A conference commemorating Yitzhak Rabin unintentionally highlighted the Israeli left’s central role in laying the groundwork and carrying out the Gaza genocide.
Polling shows Israel’s aggression in Iran has the overwhelming support of Israeli voters. This is due in part to the decades of groundwork that has been laid by liberal Israeli leaders who have called for attacking Iran to maintain Israeli dominance.
Joe Biden can’t criticize Netanyahu and support the protest movement in Israel. No, only American Jewish groups have that power, former PM Ehud Barak says.
Signs that AIPAC is becoming a liability for Israel supporters became clearer this week when former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak attacked the Israel lobby group.
“Rice’s grounds are home to Palestinian students, organizations and community; what is Rice saying to them when our university hosts men who have massacred Palestinian villages?”
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich published a shocking plan in 2017 to advance Israeli apartheid. Now that it is being put into action veteran journalist Ron Ben-Yishai finally recognizes the danger.
A response to Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s designation of 6 Palestinian civil rights groups as terrorist. “I understand the people who hate us so much that they want to kill someone. I understand people who want to kill me – not as a person they know, but simply as a Jewish Israeli, a representative of the master race that terrorizes them daily.”
Israelis join in times of wars like in no other times. Well, the Jewish Israeli ones mostly join under their Zionism, and Palestinians who protest in solidarity with their Palestinian brethren, are seen as traitors. So the war situation creates a necessary societal rift, by which the Zionist vein is strengthened. This is what a right-wing leader needs.
Dennis Ross gets to trash Yasser Arafat on NPR: “Defiance is very much a part of the historic Palestinian narrative.” And the popular show, “Fresh Air,” offers no Palestinian perspective when Ross blames breakdown of peace talks on Yasser Arafat.
Michael Koplow, an Israel promoter, sees a philosophical distinction between two Zionist concepts, Barak’s villa in the jungle, and Jabotinsky’s iron wall. But both are colonialist conceits about the surrounding non-Jewish societies, and there is no significant difference between them.