Tag: Progressives
Who’s winning Bernie Sanders’s war on AIPAC?
Last week, 57 Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives signed a letter calling on the U.S. State Department and the FBI to launch an investigation into the death of Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian...
Let’s talk about the ‘nakba’ and who’s really responsible for Palestinian suffering
Resolutions proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives mean nothing. They give members an opportunity to pay lip service to various causes favored by their constituents but don’t commit the government to action. They...
Progressives introduce motion slamming Israel’s decision to blacklist Palestinian NGOs
Several progressive Democrats introduced an resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday criticizing the decision by Israel to declare six Palestinian NGOs as terror organizations.
Sponsored by Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.), it recognizes...
Gantz names six Palestinian NGOs as terror groups, US asks Israel to clarify
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said on Friday that six Palestinian NGOs will be listed as terror organizations for their close ties with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
“Those organizations were...
Comedian Sarah Silverman calls out ‘Squad’ for trying to block Iron Dome funding
Jewish comedian and actor Sarah Silverman criticized “The Squad” of left-wing Democratic lawmakers over recent attempts to block U.S. funding for Israel’s Iron Dome air-defense system.
Referring to Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.)...
The baleful significance of the Democrats’ Iron Dome fiasco
According to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, when the Democrats withdrew from their embattled spending bill $1 billion in emergency funding for Israel’s Iron Dome defense system, this was merely a “technicality” that would...
Bennett, Gantz thank US after lawmakers overwhelmingly approve Iron Dome funding
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Defense Minister Benny Gantz posted messages of thanks to the United States minutes after the House of Representatives voted in favor of supplying Israel with $1 billion worth...
‘The Squad’ keeps inciting Jew-hatred, and their party keeps accepting it
Scapegoating Jews for the problems in a society has always been a central feature of Jew-hatred.
Since well before the German agitator Wilhelm Marr first utilized the phrase “anti-Semitism” in the late 19th century (to make Jew-hatred sound race-based, scientific...
Why are ‘progressive Jews’ defending Ben & Jerry’s?
If you thought that American Jews were going to unite against discrimination in ice-cream sales, you were wrong. The decision of the Ben & Jerry’s company to “end sales of our ice-cream in occupied Palestinian territories”...
The left slides into acceptance of anti-Semitism
As far as some of Israel’s most vicious critics were concerned, it was the sort of thing that gave their critiques of Zionism a bad name. It was difficult to pretend that the decision...