Swim against the tide; Recognize Palestine at the U.N.
Putting an end to the Israel-Palestine conflict would be good not only for the Palestinians and the Israelis; most importantly it will also advance U.S. interests. We tend to dismiss al Qaeda's (and...
View ArticleObama’s Sad Show at the UN
Not since George W. Bush have I watched a parade of self-conscious lies and non sequiturs emitted before the world as President Obama's address before the U.N. General Assembly
View ArticleU.S. Zionists censor children’s art from Gaza; as Israel devolves into fascism
Zionists censoring art? If I were one of the Zionist operatives who pressured the Museum of Children's Art in Oakland to cancel the exhibit of Gaza children's drawings, I'd be kicking myself right now
View ArticleReflections on Two Occupations
Several months ago I was in Cairo not long after Mubarak left power, and visited Tahrir Square still alive with its memories of occupation by the protesters. Occupation became a word of many...
View ArticleIsrael and Apartheid? Reflections on the Russell Tribunal on Palestine...
Hopefully, the fourth and final session of Russell Tribunal on Palestine, to be held in 2012 in the United States, will in addition to providing an overview of the allegations against Israel, also...
View ArticleRare footage of NAZIs humiliating Austrian Jews after Anschluss
"Animals. animals. All of Ramallah is a jungle. There are monkeys, dogs, guerrillas. ... We're human, they're animals," says NAZI.
View ArticleThe anti-Semitism smear campaign against CAP and Media Matters rolls on
Lies, lies and lies. Neocon hatemongering extremists smear writers whom the Lobby feels are too dedicated to humanism, equality and peace
View ArticleSupport for BDS National Conference at the University of Pennsylvania
The BDS movement is certainly inspired by the anti-apartheid global campaign waged so effectively against the racist regime in South Africa, but it also has its own originality. It is notable that...
View ArticleKhader Adnan’s Life and Legacy in the Face of Israeli Human Rights Violations
Mr. Adnan’s brave stand will have been mostly without effect if his compelling exposure of the cruelty and arbitrariness of Israeli reliance on administrative detention is allowed to slip from view now...
View ArticleIsrael’s Militarism Turns American Jewry Against the Outlaw Nation
Reports by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the United Nations, and books by commentators as prominent as President Jimmy Carter and as well-respected in the scholarly community as Stephen...
View ArticleIsrael is no liberal democracy
There’s a new anti-democratic law every week -- applying sinew to a pre-existing skeleton created upon the establishment of Israel. maintaining the colonial relationship between Jews and Palestinians
View ArticleHow detention without charge links Israel and apartheid South Africa
The hunger strikes undertaken by Hana al-Shalabi and Khader Adnan have drawn international attention to Israel’s use of administrative detention, a legislation which allows for indefinite imprisonment...
View ArticleUN rights expert raises alarm over Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in...
In extraordinary acts of collective nonviolent resistance to abusive conditions connected to Israel’s prolonged occupation of Palestinian territory, more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners began an...
View ArticleThe Massive Palestinian Hunger Strike: Traveling below the Western Radar
Can anyone doubt that if there were more than 1,300 hunger strikers in any country in the world other than Palestine, the media in the West would be obsessed with the story? It would be featured day...
View ArticleRichard Falk on The Nakba: 2012
The recent parallel hunger strikes in Israeli prisons reignited the political imagination of Palestinians around the world, strengthening bonds of ‘solidarity’ and reinforcing the trend toward...
View ArticleUS Senate mulls unprecedented aid to Israel
I find myself wondering if the American armed forces' oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic" means, in the words of Sen. Johnny...
View ArticleThe US State Department Goes Bad to Worse
Like everything else touching on Israel, U.S. diplomatic practice has been corrupted by the power and influence of the Zionist lobby in Washington.
View ArticleADL’s Foxman: Many Americans Are Anti-Semitic
Anti-Semitic and Christian-for-a-militaristic-Israel groups are welcome in the ADL as long as they bang the drums for war.
View ArticleHow do I explain my preoccupation with the unlawful, immoral, and imprudent...
As it is I have merely endured a barrage of slanderous insults, including from the Secretary General and Susan Rice, the American ambassador to the UN in New York. Lest I protest and complain too much,...
View ArticleBest of friends? CIA considers Israel one of its biggest spy threats
With spyware that rivals that of American agencies, it is extremely difficult to detect the extent of its spying.
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