This week, thirty world leaders are converging on Jerusalem to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. I wrote about it in my new piece for Middle East Eye. All appearances to the contrary, this is not an official "Israeli" commemoration. Despite the fact that the country's president is welcoming the dignitaries and Yad VaShem is serving as … [Read more...]
American Judaism is Dying
I wish all of you a happy, healthy and sweet New Year. May we all be inscribed in the Book of Life. DONATE: I created a Facebook Fundraiser on my birthday to support my activism, journalism, and research; along with my fiscal sponsor, the Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media. If you have a Facebook account I invite you to make a donation. My headline … [Read more...]
Netanyahu Offers to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza at His Own Expense
If at first you don't succeed in ethnically-cleansing Palestinians, try, try again. This time, it appears that Bibi Netanyahu is floating the sham proposal that Israel would pay for the airfare of any Gazan willing to abandon his/her homeland. To show you what a 'generous offer' this is, it will even transport Gazans from that enclave to an Israeli airport … [Read more...]
Frederick Douglass, the 4th of July, and the Nakba
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...]
