinian state
An important report in today’s Haaretz by Akiva Eldar [picked up earlier today here by Matthew Taylor] further confirms the Israeli government’s intention to illegally annex strategic parts of the West Bank. Combined with the push by a top House … Continue reading
New Feature Announcement: Number of Replies to Comments on Profile
In commenter profiles, you will be able to see how many replies any given post has generated.
Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel Lobby, US Policy in the Middle East
Tagged Israel Lobby, uss liberty
12 Comments
Israel seeks to ban the Palestinian protest movement from iOS store
Arab springtime is welcomed in Syria and Libya but not in Israel. Israel’s determination to follow South Africa’s apartheid path seems relentless.
Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine
Tagged apple, censorship, edelstein, facebook, Israel Lobby, Palestine, Palestinians
72 Comments
Israel’s damage to ‘American interests is incalculable’ — Shlaim in ‘The Hill’ of all places
Oh my, The Hill is getting religion. Avi Shlaim on the Israel lobby. He doesn’t even live here, but he understands what’s going on. Notice the arguments that realists Chas Freeman and Mearsheimer & Walt and Desch and McConnell have … Continue reading
Howard Berman’s reversal is exposed by Haaretz (where’s the American press)
Nailed in Haaretz. Akiva Eldar calls Howard Berman– sponsor of legislation that would bar Palestinians from even thinking of parking a state here– a self-loving Jewish American Superman who springs into action to save Israel and is actually hurting Israel. … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Akiva Eldar, Howard Berman, Israel Lobby, Palestinian statehood
9 Comments
Aubrey Chernick and the nexus of Islamophobia
Max Blumenthal has published a sweeping description of Islamophobia’s drip-drip-drip into the American vein at TomDispatch. The piece shows the ways in which the Israel lobby, for instance the American Jewish Committee, is linked to purveyors of this prejudice, and … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Aubrey Chernick, Islamophobia, Israel Lobby, Max Blumenthal, Obsession
44 Comments
What slapdash H.R. 1765 reveals about the lobby and public awareness
As House Resolution 1765, formerly 1731 and 1734, passed in the House by a voice vote enjoining the Obama administration to oppose a unilateral Palestinian declaration of independence, the peace camp looked disheveled and mystified. With every loss in the … Continue reading
Obama’s failure has served to expose Israeli intransigence here and abroad
As the United States sends envoy George Mitchell to grasp at straws in hopes of restarting negotiations to create a Palestinian state after the Israeli government refused to curb settlement construction, Obama’s inability to entice Netanyahu’s coalition to comply with … Continue reading
Is the bottom falling out on the special relationship?
Israel Today says that nearly a third of American expect US-Israel relations to continue to sour… And Republicans are more supportive of Israel than Democrats. Do you hear that, Barney Frank and Debbie Wasserman Shultz? Come home to liberalism… h/t … Continue reading
Imagine the Brookings Institution having a forum on the Future of the South in 1964 and inviting no black people
Truly demoralizing. Jim Crow is on the job in Washington, D.C. This is the Brookings Institution’s lineup for its recent conference on Hard Choices in the Israel/Palestine conflict. It shows how stifling the atmosphere is inside the Establishment when it … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Israel Lobby, Jim Crow, Palestinians, Saban Forum, Salam Fayyad, Zionism
6 Comments
‘I want to say one word to you. Just one word.’ Benjamin: ‘Yes, sir.’ ‘Zionism!’
The Forward reports: Howard Kohr the head of AIPAC made $450,000 in 2009. Far beyond Jeremy Ben-Ami, the head of J Street, $200,000 in 09. David Harris of American Jewish Committee, $499,000… Mort Klein of the Zionist Organization of America, … Continue reading
Schnabel says ‘Miral’ was delayed because ‘the world’ isn’t ready for its message
Last night at Alwan for the Arts in New York they staged a cultural event that might even be historic it was so important in subtle/oozing ways. Julian Schnabel read passages from the novel Miral, by the Palestinian-Italian journalist Rula … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Alwan for the Arts, Arab-American, delay, feminism, General Assembly, Israel Lobby, Julian Schnabel, Miral, Nakba, Rula Jebreal, Weinstein
12 Comments
Clinton: Occupation robs Palestinians of dignity and self-determination and is radicalizing the Middle East
Mark Wauck tells me I am missing the forest for the trees. There has been great progress in the American discourse, and Tom Friedman’s latest and Hillary Clinton’s speech to the Saban Center at Brookings last week reflect it. “Most … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Hillary Clinton, Israel Lobby, liberal Zionist, Realist
30 Comments
Then on Saturday, Saban benchpressed 400 Congressmen
Haim Saban had a busy week. Thursday, December 9. He hosts a fundraiser in Century City, Ca, for the Israel Defense Forces and, along with former Seinfeld star Jason Alexander and Andrea Bocelli, raises $9 million:
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Haim Saban, Hillary Clinton, Israel Defense Forces, Israel Lobby
40 Comments
671 ‘New York Times’ readers recommend letter calling Israel a ‘fascist state’ that is dragging us down
One of those signs that is sure to send a chill through the Israel lobby. A couple of days ago Roger Cohen did an anguished Op-Ed for the New York Times about the American Jewish community’s intolerance of criticism of … Continue reading
Solarz may not have liked the lobby, but he milked it to survive in ’82
Last week I ran posts saying that the late Stephen Solarz was a fool for the Israel lobby and yesterday MJ Rosenberg responded, saying that his friend Solarz was a good guy who took pro-Palestinian stances when he was able … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Chuck Schumer, Israel Lobby, MJ Rosenberg, Stephen Solarz
2 Comments
Why is the White House sending its Iran negotiator to a neocon conference in D.C.?
Well because that’s where the power is. The permanent Establishment in D.C. has a neoconservative flavor right now, Obama has to truckle to those folks. (Ask me why later.) The Foundation for Defense of Democracies is a neoconservative shop. It … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Gary Samore, Iran, Israel Lobby, neoconservatives, Obama
15 Comments
Jim-Crow Journalism: Were there really no Palestinian analysts available for latest NYT article?
Earlier today I posted Noam Chomsky’s insight that American intellectual culture has complete contempt for Arab public opinion. Well, the New York Times’s Mark Landler interviewed Dan Kurtzer, Yigal Palmor, Dan Levy, David Makovsky about their opinions on the Obama … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Andrew Sullivan, Ben Smith, Israel Lobby, Israelis, journalistic Jim Crow, Mark Landler, new york times, Palestinians
14 Comments
Contempt for democracy: Chomsky says Arab public opinion counts for nothing in US intellectual culture
Noam Chomsky was on Law and Disorder Radio, interviewed by Michael Ratner and Michael Smith. The exchange begins at minute 32 or so. Chomsky is asked about his new Gaza book and says, “Just to be timely, let’s start with … Continue reading
