According to a recording obtained by the Observer, in 2006 Hillary Clinton told the editors of the Jewish Press: “I do not think we should have pushed for an election in the Palestinian territories. I think that was a big mistake. “And if we were going to push for an election, then we should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win.”
Two emails to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta from Neera Tanden, head of the think tank Center for American Progress, lay bare the influence of Zionist money on the political process as nothing else has.
Nada Elia reflects on the Standing Rock Sioux Nation’s defiant resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline and its intersections with other struggles for justice: “Standing Rock “isn’t” about Palestine. Standing Rock “isn’t” about Black Lives. Standing Rock “isn’t” about climate change. Standing Rock is about all of this, and all of us together. But ultimately, Standing Rock matters because it is about the Sioux Nation, and the indigenous people of this land.”
Ma‘an reports: “Israeli authorities have banned 5-year-old Ibrahim from visiting his father, Palestinian Muhammad Ahmad Abd al-Fatah Abu Fanunah, in prison, Abu Fanunah’s wife said to Voice of Prisoners (Sawt al-Asra) radio on Sunday. Umm Mahmoud told the radio station that she has also been banned from visiting her husband ever since he was detained on Oct. 22, 2015, calling the Israeli policy of preventing family visits a means to pressure Palestinian prisoners.”
Jeffrey Goldberg says Jewish students are “ill equpped” and “anti-intellectual” in dealing with the Israel Palestine issue. In order to be thought of as liberal, they’re replacing the simplistic Leon Uris narrative with an equally simplistic anti Israel narrative.
‘One state or two states who cares? What matters is equality’ — NYT columnist Roger Cohen quotes Palestinians on the oppression they experience in Israel and all but states the two-state solution is over.
The rise of anti-Semitism is real. But the use of false anti-Semitism charges to justify Zionist crimes is a lamentable and important trend, Lillian Rosengarten writes.
A video published by Electronic Intifada shows Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank throwing stones at Palestinian schoolchildren in the village of al-Tuwani on 27 October. The Israeli soldiers are supposed to protect the children from attacks by Israeli settlers in the area.
Ari Shavit, maybe the most influential Israeli journalist in the United States recent years, was shunned by major Jewish institutions in recent days, following his coming forward as the unidentified author who “groped, grabbed and pulled” American journalist Danielle Berrin in 2014.
When it comes to aiding Israeli Apartheid, American Express is just another brick in The Wall, according to a new report. Roger Waters, lead singer behind Pink Floyd, lost a multimillion dollar American Express sponsorship for his 2017 US+Them tour after expressing solidarity this month with Palestinian students trying to end Israel’s apartheid system of military occupation using the same protest tactic that helped dismantle South African Apartheid (and, earlier, America’s Jim Crow): Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS.