Advertisements Writing in the journal Foreign Affairs, four noted, quite mainstream scholars of U.S. policy in the Middle East–Michael Barnett, Nathan Brown, Marc Lynch, and Shibley Telhami–describe “The One-State Reality” that exists in Palestine and Israel today. The piece is meant to promote their book, The One-State Reality: What Is Israel-Palestine? IContinue Reading

Advertisements There is no denying that Maxwell Alejandro Frost–the 25-year-old gun-control and civil rights advocate who will soon become the youngest member Congress–represents a big win for the progressive movement on the whole. His victory in Florida’s 10th District was a victory for many causes progressives support. Except for Palestine.Continue Reading

As real anti-Semitism rises, egged on by the President of the United States, who is shielded in this matter by the Israeli leadership and the Jewish right in the US, we cannot afford to ignore the very dangerous conflation of opposition to Israeli policies with anti-Semitism. And that, consciously or not, is what is happening with Linda Sarsour.Continue Reading