Jeffrey Goldberg used to brag of his Israeli military service but this week was forced to withdraw from a speaking event after students asked how a former IDF prison guard could speak on democracy. Zionism has lost its hallowed perch in U.S. society.
Biden is in a quandary on Gaza. His legacy is “genocide,” says the progressive base. But Rep. Brad Sherman accuses “anti-Israel forces” of trying to “penetrate and muddy our national discourse.”
Rep. Brad Sherman, like other mainstream Democrats, only opposes Israel’s new far-right government because it will make it more difficult to defend Israel, not because he supports Palestinians.
More news out of the Berkeley School of Law, where 14 student organizations pledged that they would not invite Zionist speakers to events.
House Foreign Affairs Committee votes to stop funding Palestinian curriculum that include teaching that Israel is an apartheid state. Rep. Brad Sherman of Los Angeles explains, Israelis and Palestinians live side by side in separation, just like the Dutch and the Germans live on either side of a border, so to characterize Israeli rule as apartheid is an “extreme and ridiculous conclusion.”
While Democratic unity continues to fray in the Senate, a party rift also developed in the House this week when Dems (once again) attacked Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar for comments about Israel.
Ending US military funding must be a crucial pillar among the broad array of progressive movements demanding change. The intersecting struggles against climate change and militarism is an important point of collaboration for the Palestine movement in the push against a Biden administration.
When progressive insurgent Jamaal Bowman beat incumbent Rep. Eliot Engel in New York’s 16th district…
U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman vilified the BDS campaign on PBS News Hour last night: “leaders of the BDS movement are trying — not the try to get Israel to change this or that policy, but to try to remove every Jew from the Middle East. Just as Hitler wanted a Jewish-free Europe.” Host Amna Nawaz allowed the false characterization to stand, and also echoed a characterization of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib as anti-Semites.