On February 2, USA Today published an editorial cartoon by Cameron Cardow of the Ottawa Citizen that was not terribly hard to parse: Islam is the modern equivalent of Nazism, and threatens a new Holocaust.
Pressure is increasing on Israeli PM Netanyahu to end the public relations disaster of his planned speech to Congress by cancelling. He could try and save face by announcing that his speech to the Israel lobby AIPAC will be his only Washington appearance. Congress would show up there.
The UC Student Association is the official voice of the student body of the University of California, and represents hundreds of thousands of undergraduate and graduate students across the UC system. Over the weekend it became the first multi-campus student association to vote in favor of divestment from companies engaged in the systematic violation of Palestinian rights in the Occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. This landmark vote is undoubtedly the largest victory thus far in the campus divestment movement in the United States.
For second time in less than two weeks, Israeli Druze who serves as IDF soldier attacked by group of Jews after speaking Arabic.
Did you think Isaac Herzog of Labor was running to Netanyahu’s left on the occupied territories? Guess again: Herzog slams Netanyahu for not hitting Gaza early enough and hard enough last summer.
Civil rights activist Sami al-Arian, the first American charged in a high profile terror case after 9/11 was deported to Turkey. Al-Arian spent 12 years incarcerated, but was never convicted of any crime. He penned an open letter on the day he left the country.
You had to RSVP to an AIPAC email address to attend Ari Shavit’s talk at a Scarsdale Reform temple last Thursday, and the event was a celebration of the rightwing Israel lobby group. And you thought Shavit was a liberal Zionist?
There’s more leftwing anti-semitism than rightwing anti-semitism, according to a new British study. But what is that alleged anti-semitism? Sharp criticism of Israel.
Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy says that a Labor victory in Israel will only entrench the occupation because the world will think there’s been change, and take off the pressure