A State Department position that officials said was unnecessary is being elevated to even higher rank, increasing its influence and funding… Claiming to “combat anti-Semitism,” the position actually often works to combat support for Palestinian human rights…
News reports about Israeli actions in the Palestinian Territories December 14-17, 2020… Israeli forces shoot teenagers, abduct civilians, destroy property, etc
Two articles describe attacks on people supporting Palestinian human rights. Israel partisans use unfounded claims of ‘antisemitism’ to block events, boycott scholars, censor critical texts… Now, in an unprecedented move, leaders of top German cultural institutions have joined forces to declare: Enough
In August Nasser Halwa started walking through the wrong line at an Israeli checkpoint. Israeli soldiers shouted at him to stop, but Halawa is deaf, so he didn’t hear them. They then shot him. A few months later he died of his wounds…
Philip Weiss chastises Gregory Meeks for his assertion that Israel has a right to self-defense – and his silence about Israel’s recent killing of a teenage Palestinian boy in the West Bank… Meeks continued with a string of pro-Israel talking points, while Brian Lehrer of WNYC radio also ignored the killing….
Israel drives many US policies to the detriment of Americans… Trump, Biden Kamala, Warnock, Ossoff… Former Obama official: Even to acknowledge the fact that AIPAC was spending tens of millions to defeat the Iran deal [JCPOA] was supposedly anti-Semitic. To observe that the same people who supported the war in Iraq also opposed the Iran deal was similarly off limits…
Amer Snobar’s friend, who was at the scene, says he was beaten to death by officers wielding clubs. The army denies killing him
Capitol Hill has for years been a no-questions-asked, pro-Israel fortress. That tide may be turning, and Israel partisans are not happy.
New bill would give Israel a veto over US arms sales… Cumulative US aid to Israel is $295 Billion – three times the amount the US spent to rebuild Europe after WWII under the Marshall Plan… Israel lobby group proposes that the US explode its already ballooning deficit even further by advancing cash to Israel under a new “Deferred Payment Plan”…
A flurry of actions have been undertaken recently to benefit Israel, to assist Donald Trump’s electoral prospects, and, if Trump is defeated, to procure the policies before a potentially slightly less pro-Israel candidate takes office…