Current events aside, the fundamental reason to favor the Palestinian cause over the Zionist project is not that the Israelis are Western and the Palestinians are not. That's knee-jerk woke "decolonial" claptrap, which does the Palestinians no favors. There's nothing...
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Israel Has Backed Itself Into a Corner on Post-War Gaza Occupation, Diplomats Say
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,...
TGIF: Ahad Ha’Am’s Prophetic Warning about Political Zionism
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...
Anti-Zionism Is NOT Anti-Semitism
Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro says what needs to be said -- and he said it two years ago, before the clowns in the House of Representatives (Thomas Massey and a few others excepted) decreed otherwise. I have nothing to add.
TGIF: Inspiration for the Nakba?
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...
TGIF: Jewish Dissent on the Balfour Declaration
In the fateful year 1917 the British cabinet had one Jewish member: Edwin Montagu. He was also the only cabinet member to oppose the Balfour Declaration of that year, which paved the way for the self-declared creation of the state of Israel, the so-called Jewish...
Is War Inevitable? Lessons From History w/ Scott Horton
https://youtu.be/5_dZBu3zJxw The chronic Middle East crisis goes hack--as do many crises--to World War I. The British, in return for mobilizing the Arab peoples against their oppressors of imperial Turkey, promised the Arabs their independence when the war was over....
Amid War on Gaza, Scores of Palestinians Killed By Israeli Forces, Settlers in the West Bank
Amid Tel Aviv’s massive bombing campaign against the densely populated, besieged Gaza Strip, Israeli forces and illegal settlers have been on a rampage of violence, terror, torture, and murder throughout the occupied West Bank. On October 7, Hamas carried out a...
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