This is an expanded version of an article recently published in Middle East Eye: In 2008, in the midst of a historic presidential campaign that would bring Barack Obama to the White House, a group of liberal Zionists disenchanted with the stranglehold Aipac had on Israel-related discourse in the U.S., founded an alternative Lobby. The […]
Minnesota and Michigan Elect First Muslim-American Women to Congress: Times They Are A-Changin’
NOTE: I have published two reports at Middle East Eye on the campaign waged against Jeremy Corbyn claiming he is anti-Israel and anti-Semitic; or that the Labour Party he leads is guilty of these charges. My latest piece was published earlier today there. Please read and promote on social media. Last week’s national elections brought […]
J Street Blackwashes Israeli Apartheid, Supports West Bank Investment
These are hard times for the liberal Zionist group, J Street. It had bet all its money on a horse named Hillary to win the election. It expected for the next eight years it would serve the same role as it did during the Obama presidency (i.e. “Jews for Obama”). Her ignominious loss upended J […]
Bernie, Reinstate Simone Zimmerman
Bernie Sanders just made a bone-headed move. Two days ago, he hired Simone Zimmerman, past national student president of J Street U, a liberal Zionist lobbying group closely affiliated with the Democratic Party. Apparently, Zimmerman over a year ago posted a few feisty things about Bibi Netanyahu (oh my gosh, she even said “Fuck you, Bibi!”) […]