Palestinian doctor Hatim Kanaaneh could be friends with Israeli veteran Dov Yermiya because Yermiya turned against Zionism and acknowledged the discrimination against Palestinians. But Yermiya drew the line at 1948, a war he participated in. “We won.”
In 1948, the Palestinian mukhtar, or leader of Dawaymeh village, gave a sworn statement to the UN, never fully publicized before, stating that 100s had been killed by Israeli forces there in October 1948, long after the creation of the Jewish state
Last night Hillary Clinton criticized Bernie Sanders for not having foreign policy advisers. She thereby echoed the conventional wisdom in the corporate media that Bernie Sanders is lacking in foreign policy smarts, and a symptom of the deficit is his absence of a braintrust. We decided to put forward our own list of names Bernie Sanders might want to consult.
Days after her Super Bowl halftime appearance, which referenced the Black Panthers and the Black Lives Matters movement, Israeli media confirmed rumors that Beyoncé Knowles will perform two dates in Israel this August. In light of her decision to perform in Israel, Dan Cohen has compiled a review of Israeli policy towards people of African descent.
Yesterday the Senate passed the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 by a 75-20 veto proof margin. The large trade policy bill includes anti- BDS trade legislation promoted by AIPAC and introduces new U.S. policy language by including all “Israeli-controlled territories” as part of Israel.
As the Democratic primary intensifies there has been increased focus on what a possible Bernie Sanders foreign policy could look like. Phyllis Bennis with the Institute for Policy Studies says, “A theme for Bernie’s foreign policy doctrine could be reduced to a very simple point that links directly to his longstanding focus on economic inequality: No Wars for the Billionaire Class.”
Questions remain about Bernie Sanders’ time in Israel during the early 1960s, when he reportedly visited the Sha‘ar ha-‘Amakim kibbutz run by the ha-Shomer ha-Tza‘ir movement. Historian Joel Beinin was a leader of ha-Shomer ha-Tza‘ir in the U.S. from 1959 to 1969 and says Bernie Sanders was not a member during that time. He also says that anyone looking to red-bait Sanders over his time on the kibbutz will be solely disappointed, “any socialist ideas Bernie Sanders may have encountered via ha-Shomer ha-Tza‘ir wouldn’t have included a positive evaluation of Soviet communism.”
Hillary Clinton brought up Israel twice at last night’s debate but Bernie Sanders didn’t take the bait even as he landed on Henry Kissinger. He ought to be telling Americans that she got her job as secretary of state due to her close connections to Israel
David Fanning, the founder of the PBS documentary series Frontline, says that the charge that he stood in the way of the Michael Singh film “Valentino’s Ghost: Why We Hate Arabs” unfairly misrepresents his role in the matter
Samir is a friendly young man from Hebron who has a dream: to leave Palestine. When Sabrina Tucci asks him why he tells her his story of being held in Israeli administrative detention, “In prison I did not have any rights. Outside I am a man, but inside they destroyed me. This is why I want to leave this country,” Samir says as his voices shakes.