At a time when network news is celebrating Israeli vaccination rates, SNL’s Michael Che isn’t buying. “Israel… vaccinated half their population. I’m going to guess it’s the Jewish half.”
The Jewish National Fund has been “redeeming” Palestinian land by giving it to Jews for 100 years, but liberal Zionists are alarmed by a new plan to buy up Palestinian land in the West Bank to bolster illegal Jewish settlements.
Now Trump is gone. Liberal Zionists can no longer comfortably argue that injustice in Israel/Palestine is mainly caused by Benjamin Netanyahu and Jewish settlers. Nathan Thrall showed calmly and persuasively that the liberal Zionists and the Peace Processors have been running a long con game for decades, insisting that Israel will agree to a 2-state solution only if you don’t criticize and give them whatever they want.
Dahlia Scheindlin’s comments on the “stability” of leftwing Jewish Israeli attitudes show the lengths that liberal Zionists will go to prove that the apartheid project possesses some sort of fundamental decency. Because young people’s hardline attitudes are just the “romantic spirit of the nation… militarist and nationalist.”
Democratic Majority for Israel was established for the sole purpose of stomping out the growing pro-Palestine sentiment within the Democratic Party. Their next target: Nina Turner.
The Philos Project is the latest Christian Zionist organization seeking to drive a wedge between Muslim and Christian Arabs.
Despite criticism from liberal Zionists, the Jewish National Fund is moving ahead on a plan to buy Palestinian lands in the West Bank for Jewish settlement expansion. The JNF says it has been acquiring Palestinian land for Jews for decades so what’s the problem?
The race for the Democratic nomination to be NY’s mayor is heating up, and Israel is a big part of the discussion. Leading Democratic Party candidates for NY mayor all oppose BDS, with Ray McGuire denouncing the human rights campaign and Andrew Yang saying it’s rooted in Nazi thought. Though Shaun Donovan panders best of them all on Israel: “I have not visited Israel but I have visited both Dachau and Auschwitz.”
Hamid Dabashi’s new book on Edward Said shows how the Palestinian intellectual became “integral to the very alphabet of our moral and political imagination.”