Although this is pretty weak and the signatories can’t bring themselves to utter the necessary criticisms – a state can’t be both Jewish and democratic – perhaps we shouldn’t be too harsh, it’s a welcome development: More than 3,000 European Jews, including prominent intellectuals, have signed a petition speaking out against Israeli settlement policies and…
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A day will come, and soon, when America will have to face what they’re backing in Israel
Henry Siegman, former national director of the American Jewish Congress, asks a question for anybody loving Israel to death: Most of the political parties that comprise Netanyahu’s government, including Yisrael Beiteinu, led by Avigdor Lieberman, Netanyahu’s Foreign Minister, and Shas, have left no doubt that if forced to choose between democracy and the state’s Jewish…
We at the Israel lobby are here to help 24/7
Two revealing examples of the Zionist lobby at work, obscuring, ignoring and denying reality. Here’s Al-Jazeera’s Sherine Tadros: I recently jumped at the chance to take an all expenses paid helicopter ride over Israel and part of the West Bank. The trip was courtesy of The Israel Project (TIP) which describes itself as a non-profit,…
Message to non-Jews: don’t mention Jews unless you say you love them every five seconds
God help the Zionist lobby. This joke, told by US National Security Adviser James Jones at a Zionist think-tank, has offended the Anti-Defamation League. Seriously. Yes, it’s impossible to tell a joke about Jews without some Zionist group thinking a non-Jew is straying into inappropriate territory. Another own goal by the Zionist Diaspora:
Here you are, liberal Jews, BDS is for you
How the Magnes Zionist blogger, an Orthodox Jew in Israel, offering 13 reasons why “liberal Zionists” should back the BDS movement. Here’s the thing. Jews who now oppose any kind of pressure on Israel and somehow hope the Jewish state will give up the occupation by choice are on the wrong side of history, willing…
The Israel lobby gets a lot for its money
How the American Zionist lobby works. Example one: More than three quarters of the U.S. Senate, including 38 Democrats, have signed on to a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton implicitly rebuking the Obama Administration for its confrontational stance toward Israel. The letter, backed by the pro-Israel group AIPAC, now has the signatures of…
We’re Jewish and we would like to ban this
Is the Zionist Diaspora somehow pre-programmed to try and censor anything that mildly challenges Israeli policies? The latest madness in Canada.
Jimmy Carter, stick to your guns
Why do political leaders (past or present) need the approval of the Zionist lobby? To be classed as sufficiently “Zionist”, “pro-Israel” and “friendly to Jews”? Or to attract the big bucks when running in elections? A prominent Jewish leader criticized former President Jimmy Carter on Monday, blasting Carter for saying in a speech this month…
South Africa and Israel were closer than you think
A blast from the past, proving that America’s leading Zionist lobby sometimes criticises the Jewish state (hardly for human rights reasons but the fear of Israel being seen working with despots). How times have changed (and note the irony, considering Israel today behaves in ways reminiscent of South Africa during its darkest days): In the…
AIPAC moves into gear and asks Israel lovers to deepen the relationship
For anybody worrying about Israel’s decline into deeper repression and occupation (such as the former editor of Haaretz, David Landau), America’s leading Zionist lobby would like you and Congress to shut up, now and forever: America’s main pro-Israel lobby group is mobilising members of Congress to pressure the White House over its bitter public confrontation…