The Iran crisis has shown yet again how Israel dominates U.S. politics. It also made clear that Zionism is an ideology based on nothing but brutal violence. The urgent task before American Jews is to dissociate themselves from this rogue state.
Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett has been all over US media calling for an attack on Iran and assassinating Hamas leaders. But his views are fascistic. He praises war and how it transforms society, saying that World War II made the U.S. an economic power and October 7 will restore Israeli toughness and patriotism.
“Zippo, Zilch, Zero!” Thomas Nides, the former ambassador to Israel, declared when asked if there is any daylight between Kamala Harris and Joe Biden’s support for Israel. But now Harris must navigate a Democratic party split on the issue.
Michael Arria and Phil Weiss unpack a tumultuous week in U.S. politics as Kamala Harris appears to lock up the Democratic Party nomination for president, and Benjamin Netanyahu makes his case for genocide to the U.S. Congress, to rapturous applause.
The Biden administration is suppressing widespread dissent over its Gaza policy within its ranks, enforcing a “culture of silence,” say some who resigned.
Netanyahu ought to be persona non grata in Washington, for his war crimes and nullification of U.S. policy, but the Biden administration is welcoming him with open arms.
Israel’s inability to solve the Palestinian issue except through apartheid and massacres has fostered a fascistic and racist political culture in the country. But this truth must be kept from Americans, because it would discredit Zionism and put politicians at odds with the Israel lobby.
The New York Times says Israel has been “forced” to massacre Palestinian civilians because Hamas militants hide in bedrooms. The U.S. used such justifications for massacres in Vietnam.
Middle East scholars see anti-Palestinian bigotry as far more of a problem on campuses than antisemitism. And they say administrations are wildly out of touch with student and faculty sentiment on protests of the war.
The U.S. blindness to Palestinian humanity is in full swing again. There are far more important things to worry about in the U.S. than the murders of Palestinian children with American-supplied arms.