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Forward, JTA, NYT, CNN ‘lie through omission’ about Tlaib, Omar trip

[email protected] August 21, 2019 Ariel Toaff, blood libel, history, Ilhan Omar, Pasque Di Sangue, Rashida Tlaib

Media are attacking the Congresswomen by claiming that the group sponsoring their proposed trip ‘promoted blood libels.’ The claim is based on one item briefly posted on the NGO’s website six years ago… and the news reports don’t mention that the item quoted an Israeli news report about a book (since retracted) by a prominent Israeli historian saying there was “a factual basis for some of the medieval blood libels against the Jews…”

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Gideon Levy: Why Israeli Police Are Terrorizing This Palestinian Village

[email protected] August 12, 2019 al-Isawiya, east jerusalem, police brutality, yasem police

Israeli police in the village of Isawiyah have an agenda, and it involves brutality, incitement, humiliation, and violence.

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In East Jerusalem, nightly raids leave Palestinian neighborhood reeling

[email protected] August 7, 2019 analysis, collective punishment, east jerusalem, incitement, issawiya, police brutality

For the past six weeks, Israel has been sending paramilitary police forces to raid the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya every evening. The raids, a severe form of collective punishment, have left one young Palestinian dead and hundreds wounded.

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Feeding the Israel Lobby: Congress gives Israel what it wants

[email protected] August 6, 2019 Adam Schiff, H.R.1837, H.R.1850, H.Res.246, pat buchanan, Philip Giraldi, S.2179

Commentary by Philip Giraldi on some of the latest Congressional bills on behalf of Israel… Giraldi, like others before him, finds that Congress is Israel occupied territory…

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Vatican Accuses Israel of Risking Monks’ Lives in Fire

[email protected] July 30, 2019 church fire, church of the transfiguration, holy land tourist attractions, mount tabor, wildfire

The Church of the Transfiguration on Mt. Tabor has asked Israel repeatedly for basic services, including running water, but has been refused. A wildfire Friday caused significant damage due to this “negligence.”

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The effort on behalf of Israel to destroy Iran’s ability to defend itself

[email protected] July 26, 2019 analysis

Dr. Stephen Sniegoski details the efforts against Iran… U.S. war hawks are targeting Iran because Israel wants them to… Iran is the only regional power impeding Israel’s actions against Palestinians… While Israel has numerous nuclear weapons, Iran is not supposed to acquire them…

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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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Israeli court upholds shady sale of Jerusalem church property to settlers

[email protected] June 18, 2019 ateret cohanim, christian quarter, church of the holy sepulchre, Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, jerusalem old city

Church property in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City may end up in the hands of a radical settler group that could bar Christian access to their holy sites.

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