On Christmas Eve, congregants gathered at the New Birth Missionary Baptist church for a service unlike any other: the church choir wore keffiyehs, Palestinians shared stories of the Nakba, and the pastor’s call was clear: a ceasefire in Gaza.
Georgia’s General Assembly failed to pass a bill adopting the IHRA’s controversial working definition of antisemitism for the third time, but Israel lobby groups are continuing to push similar laws across the country.
Anti-BDS politicians want to boycott, divest, and sanction Russia over the Ukraine invasion.
A federal judge has ruled that Georgia’s anti-BDS law is unconstitutional. The ruling comes in response to a lawsuit that was filed against the state by journalist Abby Martin.
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Perpetual handmaidens of the far-right, pro-Israel groups are not simply willing to dehumanize Palestinians by stigmatizing basic empathy with their plight. Now, as the Senate run-off in Georgia shows, they are willing to sacrifice fundamental progressive goals to preserve uncritical loyalty to Israel.
Unlike the other Democratic GA Senate candidate, Jon Ossoff has not made a misstep on his Israel positions, but shrewdly given nods to both conservative and liberal Zionists. He says the two-state solution is on “life support,” but has couched criticism of Israel in the language of Zionism. “I oppose Israeli annexation of the West Bank. What I want is for Israel’ s security as a homeland for the Jewish people to be secured and strengthened with U.S. support.”
GOP renews attacks on Raphael Warnock after 2018 video emerges showing Warnock condemning Israel for shooting Palestinian protestors.
A 2019 letter that compared the Israeli occupation of the West Bank to apartheid South Africa has resurfaced because it was signed by Rev. Raphael Warnock, a Democratic candidate for Senate in Georgia.
We need to stop the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE) program in light of recent officer-involved shootings in Georgia.