Israel is seeking to “liquidate” the Palestinian issue in its crackdown on seven human rights groups and Europe knows it, Khaled Elgindy says. But will it try and stop the crackdown? This is the “last straw” and “point of no return” for Europe’s claims that it supports the two state solution.
An Israeli district court sentenced World Vision’s Mohammed El Halabi to twelve years in prison in what is widely being condemned as a “miscarriage of justice.”
At a town hall in Natick, Massachusetts this week Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) told a group of supporters that she supported conditioning aid to Israel, but couldn’t remember whether she voted in favor of the United States’s $38 billion military aid deal with the country.
In fact, she cosponsored a 2018 bill that aimed to enshrine the agreement.
Amjad Iraqi joins Yumna Patel to discuss Israel’s political motivations behind the attacks on Gaza known as “Operation Breaking Dawn.”
Ran Greenstein argues that Palestinians will not be able to challenge Israel as an oppressive ethnonational state in the same manner that South Africans did.
Morningstar CEO says company “does not support the anti-Israel BDS campaign; it never has and it never will.”
Civic leader Ruth Messinger says that the large sums of “secret” money being spent by AIPAC-aligned superpacs on congressional races to defeat progressives who are critical of Israel such as Donna Edwards and Yuh-Line Niou makes Americans think “less well of Jews.” While digital media expert Mik Moore says the money has “perverted” the political process and punished the “boldest” progressives.
The new Netflix series “Mo” is a fresh, complex, politically nuanced depiction of the Palestinian refugee experience in the US.
There is no type of advocacy for Palestine that Israel can tolerate. And as long as Israel won’t tolerate it, the United States is more than happy to go along, because anti-Palestinianism is as American as apple pie.
Former Israeli negotiator Daniel Levy told the U.N. Security Council this week that the two-state solution is over. “75 years ago, this United Nations offered partition as the political paradigm for the Holy Land. Today that land is de facto united under one dominion.” And it’s apartheid. And influential Jewish organizations who denounce such allegations as antisemitic are a “threat to freedom,” Peter Beinart writes in the New York Times.