Zionism
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Is Israel’s Operation Persia Underway?
The successive Israeli military offensives against Gaza and the West Bank have always been protected by the “vortex of silence” of the main world mass media controlled by the transnational Israeli lobby, a theory formulated by the German political scientist Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann in her book “The Vortex of Silence. Public Opinion: Our Social Skin” (1977).… Continue reading
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Spectacular defeat for Israel lobby at Labour Party conference
In a spectacular defeat for the Israel lobby, delegates to Britain’s Labour Party conference overwhelmingly passed a resolution on Monday condemning the “ongoing Nakba in Palestine.” Continue reading
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UK: Why is Owen Jones defending a Nazi collaborator?
Guardian columnist Owen Jones markets himself as a leading leftist voice. His profile on Twitter, where he has more than one million followers, emphasizes his “anti-fascist” credentials. Why, then, did he just publish a defense of a Nazi collaborator? An Israeli judge once ruled that Zionist leader Rezső Kasztner was Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann’s “catspaw,”… Continue reading
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The Newspaper That Smeared Corbyn & the Left
Jonathan Cook analyzes why a British media watchdog doesn’t take meaningful action against The Jewish Chronicle for its anti-Semitism libels against the former Labour leader and his followers. Continue reading
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CoJiT: The “Anti-Extremism” Think Tank Started by Sons of Israeli Superspy Robert Maxwell
CoJiT’s profound and manifold connections to the Israeli security state call into question the Maxwell brothers’ motives for founding the think tank, considering how an anti-Muslim extremism agenda could dovetail so easily with a pro-Israeli state one. Continue reading
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Bennett’s Fragile Hookup with the Zionist Left Offers Little Promise for a Post-Apartheid Israel
On the racist reality of Israeli politics, the absurdity of calling any Zionist party “Left,” and why the so-called Zionist Left could join a coalition government headed by Naftali Bennett: their differences are inconsequential. Continue reading
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If Bibi Was the Frying Pan, Is Bennett the Fire? What To Expect from Israel’s New PM
“It’s not like [Israel is] replacing Netanyahu with a person who believes in equality for all, who believes in freedom for all, who believes in human rights for all. They’re replacing Netanyahu with an ultra-nationalist who is going to put forward his ultra-nationalist agenda.” – Diana Buttu, former PLO spokesperson Continue reading
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Thomas Friedman’s last gasp
10 June 2021 — Jonathan Cook New Left Review – 10 June 2021 Thomas Friedman’s recent column in the New York Times reflecting on Israel’s 11-day destruction of Gaza is a showcase for the delusions of liberal Zionism: a constellation of thought that has never looked so threadbare. It seems that every liberal newspaper needs Continue reading
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Zionist Terror Fails To Break Palestinian Solidarity, Accelerates Israel’s Demise
A dozen years ago, Ali Abunimah of The Electronic Intifada predicted that Israel “won’t survive.” The Zionist state is doomed, he concluded, because the reasoning used to justify its existence is being accepted by ever fewer people: Continue reading
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Massive resistance in all parts of Palestine amid deadly Israeli assault
In just the last week, the situation in occupied Palestine and the larger region has seen a dramatic shift. A new wave of resistance has sparked militant mass protests not only in cities and towns across the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza, but also in many Palestinian or “mixed” cities inside the 1948 borders of… Continue reading
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“Deep concern” won’t halt Jerusalem evictions
The state’s authorities said they were investigating the death of Said Yousef Muhammad Odeh, a Palestinian boy who was shot in the back by Israeli soldiers earlier this week. Continue reading
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NYT Investigates U.S. Jewish Billionaire Funding For Anti-Islamists – Then Distracts With Loads Of Anti-Russian Slander
A current New York Times report finds that the British anti-Islam agitator and grifter Tommy Robinson was financed by American Jewish billionaires who promote Zionist colonialism in Palestine. Continue reading
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Labour antisemitism allegations: How Corbyn and Starmer are judged by different standards
For years, allies of Jeremy Corbyn argued that allegations of antisemitism had been weaponised against the then-Labour leader and his supporters to undermine his socialist programme and stifle criticism of Israel. Continue reading
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Faced with ICC Investigation, Apartheid Israel Asserts Moral Superiority Over The Victims of Its Terror
Having created enemies by its own criminal behavior, Israel then claims the right to protect itself from the very people it alienated through these criminal acts. Continue reading
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Israel election: The far-right is triumphant. The only obstacle left is Netanyahu
As 13 parties struggle with Israel’s complex post-election maths, seeking alliances that can assure them power, the most significant outcome of the vote is easily missed. The religious fundamentalists and settler parties – Israel’s far right – won an unprecedented and clear-cut victory last week. Continue reading
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Racist to deny us right to oppose Zionism, British Palestinians tell Labour
In an open letter to the party on Friday, the group rejected Labour’s recent attempts to conflate anti-Zionism with anti-Jewish hate, insisting on “the right of Palestinians to accurately describe our experiences of dispossession and oppression.” Continue reading
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How the Israel-UAE deal puts the bogus peace industry back in business
If there is one conclusion to draw from the agreement this week between Israel and the United Arab Emirates – with Israel temporarily “suspending” its threat to illegally annex parts of the West Bank, in return for “full normalisation” with the Gulf state – it is this: The peace industry is back in business. Continue reading
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Israel’s new UK ambassador will expose delusions of Britain’s Jewish leaders
After years of successfully drawing attention away from Israel’s intensifying crimes against the Palestinian people by citing a supposedly growing “antisemitism crisis” in Britain’s Labour Party, Jewish community leaders in the UK are exasperated to find themselves unexpectedly on the defensive. Continue reading
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After the West Bank When (How Soon) Will the East Follow?
Since the 19th century, the Zionist project was based on the seizure of all Palestine, including territory east of the Jordan. The map of ‘Israel’ presented to the Paris peace conference in 1919 extended northwards into what is now Lebanon and included the city of Sidon; in the northeast, all the Golan Heights and Syria… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 