A conference commemorating Yitzhak Rabin unintentionally highlighted the Israeli left’s central role in laying the groundwork and carrying out the Gaza genocide.
Canada’s largest private high school recently organized a genocide solidarity trip in which students cooked for Israeli soldiers. In a sane world, the school’s charitable status would be revoked.
On Monday, as the number of children killed in Gaza approached 1,000, Knesset member Meirav Ben-Ari declared “the children of Gaza have brought this upon themselves.” Such calls by Israeli politicians for collective punishment are not uncommon.
Liberal Zionists coalesced with rightwingers to celebrate the Israeli president this week, and Joe Biden said he’d meet with Netanyahu, ending tensions. Happy days are here again for the Israel lobby.
There is a real sea change in popular views of Israel, especially among Democrats and left-leaning Americans. But it’s not yet being seen in Washington, DC.
The Democratic Party is out of step with its constituency when it comes to Israel.
The House overwhelmingly passed a resolution declaring that Israel is “not a racist or apartheid state.” The final vote was 412-9.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog upcoming trip to Washington is highlighting the growing rift within the Democratic party over Israel, and the fissures were on display this past weekend after Rep. Pramila Jayapal walked back comments referring to Israel as a racist country.
Slated to appear before Congress on Wednesday, Isaac Herzog might look like Israel’s moderate face, but he is no different than Benjamin Netanyahu when it comes to supporting Israeli apartheid.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog will speak to Congress on Wednesday and repeat the same fictions his father, Chaim, uttered before Congress in 1987. But the story his father told will not work again this time.