After 10 weeks of Israeli military operations in Gaza, authorities have counted 20,000 dead Palestinians. An overwhelming number of the dead are innocent civilians with no ties to Hamas. An aid group warns the actual death toll is probably greater since thousands of...
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Israel Has Backed Itself Into a Corner on Post-War Gaza Occupation, Diplomats Say
by Connor Freeman | Dec 21, 2023 | News
As Israel continues its war against the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, killing approximately 20,000 people including mostly women and children, it is setting the stage for a future military reoccupation of the coastal enclave. Three Western diplomats,...
12/14/23 Sheldon Richman on the Long History of Jewish Anti-Zionism
by Scott Horton | Dec 18, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Sheldon Richman joins the show to debunk the ridiculous conflation of anti-zionism with anti-semitism. He and Scott review the long history of Jewish opposition to the Zionist project. That leads them to today’s fights over free speech in relation...
TGIF: Ahad Ha’Am’s Prophetic Warning about Political Zionism
by Sheldon Richman | Dec 15, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History, Justice, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Ukrainian-born Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg (1856-1927), whose pen name was Ahad Ha'Am (Hebrew for one of the people), was a proponent of Spiritual, or Cultural, Zionism, which made him a rival to Theodor Herzl and Political Zionism, the movement dedicated to creating a...
IDF Fires on Ambulance in Gaza and Arrests Medical Staff
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 13, 2023 | News
International Aid organizations report their staff attempting to provide medical assistance to the people of Gaza are facing abuse from the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). The IDF fired on a World Health Organization (WHO) medical convo. A senior doctor at a hospital in...
Yes, There Are Innocent Palestinians
by Trenton Hale | Dec 11, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Recently, conservative radio personality Mark Levin went to X to voice his opinion on the ongoing war in Gaza. He linked to an article written by D.W. Wilber, whose background is in U.S. intelligence. In the article, and repeated by Levin, Wilber claims, “So let’s get...
Palestinians Forced into ‘Safe Zone’ Face Nightmare Situation
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 10, 2023 | News
A region of Gaza deemed a “safe zone” by Israel amounts to a tent city lacking aid, medical facilities, running water or bathrooms. UN officials say the Israeli destruction of the besieged Palestinian enclave has pushed society to the verge of collapse. One such zone...
TGIF: Inspiration for the Nakba?
by Sheldon Richman | Dec 8, 2023 | Featured Articles, History, Justice, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The unspeakable violence that plagues Israel and Palestine daily relates in part to the assertion of an ancient, ancestral, and even divinely bestowed property right to a parcel of land, which is often called "holy" and "promised." For background, here are a few...
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NY Times: Fed Money Printing Doesn’t Cause Price Inflation!
The New York Times ridiculously tries to obscure how the Fed’s mad money printing caused mad price inflation.
Why I Pick on Israel
People close to me ask why I criticize Israel while ignoring the other bad governments in the world. (I guess they don't count the U.S. government as bad.) I have many reasons, but here's a big one: no other government (besides the U.S. government) claims to act in my...
Jill Biden: Stop it now! Joe Biden: She did not mean ‘stop’ it.
I told her to be quiet.
War is the Health, Wealth and Death of the State
“War is the health of the state.The American intellectuals, in their preoccupation with reality, seem to have forgotten that the real enemy is War rather than imperial Germany. There is work to be done to prevent this war of ours from passing into popular mythology...
The Logic of Eradicating Hamas
Is genocide logically required by Israel's stated objective of eradicating Hamas? It looks that way. Israel demonstrably believes that to wipe out Hamas, it must use overwhelming and indiscriminate force in the Gaza Strip, killing tens of thousands, wounding and...
Yes, UN Security Council Resolution 242 Is Legally Binding on Israel
Contrary to the claim made by ‘Destiny’ in a recent debate with Norman Finkelstein, UN Resolution 242 is legally binding on Israel.
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