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Category Archives: American Jewish Community
‘Orgy in the desert’ fails to wed young Jewish woman to Zionism
He had a thigh tattoo and was 100% for Israel. She had sex with him in ‘Jew Camp’ but broke up with him in NY
Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby
60 Comments
On the sidewalk in Hamburg– ‘Hier wohnte’
Memorials to victims of the Holocaust are embedded in Hamburg street in front of house where the couple lived
Posted in American Jewish Community, Beyondoweiss
285 Comments
Israeli officer threatens to rape Palestinian activists in custody (if this happened in Syria it would be headline news)
Israel faces major West Bank uprising over hunger strikers
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, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, Turkey, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror
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Artifacts of the early Israel lobby: 1917 map for American consumption
Brooklyn bookseller sells map produced in 1917 for Federation of American Zionists
Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby
33 Comments
Obama’s Jewish liaison reached out to Orthodox group that coddles those charged with child abuse
Agudath Israel seeks to handle child abuse cases internally in the Orthodox community. Brooklyn D.A. Hynes is palsy with Agudath. So is Obama’s Jewish outreach liaison Bernstein
The Israeli consul is selling ‘brand Israel’, but very few in one upper west side synagogue are buying
On Wednesday evening, May 9, Ido Aharoni, the Israeli consul general in New York, spoke at Ansche Chesed, a Conservative synagogue on New York’s Upper West Side to which Philip Harris’s family belongs. He was pleasantly surprised on several counts.
Liberal Zionists are afraid their parents will reject them if they come out
‘I’m terrified I could be rejected by those I most love,’ leading progressive Ilyse Hogue said of coming out with even mild criticisms of Israel
‘NYT’ exposes pattern of Ultra Orthodox community covering up sexual abuse, punishing accusers
Ultra Orthodox community in NY comes together to help families in need — except when they report sexual abuse by officials, and they are denounced
Posted in American Jewish Community, Media
95 Comments
The media Israel complex
WNYC shamelessly promotes the Israeli Technion, as a locus of military innovation and American Jewish financial support
‘Follow the money’ rule suddenly applies when the issue is gay marriage
The gay lobby is fair game for the media in questioning financial support generated by Obama’s turn. What about the Israel lobby?
Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Media, US Politics
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Akiva Tor: Arab Spring at fault for blocking a future Palestinian state
Israeli consul general Akiva Tor (above) addressed the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Monday to explain how the Arab Spring hurts hopes for a Palestinian state, settlements don’t hinder the peace process and why BDS is the answer . . . for Iran.
Standing up for equality at the ‘Equality Forum’ celebration of Israel
A report from a protest at the Equality Forum’s celebration of LGBTQ rights in Israel.
Publicly-funded Hebrew charter schools serve as ‘vanguard’ for Israel –Forward
Charter schools get public funds and are fostering love of Israel in American students
A portrait of a former Zionist (Part 1)
Bill grew up in New York in love with Israel. Then in his 20s he became disaffected. He stayed away but he didn’t ever stop thinking about it. Then at 35 he decided to go back. Here’s the first part of a trip diary (Above: entering the Qalandiya checkpoint).
Biden gives Israel the green light on Iran in speech to rabbinical convention
Speaking to an international assembly of 1,600 conservative rabbis in Atlanta today, Joe Biden said that Israel still had time to attack Iran if it so chooses.
Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
Tagged featured
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‘Battle of the Empty Stomachs’: Thaer Halahleh and Bilal Diab surpass 70 days on hunger strike
Addameer: Thaer Halahleh and Bilal Diab’s petitions to the Israeli High Court regarding their administrative detention orders were rejected yesterday, four days following their High Court hearing on 3 May. Thaer and Bilal are on their 71st day of hunger strike and at immediate risk of death.
‘Death of a Salesman’ came out of an intermarriage
‘I had arrived at the psychological role of mediator between the Jews and America, and among Americans themselves’ –Arthur Miller on his intermarriage in 1940
Haaretz’s ‘Palestinian and Arab Affairs correspondent’ will speak at event for US Friends of the Israeli army
Does Haaretz know that its reporters are speaking at events of such a slanted character?
That was Jane Harman of Newsweek trying to quash Medea Benjamin’s stellar soliloquy against drones
Jodie Evans did a similar star turn at the 2004 Republican convention– and the media ignored her too
Posted in American Jewish Community, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Media, US Politics
15 Comments
Who’s the anti-Semite?
Mearsheimer and Walt were roundly smeared as anti-Semites for saying in 2006 what many Jewish journalists have said since then
Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Media, US Politics
234 Comments
Watching propaganda in a Missouri synagogue
‘It’s propaganda,’ I said (too loudly). ‘I paid $75 for this. You don’t pay for propaganda,’ the rabbi said (too loudly)
Settlers poison grapevines belonging to occupied village, Beit Ummar
Beit Ummar is also attacked by soldiers firing tear gas and rubber bullets after a funeral
Olmert says ‘superior powers’ — U.S. Israel lobby– took him out in 2009
Olmert won’t name rich Americans who he says defeated his coalition in 2009
‘Let go of two-state solution insanity’ — says Illinois congressman who supports transfer
Palestinians should move to Jordan or accept second class citizenship in Israel, says Rep. Joe Walsh of Illinois
It’s apartheid in the West Bank, but Obama and liberal Jews are too ‘intimidated’ to say anything — Perlstein in Rolling Stone
Peter Beinart is allowing liberal American Jews to interrogate their attachments to Israel