America’s most powerful lobby, Aipac, had a problem. While it prided itself on being a bipartisan group, whose ardent support for Israel transcended Party, it really wasn’t that at all. Its major donors and most of its members were Republican. In fact, those donors overwhelmingly supported Republican Senate and House candidates. Forty of the GOP […]
Twitter Running Scared as Users Express Outrage at Israeli Aggression Twitter censors criticism of Israel just as bombs start to fall
The increasing violence around the Al Aqsa Ramadan protests, along with Israeli attacks on Gaza, have escalated social media outrage against Israel’s policies. In turn, social media platforms have become increasingly skittish about content that is deemed “controversial” (i.e. pro-Palestinian). We saw this last year during the Gaza attacks when many social media platforms engaged […]
Arab Jews: the ‘Nakba’ That Wasn’t Zionist claims of a historic mass expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands are largely hype, hasbara, and myth
Over the years, a recurring hasbara trope has accused Arab states of ethnically cleansing their entire Jewish populations in the years between 1948-1956. They marshal vivid maps displaying the numbers of Jews originally in these countries and how many are left currently. Phrases like “expulsion,” “refugee,” “Jewish Nakba,” and “pogroms” are bandied about as if […]
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 […]
