News that Germany’s parliament is advancing legislation to criminalize speech denying Israel’s “right to exist,” with penalties of up to five years in prison. Craig Mokhiber to argues no such right exists in international law, and says the regime’s conduct disqualifies it from the more limited rights states actually hold.
At a Toronto-area summit in May, Gad Saad asked a packed hall to shout out the names of the “most degenerate” anti-Zionist Jews, and the crowd obliged. Shiri Pasternak reports from inside the World Symposium Against Antizionism, where Ben Shapiro and other Zionist figures leaned on Islamophobia and far-right alliances to rebrand antisemitism fears around anti-Zionism.
An Israeli real estate ad invites buyers to “sip your coffee while watching the sunrise,” just 12 minutes from Jerusalem. Majd Jawad writes about how these listings are built on Palestinian land confiscated from families like Ibrahim Ataallah’s, and marketed to Jewish American buyers at synagogue-hosted events across the U.S.
The Church of England’s General Synod voted this week, by a wide majority in all three houses, to call on members to stand in solidarity with Palestinian Christians. Jeff Wright reports on the vote and the intense lobbying from Jewish organizations that failed to stop it.
📺 WATCH: Lindsey Graham got his war on Iran and lived to watch it fail
🇵🇸 Gaza and the West Bank
Israel is tightening its grip on Palestinian life through the administrative vacuum left in Gaza and the accelerating seizure of land in the West Bank.
READ MORE → ‘Sip your coffee while watching the sunrise’: How Israel is colonizing the West Bank by selling Palestinian land to Jewish Americans — Majd Jawad
READ MORE → Israeli settlers escalate violent takeover of Palestinian homes in areas under Palestinian Authority control — Qassam Muaddi
READ MORE → Hamas has dissolved its government in Gaza, but its residents’ lives are still a living hell — Mohamed Solaimane
READ MORE → She walked toward Israeli gunfire to bring her son’s body home. Her story is one of thousands. — Tareq S. Hajjaj
🚨 Repression and resistance
Efforts to punish dissent and shield Israeli officials from accountability is expanding.
READ MORE → Power & Pushback: Prairieland sentences show how Trump administration has ‘declared war on the left’ — Michael Arria
READ MORE → The Shift: Israel lost Lindsey Graham. Now it’s lost half of House democrats, too. — Michael Arria
READ MORE → With a new attack on the ICC, the U.S. expands its assault on the rule of law — Craig Mokhiber
READ MORE → The Church of England calls upon its members to stand in solidarity with Palestinian Christians — Jeff Wright
🇮🇱 Zionism’s legitimacy crisis
As Israel’s international standing erodes, its defenders are reaching for increasingly desperate legal claims and increasingly ugly rhetoric to hold the line.
READ MORE → No, Israel does not have ‘a right to exist.’ Quite the contrary, actually. — Craig Mokhiber
READ MORE → Inside the ‘World Symposium Against Antizionism’: Where contempt for Muslims and leftist Jews took center stage — Shiri Pasternak
I’m a Jew of the 800 B.C. denomination. I believe the Messiah can’t come if Israel exists** therefore I oppose the existence of a Jewish state.
Can I be sent to prison in Germany because I deny Israel’s ‘right to exist’? What happens when my religious freedom collides with other legal considerations, who wins?
**
this is apparently a thing.
Three Oaths – Wikipedia
Neturei Karta – Wikipedia