Activists showed up outside The White House today to protest the arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. “Biden is actively endorsing a right-wing leader of an apartheid state,” said Palestinian Youth Movement’s Laura Albast.
Ever since the United States began its withdrawal from Afghanistan, the mainstream media has implemented a full-court press in support of continued occupation.
A month after Osama bin Laden was killed Barack Obama declared that the United States was reaching its goals in Afghanistan and that he’d begin withdrawing troops. By 2016 he went back on that promise. Joe Biden’s speech defending the U.S. withdrawal was a terrible exercise in imperial hubris, but it reflected an attitude that has been consistent across the U.S. political class since 9/11.
The Biden administration wants $1 billion to restock Israel’s Iron Dome system. Will Congress give him what he wants?
Rep. Rashida Tlaib is leading a charge to end the tax-exempt status of organizations in the United States that help fund Israel’s illegal settlements.
Right-wing Israel supporters booed Biden deputy assistant Erika Moritsugu as she addressed the “No Fear Rally,” an event billed as a stand against antisemitism but seemed largely focused on defending Israel.
“Assigning the label ‘terrorist organization’ to Hamas hides a more complicated truth that Hamas is a reflection and result of the untenable and unjust status quo.”