The Hill published a column in favor of ending $300 million in US aid to Palestinians, based on the murder of an American by a Palestinian man unaffiliated with any Palestinian organization. In response, Geoff ONeill submitted a column that suggested suspending $3.8 billion to Israel, based on the Israeli military’s killing of 34 American servicemen. The Hill would not publish that column – but then published a second column by another Israel partisan praising the TFA…
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Fighting Israel’s Wars: How the U.S. military and government have become Zionized
Philip Giraldi reports that a highly focused and well-funded lobby on behalf of Israel has remarkable access both to the US political class and media. Israel has been uniquely successful at imposing its will over Congress and the White House, as the U.S. has largely become an Israeli puppet…
Shadowy Israeli App Turns Jewish Americans Into Foot Soldiers In Online War
An Israeli organization operating in the U.S. recruits Jewish teens and adults for a propaganda project led by former Israeli intelligence officers. It has close ties to Israel’s intelligence services, its Ministry of Strategic Affairs, is funded by billionaires Sheldon Adelson and Paul Singer, and sometimes operates out of local Jewish community centers…
False claims against Syria lay the groundwork to destroy more Israeli targets
In 2007 the IAEA promoted falsehoods about Israel’s bombing of a supposed nuclear reactor in Syria, burying evidence that the site was NOT a reactor. Claims that a sarin gas attack last April was carried out by the Assad regime are similarly dubious. Just as the false “WMD” claims against Iraq were used to destroy Iraq, these claims seem aimed at taking down two more of Israel’s targets: Syria and Iran.
Israel’s false claim that it bombed a Syrian “nuke” site was used to get US intervention in Syria
Investigative journalist Gareth Porter reports that in 2007 Israel sold the CIA on a dubious claim about a North Korean nuclear reactor in the Syrian desert. In joining Israel and the White House in selling military intervention in Syria – long a target of Israel – the CIA and international inspectors hid key evidence that would undermine the case…
Israel partisans pressure candidates in Georgia governor’s race
Israel partisans are prominent in the campaign for governor of Georgia, pressuring and enticing candidates to support Israel…
AIPAC is grooming high school students
AIPAC is targeting high school students for a new generation of political activists and Israel advocates
Israel’s behind-the-scenes support for Saudi efforts to destabilize Lebanon
A leaked cable shows Israel is working behind the scenes to support Saudi actions against Lebanon, Iran, Hezbollah, and Yemen. An analyst says, “Israel is becoming the unlikely leader of the Sunni world.” Lebanon Prime Minister’s resignation is not what it seems…
Congress weighs a new Israel-centric definition for anti-Semitism
JTA and the Forward report on a Congressional Judiciary Committee hearing about adopting a new, Israel-centric definition of antisemitism. (This is part of an international campaign on behalf of Israel). Five witnesses were for it, four against…
The Two Elie Wiesels
Elie Wiesel became a spokesman for the world’s voiceless oppressed. But when it came to Palestinians, he had nothing to say.