Moral philosophers have sought to justify Israeli settler colonialism, Ilan Pappe says, but Zionism is a 140-year project of “dehumanization and elimination” and westerners must accept this understanding in order to pressure Israel to end this project and bring peace to the one state between the river and the sea.
Some neoconservatives and Wall Street bigs will go to Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. Neocons sign a letter warning of Trump’s isolationism and Mitt Romney says he could take the country “into the abyss”
War is so normal in the United States of America — being in a constant state of it, somewhere else — that the longest-running foreign conflict in the country’s history is hardly even an afterthought in the race to become the nation’s next commander in chief. In 17 televised debates and town halls, the Republicans and Democrats running for president have been asked all of two questions about the war in Afghanistan, now in its 15th year. The U.S. and NATO will never get out of Afghanistan if their leaders never even have to explain why they are there.
Becca Strober writes, “I don’t believe in Zionism as it exists in the State of Israel today because it favors Jews over others. But yes, I believe in the possibility of Jewish self-determination that exists in partnership with Palestinian self-determination on this land. That is not the Zionism most people discuss, but it is my Zionism.”
When Teddy Katz dared to uncover the Tantura Massacre of May 1948 in his master’s thesis at Haifa University in 1998, Israeli veterans sued him for his findings and the university acted to suppress the thesis. Still the case lingers. It occurred after the establishment of Israel and speaks to the fundamental crimes associated with the state’s creation.
Israeli forces, Monday, once again abducted the coordinator for the Youth Against Settlements (YAS) movement, Issa Amr, after storming the organization’s headquarters in Hebron’s Old City. Mohammad Azghir, a spokesman for YAS, said that forces accused Amr of incitement against Israel. According to Azghir, Amr’s arrest indicates the military’s intentional target on Palestinian popular resistance and its activists in Hebron, especially after the Open Al-Shuhada Street Campaign.
The Netanyahu government has a clear policy in the West Bank: the creeping, de-facto annexation of large swaths of land, in direct contravention of international law, and without public debate. That means legalizing 80 settlement outposts in a secretive administrative manner.
On February 15th, Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Minnesota launched their UMN Divest campaign #UMNDivest. Soon after, a graphic appeared on social media that replaces an olive branch in the #UMNDivest logo with a swastika.
Every year, thousands of Jewish youth flock to Israel for ten days of sightseeing and Zionist indoctrination through Birthright Israel, an organization that offers the trips free of charge to young adults with Jewish heritage. Beginning in May, Birthright and its partner organizations will pilot a new trip specially tailored to a specific demographic: Jewish law enforcement officers.
All heck broke loose last week after students in the Palestinian Solidarity Society (PSS) at the UK’s University of York staged the play Seven Jewish Children: A play for Gaza by British playwright Caryl Churchill at an Israeli Apartheid Week event.