As an Arab, an uprooted Palestinian, the AIPAC annual conference is interesting for me to follow, not because I expect anything good from it, but because this is the annual event in which U.S. leaders show their real mettle. Unfortunately, it was always disappointing for me and others in the Middle East, but we understand [...]

If it is true that the power belongs to the people in America, and Congress still answers to the people, then what force prevents the people from rising up to demand that Congress answer to the people’s will? The answer to that question is that the “silent majority” is only silent because they have [...]

Howard Berman, Congressional Foreign Affairs Boss, Cites Israel as a Prime Motivator in His Politics, Then Calls Israel Lobby a ‘Total Canard’ [Via: Mondoweiss]

On February 20, Congressman Howard Berman, the soon-to-be-chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, visited the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association in his Los Angeles district. During the Q-and-A, a couple of audience [...]

I got the link to this video today from the infamous Zionist propaganda called giyus(dot)com.

Of course they are distributing it for an evil reason. Watching them since inception (during Zionist war on Lebanon last year), they have never spread anything of good use, but only spread hate and being a warmongers who miss no opportunity [...]

Carter was demonized by the Israel Lobby for his use of this word, but some experts consider Carter’s choice of words to be an euphemism for the continuation of what I. Pappe and N. G. Finkelstein call “the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. “Forty years ago the Lobby was sufficiently powerful to force President Lyndon Johnson [...]

ICH - The question Americans asked in the immediate aftermath of the horror of 9/11 was “Why do they hate us?” And in many American minds the “they” of the question were not only the violent Islamic fundamentalists who, according to the official version of events, were solely responsible for bringing down the Twin Towers, [...]

Here is a new example that shows how the Israeli Lobby censors free political debate in America:

[Via: Mondoweiss]

At an appearance at Columbia University tonight, Stephen Walt, a Harvard professor and former dean, said that he and University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer were slated to speak Image by: Carlos Latuffat Google headquarters recently to discuss [...]

Image by: Carlos Latuff

By Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD

“Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor [...]

Below is an Op-Ed by Jewish Voice for Peace Communications Director, Cecilie Surasky which appeared in today’s Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
(In case you are interested in publishing it on your website or email list. Surasky has given her permission for it to be run in full.)

Dissenting at your own risk
By CECILIE SURASKY
Special to the Star-Telegram

Last [...]

Pressure Builds on University of Michigan

Pluto Press Under Attack by Israel Lobby
By ROGER van ZWANENBERG

About three weeks ago Pluto books and the University of Michigan Press - our US distributor - came under attack by Stand With Us (a Zionist lobby group) who were objecting to the publication of Overcoming Zionism by Joel Kovel which [...]