Seattle’s Initiative 97, which called for divestment of the city’s pension fund from U.S. companies benefiting from Israel’s Occupation and settlement building, received a severe legal blow today. A Superior Court judge agreed with lawyers hired by Stand With Us, a national pro-Israel advocacy group, who claimed the initiative violated state law by interfering with [...]
Read full post...[Update: Rob Jacobs correctly noted in a comment below that my original title was in error. it is not Stand With Us that is spending $150,000 to defeat I-97, but rather that amount will be spent to defeat it by those who oppose it (including, but not limited to SWU.]
Opponents of Seattle’s anti-Occupation divestment measure, [...]
Daphna Ziman, Israeli native and top L.A. Jewish Clinton fundraiser
Brad Greenberg, who writes the GodBlog for the L.A. Jewish Journal wrote to me today about the strange case of local Jewish philanthropist and Clinton bundler, Daphna Ziman, who has taken to the airwaves to denounce the Obama campaign as “a movement that will destroy us [...]
Charles Johnson (Little Green Footballs founder) and Roger Simon created Pajamas Media together in a self-congratulatory media frenzy several years ago. There was much talk about how PJM would become THE address for the conservative blog world. Readers and advertisers would pour in. Jewish entrepreneurs Aubrey Chernick and Jim Koshland sank [...]
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