Israel Lobby
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Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss, October 25, 2015 Assaf Gavron The leftwing movement of criticism of Israel is getting more and more mainstream by the second. Everyone is walking the path; they’re just getting there a little later. The Washington Post, a hotbed of neoconservative ideas for the last 15 years, has another article harshly critical of…
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France’s highest appeal court has ordered the country’s major Jewish organization to pay damages Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 11 Apr 2014 Article falsely claimed charity raised money for Hamas France’s highest appeal court has ordered the country’s major Jewish organization to pay damages for falsely claiming that a charity supporting Palestinians collected money for…
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Students for Justice in Palestine – UW-Madison Chapter invites you to a teach-in on Academic Freedom and the Palestinian Popular Call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Thursday, April 17th 7:00 pm Union South Agriculture Room UW-Madison The speakers at the event are: Prof. Samer Alatout, Dept. of Community and Environmental Sociology; Prof. Phil Gasper,…
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I want to begin by thanking the members of AIPAC the Jewish Zionist community who are here tonight. I am glad that they decided to set aside time to express solidarity with the people of Palestine. I know that you will listen to the tapes and view the recordings of my remarks tonight and you…
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Joe Klein, Time, May 26, 2011 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of Congress in Washington on May 24, 2011 [Jason Reed / EPA] Of all the petty annoyances, misdemeanors and felonies of public life, there is none that Barack Obama detests more than to have his words twisted or oversimplified. It…
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‘I can continue defending you to the hilt, but if you give me nothing to work with, even America can’t save you.’ HELENE COOPER, The New York Times, May 22, 2011 WASHINGTON — President Obama struck back at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in a speech to a pro-Israel lobbying group on Sunday, defending…
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Thursday November 11 Madison Central Library 201 W. Mifflin St. [Map] 6:30 pm Film screening and discussion of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. Hosted by the Peregrine Forum to mark Veterans Day. For more information, call 442-8399. (Photo: Wikipedia)
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ALI ABUNIMAH, The New York Times, August 28, 2010 (Chicago) GEORGE J. MITCHELL, the United States Middle East envoy, tried to counter low expectations for renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations by harking back to his experience as a mediator in Northern Ireland. At an Aug. 20 news conference with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, announcing…
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O you who believe, stand up firmly for justice as witnesses to Almighty God. (Holy Quran, al-Nisa The Women 4:135) We bear witness to the absolute horror and tragedy of the Holocaust where over twelve million human souls perished, including six million Jews. We condemn any attempts to deny this historical reality and declare such…
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Mike Murray, Capital Times, Jan 8, 2010 Dec. 27 marked the one-year anniversary of Israel’s brutal invasion of the occupied Gaza Strip, which was commonly referred to as “Operation Cast Lead.” During this three-week act of aggression, Israel killed more than 1,400 Palestinians, injured thousands more, and destroyed billions of dollars of Palestinian civilian infrastructure.…
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Decision an Insult to the Victims Al Mezan Center For Human Rights, 3 October 2009 A Joint Press Release from Adalah * Addameer * Aldameer * Al Haq * Al Mezan * Badil * Civic Coalition for Jerusalem * DCI-Palestine * ENSAN Centre * Independent Commission for Human Rights * Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human…
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MARK YOUR CALENDARS: MRSCP WILL HOLD AN EMERGENCY FUND-RAISING EVENT AND MEETING ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 24 AT 4 PM. DETAILS TO FOLLOW. Here is video of the March of the Dead protest in Madison on January 6, 2009:March of the Dead protest in Madison The catastrophic collective punishment of 1.5 million people continues unabated in…
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“The Reality of Arms Control: From the Trenches” Madison Committee on Foreign Relations Wednesday, April 16, 5:30-7:30 pm Edgewater Hotel, Rigadoon Room, 666 Wisconsin Ave, Madison Registration and a fee required — for more information see wage.wisc.edu. Sponsors: Madison Committee on Foreign Relations; UW-Madison Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) and Middle…
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This e-mail was sent to the UW Middle East Studies listserver today, cancelling the Jeff Halper event tonight at Grainger Hall. The only problem is, the event was not cancelled, and no one knows who sent the e-mail. The Middle East Studies Program is investigating. Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:22:48 -0700 From: “U. Wisconsin…
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MIKE MURRAY, Cap Times, Jun 9, 2007 This week marks the 40th anniversary of the 1967 war in which, most Americans believe, a small, gallant Israel defeated powerful attacking Arab armies. A few brave Israeli historians now argue that this is a myth and that Israel’s 1967 pre-emptive attack on Egypt was a “war of…
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TONY JUDT, New York Times, April 19, 2006 IN its March 23rd issue the London Review of Books, a respected British journal, published an essay titled “The Israel Lobby.” The authors are two distinguished American academics (Stephen Walt of Harvard and John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago) who posted a longer (83-page) version of…
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John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, London Review of Books, 23 March 2006 For the past several decades, and especially since the Six-Day War in 1967, the centrepiece of US Middle Eastern policy has been its relationship with Israel. The combination of unwavering support for Israel and the related effort to spread ‘democracy’ throughout the region…
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JESSE McKINLEY, New York Times, February 28, 2006 Potential Off Broadway production of play My Name is Rachel Corrie is delayed because of concerns about show’s political content; play follows story of Rachel Corrie, idealistic American demonstrator and Palestinian rights activist who was crushed to death by Israeli bulldozer while trying to stop destruction of…
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Kathy Walsh, Madison-Rafah Sister City Project, November 11, 2005 In the Capital Times article on the divestment debate at UW you quote Professor Ken Goldstein: “When a Palestinian woman loves her child, and does not encourage 14-, 15-, and 16-year olds to strap bombs onto their body and blow up Israeli 3-, 4- and 5-,…
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Robert Dreyfuss, MIFTAH, August 09, 2005 Important new details of the U.S.-Israeli espionage case involving Larry Franklin, the alleged Pentagon spy, two officials of the American- Israel Public Affairs Committee, and an intelligence official at the Embassy of Israel emerged last week. Two AIPAC officials-who have left the organization-were indicted along with Franklin on charges…
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ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 4, 2005–A United Church of Christ (UCC) resolution demanding that Israel dismantle its anti-terrorism fence “is functionally antisemitic, which devalues the lives of the citizens of the Jewish state,” charged Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, of Los Angeles. “This immoral resolution, which cloaks itself in the language of…
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Sam Ser, THE JERUSALEM POST, July 1, 2005 The United Church of Christ is to consider divestment from Israel at its biennial General Synod assembly, which opens in Atlanta on Friday. A resolution submitted by UCC member churches in Hawaii suggests the church divest from American and Israeli companies “profiting from the perpetuation of violence…
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Two emails from Beshara Doumani June 28, 2005 Dear Friends, I want to alert you to a disturbing development on the academic freedom front: It is possible that the University of California Press might not, after all, publish the long-awaited book by Norman Finkelstein, Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of…
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But “Never in the modern history of the Jewish state has there been more outspoken public opposition on elite college campuses to the basic principles and tenets of Israel” NATHANIEL POPPER, Forward, June 24, 2005 It has become common for many Jewish activists and Israeli leaders to claim that Israel’s standing among university students and…
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Alan Dershowitz is on the defensive over his research on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Jon Wiener, The Nation, JUNE 23, 2005 What do you do when somebody wants to publish a book that says you’re completely wrong? If you’re Alan Dershowitz, the prominent Harvard law professor, and the book is Norman Finkelstein’s Beyond Chutzpah: On the…
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Palestine Media Center (PMC), June 11, 2005 In a report titled “The Myth of Incitement in Palestinian Textbooks”, the Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education has refuted as “unfounded” the Israeli and US allegations that Palestinian textbooks incite hatred and violence, ahead of attempts by some US Congressmen to attach conditions to direct US…
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Grainger Hall, University of Wisconsin 975 University Avenue Madison, WI 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM Dr. Norman Finkelstein, Professor of Political Theory at DePaul University and author of Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict will present this keynote address at the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation Upper Midwest Regional Organizing Conference. The…
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U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Anderson Auditorium, Predolin Hall Edgewood College, Madison 7:00 – 9:30 pm Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land This pivotal video exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites–working in combination with Israeli public relations strategies–exercise a powerful influence over news reporting about the Middle East conflict. Combining…
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B.J. Paschal, Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, December 1, 2004 DOES AN AMERICAN religious denomination such as the Presbyterian Church have the right to divest an $8 billion portfolio from Israel? Apparently not, according to the U.S. News & World Report, headed by Editor-in-Chief Mortimer B. Zuckerman and other pro-Israel embedded “journalists” such as John Leo. How…
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“My People are American. My Time is Today.” Lenni Brenner, CounterPunch, October 24, 2003 A friend once got a bit of a reputation by pointing out that “you don’t need the weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing.” But you do need a demographer to know which way the Jews are going. Some…
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Saturday, Nov 8, 2003 4:45-6:45 pm Red Gym Media Room Campus Information and Visitor Center 617 Langdon St UW-Madison This pivotal video exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites ó working in combination with Israeli public relations strategies ó exercise a powerful influence over news reporting about the Middle East conflict. Combining…