An older generation of Americans, including Jewish Americans, admire the colonists who resisted the British king and parliament in the late 1700s. Jewish Americans go further and admire the Judeans who revolted against the Greeks and Romans (twice) in antiquity. So...
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Disparity
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 21, 2022 | Blog, Foreign Policy
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“Coming to Palestine” Discussed on Podcast
by Sheldon Richman | Nov 23, 2021 | Blog, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism
I discussed my Libertarian Institute book Coming to Palestine on the podcast The Enragés (a project under the auspices of the Center for a Stateless Society).
Richman Talks Israel-Palestine on Decentralized Revolution
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 16, 2021 | Blog
I discussed Israel-Palestine with Aaron Harris on the Mises Caucus's Decentralized Revolution podcast. Watch and listen here.
Palestine/Israel Erupts Again
by Sheldon Richman | May 14, 2021 | Blog, Justice
In Coming to Palestine I defended, from a libertarian perspective, the Palestinians against Israeli/Zionist oppression. I am reluctant to repeat that case in a far shorter form here, but the horrendous current events throughout Palestine/Israel, including the Gaza...
Individual, Not National, Self-Determination Should Be the Goal
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 5, 2021 | Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman
Jeff Halper, the American-born, Israel-based veteran human-rights activist is heroic. He has dedicated his life to working for justice for the Palestinian victims of Israeli settler colonialism, much of that as the director of the Israeli Committee Against House...
Trump and Netanyahu’s Plan B
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 14, 2020 | Blog, Justice
Trump and Netanyahu first tried to bribe the Palestinians into capitulating to the Israeli imposition. But the two men failed. So now they are executing Plan B: bribing the Arab states' rulers to give up even the pretense of championing the Palestinians in their...
Prophetic Jewish Anti-Zionists
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 23, 2020 | Blog, Justice
When Peter Beinart, a self-described liberal Zionist, abandoned the two-state resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict and embraced one state with equal rights for all, he quickly drew the ire of orthodox Zionists, some of whom went so far as to describe Beinart as...
To Annex or Not to Annex — Is the Question Moot?
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 22, 2020 | Featured Articles, Justice, Sheldon Richman
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who remains under a cloud of personal corruption, had more or less promised to annex some of the West Bank in July. He's let his deadline slip, we've been told, because he doesn't want to proceed while his buddy Trump is...
Philip Weiss Interviews Rashid Khalidi: The Hundred Years’ War On Palestine A History Of Settler Colonialism And Resistance 1917-2017
by Steven Woskow | May 13, 2020 | Blog
https://mondoweiss.net/2020/05/rashid-khalidi-hundred-years-war-book-interview/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-email-mailpoet The book is compelling for its understanding that Zionism and its friends have waged a century of aggression...
TGIF: Trump Would Make Palestinian Subjugation Permanent
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 31, 2020 | Foreign Policy, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
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 aggrieved...
Time To Break The Silence On Palestine
by Steven Woskow | Jan 17, 2020 | Blog
"To hold fast to the image of God in every person is to insist that the Palestinian child is as precious as the Jewish child.” From an excellent op-ed at The New York Times by Michelle Alexander. Rabbi Brian Walt, who has spoken publicly about the reasons that he...
TGIF: But Mr. Trump, Is Israel Lovable?
by Sheldon Richman | Dec 13, 2019 | Sheldon Richman, TGIF
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 more," Trump said. "We have to get them...
No Comment Necessary
by Sheldon Richman | Nov 21, 2019 | Blog
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The Capitalist Competition Myth
Capitalism involves far more cooperation than competition—think of the number of mutually beneficial transactions you’ve had today compared to the number of competitions you’ve been in today - Chris Freiman, author of Why It's OK to Ignore Politics Democratic...
Blame Mexico? Blame Neocons! Blame Big Pharma! Blame the USA!
ABC News: If fentanyl is so deadly, why do drug dealers use it to lace illicit drugs? I have an alternative explanation. America has been fighting endless wars almost the entire century. Many have come home from these never-ending wars with injuries and pains. Doctors...
My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
Empower the Workers: Decriminalize Economic Activity Between Consenting Adults
The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided by the existence of many employers. As we have seen, a person who has only one possible employer has little or no protection. The employers who protect a worker are those who would like to hire...
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