We cover attempts to censor pro-Palestine sentiment every week, but there’s something unprecedented about two recent cases.
Moving on from the IHRA definition of antisemitism that bars harsh criticism of Israel, an Israel lobby group says that U.S. progressives usurp the Jewish right to identify as “unique historic” victims, and this “antisemitism” is now threatening Israel’s status as a bipartisan cause. The report singles out Rashida Tlaib and SNL! And it was written by an AIPAC veteran.
The Jewish National Fund is a linchpin of the system that enforces superior rights for Jews over Palestinians, whether inside Israel or in the occupied territory. A recent JNF decision to start publicly funding projects in the West Bank just makes that role more clear. Now the question becomes — will its international supporters stand by the organization?
Dan Shapiro, Obama’s former ambassador to Israel, continues to serve as a mouthpiece for the Israeli government with this laughable claim: “Israel… has a long record of conducting investigations of actions of its own military… it’s quite professional.”
“We are turning people away, very sick people, because we have nowhere to put them,” a nurse who asked to remain anonymous told Mondoweiss. “At this point it’s like we were waiting for people to die just so that someone else can take their bed or their ventilator.”
A GOP lawmaker is claiming that a popular fundraising app used by the BDS movement could be funneling money to terrorists and is calling for the Biden administration to investigate.
Racist violence is not natural or everlasting. Last year, millions took to the streets around the world to protest systematic racism and inequality. Israeli Apartheid Week seeks to continue that effort to rebuild our society from the ground up.
Medical professionals in Gaza are finally starting to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Dr. Mohammed Abdelmanem, a 47-year-old pulmonologist, will be among the first wave to receive a vaccine this week. He says he’s looking forward to finally not being afraid.
Rightwinger Naftali Bennett is the kingmaker in Israeli election next week, and signals, correctly, that the Israeli right should not be fearful of Yair Lapid. For Lapid’s party states in Hebrew that it is for the settlement project, though it scrubs that section from the English version intended for US liberal Zionists!
Progressive lawmakers are calling on the Biden administration to ditch Trump’s Israel policies