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.
Jews are overwhelmingly supportive of Israel even as other Democrats overwhelmingly oppose the Israeli “genocide.” And the Israel lobby, backed by pro-Israel donors, is what defeated Rep. Jamaal Bowman in New York.
The Democratic establishment and Israel lobby are seeking to destroy the political career of Rep. Jamaal Bowman because he dared to criticize the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. And many liberals are joining right in.
When the board of the Columbia Law Review clumsily censored a pro-Palestinian article it revealed the degree to which pro-Israel ideology is enmeshed in the U.S. power structure. Luckily, a generational shift is changing this before our eyes.