Beltway scholar Marc Lynch says even the White House understands Israel practices apartheid, even if it won’t say so publicly, because Palestinian intellectuals have led the way in shifting the foreign policy establishment.
A conversation between two leading U.S. rabbis show how strong the red lines still are in the organized Jewish community with regard to Israel.
Many experts have said Israel/Palestine is a one-state reality characterized by apartheid, but the establishment finally seems ready to listen, maybe because the two-state solution is so farcical no one is buying.
In a breakthrough for mainstream media, Amna Nawaz of PBS grilled former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett, and observed that Israel is not a democracy because 5 million Palestinians can’t vote.
Longtime Israel lobbyist Martin Indyk says Joe Biden’s rebuke of Benjamin Netanyahu last month will have dramatic consequences on the Israeli leader’s ability to influence US politics.
The fact of a one-state reality in Israel/Palestine has been obvious for years, but “those who spoke the truth out loud were ignored or punished.” Now that’s changed. So says a groundbreaking article in the establishment magazine “Foreign Affairs.”
Historic Congressional letter demanding cutoff in aid to Israel over human rights violations won broad support from progressive groups and even some liberal Zionists — and an attack by AIPAC.
There’s been such a “sea change” in U.S. political sentiment towards Israel that Colorado Senator Michael Bennet advises the Democratic Majority for Israel not to get “hopeless”!
“The antisemitism that these people who canceled my show are talking about is my continual, incessant criticism of the government of the state of Israel,” Roger Waters, says of Frankfurt canceling his show. “I’m so happy to be in the ring with these assholes.”