Accidents of Eccentricity: Israel’s Pacific Hold
Cunning, subtle, understated. Israeli policy in the Pacific has seen United Nations votes cast in its favour, the foreign policies of certain countries adjusted, and favours switched. While China may…
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War With Hamas Is Damaging Israel’s Economy, Says Moody’s
The war with the Palestinian militant group Hamas is costing Israel at least $269 million a day and is expected to hit the country’s economy harder than previous conflicts, ratings…
Is there not a single Jew left on Planet Earth who can replace this insane, Netanyahu?
It speaks volumes for the total political bankruptcy of this prosperous, enterprising, educated and powerful community spread across the globe in not being able to provide the necessary impetus for…
The consequences of apartheid in Israel and of US government support for such apartheid – Part 4. Antisemitism and Paradigm for Peace Recommendations
This is the conclusion of the series on Israel and the Palestinians. When asked in June to write a memo on the consequences of apartheid in Israel, I identified and…
The consequences of apartheid in Israel and of US government support for such apartheid- Part 2 of 4. Hearing the varied voices of Zionism
The Israeli government’s systematic, unkind, unjust, and brutal discrimination against Palestinians routinely violates Palestinians’ human and legal rights and denies them the fulfillment of their human needs, not only for…
Resolving Israel’s Dilemma
Israel’s dilemma has been how to construct a racially pure state and extinguish the Palestinian presence in the country without the world noticing the genocide. It has found the solution…
The consequences of apartheid in Israel and of US government support for such apartheid- Part 1 of 4. Tending the fronts of conflict
On Wednesday, October 25, 2023, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated, “Our war against Hamas is a test for all of humanity. It is a fight between the Iran-Hezbollah-Hamas axis…
Islamophobia is what explains Indian media’s love for the colonial state of Israel
Secretary-General of the of the United Nations, António Guterres tweeted on X(formerly twitter) “This most recent violence does not come in a vacuum. The reality is that it grows out of…
Tel Aviv’s Losing Brands: Israeli ‘Coup’ and the Death of False Democracy
From its very onset, Israel has constructed a brand for itself, a powerful gimmick that was predicated on two main pillars: democracy and stability. The main target audience for this…
Goodbye to Political Zionism, Hello to Religious Zionism
The meteoric rise of the Religious Zionists, a sleight of hand that outdoes master Netanyahu, surprises everyone and delights few. How did this happen, who let it happen, and what…
Zionism and Israel
Zionism The term Zionism is derived from the word Zion that in the Hebrew language and cultural-historical tradition of the Jews refers to the citadel (acropolis) of the city of…
Israel’s Crisis Is Not about Democracy but Occupation
On July 24th, the Israeli Knesset passed a measure forbidding the country’s High Court of Justice from in any way checking the power of the government, whether in making cabinet decisions or…
Irredentism and the Palestinian Crisis – It is not only Settler Colonialism
Defining Zionism as an Irredentist movement and subjugation of the Palestinians as a result of irredentism is not mere polemics; it is the most essential feature in understanding the past,…
Balancing Act is over: Israeli Protests are Not about Democracy, but Ideology
The late Israeli commentator, Uri Avnery, wrote, "I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle … is assuming a more and more religious character." At first glance, the statement may…
US and Israel: Is the ‘Unbreakable Bond’ Finally Breaking?
Israeli President Isaac Herzog added nothing of great value in his speech at the United States Congress on July 19. His was the typical language. He spoke of a ‘sacred…
Netanyahu’s coalition rams through judicial coup law in Israel
On Monday, just before the Knesset’s summer recess, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition, of his right-wing Likud Party, ultra-religious parties and fascist parties based on settlers on the West Bank,…
Ever Again – Setting the Stage for the Genocide of the Palestinian People
Israel still has plenty of land for population expansion and its preference to expand by stealing land from Palestinians indicates that nonchalantly making others invisible is a metaphor for making…
Not On Our Dime!’: Why US Democrats Are Growingly Challenging Israel
Though the United States remains a strong supporter of Israel, there are some indications that the supposed 'unbreakable bond' with Tel Aviv is faltering, though more in language than in…
Apartheid Israel Among World’s Leading Countries For Militarization, Violence, Abuse And Genocide
Nuclear armed, serial war criminal and international law-violating Apartheid Israel is a genocidally racist settler-colonialist obscenity, and ranks on a per capita basis among the world’s top militarized countries in…
Why I’m Saying No to the IDF as a 17-Year-Old
As my birthday approaches, I grow more and more anxious because a professional organization of trained terrorists that calls itself an army wants me to be one of them. And…
Zionazism: Genocidally Racist Apartheid Israel Is Presently Attacking 5 Countries
Western Mainstream media (MSM) are reporting the Israeli police violence against worshippers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, token rocket responses by Palestinians, and horrendously disproportionate Israeli bombing of Gaza, Lebanon and…
Israeli Protests: Racist Western Mainstream Media Ignore The Palestinians
The Western Mainstream media (MSM) are extensively covering the massive Israeli protests against threats to judicial independence by the new extreme right wing Netanyahu government. However the pro-Zionist, pro-Apartheid Israel…
‘Israel is (Not) Back to Africa’: How African Countries are Challenging Israeli Plot on the Continent
The scene of Israeli Ambassador, Sharon Bar-Li, along with other Israeli delegates, being escorted out of the opening ceremony of the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on February…
Active ‘Neutrality’: Why Is Israel Struggling to Maintain a Coherent Position in Russia, Ukraine?
For a whole year, Israel has struggled in its attempts to articulate a clear and decisive position regarding the Russia-Ukraine war. The reason behind the seemingly confused Israeli position is…
A State for Some of Its Citizens: Captured Black Soldier’s Saga Highlights Racism in Israel
“For how long will I be in captivity? After so many years, where are the state and the people of Israel?” These were the words, uttered in Hebrew, of a…
Israel’s crimes-after-crimes ignore international law
Israel’s pogrom to obliterate the Palestinians from the land is ongoing with a vigor and revenge that is picking political momentum. Whether that will work in its intent is another…
Israel: More Right and Too Little left
There is much consternation about Israel’s move sharply rightward under Netanyahu’s new government, but it is really just a move to more overt fascism, by which is meant rule by…
For the UAE and others, its business as usual with Israel
For the United Arab Emirates, it’s business as usual as Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s newly formed government wastes no time in implementing hardline policies aimed at forcing Palestinians…
Israel Was Never a Democracy: So why is the West Lamenting End of ‘Liberal’ Israel?
Even before the new Israeli government was officially sworn in on December 29, angry reactions began emerging, not only among Palestinians and other Middle Eastern governments, but also among Israel’s…
The UN General Assembly Drags Israel To The World Court
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voted last week to refer Israel to the International Court of Justice (World Court) for its on-going violation of the right of the Palestinian…
Apartheid Israel, Genocidally Racist Zionism & Key Existential Nuclear, Poverty & Climate Threats
The 8,000 million people in the world today are acutely and existentially threatened by nuclear weapons, deadly poverty and ever worsening man-made climate change. Yet as set out below, nuclear…
Chasing a Mirage: How Israel Arab Parties Validate Israeli Apartheid
Regardless of the outcome of the latest Israeli elections, Arab parties will not reap meaningful political benefits, even if they collectively achieve their highest representation ever. The reason is not…
Israel is an Apartheid State
The Indo-Palestine Solidarity Network (IPSN) is a network of like- minded people drawn from all parts of the country committed to justice and freedom for Palestine. It seeks an end…
Worsening Chaos: Israel’s Political Instability is Now the Norm
The collapse of the short-lived Israeli government of Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid validates the argument that the political crisis in Israel was not entirely instigated and sustained by former…
Palestinians ‘Are Bound to Win’: Why Israelis Are Prophesying the End of Their State
While it is true that Zionism is a modern political ideology that has exploited religion to achieve specific colonial objectives in Palestine, prophecies continue to be a critical component of…
Apartheid Israel Among World Leaders For Killing Children
Apartheid Israel highly abusively occupied 78% of Palestine (1948-1967) and thence 100% for the 55 years after 1967. In the Occupied Palestinian Territories Apartheid Israel leads the world for killing…
UN report declares “perpetual occupation” as “the underlying root cause” of Israeli-Palestinian conflict
A report commissioned by the United Nations’ Human Rights Council states that Israel's “perpetual occupation” of Palestinian areas and its refusal to end it underpin the tensions between Palestinians and…
The Greatest Replacement
What is now called Israel, and should rightfully be called Palestine, is the result of the greatest replacement of the last centuries. The forces that shaped 18-year old Payton Gendron…
Constantly on the Verge of Collapse: How Palestinians Became a Factor in Israeli Politics
Israel’s coalition government of right-wing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is on the verge of collapse, which is unsurprising. Israeli politics, after all, is among the most fractious in the world,…
Israel is a Jewish Problem
Militarized Israel has seized control of the mindset of the Jewish people. Israel is a Jewish problem. and the Jewish people, if they want to be considered a just, humane, and…
Can Israel Exist without America: Numbers Speaks of a Changing Reality
When Russian and Ukrainian delegations meeting in Turkey on March 29 reached an initial understanding regarding a list of countries that could serve as security guarantors for Kyiv should an…
Israeli Apartheid: It is Time for the Canadian Government to Take Action
Michael Lynk is the UN Special Rapporteur for the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied after the 1967 nakba. He is Associate Professor of Law at Western…
The Billion Dollar Deal that Made Google and Amazon Partners in the Israeli Occupation of Palestine
“We are anonymous because we fear retaliation.” This sentence was part of a letter signed by 500 Google employees last October, in which they decried their company’s direct support for…
On Palestine’s Everyday Victories: Why Israel is No Longer the Exception
Can Israel be pressured? Or is Tel Aviv the only exception to the global political order in which every country, big or small, is subjected to pressures and subsequent change…
Jewish pro-Israel group attacks local pro-Palestinian activists: Progressives are silent
The following is an email I wrote on February 20 to a group of progressive political activists from Syracuse, NY, a city less than one hour’s drive west from where…
We Need to Talk About the Jewish National Fund
The world took little notice last month when over 100 Bedouin, a third of them minors, were arrested in the Negev/Naqab desert in Southern Israel. They were protesting the Jewish National…
Palestine/Israel Crisis Resolved!
As awareness of the Palestinian crisis grows and empathy for the Palestinian people increases, organizations search frantically for a solution to Israel’s continuous theft of Palestinian lands and oppression of…
Africa Must Not Abandon Palestine by Granting Israel Observer Status
The current split in the African Union (AU) over Israel’s Observer membership status is emblematic of a larger conflict that could potentially split the African continent’s largest political institutions. Africa…
Amnesty International report on Israel’s apartheid challenges world to speak truth to power
On February 1st, 2022 Amnesty International released a report titled, “Apartheid Against Palestinians is a Cruel System of Domination and a Crime Against Humanity”. Amnesty’s report declares, says Agnes Callamard,…
Amnesty’s Israeli Apartheid Report Versus Zionist, IHRA & US Lies
Amnesty International’s 2022 report exposing and condemning Israeli apartheid has provoked false allegations of lying and anti-Semitism from the mendacious and genocidally racist Zionists and their US Alliance supporters. In…
The Curious Case of the State of Israel – A Country Without Borders
This month’s publication of Amnesty International UK’s report on Israel and the occupied territories represents the latest declaration of Israel as an apartheid state by an established NGO. It can…
Amnesty International Calling Israel an Apartheid State shakes the Zionist state
Amnesty International's declaration of Israel as an apartheid state was a resounding announcement that resonated worldwide. The importance of this announcement is that it came from an organization with a…
US corporate media and Israel
Israel is greatly concerned about the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) effort that seeks: 1) to end international support for Israel's oppression of Palestinians; and 2) to pressure Israel…
Instead of Freeing Palestinian Prisoners, New Scheme Aims at Punishing Their Families
A scheme is underway to withhold or to reduce payments made by the Palestinian Authority to the families of Palestinian prisoners. According to Israeli media, the Biden Administration has requested…
Can Israel Stop the World from Saying ‘Apartheid’? Concealing the Suffering in Palestine
On January 27, 2022, the Hebrew-language news site Walla published part of the text from a telegram sent by Amir Weissbrod—who is part of the Israeli Foreign Ministry—to Israeli embassies around the…
Israel’s Hasbara in Sheikh Jarrah: On Gilad Erdan’s ‘Terrorist’ Rock and Faulty Logic
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, is leading his country’s anti-Palestinian propaganda, this time engaging in pre-emptive hasbara in anticipation of a Palestinian response to the ongoing evictions…
Thank Goodness Ilan Pappe is no Longer Alone on the Barricades
Haaretz, the liberal Zionist Israeli newspaper, along with much of the world, has come a long way since the advent of the BDS movement on the international political scene, and…
How Israel’s ‘Facebook Law’ Plans to Control All Palestinian Content Online
It is ironic that even former right-wing Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had rejected a Knesset (Israeli Parliament) bill which proposed to give the government greater power to control and…
The Smearing of Emma Watson
by Sut Jhally & Roger Waters Anyone who has ever been critical of Israeli actions toward the Palestinian people knows what to expect next—an avalanche of pit-bull attacks and smears…
The US enables criminal Israeli behavior
Given all the attention focused on the covid-19 pandemic, the Build Back Better bill, the January 6th attack on the Capitol and the media-hyped crises over Ukraine and Taiwan this…
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