Claims that “antisemitism” is being weaponized to support Israel miss that its function has always been to bolster European supremacy. Today, the chimera of “Jewish safety” is used to justify Western dominance through Israel’s genocide in Palestine.

A coalition of Palestine advocacy groups has launched a renewed effort to free members of the Holy Land Five who were imprisoned 14 years ago in what is widely considered a grave injustice by the Bush administration at the height of the “War of Terror.”

You would think that the Afghanistan debacle is another blow to neoconservatives: That the school of foreign policy experts inside the Beltway who gave us the Iraq war would be further discredited by the fall of Afghanistan. And you would be wrong.