The Jewish Daily Forward – Two French Jews were sent to prison for placing a bomb in 2012 under the car of an anti-Zionist journalist in Paris. The two men, identified only by their last names, Bismuth and Benhamou, were sentenced on June 20 by a judge from the Versailles Correctional Tribunal to six months […]
By Francis Boyle. Media With Conscience – I first met Fouad in December of 1976 when I interviewed for a job as an assistant professor at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University when he was already on the Faculty there as an assistant professor. My faculty lecture was highly critical of Israel, strongly supportive […]
John Whitbeck’s commentary: Transmitted below is a thoughtful article by Stephen Kinzer on America’s destructive role in the world and its consequences for the United States and the world. My only quibble with this article is the assertion that the “intended result” of America’s 2003 invasion of Iraq was “to prevent Iraq from becoming a […]
The House’s Defense Appropriations Bill gives the Iron Dome anti-missile system $131 million more than funding in the previous fiscal year provided. Haaretz – The U.S. House of Representatives increased funding for Israel’s missile defense systems. Included in the House’s Defense Appropriations Bill approved last week is $351 million for the Iron Dome anti-missile system, […]
By Robert Fantina. Counterpunch – The media is reporting that three teenagers living in illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine are missing, and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated, on evidence he has not chosen to share, that they have been kidnapped by Hamas. In response, he has unleashed a new level of terrorism against Palestinians […]
John Whitbeck’s commentary: Transmitted below is an appeal by Hanan Ashrawi to the “international community”, which, between the disintegration of Iraq and the excitement of the World Cup, appears to have lost all interest in Palestine, the fundamental human rights to which the Palestinian people are entitled and the abuses to which they continue to […]
On June 12, 2014, it was announced that three Jewish teens who had been hitchhiking in the West Bank were missing. The government of Israel immediately accused Hamas of abducting them. What actually happened to the teens is unknown; Hamas has denied involvement in their disappearance, and no demands or credible claims of responsibility have been made by any party. […]
By Mike Whitney. Eurasia Review – “It is no longer plausible to argue that ISIS was a result of unintentional screw ups by the US. It is a clear part of a US strategy to break up the Iran-Iraq-Syria-Hezbollah alliance. Now that strategy may prove to be a total failure and end up backfiring, but […]
Jewish Telegraphic Agency – Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the minority leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, named Hannah Rosenthal, a longtime Jewish activist, to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. Rosenthal, whose June 17 appointment was announced by USCIRF on Thursday, is the president of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation. She served in […]
View entire program: View individual speakers: Panel 1: How does the Israel lobby influence Congress? Paul Findley – Should the executive outmaneuver Congress to save Palestine and Israel? Paul Findley is a former 11-term Republican U.S. Congressman from Illinois. He served in the Seabees in the South Pacific during WWII. He has […]
