“Israel’s lawyer” Dennis Ross says the invasion of Ukraine has a sharp lesson for the Biden Administration – the U.S. must build a Middle East coalition to counter Russia and its regional partner, Iran.
Israel continues its time-honored strategy of manipulating the mainstream U.S. media — this time muddying the coverage of the killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
A couple weeks ago President Biden addressed the importance of journalism during his remarks at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. This is a great sentiment, but of course it can’t possibly be taken seriously.
Avigail Abarbanel left Israel in 1991 when she saw that its leaders had no vision for the future other than rule by the sword. For years she felt she was a traitor to her people, and then in her psychotherapy practice she began treating cult-leavers. “Cult-psychology tends to draw to itself people who are already fearful and who are looking for clarity about reality, existence and about their purpose. They have little tolerance for ambiguity. If a cult was given an option to create its own state, Israel is the example of it,” she writes.
Last weekend, the ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt said the quiet part out loud: in a national speech, he declared that the ADL is making war on antiracist organizers in the United States. It’s not just rhetoric. Blaming young organizers of color and disloyal Jews for antisemitism — declaring us an existential threat — Greenblatt was signaling to the right that it’s okay to target us.
The Palestinian table is famous for its abundance, but Palestinian food sovereignty is under threat due to Israel’s system of settler-colonialism and apartheid.
Thousands of Palestinians attended a state funeral procession for slain Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on Thursday before her burial on Friday in Jerusalem. Following the state procession in Ramallah, Abu Akleh’s body was transported in a convoy to her hometown of Beit Hanina, although it was temporarily intercepted by Israeli police near the Qalandia military checkpoint. Israeli police have also raided the Abu Akleh family home and questioned family members.
Shireen Abu Akleh joins a long list of Palestinian journalists who have been killed by Israeli forces while reporting. This Israeli hostility toward journalists makes sense once you understand the nature of this colonial state. The continuation of Israeli apartheid is only possible by fighting those who reveal the truth.
The Biden administration says it is shocked by Shireen Abu Akleh’s death, and wants an investigation. But they’re not going to launch their own, and they will presumably be skeptical of any outside human rights group that does. They have confidence in Israel to investigate itself, but it will take them months, possibly years, to develop a position on its findings. A special relationship indeed.
“Doing and saying nothing just enables more killings”: Rep. Rashida Tlaib calls for action after killing of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh