In this video, AIPAC describes how it has successfully worked since the 1970s to create U.S. laws against boycotting Israel…
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Which will it be: Unequivocal support for Israel or our First Amendment rights?
Justine McCabe writes: “An alarming paradox has taken shape in legislation before Congress: Our representatives would violate Americans’ First Amendment rights in order to protect the State of Israel. This draconian legislation is H.R. 1697/S. 720, the ‘Israel Anti-Boycott Act,’ is a proposed law that could harshly penalize the free speech of Americans…
Making A Sexy Pitch For Israel [video]
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A new anti-BDS campaign called 4il.org enlists Israel’s supporters as Internet foot soldiers. The two-pronged campaign is geared toward digitally savvy millennials, and uses an interactive website and a smartphone app to turn Israel advocacy into a competitive game.
International campaign is criminalizing criticism of Israel as ‘antisemitism’
IAK INVESTIGATION: For two decades, some Israeli officials and partisans have worked to embed a new, Israel-focused definition of antisemitism in institutions around the world, from international bodies and national governments to small college campuses in heartland America. This effort is now snowballing rapidly. As a result, advocacy for Palestinian rights is well on the way to being curtailed and even criminalized as “hate.”
CounterPunch: An Accelerating Palestine Rights Movement Faces Uncertain Direction
Analyst Jack Dresser discusses the Israel connection to Mideast wars, the injustice of a “two-state solution,” Israel’s loss of full control, the role of Jewish organizations in the Palestine rights movement, JVP President Vilkomerson’s husband’s employment at Israeli security company Check Point, and to what degree such groups will embrace a “transformative vision”…
An Israeli Soldier Shot a Palestinian in Front of Her Kids. Where’s Her Compensation?
Ha’aretz: A mother of 10 has been incapacitated since Israeli soldiers shot her 13 years ago, as she stood in her living room. Neither she nor any of thousands of other noncombatants hurt by the army is eligible for compensation…
Palestinian children throwing stones got longer sentences than Israeli who killed unarmed man
An Israeli Defense Forces soldier has been sentenced to 18 months in jail on a manslaughter conviction for shooting a Palestinian man in the head after he had already been disarmed and injured by other soldiers. The Independent lists Palestinian children who have received longer prison sentences for throwing stones than Elor Azaria did for killing the unarmed man.
Skewering History: The Dark Politics of Counting Gaza’s Dead – 680,000 In Total?
For the sake of the Palestinians who have thus far perished in the latest aggression—and indeed for all those killed since the Nakba—we must tell the full, heartbreaking extent of their suffering.
Gaza is ‘Hungriest Region on Earth,’ UN Office Says – War on Gaza Day 601
Israel kills at least 70 in Gaza; chaos at aid distribution sites; internationally banned weapons; Hamas mulls ceasefire option; new illegal settlements; West Bank news; Mahmoud Khalil and other protest news; more.
Flashback: The Israeli oligarch behind world forum to battle “antisemitism”attended by kings & presidents
At least 45 world leaders attended the World Holocaust Forum in Israel to fight “antisemitism.” The event was organized by Russian-Israeli billionaire Moshe Kantor, who calls support for Palestinian rights “antisemitic.” Kantor is said to have been a “sponsor of the 2005 ‘Orange Revolution’ in Ukraine, which led to the cancellation of the presidential election…