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…
The Taylor Force Act, a bill to limit aid to the Palestinian Authority, is being peddled on both sides of the aisle by a nationwide grassroots network of pro-Israel activists—including Sheldon Adelson, Shawn Evenhaim, Haim Saban and Adam Milstein—as well as several powerful pro-Israel lobbying groups.
JTA reports that Michael Steinhardt, billionaire founder of Birthright Israel (a free, ten-day trip to Israel that is enjoyed by a large percentage of Jewish young adults) considers the state of Israel “the Jewish miracle of the 20th century.” Now he is creating public schools that teach about Israel…
JTA reports that Trump takes advice on Israel from Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate; and Ronald Lauder, the cosmetics heir and president of the World Jewish Congress. Both are major supporters of Israel, with differing views. Lauder wants Trump to court Mahmoud Abbas. Adelson wants him to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem…
Dr. Rupa Marya of San Francisco is suing for discrimination after her university punished her for speaking out against Israel’s genocide of Palestinians.
Jonathan Greenblatt seems to think that criticism of Israel’s brutal acts, not the acts themselves, could promote a violent response from observers abroad.
Even before President Trump was re-elected, the Heritage Foundation, best known for Project 2025, set out to destroy pro-Palestinian activism in the United States.
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.
Two top Israeli officers who invented tales of nonexistent Jewish children and babies murdered on 7 October were among the army commanders who have led the genocidal destruction of the Gaza Strip ever since.
Despair in Gaza; 200,000 patients face possible death due to crossings closure; Netanyahu shows no sign of slowing down airstrikes; Israeli extremists call to blow up Al-Aqsa Mosque; Israeli settlers kidnap two Palestinian children; Bernie blows it big time on Gaza