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Joe Sestak, early Democratic critic of Israel, announces presidential run

[email protected] June 24, 2019 Arlen Specter, Emergency Committee for Israel, Pat Toomey, presidential candidate, Sestak

Sestak, a retired Navy admiral and 2-term Democratic Pennsylvania congressman, criticized Israel’s blockade of Gaza. He then ran in a Senatorial primary bid against Arlen Specter, the Israel partisan who had just switched from Republican to Democrat. The Dem establishment, including Obama, backed Specter, but Sestak won the primary. Conservative pro-Israel groups spent millions targeting Sestak, who then narrowly lost the general election to Republican Pat Toomey…

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Israel lobby to take frosh Congressional Dems to Israel, some refuse trip

[email protected] June 21, 2019 AIEF, AIPAC, hakeem jeffries, skip the trip, steny hoyer

At least 23 out of 59 freshmen Democrats in the House will be traveling on an all-expenses-paid trip to Israel in August. But 14 won’t be attending the Israel lobby funded trip and 2 are checking their schedules. The rest have not divulged their plans to the public. See the list…

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Frontline says it may never broadcast the Gaza documentary

[email protected] May 31, 2019 bbc, Censorship, Fair Use, Frontline, One Day in Gaza, PBS, WGBH

First, PBS’s Frontline said it had only temporarily cancelled a riveting documentary on Gaza that was to be shown nationwide. Now Frontline admits it may never show it. Originally, the taxpayer-funded TV program was trying to take full credit for the film, now it’s trying to disown it. See our video of it…

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View the Frontline Documentary on Gaza that PBS pulled

[email protected] May 22, 2019 Adele Raemer, Frontline, Gaza, Great March of Return, Israel, Kobi Heller, Nirim, PBS, Return March, Sheldon Adelson

PBS stations around the US were scheduled to show a riveting new Frontline documentary, “One Day in Gaza,” but at the last minute the plug was pulled. While significant context is missing, the film includes clips important for Americans to see – including a young, unarmed teen being shot in her head. BBC, the coproducer of the film, broadcast it to British viewers. We are posting it below so that Americans can also view it.

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Israel behind Pretexts for an Attack on Iran

[email protected] May 17, 2019 Iran, Iran nuclear deal, iraq war, jcpoa, jodi rudoren, John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, ray mcgovern, seymour hersh, Syria

Ray McGovern probes the step-up in U.S. belligerence towards Iran – a country posing the same non-existent strategic threat as Iraq.

Thanks to “dubious intelligence” from Israel – which wants nothing more than for its neighbors to be busy for the indefinite future – Trump officials have been thinking hard about entering, or even provoking, a war with Iran.

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Abdullah Jom’a Abdul-‘Al

[email protected] May 10, 2019 israel-palestine-timeline

May 10, 2019: Abdullah Jom’a Abdul-‘Al, 24, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers while participating in the non-violent Great Return March protests on the Gaza-Israel border. The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza has confirmed that the soldiers killed Abdullah, after shooting him in the pelvis, east of Rafah, in the southern part of the…

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Gazans are skeptical about the new, fragile ceasefire with Israel

[email protected] May 9, 2019 analysis, ceasefire, disproportionate force, Great March of Return, occupation, siege of gaza, truce

Gaza-born Yousef Alhelou offers an insider’s perspective on the siege of Gaza, describing the current situation, as well as Israel’s methods and Palestinians’ state of mind. The ongoing siege imposed on Gaza is the longest in modern history and has had disastrous consequences on all aspects of life. Any truce or ceasefire that does not address lifting the siege and ending the human suffering is doomed to fail… Meanwhile, Netanyahu promises still more attacks on Gaza…

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New pro-Israel orgs try to save the Jewish State’s sagging reputation

[email protected] May 2, 2019 AIPAC, analysis, Democratic Majority for Israel, israel lobby, jexodus, pro-israel america, zionism

As Democratic support for Israel wanes, new pro-Zionist organizations are committed to rekindling the love affair by any means possible.

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In Israel, 53 mosques and churches vandalized since 2009, only 9 indictments filed

[email protected] April 30, 2019 church of loaves and fishes, history, indictment, price tag, tag meir, vandalism, zionism

The number of mosques and churches attacked in Israel is high, but police effort at investigating these crimes are absurdly low. The head of monitoring group asserts, ‘Without a doubt, they aren’t looking hard enough’

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Shlomo Sand: How Israel Went From Atheist Zionism to Jewish State

[email protected] April 26, 2019 analysis, colonialism, david ben-gurion, ethno-nationalism, history, jewish atheism, judaism, nation-state law, nationalism, secular zionism, Six Day War, socialism, theodor herzl, zionism

Israeli author Shlomo Sand writes: Zionism – the idea of a “Jewish State” – was at first fully secular and socialist, but how to define “a Jew” in a way that includes both the religious and the nonreligious (and no Arabs)? Eventually, religious features were appropriated and nationalized: the “need” for more land became a holy pact with God; Israel is only for Jews, not “all of its citizens.”

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