History News Network, 12/19/08 – Given the context in which he operated—the necessities of the Cold War tilting the United States toward conservative Arab states; a U.S. public opinion far less favorable to Israel than what exists today, when both nations face the common threat of radical Islamist terrorism—LBJ was the most pro-Israel President in U.S. […]
Redress 2/17/14 – The Israeli secret service Mossad is so riddled with religious recruits that it has hired an official rabbi to advise agents and employees on a wide range of issues, the ultra-right-wing Israeli news website Arutz Sheva 7 reports. The website quoted a Mossad source as telling the Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv that there are many religious people in […]
By Jonathan Cook. CounterPunch, 2/13/14 – Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rarely been so politically embattled. His travails indicate the Israeli right’s inability to respond to a shifting political landscape, both in the region and globally. The context for his troubles was his commitment in 2009, under great pressure from a newly elected US […]
By Stuart Littlewood. Redress, 2/12/14 – The head of the Holocaust Educational Trust, Karen Pollock, has once again succeeded in wringing an apology from a British MP for remarks about what happened to Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe and what is happening now to Palestinians in Israeli-occupied Gaza and the West Bank. “Offensive” truth During the same parliamentary debate in which Sir […]
By Ramah Kudaimi. End the Occupation, 2/14/14 – American television network NBC is cooperating with Israeli authorities and the Keshet Media Group, an Israeli media company, to produce a new action series that will be set and shot in occupied East Jerusalem. The series, DIG, will be aired later this year on the USA cable channel. Nir […]
By Allan C. Brownfeld. In a thoughtful new study guide issued by the Israel/Palestine Mission of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), a question is asked which few have thus far been willing to pose: “Given the liberal values shared by many American Jews and the long, proud tradition of Jewish participation in the struggle for human […]
IRmep, 2/12/14 – For several years, IRmep’s Israel Lobby Archive has been trying to obtain and publish FBI files (PDF) about Israel’s Mossad intelligence and covert operations service. Our key argument for release is that the FBI routinely releases files about Russian and Chinese spies, including interview transcripts and surveillance video. Appeals of FBI denials to the […]
AntiWar.com, 2/10/14 – It may seem like an incredibly lazy and not particularly inventive strategy, but Israel is willing to bet that, amid threats of a new push for boycott and divestment from the settlements, they can slander boycott advocates into silence. Israel held a whole special “ministerial meeting” on the matter recently, according to the […]
Everyone remembers the Israeli athletes murdered during the 1972 Olympic games, but no one commemorates the hundreds of people (mostly civilians) killed by Israel’s heavy air attacks in Syria and Lebanon launched the following day. By Alison Weir. Counterpunch, 2/11/14 – The Washington Post has published a moving article, “Russian Jews remember Israeli athletes murdered at 1972 […]
ADC, 2/6/14 – Today in Congress an unconstitutional bill was introduced, and if passed it would stifle academic freedom, chill free speech, and penalize the use of non-violent means of resistance and protest against the Israeli occupation. The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has received a lot of attention in recent months, after various American […]
