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 | 8 Comments

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

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Politics | 19 Comments

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.

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government | 23 Comments

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

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, US Politics | 196 Comments

‘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

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‘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?

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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.

Posted in American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, Egypt, Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Occupation, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 30 Comments

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.

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Occupation, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 4 Comments

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

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Politics | 10 Comments

A portrait of a former Zionist (Part 1)

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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).

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Israel/Palestine, Occupation, On the ground reports, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists | 348 Comments

Biden gives Israel the green light on Iran in speech to rabbinical convention

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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 | 42 Comments

‘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.

Posted in American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Occupation, On the ground reports, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 7 Comments

‘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

Posted in American Jewish Community, Beyondoweiss, Media | Tagged | 46 Comments

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?

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, US Politics | 10 Comments

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)

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, US Politics | 42 Comments

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

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, On the ground reports, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, US Politics | 2 Comments

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

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 35 Comments

‘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

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, One state/Two states, US Politics | 51 Comments

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

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, US Politics | 40 Comments