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Meet Netanyahu’s new allies, followers of an FBI-designated terrorist

[email protected] February 25, 2019 baruch goldstein, baruch marzel, benzi gopstein, history, itamar ben gvir, jewish power, kach party, meir kahane, michael ben ari, Otzma Yehudit, zionism

Netanyahu is affiliating with an extremist political party named “Jewish Power” whose leaders were disciples of an FBI-designated terrorist… one JP leader referred to Christians as “bloodsucking vampires,” declared Christmas should be outlawed… another has a police record of assaulting both Palestinians and Israelis… another called for violence & a “religious war” against homosexuals… another’s client list reads like a ‘Who’s Who’ of suspects in Jewish terror cases and hate crimes in Israel…

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“He can’t breathe”: a Palestinian Eric Garner

[email protected] February 18, 2019 al khalil, analysis, chokehold, eric garner, Hebron, IDF, occupation, police brutality, temporary international presence in hebron, tiph, zionism

As Palestinians in Hebron navigate life without the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH) observers, it is worth looking back on how oppressive and violent life was even with outsiders watching. Eric Garner would find the city eerily familiar.

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Israel has starring role in H.R.648, “Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2019”

[email protected] February 15, 2019 analysis, arms export controls act, BDS, begin doctrine, boycott, consolidated appropriations, gaza blockade, government shutdown, hrc, human rights council, iaea, loan guarantee, martyrs fund, nancy pelosi, nita lowey, nonproliferation, palestinian state, refugee, zionism

As Congress tackles urgent issues of reopening government and setting the budget for the country, it takes the time to prioritize a foreign country: H.R.648 contains assurances that Israel will receive $3.8 billion for arms, and funding for refugee resettlement; the bill also includes threats to de-fund the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and any future state of Palestine–if US demands (dictated by the Israel lobby) are not met.

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Not a person, but a “knife-wielding Palestinian”

[email protected] February 4, 2019 analysis, checkpoint, media bias, occupation, reuters, Samah Zuheir Mubarak, settler violence, shrinking palestine, suicide by cop, zionism

This 16-year-old child did not grow up or die in a vacuum. We need to examine the reportage, the context of her life, and own our own complicity in her death.

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“Birthright Exodus” is a sign of hope

[email protected] January 29, 2019 AIPAC, analysis, BDS, birthright, ifnotnow, occupation, taglit, zionism

As more and more young American Jews recognize Israel’s unethical policies, Birthright Israel is becoming a moment of truth. Those who speak up and/or walk away are prioritizing the value of justice. These are future leaders in the struggle for justice for Palestinians.

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WATCH: Yes, Israel does arrest children

[email protected] January 28, 2019 analysis, child detainee, child detention, child prisoners, cognitive dissonance, IDF, occupation, zionism

Intellectual honesty is about confronting those things that make us uncomfortable, not ignoring them. Israel arrests Palestinian children; see 7 of the many videos of these actions. The US gives Israel over $10 million per day and Congress is currently considering legislation to give Israel even more. That makes it obligatory for Americans to learn the facts, and act on them.

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Study finds 50-year history of anti-Palestinian bias in mainstream news reporting

[email protected] January 19, 2019 AIPAC, Alison Weir, Great March of Return, greg philo, greg shupak, israeli settlement, john mearsheimer, marda dunsky, media bias, mike berry, natural language processing, occupation, oslo accords, palestinian refugee, Paul Findley, pundit fact, siham rashid, Six Day War, stephen walt, tamara kharroub

A study of 50 years of headlines in 5 top newspapers finds that media coverage of Israel-Palestine favors Israel by providing more overall coverage, more positive coverage, and greater access to Israeli voices than to Palestinian ones. Much of this can be attributed to pressure from the pro-Israel lobby.

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Truth is stranger than fiction: 3 days in the West Bank

[email protected] December 17, 2018 collective punishment, fourth geneva convention, humanitarian law, IDF, international law, occupation, zionism

Elderly women, families, children, and of course young men in the occupied Palestinian territories are regularly treated with brutality by Israeli forces. International laws are in place to protect vulnerable populations, but Israel ignores such laws – and gets away with it. Simple, common decency ought to elicit restraint on the part of the occupier, but does not.

These very brief stories are snapshots of Israeli cruelty between December 15 and 17, 3 days out of the 50+ years of violent occupation which the United States endorses and supports to the tune of over $10 million a day.

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A cruel, yet very usual Israeli incident that almost nobody knows about

[email protected] December 15, 2018 abu hmeid, collective punishment, home demolition, icrc, occupation, punitive home demolition, resistance, zionism

The illegal Israeli occupation continues its illegal collective punishment by demolishing the home of an alleged terrorist’s family and terrorizing the entire neighborhood.

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Israel lobby has helped make US obsolete by enabling Israel to be a top arms exporter

[email protected] December 7, 2018 arms export, croatia, jamal khashoggi, military aid, zionism

An arms deal between Israel and Croatia highlights the US overindulgent military aid policy toward Israel. Today, thanks to our generosity, Israel has developed advanced military products, and is winning arms export contracts out from under us

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