H.R. 2748, the Israel Relations Normalization Act of 2021, expands the Abraham Accords, Trump-era weapons and business deals between apartheid Israel and other authoritarian regimes. These deals bribe Arab countries in the region to ignore both Israel’s settler colonialism and constant human rights violations. Last week, the bill passed in both the House and the Senate.
Since Russian oligarchs are currently in the news, we’re reposting our 2005 article… Most of the oligarchs had ties to Israel; some were dual citizens. They used cheating, bribery & murder as they exploited the disintegration of the USSR to amass plunder amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars. In order to safeguard their businesses, they took control of the state.
In separate incidents, Israeli troops shot and killed three Palestinian young men today, Tuesday, March 15. A number of Palestinians were also injured; no Israelis were hurt.
Syrians in the occupied Golan Heights protested an Israeli project that will see their farmland confiscated to make way for a wind farm.
Russia is following Israel’s playbook to the letter. The difference: Russia will be a global pariah; Israel always acts with impunity – and gets over $10 million per day from US taxpayers.
Journalists on major papers are blocked from truth-telling about Palestine and the apartheid practices of Israel. Such censorship in top American newspapers is troubling – and not unprecedented.
New research has uncovered an Israeli military operation commanded by Moshe Dayan whose goal was to forcibly remove Bedouin Palestinians from their lands. The documents reveal an orderly state expulsion plan, which continues today… Israel has evicted the Bedouin from the Negev village of Al-Arakib dozens of times, but they keep coming back. Israeli forces then demolish their homes again
Israel and its partisans want to ignore the new Amnesty Int’l report on Israeli apartheid, claiming it’s “antisemitic.” Gideon Levy insists, “What is written in the report does not stem from antisemitism, but will help strengthen it. Israel is the greatest motivator of antisemitic urges in the world today.”
Amnesty International joins other well-known human rights organizations in characterizing Israel’s rule over Palestinians as “apartheid” – and calls on the global community to rally for Palestinian human rights.
Israel partisans want a $1 billion handout from Congress – but Israel spends American money recklessly and ruthlessly. Stop funding Iron Dome.