An Israeli gov’t video promoting immigration of American Jews to Israel says “best of all” they can get a “free degree” on Uncle Sam’s tab if they do so. Oh and Becky Sebo, an Ohio student arrested last night in pro-Israel demo, says “my country” is ISRAEL.
s we keep saying, Gaza has changed Israel’s image in American politics: the grassroots are appalled by Israel’s carnage and they’re going to be more and more of a force in American elections, countering the Israel lobby. When Ted Cruz lumped Hamas with ISIS and said Israel was on the right side, he got booed at a Middle East Christian conference in Washington Wednesday night and left the stage. Sort of like VT Sen Bernie Sanders getting booed for defending Israel in Vermont.
On Monday former Republican Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee visited the Gush Etzion settlement and claimed that radical Islamists are after American boys.
Jeremy Ben-Ami of the liberal Zionist group J Street says that the latest Israeli settlement “landgrab” should be the “straw that broke the camel’s back in Washington.” Like maybe the U.S. should stop giving money to the settler state? Nope. The US should undertake a “thorough review” of its policy on Israeli settlements
The following is an update of Remi Brulin’s earlier Mondoweiss article The death by drone memo:…
At a press conference yesterday afternoon, Professor Steven Salaita spoke publicly for the first time since the termination of his employment. His focused and powerful address emphasized one clear message: the reaffirmation of his “commitment to teaching and to a position with the American Indian Studies program at UIUC.” Salaita and his lawyers repeatedly insisted that their goal was not to pursue legal recourse against the university, but for the Chancellor and the Board of Trustees to reinstate his position. However, it was clear that he and his legal team are prepared to pursue legal avenues to force his reinstatement if necessary.
The Gaza slaughter has fostered a crisis among American supporters of Israel. Art Spiegelman is the latest to speak out, calling Israel a battered child that has grown up to batter others. Roger Cohen at the Times asks why the US media are not questioning the tales about responsibility for the abducted teens’ deaths that Israel told to justify its invasion of Gaza.
Today Steven Salatia spoke publicly for the first time since he was fired from the University of Illinois. Below is the prepared statement he read to a packed audience at a press conference on the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign campus along with some some tweets and photos from the day’s events.
After Ohio University student president Megan Marzec posted a video of herself dumping a bucket of fake blood over her head in solidarity with Gaza massacre victims, the school’s Hillel rabbi called on her to resign and she received death threats and the school has distanced itself from her. But a group of faculty are supporting Marzec, as are letter writers to local publications.
On September 5, a Washington Post story on an energy deal between Israel and Jordan…