A pro-Israel organization, the JCRC of Boston, provided an all expense paid trip to Israel for ten Massachusetts state senators…. such trips violate ethics and conflict of interest standards By L. Michael Hager, CounterPunch Last December, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston (JCRC), a pro-Israel lobbying organization, provided an expense-paid, ten-day trip to […]
Michael Douglas pledges to combat anti-Israel activity on campus, the first time that a Hollywood celebrity has offered to join with a world Jewish leader to visit U.S. college campuses and speak with students about Israel and the Jewish people. JTA — American actor Michael Douglas and Jewish Agency head Natan Sharansky will visit three U.S. […]
Like all ambitious U.S. Presidential candidates, Trump swears loyalty to Israel… pledges to move US embassy to Jerusalem… but tells Jewish Republicans they won’t support him because he doesn’t need their money – “You want to control your own politician” Jerusalem Post Donald Trump said he would move the US Embassy to Jerusalem. “They want […]
Including the festering Israel and Palestine conflict, which has taken on its current form due to the connivance of Washington as Israel’s patron, all of the unrest in the region is quite plausibly a direct or indirect result of American missteps By Philip Giraldi I had expected that there would be little in last week’s […]
Hillary Clinton’s article is a fawning, maudlin essay, typical of the writing of anyone seeking national political office in the U.S. who knows they must pay homage to their Israeli lord and master… By Robert Fantina, CounterPunch Although the United States is still ten months from its next exercise in electoral futility, most polls do not indicate what […]
The inclusion of Iran in the bill does not have anything to do with the war against ISIS. The American neoconservatives and their congressional allies continue to believe that Iran constitutes the most serious threat against Israel, so it has to be pressured incessantly no matter how it behaves… If pushed to its logical conclusion, the […]
Two key propaganda themes used to advance violent “regime change” in Libya in 2011 may have originated with rebel-inspired rumors passed on by Clinton’s private adviser Sidney Blumenthal (father of author Max Blumenthal) By Robert Parry, Consortium News To justify U.S. “regime changes,” the U.S. government has routinely spread rumors and made other dubious claims which […]
Even though “diversity” has become obligatory on the Left, this requirement is not applied to the “pundits” who are allowed to speak on Israel – and on the films Frontline will broadcast… Thomas s. Harrington, CounterPunch, “Are US Relations With Israel a Proprietary Matter? The People at PBS’ Frontline Seem to Think So” There are numerous templates available […]
Did some Jewish organizations and Congressional representatives violate U.S. laws on behalf of Israel? Philip Giraldi The Wall Street Journal story revealing that the Barack Obama administration used the National Security Agency (NSA) to listen to phone calls made by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his aides is being spun in a […]
Bethany Koval, 16, said she has family in Israel and grew outraged about the country’s treatment of Palestinians in 2014 after seeing video of civilians bombed in Gaza by Nathan Tempey, Gothamist Administrators at a northern New Jersey high school are getting angry phone calls from Palestinian rights activists after a junior there says administrators accused her […]
