Liberal Zionists issue a perfunctory statement of outrage on Mohammed al-Tamimi’s murder– “devastating and awful” — then it’s back to promoting the fantasy of a two-state solution and the insult of the Abraham Accords.
Joe Biden won’t do anything to punish Israel for breaking its word again on settlements because he needs the Israel lobby to stay with Democrats in 2024. And liberal Zionists seem to go along.
When scholar Omer Bartov described the “brutal” expulsion of Palestinians during the Nakba, he was heckled and booed. Audience members at the Center for Jewish History shouted “Shame!” and one walked out.
Ron DeSantis and Hakeem Jeffries went to Israel this week to advance their political ambitions. And their horizons could not be more different than that of the imprisoned Palestinian political figure, Khader Adnan.
The fact of a one-state reality in Israel/Palestine has been obvious for years, but “those who spoke the truth out loud were ignored or punished.” Now that’s changed. So says a groundbreaking article in the establishment magazine “Foreign Affairs.”
Historic Congressional letter demanding cutoff in aid to Israel over human rights violations won broad support from progressive groups and even some liberal Zionists — and an attack by AIPAC.
Israeli analysts say the Biden administration thinks Netanyahu “has lost his mind,” there is a growing likelihood of Jewish inter-communal violence, and the country is losing its ability to fight the apartheid label.
The last three Democratic presidents took a “cautionary tale” from Jimmy Carter and decided not to push the issue of Palestinian justice because it might cost them a second term, says Eric Alterman.
Israeli demonstrations have been Zionist-only. If Israeli liberals cannot make common cause with Palestinians, they will go extinct and have only themselves to blame. They will have thrown in with a rampaging society in the name of Jewish supremacy.