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Remembering Madeleine Albright

[email protected] March 30, 2022 dukakis, james zogby, madeleine albright, the mighty and the almighty, yasser arafat, yitzhak rabin

James Zogby: My first dealings with Albright were at the 1988 Dem convention. She tried to dissuade me from introducing a pro-Palestinian plank into the platform. I represented the Rev. Jesse Jackson, while she represented the Dem nominee, Dukakis… The Dukakis campaign did not want the “P-word” in the platform or even have the matter discussed in a public forum…. In the late 1980s, ‘for the first time’, Albright noticed that her State Department ‘peace team’ was almost all Jewish…

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When university donors have a pro-Israel agenda

[email protected] March 21, 2022 academic freedom, campus watch, canary mission, israel studies, jewish studies, StandWithUs, university of washington

Jewish & Israel studies at colleges around the US owe almost the totality of their existence to Jewish donors, who then use ‘soft power’ to shape pro-Israel programs. Now they’re starting to use ‘hard power’ – Recently, after a donor who gave $5 million to endow an Israel chair at the University of Washington complained about the chair’s criticism of Israel, UW stripped the professor of her chair and the money is being transferred to an Israel advocacy organization…

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Billions more of Americans’ tax money to go to Israel

Alison Weir March 17, 2022 aid to Israel, AIPAC, Jewish Federations, omnibus bill, security grants, spending bill

The new bill just signed into law slips through billions more US tax dollars to Israel, but the media doesn’t tell Americans about the funding: $5 billion goes directly to Israel, & another $3 billion+ goes to projects because they benefit Israel, which works out to at least $22 million/day of Americans’ tax money expended for a small, rich foreign country that regularly brutalizes an entire population and causes damage to the US…

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Mike Pence and the (alarming) company he keeps

Kathryn Shihadah March 16, 2022 baruch goldstein, baruch marzel, Hebron, itamar ben gvir, jewish supremacist, kahanist, meir kahane, Miriam Adelson, Sheldon Adelson, tomb of the patriarchs

Former VP Mike Pence recently visited Israel, where he spent time with Israeli extremists associated with a banned terrorist movement and meeting with mega-donor and Israel hawk Miriam Adelson, who is willing to pay big bucks for policymakers’ loyalty.

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Ambitious Mike Pence meets with Miriam Adelson & anti-Christian Israelis connected to terror group

Alison Weir March 14, 2022 adelson, Advancing American Freedom, baruch marzel, Israel, itamar ben gvir, Jewish supremacism, kach, kahane, mark levin, michael ben ari, Mike Pence, paul teller, rabbi ben packer

Hungry for campaign money, former VP Mike Pence went to Israel to pay tribute to billionaire Miriam Adelson, & met with 2 Israeli extremists who endorse violence against non-Jews, are hostile to “accursed Christianity,’ and are connected to a movement banned as a terror organization…

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Israel surpasses 1,000 demolitions in occupied West Bank since Biden took office

[email protected] March 10, 2022 ethnic cleansing, home demolition, human rights

While the U.S. president refuses to condition military aid, Israel has toppled more than twice as many Palestinian structures in the West Bank than it had by this point in Trump’s term.

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Banishment from the Financial System: the War on Dissent

[email protected] March 3, 2022 Censorship, go fund me, Joe Lieberman, the new fascism, Trudeau, Wikileaks

Journalist Glenn Greenwald reports on extremely disturbing developments in the ongoing efforts to suppress information & dissent. These violations of fundamental principles are a danger to all…

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Adelson protegé David Brog running for Congress in Nevada

Alison Weir February 22, 2022 Amy Vilela, CUFI, David Brog, Dina Titus, Jessie Turner, Maccabee Task Force, Mark Robertson, Miriam Adelson, Sheldon Adelson

Depending on which candidates win the Republican & Democratic primaries in Nevada on June 14th, Israel partisan David Brog may face off against grassroots Democrat Amy Vilela, who supports Palestinian human rights… In this case, David is Goliath – especially since major Nevada media are owned by his backer…

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Washington Post, NYT, LA Times are erasing Palestine

[email protected] February 16, 2022 Amnesty International, apartheid South Africa, Associated Press, CAMERA, ihra definition of anti-semitism, israeli apartheid, Los Angeles Times, new york times, washington post

Journalists on major papers are blocked from truth-telling about Palestine and the apartheid practices of Israel. Such censorship in top American newspapers is troubling – and not unprecedented.

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Establishment Jewish groups’ fake support for anti-racism

[email protected] January 17, 2022 apartheid, racism

As Americans honor Martin Luther King, it’s important to oppose ALL racism. Unfortunately, many Jewish groups are sending mixed signals: YES, we want to see an end to injustice for Black Americans; NO, we do not want to see the same for Palestinians.

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