When Tom Friedman says the possibility of a Palestinian state was always a “fiction,” he shows contempt for Palestinians and reveals his role, promoting support for Israel in the U.S. establishment, no matter what.
The Jenin onslaught further damaged Israel’s reputation in the U.S., and J Street knows it. No wonder the liberal Zionist group had almost nothing to say even as AIPAC and the ADL and Josh Gottheimer, too, were defending Israel.
Eyad al-Hallaq was the flower of his loving family, but an Israeli court said this week that the autistic man’s killing in 2020 was an “honest mistake.” The case demonstrates the bankruptcy of Zionism, which always privileges Jews over Palestinians.
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The Biden administration supports the Israeli invasion of Jenin wholeheartedly and is echoing the Netanyahu government’s claim that the city is a “nest of terrorists.” But many voices in the West, including the media, are skeptical.
U.S. Democrats should stop taking insults and lies from Netanyahu lying down, and should start calling Palestinian persecution what it is, apartheid.
Rep. Lori Trahan of Massachusetts visited occupied Hebron in February with a congressional delegation of 15 Democrats and was shocked to see the segregation and persecution of Palestinians. Trahan’s answer? “Sprinkle magic dust.”
“In some places we are judged wrongly by what we do and how strategic we are.” Israel’s president Isaac Herzog tells American Jews to fight those “judgmental attitudes” and preserve “our only Jewish state in the world.”
Israel’s violent racism becomes more naked to Americans every day. Israel’s new national security minister openly called Friday for a genocide of Palestinian communities to make way for more illegal Jewish settlements in Palestine. “The land of people for the people of Israel.”