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Congress won’t allow Palestinians their day in court
The PLO faces punishment—the closure of its diplomatic office in the U.S.—for seeking justice in the International Criminal Court. By James J. Zogby Imagine that you are a victim of a violent crime or theft but are forbidden from reporting it because Congress has passed a law that not only prohibits you from reporting the…
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November 27, 2017
The AIPAC protests from a Palestinian perspective
My mother’s generation might have internalized the notion that AIPAC was all-powerful. But if the protests this week were a sign of anything, it is that America’s Israel lobby is not omnipotent. Watching the scenes from this week’s AIPAC protests, I was reminded of another, more amiable stand-off — this one with my Palestinian mother.…
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Samer Badawi
March 29, 2017
America’s choice on Iran: Obama’s peace or Netanyahu’s war
If Bibi, the Israel lobby and the GOP stymie this historic nuclear deal, it will be very bad for Israel, America and America’s Jews. Anybody who thinks Obama has won, that Israel and the Israel lobby and the Republicans are just going to concede the Iran nuclear deal without a fight, could not be more…
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Larry Derfner
April 5, 2015
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Why aren’t Netanyahu and Peres going to Johannesburg for Mandela’s memorial?
Bibi says it’s the expense, Peres says it’s a flu he can’t kick. More likely it’s two other reasons: Israel’s past and present. Nelson Mandela’s death brought up some inconvenient memories for Israel and the Diaspora Jewish establishment: Israel’s extremely fruitful alliance with apartheid South Africa until the very, very end; the anti-Mandela stance…
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Larry Derfner
December 9, 2013
Who needs anti-Semites when we’ve got Bibi?
This time it’s true: Israel really is trying to manipulate the U.S. into going to war. Who can disagree any longer that Israel is out to push America into war – and is putting on quite a show of it, too? The Obama administration is trying to neutralize Iran’s nuclear program diplomatically, and Bibi…
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Larry Derfner
November 20, 2013
A case for isolationism
America and its Western allies should either reinstate the military draft or put down their arms, because their way of going to war these days is too unjust, too inequitable to abide. Whenever I read or hear somebody say that America, the West, the world must intervene militarily in Syria, I think, very cynically,…
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Larry Derfner
September 17, 2013
Israel responds to EU: We only accept charity on our terms
Europe says it doesn’t want its largesse to be funneled over the Green Line – Israel screams anti-Semitism. Despite all the outrage and charges of Nazi-style behavior (here and here) that Israeli patriots are leveling against the European Union, the EU’s new guidelines concerning the occupied territories don’t take anything away from Israel; they just…
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Larry Derfner
July 17, 2013
The end of ‘pro-Israel’ in American political discourse
There is no consensus on what pro-Israel means; even opposing political groups – like AIPAC and J Street – parade the term as a badge of honor. Pro-Israel has come to mean different things for different people, necessitating the introduction of a new vocabulary. By Roi Bachmutsky With abortion set to take national center stage in…
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July 8, 2013
The Israel lobby at its intimidating worst – in Britain
How the British Board of Jewish Deputies and its allies are smearing a decent critic of Israel as an anti-Semite – and the success they’re having. The view in Israel of British Jewry is that they’re cowed by traditional British anti-Semitism and running scared from the “Muslim takeover” of the country. They’re not as chutzpahdik as…
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Larry Derfner
March 1, 2013
Palestinian textbook case closed, but more trumped-up Israeli charges expected
This week’s publication of a U.S.-funded study cleared the Palestinians of charges that their schoolbooks ‘demonize’ Israel. This was not, however, the first hoop they’ve been made to jump through, and it won’t be the last. The Israeli and U.S. Jewish establishment reaction to the terrible news that the Palestinians don’t demonize Jews in their…
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Larry Derfner
February 7, 2013
Driving through the West Bank ‘felt like apartheid’
Three anecdotes from Peter Beinart’s Crisis of Zionism reveal a lot on what can and what can’t be said in Washington today “The Crisis of Zionism,” Peter Beinart’s new book on the Jewish establishment’s transformation into a propaganda and lobbying arm for the occupation and the settlements, has a few fresh examples of Washington’s double…
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Noam Sheizaf
April 1, 2012
On Iran, U.S. Jewish leaders will defend Israel down to last drop of our blood
If you think Israeli leaders are hawkish on Iran, listen to what some of these American Jewish leaders had to say at their get-together in Jerusalem. The number one team of machers (big-time operators) in organized American Jewry – the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations – were in Israel this past week, and just for a hate fix, I…
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Larry Derfner
February 25, 2012
Junk the term ‘Israel-Firster’
American Jewish liberals who use it do so in bad faith, and what they mean by the term is not what Americans hear Even though the term “Israel-Firster,” taken literally, is a fair, accurate description of any number of American Jews – those whose main concern in American politics is its effect on Israel – it shouldn’t be used. There are a…
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Larry Derfner
January 31, 2012
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