There’s a battle inside American institutions over the truth about Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. The left is now fully aware that it’s apartheid and that the issue demands attention. But the establishment is fighting to keep that truth at bay.
Joe Biden has put out the word, go get your photo-ops with Netanyahu, and Democrats are all over Israel, sucking up; The New York mayor is going to Israel for four days to “combat antisemitism”; a Golda Meir biopic looks awful; and more!
This was the week Israelis turned on the Israel lobby, but an AIPAC delegation to Israel showed that Democrats aren’t ready to cut ties just yet.
The Zionist lobby in the U.S. is openly anguished over Israel’s political crisis– and we are getting to witness the ordeals of the entitled.
“Even though Dina’s doors and windows are flung wide open, the heat inside the apartment is unbearable, with no fans, air conditioning, or cold water in the fridge.” Tareq Hajjaj’s brilliant reporting from the heat wave in Gaza.
Alternative institutions and the rise of social media have given Palestinians the ability to finally be heard on the international stage and not have to wait for the mainstream media.
Ilhan Omar is leading a boycott of Israeli president Isaac Herzog’s speech to Congress this week, saying a country that banned her and Rashida Tlaib, both Muslims, from visiting should not get an audience from a joint session of Congress.
Eyad al-Hallaq was the flower of his loving family, but an Israeli court said this week that the autistic man’s killing in 2020 was an “honest mistake.” The case demonstrates the bankruptcy of Zionism, which always privileges Jews over Palestinians.
U.S. Democrats should stop taking insults and lies from Netanyahu lying down, and should start calling Palestinian persecution what it is, apartheid.
Israel’s violent racism becomes more naked to Americans every day. Israel’s new national security minister openly called Friday for a genocide of Palestinian communities to make way for more illegal Jewish settlements in Palestine. “The land of people for the people of Israel.”