In U.S. Media, Israel Is Untouchable By Gideon Levy, Dec 02, 2018 4:01 AM Marc Lamont Hill is an American writer and lecturer in communications at Temple University in Philadelphia, and also an analyst with CNN. In a speech last week at a United Nations conference he called for “international action that will give …
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May 28 2018
Suffering Fools
Selections from a recent Facebook conversation. Names have been changed to protect the innocent, the willfully ignorant, the woefully beguiled, and the morally repugnant (see fundie #5). Due to the branching nature of such conversations on social media, this is stitched together from various, sometimes parallel/simultaneous narratives and is therefore only a linear approximation of …
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Nov 20 2017
Memory is stubborn
Invention of the Mizrahim By Susan Abulhawa, 20 Sept 2017 The State of Israel was conceived at the turn of the 20th century in Eastern Europe by a group of elite European Jews who launched a movement called Zionism that sought to establish a physical nation state exclusive to Jews. It was a typical …
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Aug 11 2017
Hands-off relationship with the truth
Sebastian Gorka, the West Wing’s Phony Foreign-Policy Guru By Bob Dreyfuss, August 10, 2017 The Breitbart News headline, back in November 2014, rang like a five-alarm fire bell: MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD OVERRUNS NATIONAL CATHEDRAL IN DC. Its author, Breitbart’s national-security editor, was Dr. Sebastian L. v. Gorka, who currently occupies a top White House post …
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May 17 2017
Fundamentalist religiosity
Why Religious Zionism Is Growing Darker By Tomer Persico, May 16, 2017 5:41 PM At a gathering of religious Zionist public figures two weeks ago, Deputy Knesset Speaker Betzalel Smotrich talked about his diplomatic plan, which he dubbed “The subjugation plan.” The purpose of the plan, he said, was “to erase all Palestinian national …
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Apr 19 2017
Rights are not bestowed by an oppressor
Why We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel’s Prisons By Marwan_Barghouti, April 16, 2017 HADARIM PRISON, Israel — Having spent the last 15 years in an Israeli prison, I have been both a witness to and a victim of Israel’s illegal system of mass arbitrary arrests and ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners. After exhausting all …
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Apr 11 2017
The irony is breath-taking
Deir Yassin Today From http://www.deiryassinremembered.org Although virtually all six million Palestinians in the world know of Deir Yassin, few have ever been there. The site is not identified on post-1948 maps of Israel. But it is not difficult to find. The central part of Deir Yassin is a cluster of buildings now used as a …
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