Bob Menendez is risking a war with Iran by opposing Biden on Iran deal. He owes as much to the right-wing Israel lobby, which saved his hide in 2015 when he opposed the deal, the Obama Justice Department indicted him for corruption, and Haim Saban and Seth Klarman supported his successful defense.
The documentary “The Occupation of the American Mind” describes the successful effort by Israel to sell its brutal military policies as self-defense against Palestinian terrorism. A panel featuring Sut Jhally and Diana Buttu will discuss the film on Sunday.
Cases of COVID-19 continue to rise in the West Bank and Gaza as Palestinians experience a third wave, overwhelming hospitals and filling ICU’s to their maximum capacity.
Northeastern University panel on Americans emerging from COVID trauma elevates Israeli militarism under “existential threat” as key to the “startup nation” — yet another sign of the extent to which Israeli hasbara, or propaganda, is routinely put forward in leading American institutions as a guide to American thinking and policy. Israeli soldiers are the heroes in this discourse — and Palestinians are the shadowy terrorists.
Joe Biden repeatedly said he wanted to rejoin the Iran Deal if he became president. But now that he’s president, things aren’t so clear.
A California judge recently threw out a lawsuit launched by a former Israeli solider which attempted to apply Israeli defamation law against Palestinian activist Suhair Nafal. Nafal’s attorney says the attempt to introduce Israeli law into a U.S. courtroom was truly unprecedented. “This was not a lawsuit against Suhair,” he told Mondoweiss. “This was a lawsuit from Israel against all activists.”
Taha Muhammad Ali, a beloved poet from Nazareth who died in 2011, was a master of the ‘Palestinian Absurd’ and is remembered for his searing poems that mused on happiness and its limitations.
The Trump administration violated the Iran Deal, and Joe Biden repeatedly said he wanted to rejoin it if he ended up becoming president. But now that Biden is president, things aren’t so clear.
Every year, workplaces in Israel distribute thousands of flowers to show their appreciation for their female employees on International Women’s Day. At the same time, these workplaces give women fewer opportunities to succeed compared to men.
Joe Biden and his associates appear demonstrably incapable of exchanging the history that they know for a history on which our future may well depend. As a result, they will cling to an increasingly irrelevant past. Under the guise of correcting Trump’s failures, they will perpetuate their own.