“How long would the Afghan people accept the presence of armed foreigners in their country? Even a message of help can be humiliating, more so when it is backed by a gun. The Americans underestimated the importance of dignity and the extent to which their very presence in Afghanistan was deeply offensive.” –Nir Rosen’s analysis in 2010 was prescient about the Taliban’s nationalist appeal.

The Taliban defeat of the United States is a turning point in world history. Not only will the power of the American empire be weakened, but the War on Terror has also been politically defeated in within the United States. This is the beginning of the end of the American century.

The chief judge of the federal Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals used Zionism to argue for a religious exemption to Colorado’s anti-discrimination act.

You would think that the Afghanistan debacle is another blow to neoconservatives: That the school of foreign policy experts inside the Beltway who gave us the Iraq war would be further discredited by the fall of Afghanistan. And you would be wrong.

Israel has stopped arguing for years the actual content of human rights reports or allegations directed at its conduct. Instead, Israel’s strategy is to simply attack human rights organizations themselves.

Park Avenue synagogue uses images of occupied Jerusalem along with a psalm Jews recite in the days leading up to the High Holidays. “It’s a perfect one verse statement of contemporary synagogue Judaism. I have only one ask of God: Zionism.”

Many of the wounds of the Israeli occupation are bloodless and invisible. But like pieces of shrapnel lodged in the chest, they will eventually find their way to pierce the heart.

Biden’s speech defending withdrawal was a terrible exercise in imperial hubris.

When Rep. Rashida Tlaib faulted people for making record profits from Gaza tp Detroit, Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL accused her of antisemitic “dogwhistling.” And Bari Weiss joined in the smear campaign, saying, “So many people have been willfully blind toward the worldview of this congresswoman.” Tlaib’s actual crime is being Palestinian.

The Bundestag 3 for Palestine is challenging Germany’s anti-BDS law in court. “What unites us plaintiffs” they said, “is our unconditional support and commitment to human rights. Without exception, we oppose all forms of racism, discrimination and oppression: which must include the Palestinians.”