Philip Weiss on the anti-genocide movement in US and how the Israel lobby is hitting back.
According to Weiss: "The students deserve the credit for the fact that Biden cut off 2000-pound bombs for Israel’s onslaught this week,"
But the reaction to Biden halting the bombs shipment was particularly fierce.
“Commentator Paul Mason, who is trying to become a Labour MP, slandered an audience member as antisemitic during a Q&A discussion at an event entitled ‘Is it worth voting Labour in 2024?’”
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“Mason has been caught trying to suppress discussion that exposes the UK political establishment through bogus antisemitism allegations. The commentator becoming an MP is the opposite of what we need.”
#US / Schumer: 'Israel Cannot Survive if It Becomes a Pariah'
[…] Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the highest ranking Jewish elected official in U.S. history and a pro-Israel stalwart, slammed Netanyahu as having 'bowed to the demands of extremists' and warning the Israeli government that it is 'testing U.S. standards for assistance'
This unprecedented call comes amid growing pressure within the Democratic caucus to condition U.S. military assistance to Israel, with eight senators urging #Biden to halt arms sales if Israel fails to improve aid provision to Gaza.
Schumer's speech has been praised by some as historic and gutsy, while the Republican Jewish Coalition accused him of undermining Israel and meddling in its domestic politics.
[cont'd] The Pro-Israel Right Wants to Eat Its Cake Too
@MickG59 title says it all, I think [apropos your comment]
[...] American foreign policy is today effectively handcuffed by the lobbying efforts of powerful special interest groups like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. These organizations are hellbent on ensuring that the U.S. provide Israel unstinting military, economic, and diplomatic support, even as its government rebuffs repeated U.S. requests to allow the creation of a Palestinian state in accordance with international law.
I don’t agree with #Guardian@guardian columnist Polly #Toynbee on much, given her full-throated betrayal of #Corbyn during the #IsraelLobby’s cynical fake #AntiSemitism assault on his leadership and the movement he inspired! Her subsequent sucking up to Sir-Keir-the-#KidStarver and her largely uncritical endorsements of his shifty, vacuous ‘policies’ makes me sick!
Nevertheless, I confess to being wholly in agreement with her assessment, in today’s Opinion piece, of the (let’s face it) totally ‘shite’ state of #English#education at all levels after 14 years of #Tory misrule! I just don’t have any confidence whatsoever that, (if elected in Holborn St Pancras in the next GE) a PM #Starmer will be ambitious enough for our children and young people to implement any of the worthy remedies she proposes for fixing our absolutely dire educational system!
“The #Tories have sucked the joy from the education system. Here are three ways #Labour can bring it back”
77th Brigade, collaborators, quisling traitors, disinformation, misinformation, lies, economic subjugation designed purely to keep Scots in their place and make the devolved government look shabby and not fit for purpose.
@JackTheCat They were (I believe) also involved in the campaign politically to destroy #Corbyn and the movement he inspired during his short tenure as Labour leader! Wherever his personal shortcomings (we’re all human after all), in a supposedly democratic society he deserved a shot at being Prime Minister! That he didn’t was imo down to the #IsraelLobby in cahoots with US & UK intelligence agencies
"The Lobby – USA" is a four-part undercover investigation by Al Jazeera into Israel’s covert influence campaign in the United States. Most people have never seen it because AIPAC got it shut down, as they've tried to do to the documentary "Israelism"
The coordinated and effective campaign to have her sacked – ostensibly for an innocuous post – has revealed the insidious and disproportionate influence of the Israeli lobby in the media and its determination to ensure there is only a one sided narrative in a news story of vital importance – the genocide has created a level of instability in the region that threatens a broader war. A one sided narrative in the media cultivates ignorance in the public and enables our leaders to maintain unquestioned entrenched support for Israel, not only with words but with supplies and intelligence, and possibly with armed forces should they see fit to do so. Attempts to interfere and prevent the interrogation of our foreign policy are anti democratic." https://johnmenadue.com/antoinette-lattouf-should-be-reinstated/ #AusPol#IsraelPalestineConflict#Israel#Palestine#Genocide#propaganda#disinformation#IsraelLobby
A donor of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) offered Democratic Senate candidate Hill Harper $20 mil to drop out of his Senate race and run instead against Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib.
Good on Harper for refusing but ask yourself how many American politicians are on the take with AIPAC.
“The Welsh government has announced that is formally opposing the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill. The legislation, better known as the ‘anti-boycott bill’, aims to stop movements like Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) influencing public bodies to join in. However, the Welsh government is recommending that Wales‘ Senedd withhold its consent – following on from the Scottish government making the same decision.”