NOTE: I’ve just published a new piece, Israel’s “AI Kill” against Iran has no long-term strategic benefit, but profound moral and legal ramifications at The New Arab. It comments on Israel’s “achievement” as the first country in the world to assassinate someone using artificial intelligence. It critiques the NY TImes article extolling the virtues of […]
As Burlington City Council Tables Historic BDS Resolution, Israel Lobby Fails to Defeat It Vermont City Becomes First in Nation to Consider BDS Support
In recent months, twenty-five progressive groups in Burlington joined together in a campaign to secure the city’s endorsement of the BDS movement. They included Jewish Voice for Peace (VT-NH), Vermonters for Justice in Palestine, Vermont AFL-CIO, an AFSCME local, and DSA (Champlain Valley). It was the first city in the US to consider such a […]
Fear, Loathing and the Lobby’s Anti-Palestine Racism Smears Rashida Tlaib
Stunning to hear @RashidaTlaib claim “behind the curtain,” those who prevent a “free Palestine” are the “same people” who exploit “regular Americans.” We’ve heard this kind of ugly #antisemitic dog whistling before, but it’s appalling when it comes from a member of Congress. pic.twitter.com/lBc8hxKAlw — Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) August 3, 2021 Rep. @RashidaTlaib has once […]
Anti-Semitism and Anti-Palestinianism: Two Sides of Same Hateful Coin
Peter Beinart published a Jewish Currents essay last month about the attack by the Israel Lobby and its water-carriers in Congress against progressive Muslim women of color, notably Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. He noted that the same pro-Israel groups and Jewish leaders who are the first to shrey–anti-Semite!–are almost always the first to […]
