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.
Activist groups call on U.S. to deny entry to Israel’s finance minister after fascistic comments re Palestinian town. He is due to address Israel Bonds conference in mid-March.
The Biden administration is determined not to criticize the extremist Israeli government even in the wake of settler terrorism licensed by officials. It wants no daylight between Democrats and Republicans on Israel.
While the Biden administration claims to oppose “unilateral steps that make a two-state solution harder to achieve,” Israel has already crossed the “red line” of annexation.
On February 22, Israeli forces invaded Nablus, killing 11 Palestinians, and wounding more than 100 more. The Biden administration responded by calling for “both sides” to “de-escalate tensions.”
The U.S. Ambassador to Israel says West Bank Palestinians can’t have equal rights because it would end the Jewish state, and his “biggest fear” is that Israel has “lost the narrative” on U.S. campuses.
The Alliance for Global Justice’s had its online fundraising platform shut down after complaints from a Zionist lawfare group. Is Israel’s war on human rights groups coming to the U.S.?
The Israeli government’s moves to hamstring the judiciary and to steal more Palestinian land for Jewish settlements are causing further breakup in the pro-Israel consensus in the United States.
In yet another demonstration of the bankruptcy of Biden’s policy on Palestine, the State Department called a UN Security Council resolution opposing Israel’s latest settlement move as “unhelpful,” a sure sign the U.S. will veto it. And reinforcing Biden’s bankruptcy is the emergence of a new Democratic Party PAC funded by Jeffrey Yass, who has funded Trump Republicans, to bolster the rightwing settler agenda here in the U.S.
Nikki Haley was the first U.S. governor to sign anti-BDS legislation, and once criticized AIPAC for not being pro-Israel enough. Now, she is preparing to run for president.