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3Aug

By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments

Politics, USA

When Cruelty Builds Community

Posted by David Klion Adam Serwer, a staff writer at The Atlantic, is one of the most astute observers of the tide of nativism and hatred that powered Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency. (He’s also a fellow product of Temple Sinai in Northwest Washington, DC, which my parents still attend, and a mensch.) His essays dismantle the argument that economic anxiety determined the Republican Party’s current trajectory, drawing deeply on American history to show how white supremacy has always been integral to our political divisions, and continues to explain them now. I recently interviewed Adam about his first book, The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump’s America, released last month. It takes its title from a massively viral ...

Holder, Barr, DOJ and FBI Outed in Slimy Plot Against Assange

2Aug

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Politics, United Kingdom

Holder, Barr, DOJ and FBI Outed in Slimy Plot Against Assange

BY PIERRE SPREY Julian Assange. Drawing: Nathaniel St. Clair. A careful read of this stunning investigative piece in Iceland’s Stundin newspaper reveals that in June 2011 Eric Holder (no doubt with Obama’s enthusiastic approval) initiated a disgraceful FBI frame-up of Julian Assange. Displaying their usual incompetence, the FBI thoroughly screwed up the Holder framing assignment by coming up with a child-molesting embezzler and sociopath as their spy and agent provocateur within the Icelandic branch of Wikileaks, thereby creating such a mess that the Minister of the Interior had our federal gumshoes thrown out of Iceland. Undeterred by the 2011 mess, in May of 2019 William Barr (probably with equally enthusiastic approval from his boss) step...

Ex-UK ambassador Craig Murray’s jailing is the latest move to snuff out independent journalism

2Aug

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Politics, United Kingdom

Ex-UK ambassador Craig Murray’s jailing is the latest move to snuff out independent journalism

Jonathan Cook writes: Craig Murray, a former ambassador to Uzbekistan, the father of a newborn child, a man in very poor health and one who has no prior convictions, will have to hand himself over to the Scottish police on Sunday morning. He becomes the first person ever to be imprisoned on the obscure and vaguely defined charge of “jigsaw identification”. Murray is also the first person to be jailed in Britain for contempt of court in half a century – a period when such different legal and moral values prevailed that the British establishment had only just ended the prosecution of “homosexuals” and the jailing of women for having abortions. Craig Murray Justice campaign@cmurrayjustice PRESS RELEASE: Craig Murray to be first person incarcerated in the UK over medi...

30Jul

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Politics, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Listen: Rallies, Surveys, and Ice Cream

by: Jewish Currents It’s been a rough few weeks for the “pro-Israel” establishment, from a pitiful showing at the “No Fear” rally against antisemitism (whose “big tent” excluded non-Zionists), to the release of a Jewish Electorate Institute survey of American Jewish voters showing surprisingly prevelant left-wing attitudes about Israel, to last week’s announcement that Ben & Jerry’s will stop selling ice cream in the occupied Palestinian territories. Editor-in-chief Arielle Angel, culture editor Ari M. Brostoff, assistant editor Mari Cohen, and contributing editor Joshua Leifer discuss these developments, what they suggest about evolving public opinion among American Jews, and what questions they raise about Jewish institutional engagement and political education.https://open....

Spare Us Your Covid Hypocrisy, Republicans

28Jul

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Politics, USA

Spare Us Your Covid Hypocrisy, Republicans

Some GOP leaders have done an about-face on vaccines. But they’re to blame for the pandemic’s ongoing spread—and always will be. By Joan WalshTwitter Alabama Governor Kay Ivey. (Kim Chandler / AP Photo) Republican Alabama Governor Kay Ivey got a lot of attention last week when she urged her constituents to get vaccinated as a new wave of Covid cases crowded hospitals and ICUs. “I want folks to get vaccinated. That’s the cure. That prevents everything,” she told reporters on Thursday, adding, “It’s time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks. It’s the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down.” Someone should tell Ivey that in her state unvaccinated folks are the “regular folks”—only 39.6 percent of eligible Alabamians are fully vacci...

If ‘Israel’s’ high court rules against Jewish settlers in Sheikh Jarrah, judges’ children will need bodyguards

26Jul

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Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, Politics, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

If ‘Israel’s’ high court rules against Jewish settlers in Sheikh Jarrah, judges’ children will need bodyguards

BY PHILIP WEISS ON NBC NIGHTLY NEWS, A SHEIKH JARRAH PROTESTER EXPLAINS TO KELLY COBIELLA THAT THE INJUSTICE OF ISRAELI OCCUPATION IS BACKED BY THE UNITED STATES. JUNE 13, 2021. SCREENSHOT. Israel’s high court is set to hear the case for evicting Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah in August, and a Jerusalem expert says the judges fear that if they side with the Jewish settlers who claim the houses they will become international pariahs. But if they side with the Palestinians who have lived there for generations, the judges’ own children will be the target of death threats from Israelis. Daniel Seidemann told the Israel lobby group Israel Policy Forum last week: If they write a verdict in support of the settlers, they won’t be able to go on sabbatical to Palo Alto...

How the IHRA definition of antisemitism is used to muzzle criticism of ‘Israel’ — the Winnipeg example

26Jul

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Palestine Affairs, Politics, ZIO-NAZI

How the IHRA definition of antisemitism is used to muzzle criticism of ‘Israel’ — the Winnipeg example

BY LARRY HAIVEN IDRIS ELBAKRI, FROM THE MANITOBA ISLAMIC ASSOCIATION, SCREENSHOT FROM YOUTUBE. 2019. Champions of the International Holocaust Memorial Alliance – Working Definition of Antisemitism (IHRA-WDA) insist that their definition is merely aspirational, meant only to rally opposition to hatred of Jews and is not legally binding. But an event in the Canadian city of Winnipeg is a perfect and lasting example of how toxic is the definition’s threat to freedom of expression about Israel and Palestine and how it is really meant to be used. It was the nightmare scenario that critics of the IHRA-WDA warn about and a lesson to all of us. On February 28, 2018 several Winnipeg organizations marked US President Donald Trump’s move of the US embassy to Jerusalem with a meeting at t...

‘Israeli’ response to Ben & Jerry’s announcement reveals ironclad consensus behind the settlements

26Jul

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Palestine Affairs, Politics, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

‘Israeli’ response to Ben & Jerry’s announcement reveals ironclad consensus behind the settlements

Meretz represents the far left of Israeli politics and even its leader says even he buys settlement products. This more than anything shows the overwhelming Israeli political consensus behind the settlements. BY JONATHAN OFIR NITZAN HOROWITZ ADDRESSES THE 2019 J STREET NATIONAL CONFERENCE (PHOTO: J STREET) The big news is ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s decision to stop selling their products in Israeli West Bank settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territory, all of which are flagrantly illegal by international law. The response in Israel was unhinged. From Prime Minister Naftali Bennett calling it “anti-Israel ice cream”, to his predecessor Benjamin Netanyahu calling for counter-boycott (“now we Israelis know which ice cream NOT to buy”), to the ce...

UK Court Denies Venezuela $1bn in Gold Needed to Fight Virus

22Jul

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Politics, United Kingdom, Venezuela

UK Court Denies Venezuela $1bn in Gold Needed to Fight Virus

Santiago de Chile, July 2, 2020 (venezuelanalysis.com) – The United Kingdom’s High Court has blocked the Venezuelan government’s effort to recover 31 tons of the nation’s gold held by the Bank of England (BoE). In a ruling handed down on Thursday, the court said it “unequivocally recognised opposition leader Juan Guaidó as president,” rejecting the Maduro government’s right to repatriate the gold belonging to the Venezuelan Central Bank (BCV). The BCV vowed to immediately appeal the “outrageous” decision, accusing the High Court of “trying to deny the Venezuelan people of the gold urgently needed to face the COVID-19 pandemic.” Since late 2018, the BoE has refused to return the gold in its vaults, which is valued at an estimated US $1.2 billion. On...

Chauvin trial week 2: The evidence is overwhelming

20Jul

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Human Rights, Politics, USA

Chauvin trial week 2: The evidence is overwhelming

Chris Banks Download PDF flyer In week two of the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, overwhelming evidence of his guilt continues to pile up. Week one was dominated by intense and heart wrenching eyewitness testimony from bystanders who cried, yelled and pleaded with Chauvin to let George Floyd live. But they were held at bay by armed police officers and left to watch as former Minneapolis cop Chauvin squeezed the oxygen out of George Floyd’s body while he begged to breathe. In week two, the prosecution moved into a different phase of its presentation. The focus shifted from neighborhood witnesses to what is referred to in the court system as “expert witnesses” — those who have professional expertise in an area relevant to the trial. Legally, the prosecution is trying to pr...