Posts Tagged: Israeli Occupation
Tlaib and Omar Can Make History If They Choose
Congresswomen Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) plan to visit Israel and the Palestinian territories during the August recess. Tlaib, a Palestinian-American, has said that she...
Palestinian Leaders Don’t Actually Care About the Lives of Palestinians
American leaders visited Israel this week, following up on the US-sponsored Bahrain economic workshop. The goal of America's continued expenditure of diplomatic time and energy...
Gaza ‘Victim’ Exposed With His AK-47
On August 4, HonestReporting critiqued a feature in The Sunday Times by advocacy journalist Sarah Helm. Given her track record of lies and distortions, it...
J Streeters Duped on Alternative Tour of Israel
JNS.org - Non-profit advocacy group J Street has recently been campaigning against Birthright Israel, an educational program that sponsors free 10-day heritage trips to Israel...
Time to Stop Feeding the ‘Crocodiles’
JNS.org - A rare phenomenon occurred in Israel a few days ago: Mohammed Saud -- a law student from the University of Riyadh, a Saudi...
The Palestinians Continue to Reject Any Settlement with Israel
In recent years, amid the rounds of fighting in Gaza, of which the most notable were Operation Cast Lead (2008-09), Operation Pillar of Defense (2012),...
Decades After the Holocaust, We Still Live in the Twilight Zone
A popular show on Netflix is Black Mirror, which is often compared to The Twilight Zone, which ran from 1959 to 1964. Those of us...
The Price of Palestinian Frustrations
JNS.org - Saudi blogger Mohammed Saud fell victim to Palestinian outrage last week during a visit to Jerusalem. Saud was part of a delegation of...
Palestinian ‘Human Rights’ NGO Named After Rachel Corrie Can’t Figure Out Any Moral Reason Not to Kill Jews
The Rachel Corrie Palestinian Center for Human Rights appears to be one of these NGOs that spring up in the Palestinian territories seeking funds from Europe...
Taxpayer-Funded Israel Hate in Takoma Park, Maryland
On Tuesday, July 23, the municipality of Takoma Park, Maryland, spent taxpayer dollars to screen a vicious and dishonest film about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The...
Getting Human Rights Right at the State Department
JNS.org - At the US State Department, human rights have generally been a not-so-high priority. The big kahunas tend to focus on war and peace,...
The Far Right Is Antisemitic — and So Is the Radical Left
I’m sitting in Charlottesville, Virginia -- the city where the ugly "Unite the Right" rally took place two years ago that gripped the nation. The...
I Am a Liberal — Are You?
I am a liberal. And I’m here to take back the word from those who have hijacked it for their illiberal agendas. I am a liberal. Which means...
Hamas Backtracks on ‘Kill Jews Worldwide’ — But Not on Foreign Sleeper Cells, Bomb Belt Factories, or Stabbing Jewish Civilians in Israel
Both Hamas and Fathi Hamad himself have distanced themselves from Hamad's remarks on Friday, saying that Hamas was ready to attack all Jews worldwide. Hamas said: These...
