After former IDF Gen. Yair Golan failed to be named army chief of staff, he decided to enter politics, as almost all generals and spy chiefs do in Israel. A natonal security state raises all these figures on a gold pedestal. They tend to see their heroes as defenders of the state. The more Arabs […]
Manzanar to Palestine: Legacy of Internment and Ethnic-Cleansing
Last night, I watched a fascinating PBS documentary, Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust. We all know, or think we know about Manzanar. It was the “flagship” incarceration camp for interned Japanese Americans during World War II (there were others in Arizona and Idaho). The World War II iInternment decreed by Pres. Rooselvelt, was the […]
Aipac Astroturf Groups Plow $30-Million into Defeating Progressive Democrats Democratic Majority for Israel and United Democracy Project sow division in Democratic Party
America’s most powerful lobby, Aipac, had a problem. While it prided itself on being a bipartisan group, whose ardent support for Israel transcended Party, it really wasn’t that at all. Its major donors and most of its members were Republican. In fact, those donors overwhelmingly supported Republican Senate and House candidates. Forty of the GOP […]
New CAIR Report: $105-Million Donated by Major US Foundations to Islamophobic Groups Jewish pro-Israel donors gave 20% of overall funding
The American Muslim defense organization, CAIR, published a new account of Islamophobia in America, Islamophobia in the Mainstream. It reports that wealthy US foundations gave $105-million between 2017-2019 to hate groups with an Islamophobic agenda. It examined the 50 largest US foundations and focussed on 35 which gave the funds to 26 organizations. Among the […]
