For more information on the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict, please see IfAmericansKnew.org
More than 57 years after the attack, the FOIA lawsuit revealed new details and, more importantly, it made it clear that the US government is still refusing to release hundreds of pages of documents concerning the assault.
The seven countries that the U.S. continues to meddle with and antagonize have a shared history and connection: For decades Israel and the Zionists who pushed for the Jewish state have wanted them to be destabilized, weakened, or eliminated.
After 16 years behind bars, Mufid Abdulqader, a member of the Holy Land Foundation Five, has been released from prison into a halfway house. The case of the Holy Land 5 has become a symbol of U.S. unconstitutional overreach since 9/11.
Few people are aware of the religious intolerance that motivates the ultra-Orthodox Jewish settlers on the West Bank. Consider the statement of one of their heroes, the former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel: “The only reason for the existence of non-Jews is to serve Jews.”
The Israel lobby was buying politicians and policy in 2014, and it is still doing so today. (Top of the list of recipients: Joe Biden.)
Former President Jimmy Carter was a pioneer in calling out Israeli apartheid (and being labeled “antisemitic”)
Israeli schoolbooks (and by extension, Israeli schools) powerfully frame anti-Palestinian discourse and inculcate Israeli children with suspicion, fear and hatred of Palestinians – says the Israeli professor of language and education who literally wrote the book on it.
Majed Abu Maraheel was the first Palestinian Olympian, but not the last. Those who follow in his footsteps compete with pride for their land
One of Benjamin Netanyahu’s major crimes involved receiving $250,000 as a bribe from Israeli film maker Arnon Milchan, who made his fortune in the United States and was also involved in espionage directed against US nuclear technology to enable the Jewish state to develop its own secret – and illegal – nuclear weapons arsenal.
Jabr’s exemplary, award-winning nursing career at NYU ended when a plainclothes police officer removed her from the hospital. Her offense? Raising her voice against Israel’s continuing slaughter of Palestinian babies…