In order to defend academic freedom we need to challenge groups such as the Pinsker Centre which is working to silence Palestinian solidarity on UK campuses.
When Biden faulted Israel for “indiscriminate bombing,” Netanyahu bridled, the president says. “Well, you carpet-bombed Germany. You dropped the atom bomb. A lot of civilians died.”
The Jewish establishment has been consigned to the support of genocide, and it has accepted that role eagerly. The effect on Judaism of this moral collapse is unfathomable.
Why is Biden helpless to do what any decent person would do and call for an end to Israel’s apocalyptic destruction and massacres in Gaza? Because he worries about losing the organized Jewish community’s support.
The Israeli ambassador to the U.S. spouts propaganda on CNN about Israeli aims in Gaza, and Dana Bash thanks the ambassador for taking time out of his busy schedule to come on the set.
As Israel’s kill-count in Gaza tops 12,000, including 5,000 children, Biden sinks further into a “moral abyss,” calling this a war for “democracy.” Our leaders are cracking down on opposition to the war, and trying to push the story under the carpet. But consciousness is rising in the Democratic base, including vigorous antiwar demonstrations.
Former ambassador Tom Nides quit his banking job last month to work as an Israel lobbyist but he can’t even convince his own kids. “They’re for the perceived underdog,” he told PBS.
Everyone from the Congress to the Harvard president is obsessing about a fantasy of genocide — the claim that the chant “From the river to the sea” is a call for Jewish extermination, while ignoring the actual genocide unfolding in Gaza.
Jewish thinkers have long warned that Israel’s dependence on western Jews’ political support to gain impunity for its human rights abuses could contribute to antisemitism in the U.S. and even make Jews’ lives “precarious.”
There were indications this week that evidence of Israeli genocide in Gaza is breaking in on the American mind, including the historic pro-Palestine demonstration in D.C. — and can things ever be the same?