While Trump's Saudi visit was full of speechifying, pomp and circumstance; including receptions in gilded palaces and dinner feasts, the Israeli leg of his journey appears more like an old Mac Sennett Keystone Kops movie. It's been a minor fiasco from first to last. Even before he arrived Netanyahu's cronies were attempting to compel Trump to include the … [Read more...]
Knesset Votes to Ban Palestinian Parties, Destroy Israeli Democracy
Yesterday, the Israeli Knesset voted to ban Israeli Palestinian political parties from participating in future elections. It accomplished this evisceration of Israeli democracy in the dead of night with only 29 members voting in favor (20 brave souls voted against, the rest were apparently asleep at the switch). The means used was quite ingenious: the … [Read more...]
Israel “Legalizes” Settlements Built on Privately-Owned Palestinian Land
I really wanted to use the term "steals" in the headline. But I figured I better use a slightly less confrontational term there and then really let loose in the post itself. The Knesset just "legalized" the theft of thousands of dunams of land it doesn't own. It stole this land from private Palestinian landowners in a shady deal that is characteristic of … [Read more...]
Israeli MKs, NGO Monitor Invent False Anti-Semitic Claims Against BDS
Israeli and American Jewish media have become willing facilitators of yet another fraud perpetrated by right-wing MKs and their NGO counterparts. The Knesset foreign affairs committee began the fraud by titling the hearing, "Singling Out Jewish Students by BDS on U.S. Campuses." MK Anat Berko, who touts herself as a former IDF colonel and "expert" on … [Read more...]