Category Archives: Neocons

Dog-bites-man story in NYT leads readers to say, tail wags dog

Republicans want to railroad us into a war that serves Israel, NYT readers write

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Assault on Beinart begins with poll claiming young American Jews love Israel

Beinart is wrong about Zionism, say critics– American Jews heart Israel

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Nakba, Neocons, Occupation, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 14 Comments

Video: right-wing groups attack U.S. professors over Ilan Pappe speaking tour

A group called the AMCHA Initiative, founded by University of California faculty, launched a campaign against three California professors over an upcoming Ilan Pappe speaking tour.

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, BDS, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Neocons | 24 Comments

Book Review: ‘A Child’s View from Gaza: Palestinian Children’s Art and the Fight Against Censorship’

The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) book A Child’s View from Gaza: Palestinian Children’s Art and the Fight Against Censorship offers a behind the scenes window into a continued struggle to give voice to a people whose cultural identity has been assaulted, ignored, hidden, repressed, attacked and stolen.

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, Gaza, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Nakba, Neocons, Occupation, On the ground reports, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | 22 Comments

Radio Against Apartheid: People of Color in the US and Palestinian Queers for BDS

Darnell Moore, a visiting scholar at NYU’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, and Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz, a Jewish Arab writer and co-founder of intersections/intersecciones consulting, joined us on the program. The two recently returned from a delegation as guests of Palestinian Queers for BDS to the occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank.

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‘Free Beacon’ reporter attacks Center for American Progress in misleading articles that push for Iran war

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Adam Kredo, a reporter with the Washington Free Beacon, distorts the existing evidence on Iran in articles taking aim at the Center for American Progress.

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‘Commentary’ covers its eyes and makes Palestinians disappear

Commentary decides that Hamas is irrelevant

Posted in Arab Spring, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Nakba, Neocons, Occupation, US Politics | 115 Comments

Leading Zionist historian was first to say ‘Israel Firster’– in 1960

‘Israel Firster’ is no anti-Semitic trope. Zionist historian Abram Sachar used it against Ben-Gurion in 1960

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons, US Politics | Tagged | 104 Comments

Bruising Judt, Fukuyama says Arabs aren’t ready for liberalism

Francis Fukuyama suggests Tony Judt’s idea of one state was “monstrous” because Arabs aren’t ready for liberalism

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New York’s Muslim community fights back against NYPD Islamophobia

Muslim community leaders say Islamophobia is deep-seated in the New York Police Department. And they’re not taking it anymore.

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Sullivan says passionate American supporters of Israel create a ‘problem,’ conflating interests

Andrew Sullivan says Gingrich supporter Sheldon Adelson is conflating/obscuring American interest for Israeli interest

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So the U.S. military doesn’t want to attack Iran and neither does Israel. Who does?

Who wants war with Iran?

Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | Tagged | 114 Comments

Who’s the moderate? Romney teams up with anti-Muslim speakers, Greater Israel advocates

Mitt Romney will be joined by a slew of anti-Muslim speakers at this year’s CPAC.

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Mossad chief held secret talks in DC with top U.S. officials

The Senate’s Worldwide Threat Assessment– excuse me, but there are too many If’s here for anyone to endorse a preemptive attack on Iran

Posted in Arab Spring, Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | 27 Comments

Romney’s battle in FL was to show Adelson he is OK on Israel –TNR

Romney tailored his ideas on Israel to impress Adelson and win him away from Gingrich

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Israel Lobby, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 6 Comments

Rosenberg gets Trita Parsi call for Iran diplomacy into ‘LA Jewish Journal’

MJ Rosenberg is holding firm on “Israel Firster”

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | Tagged | 31 Comments

Dennis Ross Redux: Haaretz reveals White House – WINEP hotline

Last week, Haaretz’s Barak Ravid broke the story that Dennis Ross, late of the Obama administration, had never actually given up his security clearance and was still playing an outsized, and seemingly unchecked, role in advising the president. Now Ravid … Continue reading

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‘Israel Firster’ debate is an American argument, not a Jewish argument

Once Lee Smith joined the Hitler orgy over the Israel Firster debate naturally it occurred to me, with gentiles joining, the conversation was wiiiiide open. (Unless you’re Israeli, they’ve been ordered to ” stay out of it” by gatekeeper Eli … Continue reading

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Wait– do you like Israel? (Jeffrey Goldberg’s ultimate test)

Emotional blackmail from the Israel lobby: Do you like Israel?

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 52 Comments

Abunimah and Woolsey debate BDS in the ‘Philadelphia Inquirer’

The PennBDS conference is a week away and today the Philadelphia Inquirer ran opposing Op-Ed’s on BDS and the conference. In one corner we have Ali Abunimah, and in the other a tag team featuring former CIA-head James Woolsey and … Continue reading

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Two settler attacks on Palestinian teens, both are tragedies but one ended in death

Palestinian teen hit by Israeli car at checkpoint JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — A Palestinian teenager was struck and injured by an Israeli driver near an East Jerusalem checkpoint on Saturday morning, witnesses told Ma’an.  Suleiman Abu Mahamid, 18, was waiting to … Continue reading

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Neocons, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East | 2 Comments

Isikoff expose of Gingrich backer — ‘All we care about is being good citizens of Israel’ — puts ‘Israel firster’ issue in mainstream

Neocons have lost the battle to say that “Israel firster” is an anti-semitic charge

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | Tagged | 73 Comments

‘Invented’ Palestinian confronts Gingrich at GOP debate

In the Jan. 26 Florida presidential debate, GOP candidates addressed a Palestinian Republican and re-affirmed their stance that Palestinians are an “invented people.”

Posted in Activism, Israel Lobby, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 24 Comments

‘Center for American Progress’ censors references to Israel from piece on Islamophobic film

Democratic Party linked thinktank scrubs references to Israel in report on makers of controversial Islamophobic film

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 20 Comments

‘Occupy AIPAC’ now has 100 orgs behind it (and neocons try to block its appeal to ‘Jewish liberals’)

Neocons try to stymie anti-Israel lobby movement by appealing to Jewish liberals

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