A few months ago, while doing online research, I came upon Frederick Douglass' famous 4th of July speech, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July, which he delivered on July 5 1852. As I began reading it it electrified me. Not so much the speech itself, which is indisputably one of the great artifacts of American political oratory, but its piercing … [Read more...]
Trump’s Plan to Destroy the International Consensus Over Refugees and Israel-Palestine
NOTE: This is an expanded version of a piece published by Middle East Eye recently. Though Pres. Trump’s Middle East “deal of the century” hasn’t been publicly announced, elements of the plan have dribbled out via leaks in the media and from Palestinian leaders. In the latest bit of Chinese water torture, Pres. Mahmoud Abbas told a visiting Israeli Peace … [Read more...]
Liberal Zionists Oppose Expulsion of African Refugees But Deny Nakba
NOTE: Thanks to Middle East Eye for publishing my latest piece today on Vice President Mike Pence's failed Middle East trip, in which even Jesus closed his door to him (Palestinian Christians refused to welcome him to Bethlehem). Give it a read and please share on social media. As I wrote yesterday here, Israel's far-right government has, true to form for … [Read more...]
The Case for Palestinian Return
The film, Dr. Strangelove bears the subtitle, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. An alternate, somewhat subversive title for this post might be: "How Israelis Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Right of Return." 972 Magazine published a post by Tom Pessah which advocated for full recognition of Palestinian Right of Return (ROR). … [Read more...]
