In response to a recent video produced by the Israeli government, If Americans Knew has created a short video of our own. Unlike the Israeli video, ours shows what life is really like for Palestinian children attending school in the West Bank.
A new Israeli PR campaign drawing on a multi-million dollar budget has produced a video ad to influence Americans. If Americans Knew has made a video to set the record straight and is asking for help in distributing it far and wide.
At least 45 world leaders attended the World Holocaust Forum in Israel to fight “antisemitism.” The event was organized by Russian-Israeli billionaire Moshe Kantor, who calls support for Palestinian rights “antisemitic.” Kantor is said to have been a “sponsor of the 2005 ‘Orange Revolution’ in Ukraine, which led to the cancellation of the presidential election…
An investment firm headed by Jared Kushner and backed by Saudi Arabia, Qatar & the UAE is the largest shareholder in an Israeli company holds shares in businesses accused by the UN of operating in illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
As some support Trump’s plan to move Gazans elsewhere, and others oppose such an expulsion almost no one mentions the third option – the one obvious, option for most of them: return to the lands from which they were violently expelled by Israeli forces in its founding war…
Diverse reports on Trump’s statements that the US will take over Gaza, move its inhabitants out, then rebuild it. One report documents where Gazan refugees could go: Return to their homes in what used to be called Palestine…
The Israeli government is launching a campaign to post video / banner ads on news and social media sites, part of a $150 million project to counter the battering Israel’s reputation has sustained by its actions in Gaza.
In light of the recent incarceration of Ali Abunimah in Zurich, it’s useful to examine the Israel lobby in Switzerland. As former HRW official Sarah Leah Whitson noted: “Switzerland has shamelessly kowtowed to the pro-Israel lobby by deporting an American citizen because he advocates for Palestinian rights.”
The Electronic Intifada’s executive director Ali Abunimah was arrested by Swiss police ahead of a speaking event in Zurich on Saturday afternoon. He is currently being detained. UN experts decry his arrest
Fox News has wrapped itself in the Israeli flag. Its coverage tends to emphasize the radical & “antisemitic” elements of the pro-Palestinian opposition, while playing down the civilian casualties from Israeli strikes.