Advertisements In a most shameful demonstration yesterday, both houses of Congress, in an overwhelmingly bipartisan fashion, celebrated racism and apartheid with no conscience whatsoever. Only Bernie Sanders from the Senate and Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Cori Bush from the House had the basic decencyContinue Reading
Advertisements The strawmen came out in force in a piece by Alexis Grenell in, of all places, The Nation. Using the recent flap over a commencement speech at CUNY, Grenell attacks anti-Zionists, employing the classic and tiresome nonsense about opposition to a political ideology being, by definition, antisemitism. In the latestContinue Reading
Advertisements This piece, written late last week, takes on a new importance in light of the Israeli massacre in Jenin and the Palestinian lone shooter attack in Neve Yakov. More to the point, the importance it’s magnified by Antony Blinken’s contemptible tour of Middle East criminals, from Cairo and al-SisiContinue Reading
Advertisements A short while back, I got a message from someone on Facebook asking me if I see any hope for the Palestinian people. Over two decades of doing work to support Palestinian rights, I’ve been asked this from time to time by people who are in a moment ofContinue Reading
Advertisements With Israel’s image already slipping badly as its apartheid policies are laid bare for more to see, advocates for Israel were already losing people as more and more liberals gave up trying to square their values with a country that obviously does not share them. This group includes a wideContinue Reading
