Tag: Israel
Similar to the way American conscientious objectors were treated in World War I
On December 26, 2023, Tal Mitnick, then 18, entered an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) enlistment center in Tel Aviv and publicly announced that he would refuse military service.
Subsequently, he was forced to serve 185 days in a...
The chief of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, Exterminator-in-Chief, Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu jumped on his plane and jetted from one International Criminal Court (ICC) denier, authoritarian leader, Victor Orban of Hungary, to another ICC denier in Washington,...
Talks are set to begin on April 12th in Oman between the United States and Iran about Iran’s nuclear program. The announcement was made as Benjamin Netanyahu left the White House after his second visit to DC in as many months...
Without U.S. support Israel’s leaders could have been compelled to seek a just resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict instead of pursuing a Greater Israel
In his 1983 book The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel & the Palestinians, Noam Chomsky argued against the grain that the Israelis had compromised their...
The Israeli government, with the full backing of the White House, has completely thrown out the January ceasefire and negotiations and resumed the genocidal bombing campaign against Palestinians in Gaza, which may be followed up by a full-scale ground invasion...
Contrary to Israel’s carefully constructed façade, the record shows that Tel Aviv has long supported Hamas for purposes of destabilization and peace-wrecking, only one of the many strategic expedients deployed by Israel to achieve a long-term goal: denying Palestinian statehood and expanding its own borders.
It has been now more...
Known as the “Pentagon on the Charles,” the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a poster child for the military-industrial-academic complex that was a well-known hub for student anti-war activism in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Campus protests against the Vietnam War at that time got MIT to disassociate itself...
According to its mission statement, “AFI FEST… showcase the best films from across the globe to captivated audiences in Los Angeles. With a diverse and innovative slate of programming, the film festival presents a robust lineup of fiction and nonfiction features and shorts… along with panels and conversations featuring...
As people in the United States sat down to Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners this past holiday season, Palestinians in Gaza on Day 419 of the Israeli genocide of Gaza—and U.S. complicity in that genocide—were facing starvation, lack of water, tents purposefully destroyed by U.S. bombs dropped by Israeli warplanes...
In late August, I traveled to Doha, Qatar, to meet and interview Hamas political bureau members Dr. Basem Naim and Osama Hamdan. After nearly four months of planning and coordinating, I was finally approved to come and conduct the interview at their diplomatic headquarters in Qatar. Given the security...
