What percentage of American idiots are still buying this crap? Yesterday it was Trump again, now Sanders. How much are the Russians paying me to not notice that Peter Butt is the one they are really afraid of?!
Palestinians as Pawns
Trump’s “vision” for Palestine well illustrates that in his eyes (not to mention the eyes of Netanyahu, Kushner, and others), the Palestinians are mere pawns to be manipulated in the service of Israel’s and Trump’s designs. This can be...
TGIF: Trump Would Make Palestinian Subjugation Permanent
The fundamental flaw at the heart of Trump’s Palestine/Israel plan, presumptuously titled Peace to Prosperity: A Vision to Improve the Lives of the Palestinian and Israeli People, is that Trump — like his predecessors — believes that the Israelis are the...
TGIF: But Mr. Trump, Is Israel Lovable?
Speaking before Sheldon Adelson’s Israeli-American Council the other day, Trump took a shot at Jewish Americans who he says don’t “love Israel enough.” “We have to get the people of our country, of this country, to love Israel...
Jewishness Is Not a Nationality
On Wednesday, Donald Trump signed an executive order that implicity defines Jewishness as a racial or national catetory and not as just a religious category. The order further reinforces the Department of Education’s power to sanction colleges that receive...
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Lions of Liberty Interview
I was a guest on the Lions of Liberty podcast to talk about Coming to Palestine. You can listen to the interview here.
TGIF: To Be or Not to Be a Jewish State: That Is the Question
Israel’s champions owe us an explanation. First, they insist that Israel is and always must be a Jewish state, by which most of them mean not religiously Jewish but of the “Jewish People” everywhere, including Jews who are citizens of other states and not looking for...
Word Order Matters
What people of good will seek for Israel and Palestine is not just a peace, but a just peace.
The Double Essentialism of Zionism
Zionism, the Jewish nationalist philosophy that underlies the state of Israel, entails two kinds of essentialism: Jewishness for Jews and anti-Semitism for gentiles. In other words, no matter how hard they try, Jews cannot stop being Jewish and gentiles cannot stop...
Rights of Return Compared
Israel’s defenders often ask how third-generation Palestinians can possibly be recognized as refugees with a right of return to the properties from which the Zionists drove their grandparents in 1947-48. But didn’t those Zionists, most of whom had arrived...
Let’s Make Sure the Nazis Killed in Vain
I don’t know how many times I’ve heard that if we don’t stand by Israel, the victims of the Nazi Judeocide will have died in vain. I knew something was wrong with that claim, but for the longest time I couldn’t put my finger on it. Now I think I can. The claim...
