Once Again This Year, the UN General Assembly Repeatedly Voted Overwhelmingly to Criticize Israel. Why?

January 3, 2022 International Support, United Nations, Zionism

by Peter Larson, published on Mondoweiss, December 31, 2021 Again in 2021, the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly passed 14 resolutions aimed at criticizing Israel (and supporting the Palestinians). On every resolution, only a handful of countries (among them the USA, Canada and a sprinkle of small Pacific island nations) stood with Israel. Some others abstained. The assembly debates the […]

What’s behind Zionist Cancel Culture? Turning ‘Racism’ Upside Down

January 4, 2021 Zionism

December 15, 2020 Tim Anderson In recent times western left-liberalism has been criticised for its ‘cancel culture’, because of an obsession with language and individual identity politics. Yet reactionary cancel culture has been around much longer, with its McCarthyist purges. To this reactionary camp we should add ‘zionist cancel culture’ (ZCC), where those critical of the Israeli colony in Palestine […]

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The Collaborator’s Reward: the UAE, from Syria to Israel

September 7, 2020 Zionism

SEPTEMBER 05 ,2020 TIM ANDERSON What do Panama’s Manuel Noriega, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and the UAE’s Mohamad Bin Zayed (MBZ) all have in common? They dreamed that their collaboration with the imperial power would allow them the freedom to pursue their own ambitions. Very wrong. Once Noriega was employed by the CIA to betray compatriot nationalists and to be used […]

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Whats Wrong With the IHRA “working definition”Of Antisemitism

January 31, 2020 Israeli Apartheid State, Zionism

by Tim Anderson, published on Black Agenda Report, January 29, 2020 The idea that Israel cannot be targeted or criticized as a “racist endeavor” is an absurd suggestion. “Any state that practices ethnic cleansing andcivilian massacres, based on racial ideology, can and should becriticized for such serious crimes.” On 26 May, 2016 the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), a group which has […]

When a Whole Society Supports a Terrorist Organization

December 5, 2019 Political Construction of Israel, Zionism

by Jonathan Ofir, Published On Mondoweiss, November 12, 2019 After the 2008-9 Israeli onslaught on Gaza that took 1500 lives, a UN fact-finding mission concluded that the three-week campaign was “a deliberately disproportionate attack, designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population.” Note the word “terrorize.” But was this an isolated incident? Not at all. Israel has a long […]

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The Antisemitic Card

November 29, 2019 Political Construction of Israel, Zionism

by Finian Cunningham, published on Information Clearing House, November 17, 2019 It is a ludicrous situation when anyone criticizing Israeli state violations against Palestinians or neighboring countries is then instantly discredited as being “antisemitic”. We see this in Britain and the United States all the time. Congresswomen like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib have been denounced for being “anti-Jewish”, including […]

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The Case Against the Zionist Left

October 7, 2019 Zionism

by Yoav Litvin, published on CounterPunch, September 6, 2019 Zionist historical revisionism constructs an erroneous presentation of Israel as accommodating a left-to-right political milieu, the left-flank of which amenable to a peaceful resolution of “the conflict”, instead of recognizing the entirety of Zionism, including its “liberal” faction, as inherently white supremacist, settler colonialist and genocidal. The supposed left, “liberal” wing of […]

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