The Conference of Presidents, a powerful Jewish organization, caves to Islamophobic rightwing campaign on its leadership choice and liberal constituent groups dont walk away. Americans for Peace Now and Ameinu have stuck with the pro-settler organization for years, out of pro-Israel solidarity.
The Israeli government has been widely criticized for its use of cellular geolocation and other “counter-terrorism” technology to track the whereabouts of patients who tested positive for coronavirus.
The Israel Policy Forum in a report bearing Ambassador Dan Shapiro’s name says Palestinian birth rate “jeopardizes” Israel’s Jewish character. This explicitly racial argument is also put forward by the American Jewish Committee. Shouldn’t they be ashamed?
During the first three weeks of April, B’Tselem documented 23 settler attacks against Palestinians. In all of March, 23 incidents were documented, 11 of them after the severe restrictions on movement and social gatherings were imposed. In comparison, 11 attacks were recorded in January and 12 in February.
Jonathan Coulter describes the Western media’s very poor reporting of the Ukraine famine of 1932-33 that killed approaching four million people. He then compares this to contemporary UK reporting of matters that concern the Middle-East, including Israel/Palestine, questioning whether our standards have improved in the intervening period.
The biggest impediment to annexation by Israel is a threat that the country will lose the support of the Democratic Party and American Jews, J Street says. The Israel lobby group called on Joe Biden to oppose annexation more emphatically than he already has.
The Latest: 480 Palestinians tested positive for COVID-19; 17 in Gaza; 319 in the West…
A Facebook lawsuit has revealed the extent of an Israeli spyware company’s operation in the United States.
The NYT notes that Iran used a mobile launcher for a satellite, “which struck both American and Israeli officials as a major advance.” But readers are never informed just why Israel is butting into an article that is supposed to be about tensions between the U.S. and Iran.
University President Attacks BDS Movement Point Park University president Paul Hennigan has a recent op-ed…