On Thursday, July 16th 2020, renowned Palestinian scientist Imad Barghouthi was detained by Israeli military forces during a routine stop at a military checkpoint outside of Anata. This is the third time he has been detained since 2014.
Israeli nostalgists like to argue that Israel was an idealistic country till Netanyahu. For instance, Chemi Shalev of Haaretz brags on a record of backing MLK Jr and African liberation movements. The records of the Israeli National Archives directly contradict these claims, and show Israel propped up several African dictators, and sought to gain diplomatic and material advantages, such as a monopoly on diamonds in the Central African Republic.
A judge in Beersheba yesterday acquitted two Israeli security officers of the lynching of Haftom Zarhum in 2015 because Palestinian attacks had “created an atmosphere of fear and panic.” So revenge against Palestinians is a justifiable motive for attacking an innocent person.
Ethnic Studies does not politicize a neutral curriculum; it is provides an historical corrective to the simultaneous absence and caricature of Arab Americans, Palestinians included, that already exists in the curriculum.
Minutes from a 2016 board meeting of the JUF, a leading Jewish philanthropic group in Chicago, detail an anti-BDS presentation in which the increasing number of U.S. Muslims was identified something to “watch and worry about.” The presentation also expressed concern that the message of pro-Palestine organizations was resonating because Arab and Muslim immigrants were becoming “more sophisticated and integrated into America.”
Video footage taken by residents of Tuqu shows Israeli military forces escorting a large flatbed truck out of the village in the middle of the night. On the bed of the truck is a massive stone, alleged to be a baptismal font that dates back to the sixth century A.D.
Dershowitz says Peter Beinart seeks a “Final Solution” for the destruction of the Jewish state, “from the river to the see,” and that typo is just the beginning of a torrent of foolish mistakes by the Israel apologist.
Eliot Engel’s defeat has shocked the Israel lobby and Congress. They understand that the tide is turning, and the Israel Palestine issue is like gay marriage 25 years ago, with progressives on one side and conservatives on the other. The Democratic base wants change. So says longtime DNC member Jim Zogby.
The occupation is almost invisible when you drive from Jaffa to the Dead Sea. The Palestinian population has been increasingly pushed into little enclaves so Jewish Israelis can build luxury homes and swimming pools on top of our hills and over our olive-tree orchards, Emad Moussa writes.
Biden defers to rightwing Israel lobby on Israel, blocking use of word “occupation” in the draft 2020 Democratic Party platform. He is clearly worried about losing Florida, and donors, to Trump. And you wonder why his Jewish outreach aide has endorsed a Republican over Ilhan Omar, or why Chuck Schumer paid no price for betraying Obama on the Iran deal.