Axois is reporting that several administration sources have said that Pres. Trump has specifically urged his own staff and Israeli officials to deny entry to Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, who plan a study trip to Palestine in the near future: Trump has told U.S. advisers, including senior Trump administration officials, that Israel should bar Omar and … [Read more...]
Trump Donor, Elliott Broidy, Paid Dennis Ross $10,000 to Publish Pro-Saudi Op-Ed in The Hill
The Daily Beast reports (paywall) that Trump donor, Elliott Broidy, recruited former Ambassador Dennis Ross to crank out op-eds flattering to the UAE and Saudi Arabia. After Ross informed him that The Hill would publish one of his pieces, Broidy told him to invoice him $10,000. Ross was paid. He is a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Peace … [Read more...]
Jews Without Mercy in Seattle and Washington DC
Earl Schorris wrote a wonderful book a few decades ago called Jews Without Mercy. It was a savage, incantatory attack in the era of Reagan on the Jews who first advanced neoconservatism and brought it to a wider audience. I thought of his evocative title when conceiving this blog post about the response of some Jews both in America and Israel to the moral, … [Read more...]
The Selling of the Israeli Surveillance State
I delivered this paper last month at the UC Berkeley conference, Virtual Internment: Islamophobia, Surveillance and Unequal Citizenship. It was sponsored by the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project directed by Hatem Bazian. The video of my talk is posted here. Israel’s military-intelligence apparatus specializes in developing cyber-technology, … [Read more...]
