Category Archives: Israel Lobby

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

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

The left lacks an analysis of the neocon rise

Rachel Maddow’s foreign policy speech and Ari Berman’s piece on Romney’s neocons both fail to mention the Israel lobby as a source of American foreign policy ideas

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 44 Comments

Hardline Israel backers gave cash to Rep. Joe Walsh, author of Op-Ed calling for Israeli apartheid

Rep. Joe Walsh’s Op-Ed in the Washington Times called for apartheid and ethnic cleansing in Israel/Palestine. Some campaign donors to Walsh share that extremist view.

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AIPAC’s Iran resolution (What if Congress had told JFK he couldn’t ‘rely on containment’ with Soviets?)

HRes 568, AIPAC’s main goal. is a resolution telling Obama he can’t use containment for Iran nuclear activities

Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 45 Comments

‘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

The neocon machine

The three horsemen the neocon propaganda organs: Kristol, Abrams and Goldberg

Posted in Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Media, Neocons, US Politics | 23 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

Foxman says Google and Facebook are on his team to combat ‘internet hate’

Israeli colonist who equates criticizing Israel with anti-Semitism is reported to have joined with Google and Facebook reps to combat ‘internet hate’

Posted in Israel Lobby, Media, US Politics | 49 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

House support for Israel damages prospects for peace

On Monday, the House of Representatives released a draft of the 2013 budget bill, which includes an eye-popping $1.5 billion in weapons earmarked for Israel.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Neocons, Occupation, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | Tagged | 42 Comments

We’re still losing

I told them about human rights abuses in the Occupied Territories. Then they saw the IBM research building in Haifa and fell in love with Israel

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Politics | 61 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

Neocons + Goldberg see coalition as heightening likelihood of war

Belligerence in the US press: Charles Krauthammer says it’s May 1967 and Israel’s neighbors are threatening it once again

Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, US Politics | 13 Comments

The media Israel complex

WNYC shamelessly promotes the Israeli Technion, as a locus of military innovation and American Jewish financial support

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, US Politics | 6 Comments

‘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 | 5 Comments

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