Earlier today, Middle East Eye published my latest piece about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's private briefing with American Jewish leaders. In response to a suitably hysterical questioner who implied that UK Jews faced massive pogroms if Jeremy Corbyn were elected premier, he intimated that the Trump administration was prepared to sabotage Jeremy Corbyn's … [Read more...]
The Selling of the Israeli Surveillance State
I delivered this paper last month at the UC Berkeley conference, Virtual Internment: Islamophobia, Surveillance and Unequal Citizenship. It was sponsored by the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project directed by Hatem Bazian. The video of my talk is posted here. Israel’s military-intelligence apparatus specializes in developing cyber-technology, … [Read more...]
Trump’s Reign of Error and the March to War
Pres. Trump today continued his reign of error in hectoring Iran about its malign influence in the Middle East. Virtually every claim, every statement he made about Iran was false. Not to mention that he directly contradicted reports from his own Pentagon that it was considering sending up to 10,000 more troops to the region to buttress the U.S. presence … [Read more...]
New York Times Caves to Anti-Semitism Police, Censors Cartoon
The NY Times international edition ran a carton on its editorial page that was branded anti-Semitic by Donald Trump Jr., Breitbart and other far-right sites and personalities. It featured a blind Donald Trump wearing a yarmulke and being led by a dachshund-shaped Bibi Netanyahu. Netanyahu's dog has a Jewish star hanging from its neck. The cartoon is a … [Read more...]
