Advertisements The increasing difficulty that Israel advocates in the United States face in trying to sell an apartheid regime to liberal Americans–Jewish and otherwise–had, while Benjamin Netanyahu was Israel’s prime minister, led many to simply embrace the right, and leave liberals behind. Now, with Yair Lapid in office, and givenContinue Reading
Advertisements In my latest piece for Mondoweiss, I look at the confluence of recent events at the United Nations and in the discourse around Israel and Palestine on Capitol Hill. Specifically, the speech of Yair Lapid at the UN General Assembly, supported explicitly by US President Joe Biden, and the horrificContinue Reading
Advertisements Marvel Studios announced that little-known Israeli superheroine Sabra will join the next installment of its Captain America movie series. The character – Israeli police officer by day, super-powered Mossad agent by night – is a quintessential reflection of the Israeli apartheid system. Let’s be clear: it would be oneContinue Reading
Advertisements No one is as good at being consistently wrong as New York Times columnist Tom Friedman. If you want a read on the world, particularly the Middle East and ESPECIALLY Israel and Palestine that bears no resemblance to reality whatsoever, he’s your guy. This week Friedman really outdid himself.Continue Reading
Advertisements Anyone who says there’s no difference between Democrats and Republicans need only look at the Supreme Court, women’s rights, and LGBTQIA rights to see what nonsense that is. But that’s all domestic policy. On foreign policy it’s a very different story. The differences between Republicans and Democrats in internationalContinue Reading
