Every few years, one Israel Lobby group or another identifies, recruits, grooms and promotes a new Muslim Zionist whom they can trot around to their events to show donors that not only is Zionist exceptionalism swell, but Muslims agree too. It reminds me of the passage from the Book of Numbers, in which the famed seer, Balam is hired by Balak, the King of … [Read more...]
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 victory to two … [Read more...]
Israel’s Dirty Little Secret: Massive Arms Exports to, and Secret Military Exercises with Muslim Nations
Yossi Melman, an eternal scourge of Israeli military censorship, has published yet another harsh critique of the IDF censor and its chilling effect on the Israeli media. He begins by noting that before Israeli Navy's Commando Force 13 intercepted and commandeered the Karina A, a ship carrying Iranian arms intended for the Palestinians, it rehearsed for the … [Read more...]
Al Aqsa Crisis: Despite Backroom Deals, Palestinians Continue to Resist
Just when Israelis and Jordanians were taking a deep breath at the bullet they both dodged, thinking they'd resolved the al Aqsa crisis, the common Palestinian folk rose up and said: "Not so fast." The fixers in Amman and Jerusalem thought they'd brokered a deal that gave both sides something. But they left out a key factor necessary to make the deal … [Read more...]
