Palestinian citizens of Israel are constantly reminded of the fragility and conditionality of our (second-class) Israeli citizenship, and the illegitimacy of our Palestinian identity – and that’s amplified as elections approach.
The Palestinian identity of Israeli citizens is conceptualized as a perpetual threat precisely because it resists the constant revisionist efforts of the state. By virtue of existing, Palestinians contest the erasure of their own narratives and histories.
If anyone else abducted an individual and held the person prisoner for 10 days, there would be consequences. This should also be true for the federal government. The government must compensate Marzieh Hashemi for jailing her… sign here:
Marzieh Hashemi has been released from her detention without charge and is with her family in Washington DC. Marzieh and her family say they “will not allow this to be swept under the carpet. They still have serious grievances and want answers as to how this was allowed to happen…”
The federal government forcibly seized, shackled & is imprisoning Marzieh Hashemi, a grandmother who has not even been charged with a crime. This violates some of the most fundamental principles on which the US was founded, and that protect all Americans of every political persuasion, race, religion, and ethnicity.
Partially unsealed federal court documents reveal that Hashemi, a U.S. citizen, has not been accused of any crime. She has appeared twice before a U.S. District Court judge, according to an order Friday to partially unseal information about her case.
Israelist Neocons have moved back & forth between the left and the right… currently they’re working with progressives, funded by Pierre Omidyar, featured as “pundits” from Fox News to Rachel Maddow, & promoting anti-Russian conspiracie
Rubio’s career has been funded from the beginning by multi-billionaire Israel partisans such as Normal Braman, Paul Singer, Sheldon Adelson, and Larry Ellison. Rubio has close ties to the pro-Israel neocons who pushed the U.S. into the disastrous Iraq war, and he advocates positions that would likely lead to still more war and violence…
Every day that Netanyahu chooses Trump and fundamentalism over the pro-democracy, pro-equality, pro-pluralism views of diaspora Jews, is a great day for the Palestinian cause.
No Israeli prime minister, no Israeli government and no consortium of allies has done nearly as much – inadvertently, to be sure – to bring the cause and the grievances of the Palestinians front and center.
John Whitbeck writes: “It appears that Bolton, who owes his position to billionaire Israel advocate Sheldon Adelson, has overruled – or is seeking to overrule – Donald Trump and to put him back in his subservient place…”
Lobelog reports how pro-Israel neocons at the Weekly Standard, Project for a New American Century, & Wall Street Journal promoted disastrous U.S. military interventions…