The distinction between Zionism and Judaism remains in constant need of clarification and discussion. Fanatics closed to discussion use the anti-Semitism charge to create political terror in an effort to silence and deny.
A New York Times profile on the meteroric Senator Tom Cotton repeatedly refers to his connections to Bill Kristol but never mentions Kristol is head of the Emergency Committee for Israel and speaks at the Israel lobby group AIPAC.
Liberal Zionists are thrilled by the latest polls out of Israel. People are whispering that Benjamin Netanyahu is fading in the Israeli elections. That he made a historic blunder by trying to go over Obama’s head and address both Houses of Congress last week, that Israeli Jews are wise to the damage he has done to the US-Israel relationship and they are abandoning Likud. But would the Zionist Camp be any real improvement?
It would be a grave injustice to imprison Rasmea Odeh, Rabbi Brant Rosen writes. As an elderly woman and a survivor of torture, the effects would be truly devastating on her. A prison sentence would most certainly deprive the Chicago community of a devoted and important leader.
If we are to stop a catastrophic war with Iran or finally solve the Israel/Palestine conflict, an essential element is breaking AIPAC’s grip on U.S. policy. That may well be happening right now.
Berkeley student senate candidate Sumayyah Din made up the campaign slogan Dintifada. Now one pro-Israel group demands an apology for making them feel unsafe, while another pro-Israel group has inspired calls for her death.
The author of the letter to Iranian leaders undermining Obama’s diplomacy, Senator Tom Cotton seems to love war a little too much, and neoconservative Israel supporters began grooming him years ago
With more than a half-million Israeli citizens living over the Green Line in occupied Palestinian territory, it was only a matter of time before a frontrunner made a campaign stop there. For weeks election posters have plastered major intersections and checkpoints across the West Bank. Then yesterday morning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the Judea and Samaria division headquarters with Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon in Beit El, outside of Ramallah, becoming the first party leader to hold a settlement election event.
Another group of extremist settlers has staked a religious claim to the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem with Israeli police protection. “Students for the Temple”
Gaza fishermen were guaranteed a zone of 20 nautical miles off the coast by the Oslo Accords. Israel allows them just 3, and in the first week of March its forces killed one fisher and injured two during a spate of attacks enforcing a limit