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The harm unlocked by tying criticism of the state of Israel with antisemtism hurts my heart Connecting criticism to antisemitism creates a short hand that allows bigots to attack Jews wholesale. It’s a cheap rhetorical trick that hurts in both directions. It is a lazy and cynical connection that obscures pain at the expense of…
Why has this failure attracted so little attention? Why, for example, has it not even been mentioned by either side in the course of the Presidential election campaign? The answer, quite simply, is that the strategic rationale for the mission turned out to be spurious. “Vital shipping lanes” are not actually vital at all. The…
In a statement to Congress on May 10, Blinken said, “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting the transport or delivery of U.S. humanitarian assistance.” Before his statement to Congress, Blinken received a 17-page memo from USAID on Israel’s conduct, obtained by ProPublica, which described instances of Israel…
Don’t you worry about anti-Semitism? And to that, I say no. I believe anti-Semitism will be fine.
… to point out that Mr Netanyahu and Mr Ben-Gvir will be listed amongst history’s monsters.
This is pretty much the only thing Winny and I will ever agree on… but I heartily commend him for making this speech. Foreign Minister Winston Peters has delivered a hard-hitting speech to the United Nations about the war in Gaza, calling it “an utter catastrophe” and accusing the Security Council of failing in its responsibility.…
Funny how the people who were sending me Twitter links about kids in ovens aren’t sending me this link: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMajorityReport/comments/1bz76ci/children_of_gaza/
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