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The Democratic Party Establishment And Lapdog Press: An Ongoing Disaster For Palestinians

June 9, 2016 By Yoav Litvin 1 Comment

President Barack Obama has been very kind to the most right-wing Israeli government in history.

The Obama administration, conjointly with Congress (in a rare act of bipartisan solidarity) has provided above and beyond the package of billions of American tax payer dollars in military aid, standard diplomatic immunity at the U.N. security council, plus, aside from some posturing during the very beginning of his presidency, has all but left Israel to do as it wishes in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). This has translated to egregious violations of international law by Israel and further Palestinian dispossession and bloodletting. It is unclear whether Obama’s reluctance to tackle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is due to his administration’s fatigue with Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu’s disagreeable personality and hopelessly corrupt government, or due to U.S. financial and military interests in sustaining the impasse.

Nevertheless and in spite of Obama’s unprecedented generosity, Bibi has disrespected the U.S. President on numerous occasions, most recently in a speech before Congress in a failed bid to derail the Iran nuclear deal. Some interpreted Netanyahu’s flagrant attempt to sabotage Obama’s work as an ugly expression of racism toward the first black President. Coincidentally and in another barefaced act of racism, two weeks after his speech to Congress Netanyahu falsely claimed Arab voters were coming out “in droves,” in a last minute appeal to promote voting for his Likud party. Ironically perhaps, “Likud” means “unity” in Hebrew.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, Media & Culture Tagged With: Barack Obama, BDS, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hillary Clinton, Israel, Palestine

Of Noodges And Nukes: Roseanne Barr Wants To Drop A Bomb On UC Davis

February 13, 2015 By Cindy Sheehan for the Soapbox People’s Network Leave a Comment

I’d like to thank the universal goodness that former comedian turned death monger Roseanne Barr does not (I hope) have access to nuclear weapons.

I say “former” comedian because in the last few years Barr has taken a decidedly unfunny turn and outlook on life.

After Barr accused Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein of being a “Zionist” in the 2012 Green Party primaries (which Stein won and Barr lost), and after running for president on the ticket of the stridently antiwar Peace and Freedom Party, Barr has used her Twitter account to become a mega-Zionist. I stopped following her after she urged Israel to nuke Iran. As a human being, nothing to me is more monstrous.

Recently, the person who used her acting skills to convince me and the Peace and Freedom Party that she was also about peace tweeted this to her almost 300k followers on Twitter:

Filed Under: Elections, Media & Culture, National News Tagged With: American imperialism, BDS, BDS Movement, boycott, capitalism, Davis, divest, divestiture, divestment, Dr. Jill Stein, election 2012, Green Party, imperialism, Iran, Israel, Jill Stein, Peace and Freedom Party, POTUS, Roseanne Barr, sanctions, social media, Twitter, UC Davis, University of California, War, Zionism

Martin Luther King’s Lost Speech & The BDS Movement

January 27, 2015 By Burkely Hermann Leave a Comment

Earlier this month Democracy Now! aired the audio of a speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., found by the the director of the Pacifica Radio archives, Brian DeShazor, about apartheid in South Africa and the struggle for black civil rights in the United States. Dr. King gave the speech in December 1964 at London’s City Temple.

This article won’t look at the parts of the speech that focus on civil rights, segregation (legal and de jure), or the “abyss of exploitation,” as King called it, that blacks faced (and continue to face) in America. Rather, it will compare what King said about South Africa and how that compares to the fight for justice in occupied Palestine.

During his 1964 speech, he compared the “struggle for freedom and justice in the United States” by black Americans to those engaged in a “far more deadly struggle for freedom in South Africa.”

In part, he said:

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, Foreign Affairs Tagged With: +972 Magazine, American imperialism, apartheid, BDS, BDS Movement, boycott, Boycott Divest And Sanction Movement, Chris Hedges, City Temple, Civil Rights, CodePink, colonialism, Democracy Now!, divest, End the Occupation, Eugene Debs, Gaza, Hamas, Helen Thomas, history, Human Rights, IDF, imperialism, Islamophobia, Israel, London, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK, Noam Sheizaf, occupation, oppression, OSHA oPt), Pacifica Radio, Palestine, Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, racism, sanction, Separation wall, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, United Kingdom, United Nations, West Bank

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