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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
32 Comments
Slater on Beinart
Peter Beinart’s call for religious segregation in the Jewish community would empower the most intolerant political elements of that community
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
Bob Simon misses the story on Tel Aviv
People who are still fuming over Bob Simon’s 60 Minutes piece from last month, which was critical of Israel’s treatment of Palestinian Christians and called Michael Oren to task for attempting to kill the story before it aired, received a gift last Sunday – a fluffy superficial ode to the city of Tel Aviv’s undeniable awesomeness.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media, Nakba
20 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
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Munayyer in the ‘NYT’: ‘For all the talk about shared values between Israel and the United States, democracy is sadly not one of them’
The New York Times has published a succinct and devastating Op-Ed from Yousef Munayyer on the systemic inequality at the root of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media, One state/Two states, US Politics
10 Comments
‘Obama will only go as far on Iran as AIPAC permits him to go’
Israel lobby ratchets pressure on Iran, preempting global talks and threatening world peace
Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Media, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
32 Comments
Honest broker? Israeli consulate sponsors Obama’s former Middle East peace adviser at Stanford talk!
Dennis Ross worked for Obama for several years on Middle East peace. And before that he worked for Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush too. But he was always accused of bias toward Israel. Aaron David Miller called him Israel’s … Continue reading
U.S. and Israel coordinate– and signal hard line in Iran talks
Hard line against Iran is reminiscent of the hard lines leading up to the invasion of Iraq
Bill Clinton’s $80 million swagbag includes some dough from ‘Israel First’ interests
MJ Rosenberg left Media Matters partly because of his use of the term Israel Firster. Well Matt Stoller says Israel Firsters gave Bill Clinton money
Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, US Politics
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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
Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Nakba, Occupation, On the ground reports, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, Turkey, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
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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
Latest video’d settler shooting could defuse third rail in US discourse
Soldiers stood by as Israeli settlers shot unarmed Palestinian demonstrators in occupied West Bank — and American media are noticing
Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, US Politics
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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
Neocons in Washington Post: Military strike on Iran would ‘calm nerves in the region’
Washington Post pushes war with Iran with argument by two neoconservatives
Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Media, Middle East, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
33 Comments
South African artists, intellectuals and gov’t ministers take steps to isolate Israel
How long before South Africans are accused of being anti-Semites? South Africa to ban labeling West Bank settlement products as ‘made in Israel’, Amira Hass Minister of Trade and Industry says South Africa recognizes the State of Israel only within … Continue reading
Aharon Appelfeld’s rage at the German language (and Arendt’s need for it)
It wasn’t the German language that went crazy, Hannah Arendt explained. Israeli prize winner calls German a language of murderers
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media
Tagged Aharon Appelfeld, Hannah Arendt, Independent foreign fiction prize
156 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
‘King Bibi’ is ready for his close up, and ‘Time’ is willing to oblige
Time magazine crowns Benjamin Netanyahu in its latest cover article, although he comes across as the leader of a country on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media
23 Comments
New US demographics make Israel’s demographic fears seem all the more prehistoric
How long will Obama be able to honor Israel’s demographic concerns without sounding like a total racist?
Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Occupation, US Politics
Tagged featured
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WaPo’s Walter Pincus says US is ‘going above and beyond for Israel’
Last year, Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus said the US must reevaluate aid to Israel in light of our country’s economic woes. Yesterday he revisited the issue and is aghast at the largess being thrown Israel’s way.
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”.
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
Dershowitz attacked from right for supporting two-state solution
Settlers push the one state paradigm