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World Jewish Congress: Billionaires, Oligarchs, Global Influencers for Israel

[email protected] November 24, 2019 billionaires, Henry Kissinger, history, oligarchs, Ronald Lauder, Rothschilds

Dozens of Secret Service agents gathered to protect billionaires, politicians, global influencers, & diverse glitterati at the 2019 gala for the World Jewish Congress… there were oligarchs from Russia, ambassadors from the Ukraine, & dozens of inner circle investors. The Theodor Herzl Award was presented to Niki Hayley; previous awards went to the Rothschilds, Joe Biden, & Henry Kissinger… all there to support Israeli oppression of Palestinians

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Israeli human rights violations in West Bank & Gaza, Nov 4-7

[email protected] November 8, 2019 Bethlehem, cancer, fishermen, human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch, israeli settlement, Jerusalem, Palestinian, Palestinian journalists

The Israeli forces commit 600 violations against journalists this year, remove residential Palestinian tents, Israeli soldiers abduct two teens & a cancer patient … Israeli soldiers abduct fishermen & two Palestinian siblings … Israel’s deportation of Human Rights worker upheld by Israeli Supreme Court , etc.

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Why media reports on Palestine are consistently inaccurate

[email protected] October 25, 2019 antisemitism, Censorship, israel lobby, mainstream media, media bias, zionism

The Israel lobby has created an atmosphere in which journalists shy away from honest reporting on the Israel/Palestine issue. They are so fearful of being labeled anti-Semitic, they “daren’t even ask the [necessary] questions.”

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Palestinian woman on hunger strike against Israeli imprisonment & abuse

[email protected] October 16, 2019 abuse, administrative detention, Amira Hass, Heba Al-Labadi, human rights, Israeli Army, Palestine, Palestinian, prisoners, torture, woman

Heba Al-Labadi, a female Palestinian prisoner incarcerated by Israel without trial or charge, has been on a 3-week-long hunger strike in protest of allegations of torture.

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Action Alert: Tell the candidates, “a good President knows that Palestine matters.”

[email protected] October 15, 2019 Amy Kobuchar, andrew yang, bernie sanders, beto o'rourke, cory booker, Elizabeth Warren, israel policy, joe biden, julian castro, kamala harris, pete buttigieg, presidential debate, tom steyer, tulsi gabbard

Our presidential candidates are neglecting the simple principle that Palestinians are entitled to the same rights as the rest of humanity. Instead, they favor Israel, a state with Palestinian blood on its hands. We must pressure the candidates to engage with this subject, and to come out on the side of justice.

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Gideon Levy: a Quiet, Cruel Population Transfer in South Hebron Hills

[email protected] September 30, 2019 home demolition, homelessness, israeli settlement, land confiscation, occupation, south hebron hills

Demolition of Palestinian homes – last week’s excuse was to create Israeli “nature reserves,” this week a “firing zone” – causes now-homeless Mahmoud Hamamdi to ask, “Who is the terrorist: the one who builds a house or the one who demolishes a house?”

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Fundraising gala: does the IDF really need another $37 million?

[email protected] September 27, 2019 analysis, Elor Azaria, friends of idf, IDF, leahy laws, military aid, most moral army, zionism

Fundraising gala: does the IDF really need another million?

The Friends of the IDF gala Wednesday raised a small fortune for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) – a military machine that uses American aid to kill and maim.

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New legislation in Congress puts Palestinians in a Catch-22

[email protected] September 24, 2019 $38 billion, arms trade, atca, consent to jurisdiction, H.R.1837, icc, international criminal court, james lankford, mahmoud abbas, palestinian authority, plo, quartet, S.2131, Shurat Hadin, sokolow, state of palestine, ted deutch, United Nations, white phosphorus

New bills in Congress would put the Palestinian Authority in a no-win position: go bankrupt, or withdraw from int’l bodies that keep alive a hope of justice.

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Israel Spies and Spies and Spies

[email protected] September 17, 2019 cia, espionage, FBI, gao, history, Jonathan Pollard, Mossad

Former CIA counter-terrorism specialist Philip Giraldi comments on Israel’s history of spying on its closest ally and patron, the US – including stealing military secrets – and the American government’s habit of covering for the Jewish State.

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Pro-Israel neocons abound in Washington, and they’re calling the shots

[email protected] September 17, 2019 AIPAC, analysis, antisemitism, Haim Saban, israel lobby, Jeffrey Blankfort, nancy pelosi, neoconservatives, pnac, Project for a New American Century, Sheldon Adelson

Longtime Middle East analyst Jeffrey Blankfort discusses the history of pro-Israel neoconservatives in Washington, and the influence of AIPAC and Sheldon Adelson in Middle East policy – and he’s naming names.

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