My grandparents’ story of surviving the Holocaust taught me what genocide is, and it is how I know to condemn what Israel is doing to Gaza right now. How dare Israel exploit my family’s suffering to try to justify its genocide in Gaza.
The Israeli government is pushing member countries to boycott the United Nations’ first official commemoration of the Palestinian Nakba.
It was supposed to be the “Iron Dome” to stop social media attacks on Israel, but the apartheid reports just kept coming and coming! Act.IL, the pro-Israel app at least partially funded by the country’s government, has now been deactivated after 5 years.
The good news of Israeli leaders smearing Emma Watson as an antisemite for a mil expression of Palestinian solidarity is that this time even establishment types questioned the timeworn strategy, and may even have noticed the anti-Palestinian bigotry that animates it.
The British actress Emma Watson dares to celebrate solidarity with Palestinians under military assault to her 64 million twitter followers and Israeli officials land on her, with the U.N. ambassador lecturing her about Palestinian terror and another ambassador calling her an antisemite.
The Democratic Majority for Israel group has been celebrated by Biden and Pelosi though it spreads a vicious lie with a tweet saying that Rep. Rashida Tlaib is complicit in terrorism because she is appearing with Mohammed El-Kurd, the face of resistance to the expulsions of Palestinians from Jerusalem.
William Daroff, CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Orgs, jumps in to the smear campaign against Ben & Jerry’s board chair Anuradha Mittal for daring not to sell ice cream in “occupied Palestinian territories” — which Daroff says is a meaningless term. The “grownups” at Unilever can override the Ben & Jerry’s decision by “just snapping their fingers,” Daroff proclaims, echoing the rightwing Israeli government position.
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Netanyahu is running for reelection by saying there is “one state” between the river and the sea in which Jews and Arabs work together. He’s solidifying the apartheid reality under the nose of the Biden administration, which says pointedly that it won’t be undertaking negotiations because Israeli Palestinian trust is at a “nadir”.
Israel’s leading governing party, Likud, is secular, but its leaders parrot biblical statements about the Jewish people’s supposed right to lands in Palestine as history, such as that Abraham bought land in Hebron. These religious nationalist claims underlie the government’s desire for annexation, though the U.S. press never talks about this zealotry.