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Nazi’s new radical leadership wastes no time provoking anger
Palestine Affairs, ZIO-NAZI

Nazi’s new radical leadership wastes no time provoking anger

Israel’s new radical leadership wastes no time provoking anger Itamar Ben Gvir's raid of the Al Aqsa compound has strained the Abraham Accords and made it harder for Arab states to justify continued normalization with Israel. BY MITCHELL PLITNICK   ITAMAR BEN-GVIR LEADES INCURSION INTO THE AL AQSA MOSQUE COMPOUND IN JERUSALEM, JANUARY 3, 2023. (PHOTO: SOCIAL MEDIA) On January 3, Israel’s new National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir of the fascist Jewish Power party visited the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount, in an attempt to stir controversy. He succeeded.  The United Nations Security Council called an urgent meeting on Thursday to discuss this incident, after many countries voiced their outrage. Even the United States had some mild criticism of Israel o...
David Grossman and Zionist fragility
Literature, ZIO-NAZI

David Grossman and Zionist fragility

Liberal Zionists like David Grossman have to own up to their ideology and admit that Israel's drift towards the right is because of Zionism, not in spite of it. BY JONATHAN OFIR   DAVID GROSSMAN AT THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL WRITERS FESTIVAL IN JERUSALEM ON 11 MAY 2008. (PHOTO BY OLIVIER FITOUSSI, IMAGE RETRIEVED FROM FATHOM JOURNAL WEBSITE) Last week, one of Israel’s most celebrated authors, David Grossman, responded to Benjamin Netanyahu’s looming announcement of the most rightwing, religious-fundamentalist government in Israel’s history, with an article in Haaretz, titled: “For Israel, There Is No Way Back From Netanyahu’s Chaos” I would like to begin by stating that Grossman’s piece is full of typical left-Zionist delusion, as I will explain below. But before I...
Another prominent Zionist admits the project failed
Palestine Affairs, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Another prominent Zionist admits the project failed

Hillel Halkin moved to Israel from the U.S. 50 years ago as a committed Zionist. Now the author confesses the project failed because it could not deal with Palestinian demands, and he was naive. BY PHILIP WEISS   HILLEL HALKIN, PHOTO FROM JEWISH HERALD-VOICE 2022. We have closely followed indicators that the Jewish community is turning on Israel in the shock of its new fascistic government, and here’s another sign. Hillel Halkin, a committed Zionist of 83, who moved from the U.S. to Israel in 1970, writes in the Jewish Review of Books that Israel is doomed. “We’re over the cliff and falling.” And nothing will save it from the “abyss” of messianic rightwing politics. Israel’s leaders avoided the central issue of Palestinian rights, Halkin, an author and translator,...
Harvard axes fellowship for expert who affixed ‘apartheid’ label on ‘Israel’, evidently under donor pressure
Palestine Affairs, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Harvard axes fellowship for expert who affixed ‘apartheid’ label on ‘Israel’, evidently under donor pressure

Harvard axes fellowship for expert who affixed ‘apartheid’ label on Israel, evidently under donor pressure The Nation documents that Ken Roth--the man who stuck the apartheid label on Israel as head of Human Rights Watch -- lost a fellowship at Harvard's Kennedy School because of his criticism of Israel. BY PHILIP WEISS   DOUGLAS ELMENDORF, HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL DEAN. PHOTO BY STEPHANIE MITCHELL/HARVARD UNIVERSITY. There is an excellent piece in the Nation this week by Michael Massing documenting that Ken Roth–the man who affixed the apartheid label on Israel as head of Human Rights Watch in 2021 — lost out on a fellowship at Harvard’s Kennedy School last year because of his criticism of Israel. Massing quotes Roth and a Kennedy School official saying the offer f...
Nazi Ben Gvir just banned the Palestinian flag
Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Nazi Ben Gvir just banned the Palestinian flag

Itamar Ben Gvir just banned the Palestinian flag The new Israeli Minister of National Security banned the display of the colors of the Palestinian flag in public spaces. It is the latest Israeli attempt to erase Palestinian identity. BY MARIAM BARGHOUTI   RIGHT-WING POLITICIAN ITAMAR BEN GVIR AT DAMASCUS GATE IN JERUSALEM’S OLD CITY, JUNE 2021. (PHOTO: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90) On Monday, January 9, the Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, banned the display of the Palestinian flag in all public spaces.  This order is one in a recent string of escalating attacks on Palestinians by the newly formed ultra-rightwing Israeli government.  The Israeli minister wrote on his personal Twitter account that he “directed the Israel Police to enforce the pr...
16-year-old Amer Abu Zaytoun fourth Palestinian killed by Nazi army
Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

16-year-old Amer Abu Zaytoun fourth Palestinian killed by Nazi army

16-year-old Amer Abu Zaytoun fourth Palestinian killed by Israeli army this week Amer Abu Zaytoun, 16, was shot and killed with a bullet to the head when Israeli forces invaded Balata refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. BY MARIAM BARGHOUTI   MOURNERS ATTEND THE FUNERAL OF PALESTINIAN TEENAGER AMER ABU ZAYTOUN, 16, KILLED IN CLASHES BETWEEN PALESTINIAN MILITANTS AND ISRAELI FORCES DURING AN OVERNIGHT RAID ON BALATA REFUGEE CAMP IN THE TOWN OF NABLUS, ON JANUARY 5, 2023. (PHOTO: MOHAMMED NASSER/APA IMAGES) On Thursday, January 5, Israeli forces shot and killed Amer Abu Zaytoun, 16, from Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus. Abu Zaytoun is the fourth Palestinian and the third minor to be killed this year, a continuation of last year’s lethal military campaign, Operat...
Palestinian prisoners call this bus a ‘moving grave’
Palestine Affairs, ZIO-NAZI

Palestinian prisoners call this bus a ‘moving grave’

Israel uses numerous tools to control and abuse Palestinian prisoners. One of the lesser-known instruments of repression is a seemingly innocuous means of transportation: a bus. BY GHADA HANIA   AN ISRAELI “BOSTA” OR DETAINEE TRANSPORTATION VEHICLE, USED TO TRANSPORT PALESTINIAN PRISONERS IN CRUEL AND INHUMANE CONDITIONS. (PHOTO: PALESTINIAN MINISTRY OF DETAINEES’ AFFAIRS) The Israeli regime uses numerous tools to control and abuse Palestinian prisoners. Most of them constitute severe violations of their rights, including their rights under international humanitarian law. These violations are tacitly supported by the silence of the international community, which fails to hold the Israeli state to account. One of the lesser-known instruments of repression is a seemingly innocuo...
New history challenges ‘Israel’s’ hold on western imagination
Palestine Affairs, ZIO-NAZI

New history challenges ‘Israel’s’ hold on western imagination

Suarez provides an epic presentation of new and existing research, depicting a narrative of relentless Zionist aggression and arguing that the Nakba of 1948 was over before it started. BY STEVE FRANCE   SOLDIERS FROM THE NASCENT ISRAELI ARMY 8TH BRIGADE TAKE UP POSITIONS DURING THE PALESTINE WAR IN OCTOBER 1948. (PHOTO: KLUGER ZULTAN/STORE NORSKE LEKSIKON) PALESTINE HIJACKEDHow Zionism Forged an Apartheid State from River to Seaby Thomas Suarez470 pp. Interlink Publishing, $25.00 One of the greatest triumphs of Zionism is to have neutralized reaction to its genocidal expulsion of the Palestinians in 1948, the Nakba. Even after Israel’s own “New Historians” exposed the irrefutable facts, in the 1980s, the Western world’s fixation on “Israel’s right to exist” scarcely budged. Ba...
New York Times’s Thomas Friedman and the myth of liberal ‘Israel’
USA, ZIO-NAZI

New York Times’s Thomas Friedman and the myth of liberal ‘Israel’

By Lawrence Davidson Mistaking a myth for reality Israel is in the process of putting together an aggressively racist right wing government under the leadership of the unprincipled Binyamin Netanyahu. This is not the first such repugnant government Israelis have elected. Indeed, at least three prior times in its short history, the Israeli Jewish electorate has chosen ideologically committed fanatics (in those cases, having the additional allure of terrorist pasts), as their leaders: Yitzhak Shamir, Ariel Sharon and Menachem Begin. Nor were these judgments of the electorate exceptions that were somehow contrary to Israel’s national character. They were all, as is now also the case, logical outcomes of a national point of view – represented by Israel’s Zionist state ideology ...
US Sanctions Target Iranian Drone Manufacturer
Iran, USA

US Sanctions Target Iranian Drone Manufacturer

The US imposes new sanctions against Iran, this time targeting an Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles manufacturer under the unsubstantiated and disproven pretext that the Islamic Republic has provided Russia with the UAVs to be used by Moscow against Ukraine. The United States Treasury Department slapped the sanctions on Friday against six executives and board members of Iran’s Quds Aviation Industries (QAI). It described the targeted body as a key Iranian defense industry manufacturer responsible for designing and producing drones. The Islamic Republic has, on repeated occasions, roundly rejected Washington’s allegations. Last month, Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani said Ukrainian officials had failed to provide any evidence for their cl...