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Electronic Intifada: Democratic pro-Israel clone fails to take Georgia seat

[email protected] June 26, 2017 jon ossoff, karen handel, Michael Oren, newt gingrich, Sheldon Adelson

Pundits and politicians billed the special election race between two strong supporters of Israel, Jon Ossoff (D) and Karen Handel (R), as a major referendum on the first few months of the Trump administration. Tens of millions of Democratic dollars could not buy back Georgia’s 6th District in the most expensive US House race in history. Democrats have now lost all four special elections to fill vacancies left by Trump cabinet appointees.

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IRMEP Poll: Most Americans Aren’t Zionists But Democratic and Republican Party Platforms Are

[email protected] June 25, 2017 AIPAC, israel lobby, survey, zionism

Grant Smith of IRMEP reports that a poll reveals the disconnect between the American public and Congress on the issue of Israel. Both major US political parties are overwhelmingly Zionist, while their constituents, according to the poll, are only 24.9% Zionist.

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Electronic Intifada: Israeli soldiers harass students during SJP event on US campus

[email protected] June 20, 2017 BDS, irvine, jvp, sjp

UC Irvine’s Students for Justice in Palestine group were harassed and intimidated during their anti-Zionism week events by Israel supporters. The campus has been a focal point for Israel advocacy groups seeking to conflate Palestinian rights with anti-Semitism.

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How is Israel spending our money?

[email protected] June 16, 2017 Aryeh Deri

American taxpayers give Israel $10 million per day, so it’s important to be well-informed about its spending habits. For example, Israel’s Interior Minister, Aryeh Deri, was indicted for graft, fraud, and breach of trust in 1993, but returned to politics and was again appointed Minister of the Interior in January 2016.

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If Israel were smart – Sara Roy on Gaza, LRB

[email protected] June 15, 2017 abbas, Gaza, hamas, siege

If the Israelis were thinking clearly, everyone could benefit. All they must do is give us a window to live a normal life and all these extremist groups would disappear. Hamas would disappear. Our generation wants to make peace and it is foolish for Israel to refuse. The next generation may not be as willing as we are. Is that what Israel truly wants?

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This week in Palestine: Israeli forces kill girl in West Bank, father in Gaza

[email protected] June 11, 2017

June 1 – June 7, 2017: Israeli soldiers killed a teenage Palestinian girl as well as a young father in Gaza. Israeli forces demolished five Palestinian coal production plants. Jewish settlers confiscated Palestinian land to create a new outpost.

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The Relentless Pulse of Pro-Israel Propaganda in Our Lives: Tim Sanders’ BBC documentary misleads listeners

[email protected] June 9, 2017 propaganda

Thomas Harrington discusses how Israel and its supporters plant deceptive, self-serving narratives at the highest levels of western media, e.g. a BBC radio documentary by Israel partisan Tim Samuels about Israeli doctors who help Syrian refugees—what it says and what it does not say…

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Israeli Chief Rabbis Endorse Ethnic Cleansing, Palestinian Servitude

[email protected] June 9, 2017 expulsion, extremism, genocide, religion, Richard Silverstein

Israeli chief Sephardic rabbi Yitzhak Yosef preaches that non-Jews should be expelled from Israel, or serve essentially as slaves and servants. He also exhorted his followers that any Palestinian armed with any weapon is worth killing without hesitation. Rabbi Yosef is also a spiritual leader of one of Israel’s major political parties, Shas…

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Was Israel Under Existential Threat in June 1967?

[email protected] June 8, 2017 Egypt, history, Michael Oren, Six Day War, Syria

Fifty years ago, Israel fought a war of choice: the Six Day War. Israel’s own leaders indicate that the “existential threat” in 1967 was a myth.

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Naval Institute on the USS Liberty: The Spy Ship Left Out in the Cold

[email protected] June 6, 2017 history, USS Liberty

Declassified documents and interviews that U.S. leaders, anxious to protect Israel from bad PR, contemplated sinking the ship at sea to prevent reporters from photographing the damage. Israeli diplomats manipulated the media to downplay or kill stories about the attack and even silenced an angry President Lyndon Johnson by threatening to publicly accuse him of “blood libel” or anti-Semitism.

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