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...]
Aipac Conference Ends Amid Dissension and Democratic Presidential No-Shows
NOTE: What follows is an expanded version of a piece Middle East Eye published earlier this week. It's also been updated to reflect news developments which happened after it was published by MEE, towards the end of the Conference. I also did an hour interview on Ray Hanania's Middle East podcast this week. We're old hands at this, and have known each … [Read more...]
Israel Lobby and Pro-Israel House Democrats Tried to Excommunicate Ilhan Omar, They Failed
NOTE: This is a substantially expanded version of a piece published yesterday by Al Jazeera. It's the first op-ed I've published there in ten years, so it's an auspicious development. My KPFA Flashpoints interview discussing the subject can be heard here. For those who don't remember their medieval history, during the Spanish Inquisition the newly … [Read more...]
American Jewry Must Break with Judeo-Nazism
The American Jewish community has long been known for temporizing when it comes to the excesses of Israel. No sin was ever too great, no massacre too bloody to be excused or forgiven by the grey white male eminences of the Jewish élite, and their wealthy 1% donors. Israel is to the Diaspora what notorious mobster, Whitey Bulger, was to his distinguished … [Read more...]
