A Pew survey of Israeli attitudes reflects the deep racism in Israeli Jewish society: most Jews (48 to 46) want Palestinian Israelis to be transferred or expelled from the state, and 4 out of 5 say they like discriminatory legal system. More than 3/4 of Palestinians say that the U.S. is too supportive of Israel.
Hillary Clinton needs Sheldon Adelson’s money, and Adelson needs a reliable supporter of Israel. That’s why he is passing on the Republican field and, terrified of Donald Trump, is surely interested in Clinton
Last night Hillary Clinton criticized Bernie Sanders for not having foreign policy advisers. She thereby echoed the conventional wisdom in the corporate media that Bernie Sanders is lacking in foreign policy smarts, and a symptom of the deficit is his absence of a braintrust. We decided to put forward our own list of names Bernie Sanders might want to consult.
In a groundbreaking new report, Human Rights Watch has joined the chorus of voices calling on countries to label goods made in the Israeli occupied territories as the products of settlements, and calls on countries to withhold aid to Israel that can be used to “offset the costs of Israeli government expenditures on settlements.” The report titled Occupation, Inc.: How Settlement Businesses Contribute to Israel’s Violations of Palestinian Rights puts pressure on a “multitude” of private companies to stop doing business in the occupied territories, because they are helping to sustain an illegal settlement project that deprives the Palestinian population of their human rights.
Not making this up. Marco Rubio titles a neoconservative foreign-policy ad for his campaign: “Lunatic/Marco Rubio for President”
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Netanyahu sneered at the world for 44 seconds of canned silence at the UN General Assembly today, assailing the silence over Iranian threats . . . and the world laughed.
Weeks after Sen. Robert Menendez said that President Obama was taking “talking points from Tehran” on Iran policy, reports are that the Justice Dep’t will charge him with corruption. It’s been a bad week for the Israel lobby on other fronts too
Pressure is increasing on Israeli PM Netanyahu to end the public relations disaster of his planned speech to Congress by cancelling. He could try and save face by announcing that his speech to the Israel lobby AIPAC will be his only Washington appearance. Congress would show up there.
Happy New Year from Mondoweiss! In 2014 we had just under 17 million visits to the site and Annie Robbins’s post on Boston subway ads against the occupation got nearly 1,000,000 views, topping our list of the ten most popular posts of the year.