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Opinion: Americans Need a Congress that Represents Americans

[email protected] January 11, 2019 analysis, israel lobby, marco rubio, Paul Craig Roberts, S.1

Paul Craig Roberts: US Senator Marco Rubio poses as a representative of Florida Republicans, but in truth he represents the interests of Israel. He is sponsor of legislation that punishes Americans who boycott Israel as their way of protesting Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people. That Rubio is doing his best to dismantle what little is left of the First Amendment doesn’t seem to bother the media, who are no longer protective of the First Amendment.

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Ten years after the first war on Gaza, Israel still plans endless brute force

[email protected] January 9, 2019 analysis, cast lead, ehud barak, Gaza, goldstone report, hamas, history, khaled mashaal, mowing the lawn, pillar of defense, protective edge, richard goldstone, robert pastor, terrorism, war crime, zionism

Operation Cast Lead (winter 2008-9) is emblematic of everything that is wrong with Israel’s approach to Gaza. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a political conflict to which there is no military solution. Yet Israel persists in shunning diplomacy and relying on brute military force – and not as a last resort but as a first resort.

Operation Cast Lead, the first of several incursions by Israel, killed 1,417 Palestinians and just 13 Israelis. Chillingly, the generals call their repeated bombardments ‘mowing the lawn’

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Marc Lamont Hill’s “anti-Semitism” is a distraction

[email protected] December 6, 2018 analysis, anti-Semitism, apology, BDS, dareen tatour, ethnic cleansing, home demolition, khan al ahmar, Marc Lamont Hill, nation-state law, occupation, open air prison, palestine exception, settlement, solidarity, torture, United Nations, zionism

Marc Lamont Hill, in Nazareth 2014. screenshot from Vimeo video. As is often the case with proponents of justice for Palestinians, Marc Lamont Hill was watched closely by Israel partisans as he spoke before the UN last week. They took a phrase – one phrase – from the speech and threw the rest aside, hoping…

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ADL’s letter to Airbnb fails to make a compelling argument

[email protected] November 27, 2018 ADL, airbnb, analysis, BDS, fourth geneva convention, history, occupation, settlement, zionism

Airbnb is doing the right thing by de-listing properties in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The Anti-Defamation League is pushing back – but its arguments fail to hold up to even the mildest scrutiny.

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Exposed! How Britain’s Anti-Semitism scaremongers operate

[email protected] July 18, 2018 Adrian Davies, Alison Chabloz, analysis, antisemitism, Arthur Topham, CAA, Campaign Against Anti-Semitism, Count Dankula, Diane Abbott, Gideon Falter, Gilad Atzmon, Jeremy Bedford Turner, Ken Livingstone, Ken Loach, Labour Party, Mark Meechan, Michael Pinto Duschinsky, Rowan Laxton, Simon Johnson, Sophie Stephenson, Stephen Silverman

Britain’s “Campaign Against Anti-Semitism (CAA0,” an organization equivalent to the ADL, has maneuvered British society into abdicating its core liberal values, intimidated the prosecutorial and judicial system, and silenced criticism of Israel in both social media and the mainstream media… in the last 18 months Britain’s largest political party has suspended and expelled over a hundred of its members for expressing their views on Israel or Jewish history…

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Landmark bill restricting criticism of Israel sneaks through South Carolina Senate

[email protected] April 24, 2018 analysis, antisemitism, Brandeis Center, Clemmons, CUFI, David Brog, Israel Allies Foundation, Israel Project, Jewish Federation, South Carolina, Stand With Us

South Carolina is poised to be the first state to pass legislation to adopt an Israel-centric definition for “anti-Semitism.” This will then apply to the state’s campuses, potentially limiting discussion of Israel-Palestine to one-sided information that fosters U.S. policies that provide Israel $10 million per day. The bill has been heralded in Israel as a “a landmark bill” that will lead change across the U.S. and the world, while South Carolina lawmakers appear to have let it through in the belief that it isn’t significant legislation.

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