Palestine Writes responds to racist attacks on the literature festival: “Palestine Writes is a small moment for us to exist with agency in the fullness of our brilliance, ancient heritage, stories, music, dance, and other art forms. This also includes our defiance against our colonizers.”
Netanyahu’s hasbara minister says there is no occupied land in Palestine and peddles Zionist mythology. “We haven’t stolen anything…. This house is ours by deed.”
In a recent interview billionaire and Democratic megadonor Haim Saban said that Bernie Sanders was a “self-hating Jew” and an “Israel-hater,” and defended his support for the lobbying group AIPAC.
Reflections on the obligations of progressive Americans at a time when the Democratic Party has endorsed the idea of a “Jewish state,” which is hurtful to all those not of the right religion.
Even as the Israeli government pushes Palestinians out of large portions of the West Bank, Joe Biden seeks to normalize Netanyahu. He is sure to meet with him later this month at the U.N. Lauding Israeli “democracy” is the Democratic Party line in defiance of its own base. And liberal Zionists go along.
There’s a battle inside American institutions over the truth about Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. The left is now fully aware that it’s apartheid and that the issue demands attention. But the establishment is fighting to keep that truth at bay.
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.
The White House push for Saudi-Israeli normalization is the tail wagging the dog yet again. The only ones who really want this deal are Israel and its lobby, to distract the world from apartheid in Palestine. So Joe Biden is taking it seriously, dispatching one official after another to the Middle East.
Shira Klein, a chief drafter of a letter attacking Jewish support for “apartheid,” saysThe list of signers of an Israeli scholars’ letter attacking Jewish support for “apartheid” reveals “the absolute fear” inside the Jewish community — many are afraid to sign the letter lest it damage their careers.
Why did progressive Rep. Becca Balint go to Israel on a trip sponsored by AIPAC? “I was on this trip with people who absolutely disagree with me,” she says. And left the trip off social media. Still!