Category Archives: American Jewish Community

Alterman says BDS shares Ahmadinejad’s agenda, and Hezbollah’s too

Progressives Avishai and Alterman adopt conservative theories to rationalize the status quo in Israel and Palestine

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, US Politics | 31 Comments

UN Committee: Israeli system ‘tantamount to apartheid’

Ethnic Cleansing / Land Theft & Destruction / Occupation & Apartheid / Exile & Restriction of Movement / Refugees Report: Israel issued 13,000 demolition orders against Palestinian real estate Haaretz newspaper said the Israeli civil administration issued 13,000 demolition warnings … Continue reading

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Nakba, Neocons, Occupation, On the ground reports, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | 1 Comment

Slater on Beinart

Peter Beinart’s call for religious segregation in the Jewish community would empower the most intolerant political elements of that community

Posted in American Jewish Community, BDS, Israel Lobby, Media, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 32 Comments

American Zionist responses to Tel Aviv riots– largely indifferent, but some outrage

AIPAC, AJC and Conference of Presidents have nothing to say about anti-African riots in South Tel Aviv

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine | 46 Comments

Division: Romney supporter puts kibosh on Wasserman Schultz appearance at Miami temple

Romney supporter puts kibosh on Wasserman Schultz appearance at Miami synagogue

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Media, US Politics | 9 Comments

Senate fight today over the number of Palestinian refugees

Senate fight today over Palestinian ‘refugees’ Thirty U.S. senators will vote today over whether there really are 5 million Palestinian “refugees” or just around 30,000 — a hot-button issue that has already become the subject of a vigorous international debate involving … Continue reading

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, On the ground reports, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, Turkey, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 23 Comments

Aaron Sorkin’s anachronism

Writer of The Social Network imposed a victimized narrative on Mark Zuckerberg, who’s anything but

Posted in American Jewish Community, Beyondoweiss, Egypt, Israel/Palestine | 27 Comments

Philip Roth on the Israel lobby

Philip Roth wrote that Israel was dependent on the Israel lobby in the U.S. for its existence, in 1986

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 15 Comments

Affirming a Judaism and Jewish identity without Zionism

Rabbi Brian Walt reflects on his journey from being a progressive Zionist to holding a belief in a Judaism and American Jewish identity that rejects Zionism as its core belief.

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel/Palestine, Occupation | Tagged | 122 Comments

Palestinian Authority and Israel on an arresting spree, children and activists detained

Detainees and Other Prisoner News Palestinians arrest 10 Islamic Jihad members Palestinian security forces arrested 10 members of the Islamic Jihad in the Jenin refugee camp on Monday, a local leader of the radical movement said. link to news.yahoo.com Islamic … Continue reading

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Google is partnering with Technion and Cornell in NY

E tu Google

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Media, US Politics | 26 Comments

Biden meets major Israel lobby group at White House

The three black politicians who broke with Obama are members of the ‘AIPAC generation,’ says MJ Rosenberg

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Media, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 21 Comments

Bill Kristol celebrates Republican Party purge of ‘oldfashioned Arabists’ Scowcroft, Baker and Bush I

Republican Party boss Bill Kristol is treated like royalty on the Upper West Side in a “communal” Jewish conversation

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

Feeling the hate in Long Island

Obama’s Jewish support has gone from 78% to 62% and rightwing rabbi stirs the pot with video of old Jews hinting Obama is a secret Muslim

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Israel Lobby, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 97 Comments

Censored children’s art show returns to California in San Diego exhibition

After being censored in Oakland’s Museum of Children’s Art, the art exhibit “A Child’s View from Gaza” is scheduled to appear at the World Beat Center in San Diego on May 24, 2012 alongside the local premier of the film “Tears of Gaza”.

Posted in American Jewish Community, Gaza, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Occupation | 1 Comment

In ’92, AIPAC president raised $1 million for Bill Clinton — and he supported the settlements

‘Clinton has Jewish friends.’ MJ Rosenberg publishes influence-peddling phone conversation with Israel lobby president, in 1992, that cost the AIPAC president his job

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Settlers/Colonists, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 27 Comments

Dershowitz attacked from right for supporting two-state solution

Settlers push the one state paradigm

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Media, One state/Two states, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 30 Comments

Daily escalations in Occupied Palestine

Eight Palestinian farmers are injured in an unprovoked attack

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Nakba, Neocons, Occupation, On the ground reports, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, Turkey, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 6 Comments

Walzer says Jews were on the left because the left supported Jews

The Jewish idea of chosenness is reaching its rendezvous with the American destiny; and the Jewish universalist tradition will triumph

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Media, Neocons, US Politics | 75 Comments

Removing MEK from the terrorist list would raise chance of war

Israel lobby agenda is to remove an Iranian terrorist group from State Dept list of banned orgs

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons, US Politics | 8 Comments

‘New York Review of Books’ calls it ‘apartheid’ and prepares Americans for the end of the Jewish state

Israel has disenfranchised millions of Palestinians, and robbed them of their dignity and their land, and killed the two state solution — New York Review of Books

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Occupation, One state/Two states, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 41 Comments

American’s cartoon on Israeli site shows Netanyahu cannibalizing Obama and compelling him to service him sexually

Eli Valley cartoon pictures Netanyahu and Obama as astronauts, and Obama is subservient

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 24 Comments

It will be easier for our movement of subcultures to change the US than to change Israel — Sarah Schulman

Novelist and queer activist Sarah Schulman premiered a film on AIDS activism in Israel and Palestine last month

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel/Palestine, Media, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 11 Comments

Nakba 64 years later, we will never forget

News and headlines from Nakba Day, 2012.

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Nakba, Neocons, Occupation, On the ground reports, Settlers/Colonists, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 10 Comments

Oren’s defensive piece on ‘sinister’ delegitimization movement shows boycott is working

Michael Oren knows that Israel is losing its reputation

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, BDS, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 49 Comments