Ian Berman

Ian Berman is an entrepreneur and former corporate banker at leading global banks in New York City. He now focuses on financial advisory services and writing about representative government, equitable public policies and ending American militarism and Israel’s continuing colonization of Palestine. He is the Co-Founder of Palestine 365, the Ongoing Oppression and its predecessor, Palestine 365, on Facebook.

NY Times Publishes Disingenuous Conflation Of Anti-Semitism And Anti-Zionism

Howard Jacobson’s entire op-ed invokes “anti-Semitism primarily to silence critics of Israel.”

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Israel anti-Zionist Jewish Sect

(Opinion) -- The New York Times recently published an op-ed titled “The Phony Peace Between the Labour Party and Jews” by Howard Jacobson. A novelist and op-ed contributor to the Independent in the UK, Jacobson is relatively unknown. Yet the Times found his allegation of anti-Semitism within the United Kingdom’s Labour Party worthy of the pages of

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Pat Boone, Why Do You Hate America’s Freedom?

The statements of an aging symbol of White America in its heyday exemplify American blindness to white privilege.

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Pat Boone sings at the National Senior Games, Friday, June 9, 2017, in Birmingham, Ala. (AP/Butch Dill)

Many Americans have become polarized by players protesting during the National Anthem.  Apparently, those opposing the protest believe respect for the flag comes before the exercise of Free Speech. Their logic is simple - professional athletes have no right to make political statements at their place of employment. Yet that same place is

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Bill Maher And Muslim Terrorists – What Americans Miss In Their Mindset Of Fear

Given the destructiveness of the wars throughout the Middle East, can one honestly say some blowback was not inevitable?

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Bill Maher, winner of the First Amendment Award, speaks to the crowd at the 26th Annual Literary Awards Festival at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Wednesday, September 28, 2016, in Beverly Hills, Calif (Photo by Casey Curry/Invision/AP)

The bombing in Manchester was a horrific event by any measure. There’s no justification for the senseless loss of lives. Yet given the destructiveness of the wars throughout the Middle East, can one honestly say some blowback was not inevitable? As recently revealed, the British foresaw such attacks even before the invasion of Iraq. Yet the tragedy

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Murder In The Mediterranean – The Perils Of Fishing In Gaza

In 2016 alone, there were at least 126 incidents in which small wooden fishing vessels were fired on by the Israeli Navy.

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By Ian Berman
Palestinian police officers sit in a small boat as they pass near an Israeli naval vessel

On Al Nakba Day of all days, the Israeli Navy killed another Palestinian fisherman, Muhammad Majid Bakr.  The second in this year alone.  The Israeli Navy claims Bakr’s fishing trawler responded neither to their calls, nor warning shots, after deviating “from the designated fishing zone in the northern Gaza Strip.” The boundaries of the fishing

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