U.S. media largely ignored The Great March of Return that lasted almost two years. PBS was perhaps the most egregious example. See the Frontline film that PBS refused to show Americans. Had this film not been blocked, quite likely vastly more Americans would have seen Palestinians’ courageous attempt to use nonviolence… and perhaps the desperate October 7th breakout would not have occurred.
Aid trucks enter Gaza unmolested; destruction stats; wasted negotiation time; Israel kills 10 Palestinians in bloody military assault on Jenin camp; Jenin is being ‘Gazafied’; Lebanon; Elise Stefanik’s Zionism
Documenting how Israel and its lobby have driven US policies from Truman through Biden
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.)
Israel drops off 88 unidentifiable corpses in Gaza; US forks over billions more in “negotiated” aid; Israel continues bombing of Lebanese residences; an Israel-Lebanon ceasefire possibility vanishes; yet another massively destructive Israeli raid on Jenin; Saudi Arabia (Israel’s next target for normalization) sets sight on two-state solution; China scolds US for double standards; tenured prof fired for pro-Palestine Instagram post; Bernie Sanders’ latest attempt to block aid to Israel; more.
An American self-immolates outside Israeli consulate in Boston; US students protest for Gaza in spite of restrictions; US shelling out big bucks for goodies for Israel and aid for Egypt; State Dept spox prefers Israeli whitewashing over Washington Post investigation; EU leader called antisemitic for talking about two-state solution; Pope declares Israel’s actions in Gaza “ugly”; more.
US approves $164.6M military equipment sale to Israel; Israel continues to block aid to Gaza; WaPo investigation: Israel lied about Aysenur Eygi’s death; Netanyahu tried to fool ICC; EU Foreign Policy chief Borrell blocked from visiting Israel; WHO: 22,000 wounded in Gaza have life-changing injuries; Israel admits it killed at least 2,300 Palestinians in Rafah assault; another Palestinian killed in West Bank; more.
In “Our Palestine Question,” Geoffrey Levin, assistant professor of Middle Eastern and Jewish studies at Emory University, recovers the voices of those Jews who first called for an honest reckoning of the plight of Israel’s Palestinian population.
These two articles give us a peek into how some uber-wealthy Americans spend big bucks, betting on political candidates with whom they may have nothing in common…except Israel.
Humanitarian crisis, danger from Israeli attacks worsen; more Gazans kidnapped, stripped, & filmed; Rafah may be next target; West Bank news; Israeli PM thanks Biden for veto and weapons; over 17,000 Gazans killed, 52,000 injured