The New Yorker just reported that Trump nearly attacked Iran after he lost the election. But the threat was obvious, why wasn’t it reported back then?
As “more and more cases of the infectious Delta variant” are confirmed, the World Health Organization said Thursday it “fears that the fourth wave of COVID-19 is around the corner” for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, reversing the first major decrease in new cases that had occurred over the spring.
Palestinians in Gaza who tested positive for COVID-19 during the recent escalation with Israel struggled to care for their health and their families, amid both airstrikes and overwhelmed hospitals.
Israel lobbyist David Harris, who couldn’t explain why young Jews are turning against Israel, is finally leaving the American Jewish Committee. And Rabbi Michael Miller is leaving the JCRC because he knows he’s out of touch with the progressive movement in Jewish life.
“You are very fat. And ugly,” an Israeli soldier says to a Palestinian woman as he raids her home in occupied Palestine May 13. While the same day another Israeli soldier shouts homophobic abuse at a household and threatens to rape a woman. Two new videos from the human rights group B’Tselem document its charge that Israel maintains an “apartheid regime”. While settlers hurl anti-Muslim racism as soldiers do nothing.
Participants from the first delegation to visit occupied Palestine of feminists from Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and Asian communities reconvened on the 10 year anniversary of the trip to recount what they saw and share how visiting Palestine continues to impact them to this day.
A recent poll confirms the trend that more and more American Jews are shifting their attitudes towards Israel.
“Our family lives in constant fear, stress, and lack of freedom” — Taiseer Khatib explains the impact of the Israeli Citizenship Law on his Palestinian family.
For Israel, the future of Jewish majority – read: supremacy – is dependent on the Jewish population remaining larger than that of Palestinian Arabs. For this reason, Israel is likely to delve even deeper into the abyss of apartheid.
AIPAC’s cancellation of its annual conference in 2022 shows that the Israel lobby is in complete disarray, with young American Jews distancing themselves from a country that 38 percent of them call an “apartheid” state. The liberal Zionist group Americans for Peace Now has repeatedly credited the “apartheid” charge against Israel, while J Street rejects the label.