Congressional representative Anna Eshoo (D-CA) is leading a letter addressed to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, urging him to press the government of Israel to keep the Palestinian villages of Susiya and Khan al Ahmar standing, and to adopt fair policies in regards to Palestinian planning and building rights. CLICK HERE to email your U.S. Representative to…
Repuglican Sheldon Adelson’s Maccabee Task Force is working creatively on college campuses to woo progressive students and groups; funding per campus is in the “low six figures.” The group is working with Hillel.
A select group of Washington D.C. heavy hitters attended a Rosh Hashanah event at which the Israeli Ambassador laid out a rationale for another Israeli war. The attendees included Wolf Blitzer, Jason Greenblatt, Abe Foxman, Mort Klein, Eli Lake, White House insiders, Congressmen, political operatives, philanthropists, etc (detailed list)…
Puerto Rico has suffered under a borrowing crisis in which creditors scooped up bonds on the cheap and then procured an astronomical payout. This has led to widespread suffering. Seth Klarman, whose hedge fund has one of the largest holdings of Puerto Rican debt, has donated through the years to numerous Israel lobby groups that enable Palestinian suffering…
Alex Cocotas writes in The Forward that the Etzel House, an Israeli museum dedicated to the Irgun (a Jewish paramilitary group led by future Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin), gives Israeli students “invented history.” In reality, the Irgun committed many acts of “rank terrorism.” Israeli textbooks also sanitize Israeli history…
Stories of settler violence are horrific, with no end in sight as Palestinians grow more desperate and Netanyahu digs in.
Another vandalism incident at a church in Israel. Christians are demanding convictions, but Netanyahu’s government continues to turn a blind eye.
Defense for Children International, Palestine reports on the current situation in refugee camps, where danger and hunger are ever present.
Israeli strategists have long wished to break up surrounding countries into smaller units so that Israel could more easily dominate the region. The Forward describes how Israel, beginning with Ben Gurion, has helped the Kurdish separatist movement…
Israel continues the complete isolation of 16 Palestinian villages, closing roads, enforcing curfew, imprisoning villages in their homes, and causing the closure of fifty schools.