Category Archives: Neocons

‘Be on our side’: Bay Area ad campaign features Palestinian and Israeli women calling for U.S. sanctions against Israel

Two Israeli women, one Palestinian and the other Jewish, are the latest activists to appear on San Francisco Bay Area (BART) transit posters calling for an end to U. S. military aid to Israel.

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, BDS, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Neocons, Occupation, US Politics | 12 Comments

‘I didn’t say I liked Beinart’s book’ — J Street head sells his star guest out to his antagonist, Goldberg

Jeremy Ben-Ami kisses Jeffrey Goldberg’s ring, and sells out Peter Beinart, ahead of liberal Zionist gathering

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Media, Neocons | 63 Comments

Gutless Leon Wieseltier

New Republic editor has been conducting a ‘personal’ boycott of West Bank goods for years. He just wouldnt go public, lest it crack the monolith of the Israel lobby

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, BDS, Israel Lobby, Media, Neocons, Settlers/Colonists, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 10 Comments

The ‘folly’ of the ‘war lobby’– What if NYT’s top-pick comments reflect popular opinion?

New York Times most popular commenters decry the idea of war with Iran

Posted in American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Middle East, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 17 Comments

Pentagon fears Israeli strike on Iran would drag US in

Israel wants to attack Iran and they want the US public’s OK

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | 83 Comments

Establishment Jews attack Beinart over settlement boycott call

Michael Oren says Peter Beinart is beyond the pale, while J Street rushes to distance itself from its star attraction this weekend

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, BDS, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons, US Politics | 27 Comments

Israeli academics call for massive attack on Gaza to ‘mow the lawn’ — before November election ends the ‘opportunity’

A call for a massive attack on Gaza, bigger than Cast Lead of ’08-09, and to be repeated in another year or so

Posted in American Jewish Community, Gaza, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Neocons, Occupation, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 66 Comments

Those killed in Gaza have a name, and each has a family that grieves for them

With the exception of the two men Israel assassinated on Friday March 9 – Zuhair al-Qaisy, secretary-general of the Popular Resistance Committees, and Mahmoud Ahmad Al-Hanini, a Hamas military leader – the Palestinians killed remained nameless in all mainstream media accounts of the recent Israeli attacks on Gaza. Johnny Barber interviews the families of those killed.

Posted in Activism, Gaza, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Nakba, Neocons, Occupation, Reports/Video, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | Tagged | 10 Comments

Beinart calls for boycott of settlements ‘to save Israel’

Liberal Zionists believe they can save the two state solution and a ‘Jewish democracy’

Posted in American Jewish Community, BDS, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 77 Comments

Israeli settlers attack a shepherd and a child in separate attacks in the West Bank

Settlers destroy 220 olive trees in Nablus village land

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Neocons, Occupation, On the ground reports, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 2 Comments

Obama rejects a Syrian deal because his team wants F15s (and other stuff I learned at lunch)

A friend from the Arabian peninsula says the Israel lobby has grown in power over 30 years

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

MJ Rosenberg: why he is trying to stop the next war

War on Iran would endanger Jews everywhere

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 38 Comments

NIAC’s Jamal Abdi: AIPAC-backed resolutions are ‘blank check for war’

Alex Kane talks with Jamal Abdi, policy director for the National Iranian American Council, about the U.S., Israel and Iran.

Posted in Activism, Iran, Israel Lobby, Middle East, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | Tagged , , , , , , | 13 Comments

What it takes to throw away garbage in Occupied Palestine

The people who live in Qalandiyah and Kfar Akeb, who are residents of Jerusalem but on the other side of the security fence, sometimes have to walk many kilometers to throw out their household garbage on the other side of the Qalandiyah checkpoint.

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Gaza, Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Neocons, Occupation, On the ground reports, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | Leave a comment

Israel’s lobby (updated)

Democrat Harry Reid meets with the Republican Senator who is defying Obama’s policy on Iran

Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | Tagged | 33 Comments

‘Forward’ joins ‘New Yorker’ in embracing MJ Rosenberg

Liberal Zionists are trying to drive a wedge inside the Establishment: against settlements, against attacking Iran

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Israel Lobby, Neocons, Occupation, One state/Two states, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 25 Comments

Trailer: Pro-Israel all-stars team up with ex-FBI informant in anti-Occupy documentary

David Horowitz and the late Andrew Breitbart team up with former FBI informant Brandon Darby in a feature length “exposé” on the Occupy Wall St. movement.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Neocons, Reports/Video, US Policy in the Middle East | 4 Comments

At last a leader, Obama fingers ‘Israeli interest’ in war

It was antiwar day at the White House yesterday, as President Obama hosted ‘wounded warriors’ and defied the Israeli push for war

Posted in Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 65 Comments

‘Commentary’ says amount of US political money coming from Jews is ‘staggering’

Obama’s pledges to Israel are aimed at holding Democrats’ Jewish donors — Commentary

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 21 Comments

‘Blackwashing’ and the Israel lobby

Max Blumenthal discusses the Israel lobby’s use of “blackwashing” to build support for Israel.

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Neocons, Occupation, On the ground reports, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 1 Comment

‘New Yorker’ defends Rosenberg (and use of term ‘Israel firster’)

The New Yorker and Jerry Haber are both pushing back against the smear campaign against MJ Rosenberg.

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 49 Comments

Dershowitz, Cotler and Wiesel line up behind terrorist-linked Iranian oppo group

Alan Dershowitz, Irwin Cotler and Elie Wiesel join a list of neocon and Israel supporters who are lobbying the State Department to remove the Mujahedin-e Khalq from its list of foreign terrorist organizations.

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 5 Comments

This could be World War 3– and we’re talking less than the parties to a friendly divorce

Congress is now driving foreign policy. Not the president. And Iranians understand this better than we do

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 17 Comments

In 45 minutes with Obama, Goldberg asks repeatedly about Iran, nothing about Palestinians

Interviewing Obama, Jeffrey Goldberg seeks to solidify the idea that an attack on Iran is in the American people’s interest

Posted in American Jewish Community, Flotilla, Gaza, Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 37 Comments

If you name your group ‘Emergency Committee for Israel,’ do you get to call people bigots when they say you’re an ‘Israel Firster’?

Does Fox News cut any ice with Media Matters? Dershowitz takes his campaign for MJ Rosenberg’s firing to Fox

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 46 Comments