Israel has no vision. It appears now to want world war as a fix to its core problem– that Palestinians have no rights.
As Israel’s kill-count in Gaza tops 12,000, including 5,000 children, Biden sinks further into a “moral abyss,” calling this a war for “democracy.” Our leaders are cracking down on opposition to the war, and trying to push the story under the carpet. But consciousness is rising in the Democratic base, including vigorous antiwar demonstrations.
Former ambassador Tom Nides quit his banking job last month to work as an Israel lobbyist but he can’t even convince his own kids. “They’re for the perceived underdog,” he told PBS.
Zionists are weaponizing Jewish identity to unleash “hell” on Palestinians, and the U.S. is sending billions to Israel claiming to have a mandate from American Jews. Now, more than ever, it is uniquely incumbent on us to stand up for Palestinians.
The Israeli government’s defiance of American Jewish opinion in passing a law gutting judicial independence represents a huge crisis for American Zionists.
Miko Peled interviews Phil Weiss about the beginning of Mondoweiss and how Zionism is destroying American Jewish culture.
A new documentary unpacks the confluence of Judaism and pro-Israel fervor in the American Jewish community and the young Jews who are coming to reject it.
Amichai Chikli’s crude insults against American Jews personify Israel’s hubris in biting the American hand that feeds it. The White House is reportedly unhappy but continues to turn the other cheek. This won’t last forever.
The condemnation of Bezalel Smotrich by the pro-Israeli establishment in the US should not lead us to see Netanyahu as the lesser evil: it is he who brought us to this point in the first place.
The Institute for National Security Studies, an Israeli military outfit housed at Tel Aviv University, just delivered its strategic assessment report, and the main takeaway is that Israel’s “special relationship” with the US is in danger.
The change is attributed to a generational shift in American politics due to “the influence that the progressive young generation has had in denying the legitimacy of Israel and Zionism, which they see as expressions of white-colonialist supremacy.”