The Department of Defense has been involved in the production of over 800 movies and over 1,100 U.S. TV shows.
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If Israel’s name becomes toxic in the world of culture, the dam holding political change back might begin to break.
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The pro-Israel crowd on social media was quick to pounce on award-winning Irish novelist, Sally Rooney, as soon as she declared that she had “chosen not to sell … translation rights of her best-selling novel, ‘Beautiful World, Where Are You’ to an Israeli-based publishing house”. Expectedly, the accusations centered on the standard smearing used by Israel and its supporters against[Read More...]
Ben & Jerry’s decision to suspend its operations in the occupied Palestinian West Bank is an event that is proving critical to Palestinian efforts, which ultimately aim at holding Israel accountable for its military occupation, apartheid and war crimes. By responding to the Palestinian call for boycotting apartheid Israel, the ice cream giant has delivered a blow to Israel’s attempts[Read More...]
With deceptively edited videos and dubious allegations, the Israel lobby has manufactured an antisemitism epidemic to turn the media’s gaze away from dead children in Gaza. Following an 11-day assault on the Gaza Strip in which the Israeli army killed over 220 people, including more than 65 children, and days of videotaped rampages of Jewish extremist mobs against Palestinian people and property inside Israeli cities, Israel lobbyists in the US and Canada have launched a carefully coordinated public relations campaign […]
Apartheid Si l’actuel ministre de l'(In)Justice déclare vouloir interdire la lutte des militants BDS au prétexte que cette campagne est discriminante vis-à-vis d’un Etat, alors il a raison quant au motif allégué mais tort quant à la conclusion qu’il en tire. En effet, il s’agit de mettre à l’index et de mettre au ban un système qui revendique explicitement la […]
In a political climate that broadly supports Israel both financially and ideologically, a student group at Columbia University has beaten the odds, passing a referendum that calls for circumspection of its school’s investment in the state.
What makes this accomplishment particularly striking is the fact that Congress and U.S. states are currently considering – or in many cases, have already passed – legislation to do the exact opposite.
Linda Sarsour, a prominent Palestinian American activist, got the cold shoulder from the Biden campaign last week, followed by a sotto voce apology – but an elephant lingers in the room with the initials B.D.S.
Sarsour has worked across the progressive agenda on issues running from immigration, mass incarceration, and Black Lives Matter, to name a few. But her position on free speech has overshadowed all the rest, and made her an outcast – at least temporarily – from the Joe Biden campaign.
C’est la CEDH qui l’affirme : oui, il est permis de critiquer Israël, et d’appeler au boycott de ses produits afin que cet état cesse sa politique raciste d’apartheid et de colonisation envers les palestiniens. Le texte qui suit nous a été envoyé par Olivia Zémor, de l’association CAPJPO-EuroPalestine. Pour rappel, la campagne BDS est âprement combattu par l’état d’Israël […]
Hezbollah has never been charged with any crimes in Germany nor does it have an official presence in the country.…
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