Jewish organizations that pride themselves on progressivism have been silent on Israel’s genocide in Gaza. There must be a reckoning with “progressive” Jewish complicity in Israel’s unspeakable crimes, and that reckoning begins from within.
Progressive favorite Rep. Katie Porter met with AIPAC to prepare for a recent junket to Israel and came away from the trip “extremely impressed” by Benjamin Netanyahu.
Last year activists called on Ed Markey stand up for Palestine, but they have yet to see any action.
After Oberlin instructors organized a winter trip to Israel to help progressives understand Israeli democracy– without any mention of Palestine– Students for a Free Palestine circulated a petition on the Ohio campus against the trip that has gotten 600 signatures. The organizers have revised the trip to include Palestine and dropped its price from a whopping $4500 to $2500.
The metaphors that attempt to render Palestine complicated obscure the simple brutality of Zionist colonization.
Constituents have a message for Rep. Barbara Lee: “progressive except Palestine” is not a true progressive.
Ed Markey is facing stiff criticism from supporters on his pro-Israel positions. Activists say it reflects the shifting politics on Palestine in the Democratic Party.
Josh Ruebner speaks with Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick about how they came to be advocates for Palestinian liberation, what needs to be done to push the struggle forward, and their critical new book, Except For Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics.
Many progressives in the Democratic Party have been celebrating the “return to normalcy” in US foreign policy represented by President Biden’s electoral win. This ignores the robust bipartisan consensus under both Democratic and Republican predecessors that laid the foundation for Trump’s openly hostile policies toward the Palestinians. It is this contradiction that lies at the heart of Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick’s new book, “Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics”.
Nathan J. Robinson, a former columnist for the American edition of the ‘Guardian,’ says he was “fired” without ceremony after he published a tweet in December mocking the amount of US aid to Israel and the top editor said it smacked of antisemitism.