Liberal and rightwing Zionists were at each other’s throats this week, even calling for a boycott of Israel. The clash gave Joe Biden an opening to criticize Israel, and further exposed Israeli apartheid.
I disagreed with my friends who tried to tell me years ago — Israel will just get more rightwing, messianic, and hateful to Palestinians, and the U.S. government and Jewish community will just enable it. But they were right.
Brace yourself — the next Israeli government will be even more rightwing. That’s because the high tech sector in Tel Aviv, which leads the current protest movement, is a small minority of Jewish Israel.
These days there are debates about the state of free speech in America everywhere, often with a specific focus on campus free speech, but the topic of Palestine is rarely considered.
Israel’s far-right government provides Palestinian rights advocates an urgent responsibility and unprecedented opportunity to challenge Israeli settler-colonialism, apartheid, and occupation.
The International Neuropsychoanalysis Association must call off its upcoming conference in Israel in light of human rights abuses and their impact on psychological well-being.
The University of Jena distanced itself from Professor Brenna Bhandar solely for her support of BDS. This breach of academic freedom shows the silencing of Palestinian rights advocates in Germany.
Yumna Patel joins us to discuss rising armed resistance in Jenin and USCPR’s Ahmad Abuznaid talks about their legal battle with the Jewish National Fund.
As communities across Palestine face the worst settler attacks in years, there has been a spate of pro-Israel letters and bills back in Washington, DC.