Following in the footsteps of Kenneth Roth and Sarah Margon, another highly qualified candidate for a prominent post, James Cavallaro, is withdrawn for criticizing Israel.
Another qualified human rights expert snubbed in DC for Israel comments
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Nikki Haley: Candidate for President of U.S. or of Israel?
Haley announced her presidential campaign with ‘robust connections to pro-Israel leaders & activists. Haley has frequently addressed AIPAC conferences & Republican Jewish Coalition events, where she’s burnished her reputation as a darling of the pro-Israel establishment. Past contributors include Miriam Adelson, Bernie Marcus, Daniel Loeb, Ronald Lauder, Samuel Zell…’
Israel’s little-known concentration and labor camps (1948-1955)
It is shocking that this happened in Palestine just a few years after the Nazi regime was defeated and its concentration camp prisoners (many of them Jews) were freed.
Hundreds of news reports on ‘Russian interference’ based on hoax
A think-tank that spawned hundreds of fraudulent headlines & TV news segments about supposed Russian influence may go down as the single greatest case of media fabulism in American history. Virtually every major news organization in America is implicated…
Israel’s conduct fosters antisemitism in the U.S., says Ken Roth
For a generation or more leading American Jewish organizations, including the religious orders, have done everything they can to build Jewish identity around Zionism. They say directly: “To be Jewish is to support ‘the Jewish state.'” And in turn, Israeli leaders state that they are the leaders of the Jewish people internationally…
Harvard reinstates offer to former HRW chief after Israel controversy
Roth remains concerned, stating: “Criticizing Israel is not limited to me, and most scholars have no comparable capacity to mobilize public attention” He also seeks clarification about who was behind the dean’s original decision (some names have already been floated)
NYT: Palestinian life under Israel’s over half-century military occupation
It’s important to stop and take stock of how bad things have been for Palestinians in the West Bank… There is no study, no matter how rigorous, that can capture what it feels like for Palestinians living under Israel’s more than half-century military occupation…
Latest meeting of America’s most powerful pro-Israel lobby
The content of AIPAC’s recent Political Leadership Forum was largely concealed from the public, but here is what we do know about it.
Ed Dept resists pro-Israel pressure to adopt new antisemitism definition
The U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights resisted pressure to adopt an Israel-centric definition of antisemitism that Israel and its partisans have been embedding in institutions around the world…
Israeli forces gun down Palestinian father & 2 others, another dies of wounds
Fifteen days into 2023, thirteen Palestinians have been killed by Israel. The latest victim, Ahmad Kahala, was shot Sunday at point-blank range, and medics were blocked from saving his life.
Saturday, Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians, Ezzeddin Hamamra, 24, and Amjad Khaliliyya, 23; the same day, Yazan Ja’bari, 19, died from wounds inflicted by Israeli soldiers earlier this month.
Israel has one of the most powerful armies in the world.