Phil Weiss reports in Mondoweiss that numerous synagogues around the US not only publicly support Israel, they support the Israel lobbying organization AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The promotion of AIPAC shows how monolithic the American Jewish community largely still is in support of Israel…
New deputy chair of the Intelligence Advisory Board, which helps shape U.S. intelligence policy, is Samantha Ravich, an Israel advocate who previously worked for AIPAC spinoff WINEP, was a senior advisor to pro-Israel FDD, senior advisor to the Chertoff Group. See video of her speech at Israel Bonds event, where she describes a cyber project that will combat BDS. IAB chair is Stephen Feinberg, hedge fund billionaire and military contractor…
“When life gives you lemons”: Muath can’t make a living as a house painter in Gaza, but he can make ends meet by selling fish caught on his boat made of water bottles collected on the beach.
If there is a real enemy of the U.S. in terms of the actual damage being inflicted by a foreign power, it is Israel…
The decision to go to war on false pretenses against Iraq, largely promoted by a cabal of prominent American Zionists in the Pentagon and in the media, killed 4,424 Americans as well as hundreds of thousands Iraqis and will wind up costing the US taxpayer $7 trillion dollars. That same group of American Israelists is now agitating to go to war with Iran using a game plan prepared by Israel which will, if anything, prove even more catastrophic… Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen demonstrates how far US politicians will go…
Israeli Minister of Defense Avigdor Lieberman, who once famously said, “there are no innocents in Gaza,” has once again perhaps gone a little too far. Avigdor Lieberman’s claims that all of the dead in the Great March of Return were part of Hamas, and the IDF destroyed “dozens of terror infrastructures” fails to take into…
Evacuation is another form of Jewish Israeli privilege, based on the myth of vulnerability (Israel’s borders are secure) and existential threat (Israel has one of the most powerful armies in the world, and is in no danger of annihilation).
Palestinian Poet Turns Herself In to Finish Sentence… Israeli Airstrike Levels Five-story Building in Gaza City… Abbas Appeals to International Community in Halting Attacks on Gaza… “Israeli Soldiers Abduct Seventeen Palestinians in the West Bank”… Palestinian Wells, Tourist Areas, Among Israeli Targeted Sites In Gaza… Israeli Army Demolishes A Shop Near Jericho… Israeli Army Injures Many Palestinians In Kufur Qaddoum…
Divinia Levrini describes how flotilla activists were treated in prison: withholding of medical treatment, beatings, “mind games,” strip searching, theft, & death threats.
Joe Meadors – passenger on the Freedom Flotilla ship intercepted by Israel and detained illegally – was on the USS Liberty in ’67, attacked by Israel, 34 Americans were killed.
Israeli passenger says 1st Freedom Flotilla vessel was captured with some violence in int’l waters; passengers’ safety in question. Israel must be held accountable.