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Democratic bigwigs create group DMFI to promote Israel to progressives

[email protected] February 9, 2019 AIPAC, analysis, Democratic Majority for Israel, DMFI, hakeem jeffries, Kirsten Sinema, Mark Mellman, Robert Menendez, steny hoyer, ted deutch

Alison Weir’s in depth investigation of the new “Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI),” created to counter growing support among Democrats for Palestinian rights (only 19 % of progressive Democrats now support Israel over Palestinians). DMFI plans to use its substantial financial resources & powerful connections to bring Democrats back into the pro-Israel fold and to target Democrats such as Betty McCollum who support Palestinian human rights…

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‘Does Israel Have A Right To Exist’ Is A Trick Question.

[email protected] January 25, 2019 anti-Semitism, BDS, firing line, margaret hoover, right to exist, tamika mallory, zionism

The question “Does Israel have the right to exist?” is intellectually dishonest and intended, almost always, to silence critics and criticism of Israeli policies. Anyone who does not answer with a resounding Yes is guaranteed the label “anti-Semite.”
This was Tamika Mallory’s recent predicament – but she went in full speed and declared that “all people have the right to exist.”
The proper question is, “Is the way in which Israel exists right?”

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The Pro-Israel Push to Purge US Campus Critics

[email protected] January 22, 2019 anti-Semitism, BDS, boycott, eretz yisrael, free speech, lara alqasem, Marc Lamont Hill, nation-state law, new anti semitism, temple university, zionism, Zionist Organization of America

Katherine Franke writes in the New York Review of Books that while Palestinian rights are getting more attention than ever, advocates of justice still face accusations of “anti-Semitism,” harassment, and most of all, censorship on college campuses….

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A Palestinian musician describes her ordeal at Ben Gurion Airport

[email protected] January 15, 2019 analysis, Israeli checkpoint, Nai Barghouti, strip search

Palestinian flutist, composer & singer: I shall go on resisting Israel’s racism and apartheid with my music, and one day I may make a difference in my people’s struggle for liberation. The airport guard, however, will continue to search Palestinians’ underwear, to lie about our laptops, and to be an insignificant tool of a system of racist oppression…

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Senate Democrats again block pro-Israel S.1 from going to vote during government shutdown

[email protected] January 11, 2019

Senate Republicans again failed to obtain the 60 votes necessary to move the bill to a quick vote, as Democratic leaders complained of what they say is Republican intransigence in ending the government shutdown. Rubio says the bill was crafted to help Israel, says he opposes Trump troop withdrawal from Syria because it would hurt Israel…

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Opinion: As an American-Israeli, I Am Thrilled for the Palestinians and for Rashida Tlaib

[email protected] January 9, 2019 apartheid, BDS, occupation, Rashida Tlaib, settlement, settler violence, zionism

Every day that Netanyahu chooses Trump and fundamentalism over the pro-democracy, pro-equality, pro-pluralism views of diaspora Jews, is a great day for the Palestinian cause.

No Israeli prime minister, no Israeli government and no consortium of allies has done nearly as much – inadvertently, to be sure – to bring the cause and the grievances of the Palestinians front and center.

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JTA: Angela Davis lost award due to local Jewish pressure, says Birmingham mayor

[email protected] January 7, 2019 Angela Davis

Davis, a prominent civil rights activist and Birmingham native, is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, which she has called “the South Africa moment for the Palestinian people…”

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IDF annexes Palestinian land using flimsy excuses and gibberish

[email protected] January 7, 2019 apartheid, cogat, hamoked, land appropriation, occupation, separation barrier, zionism

Author Amira Hass, a Jewish Israeli, pressed the Israeli government for an explanation for the sharp increase in refusals to allow Palestinians access to their land that was cut off by the Separation Wall. The response appears to be little more than a runaround; official reasons given for denial of permits have often been dismissive: the plot of land in question is “too small to cultivate” or the request was “fraudulent.”

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Israel’s Nation-State Law also discriminates against Mizrahi Jews

[email protected] January 3, 2019 apartheid, arabic language, discrimination, mizrahi, mizrahim, nation-state law, zionism

Mizrahi academics and activists demand Israel’s High Court strike down the Jewish Nation-State Law, saying it erases their cultural legacy and perpetuates injustices against both them and Palestinian citizens of Israel. As of 2005, 61% of Israeli Jews were of full or partial Mizrahi ancestry.

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Merry Christmas, Israel is building 2,191 new settlement housing units on Palestinian land

[email protected] December 28, 2018 international law, Netanyahu, outpost, settlement, two-state solution, zionism

In 2018, the government advanced thousands of housing units, including most which can be found in isolated settlements deep inside the West Bank, outside Israel’s pre-1967 borders. These are settlements that, in any two-state solution, Israel will have to evacuate. According to Peace Now, those who build these places have no intention of achieving peace and a two-state solution.

The latest announcement, which as an aside was cynically passed on Christmas while most Western governments are on holiday, shows that Netanyahu is willing to sacrifice Israeli interests in favor of an election gift to the settlers in an attempt to attract a few more votes from his right-wing flank.

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