#alliance for israel

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

By  Kassy Dillon

The Executive Board of Harvard Law School’s Alliance for Israel (AFI) slammed the student government for holding the unannounced emergency meeting, and failing to give them notice so they could voice opposition.

“We are deeply disappointed that Alliance for Israel, as an important stakeholder in the community, was not informed about this meeting, nor invited to speak,” the group wrote in a letter, adding that the student government failed to pass any resolution condemning antisemitic attacks on campus or Hamas’s October 7 massacre and rape of Israeli civilians.

“Even if the student government had done all of these things, this resolution would still be wildly inappropriate,” the letter added. “The fact that it has done none of these things makes matters all the worse.”

Shabbos Kestenbaum, a Harvard Divinity School student who is suing Harvard over claims of enabling anti-Semitism, took issue with the representatives seeing anonymity to avoid accountability.

“It is simply unacceptable to be an elected student representative on a hotly contentious issue whilst expecting zero accountability for how you vote,” he told The Daily Wire. “If these students, who believe that Israel is an apartheid regime conducting ethnic cleansing, are our future policymakers, Supreme Court justices, and lawyers, then our country is in serious danger.”

The resolution accuses Israel of conducting a “genocidal campaign in Gaza,” ethnically cleansing Palestinians, and occupying “Palestine.”

“Furthermore, claims of an ‘ongoing illegal occupation of Palestine’ implies Israel has no right to exist and threatens its legitimacy,” the AFI letter states. “This resolution, compounded by the student government’s failure to address antisemitism on campus and the violence and suffering Hamas caused Israelis, sends a message to Jews and Israelis that they are not welcome at HLS.”

[alwaysbewoke]

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries spoke at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network 2024 Convention, activists and organizers from Black Alliance for Peace and PSL disrupted the event. They denounced Jeffries and Sharpton as Black Misleaders, boldly proclaiming that the duo doesn’t represent the majority of Black/African people and instead provides a Blackface cover to U.S. imperialism. Jeffries received over $700,000 in Israel lobby funding in the last election cycle alone. Last year, Jeffries led a bipartisan Congressional delegation to the CARICOM Heads of Government Conference where NO HAITIANS were in the room as the the invasion and occupation of the country was planned. The collective liberation of Africa and Africans is not guaranteed without the liberation of Palestine, Haiti, or even the Borough of Brooklyn that Jeffries was elected to represent instead of approving more money to IOF-trained NYPD!

[sister-realness]

You see how I kiss girls? You see how I love and cherish women? Very joyful, very cutesy, very demure

[matan4il]

Daily update post:

The number of murdered is at least 1,300. The number of wounded is 3,300. There are more people getting injured, some mortally, as thousands of rockets continue to be fired into Israel.

Here are the words of Lucy Aharish, popular news anchor, who is an Israeli Muslim Arab.

Just as a reminder then, the Israeli army is one where right now, Jews, Druze, Christians and Muslims alike fight to defend every Israeli citizen from these atrocities.

In order to make things better in Gaza, Israel has been giving an increasing number of work permits to tens of thousands of Palestinians living there. The average salary in Israel is bigger than in Gaza, these work permits were meant to make the lives of Gazans better by bringing more money in. There are some initial accounts (still not reported on any official news channels, so take this accordingly) that among the terrorists were Palestinians who got these work permits. People who took a gesture of good will and used it to kill Israelis.

On a personal note, another one of my colleagues and her husband are missing. We're waiting to learn if she's been kidnapped to Gaza, or if she's among the dead.

I'm not sure I currently have words other than this post.

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

[psychologeek]

Thinsgs "antizionists" hasn't bothered saying: the killing of 12 kids was horrible.

Things they did say:

Amazing

(and yes, the Druze community in the Golan has slightly different things then, say, Druze in Horefish or Dalyat al Karmel. They don't have to serve in the army, for example, and can choose weather or not have an Israeli ID. Israel does see this land as their own, though, in things like schools and bureaucracy, water and electricity, sewer and cleaning and roads etc.)

They were targeted bc Hezbollah wanted to kill people on Israeli land. To hurt people Israel claims as their own.

(and also bc they are Druze, and Assad-Hezbolla allyship want to poke the Jewish-Druze friendship)

[probablyasocialecologist]

The letter to Guterres said the problem lies with seven of the 11 “contemporary examples of antisemitism” attached to the definition to guide its application. These include “claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavour” and “applying double standards by requiring of [Israel] a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation”.

The letter said the first example can be used to suppress claims that Israel is breaching international laws against apartheid and is violating conventions to end racial discrimination. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have both been accused of antisemitism under the IHRA definition over detailed reports saying that Israel practises a form of apartheid, an accusation also levelled by Israeli human rights groups.

“The example on ‘applying double standards’ opens the door to labeling as antisemitic anyone who focuses on Israeli abuses as long as worse abuses are deemed to be occurring elsewhere,” the letter said.

“By that logic, a person dedicated to defending the rights of Tibetans could be accused of anti-Chinese racism, or a group dedicated to promoting democracy and minority rights in Saudi Arabia could be accused of Islamophobia.”

The groups say the IHRA definition has been used “to muzzle legitimate speech and activism by critics of Israel’s human rights record and advocates for Palestinian rights”.

“The targets of accusations of antisemitism based on the IHRA definition have included university students and professors, grassroots organizers, human rights and civil rights organizations, humanitarian groups and members of the US Congress, who either document or criticize Israeli policies and who speak in favor of Palestinian human rights,” it said.

“If the UN endorses the IHRA definition in any shape or form, UN officials working on issues related to Israel and Palestine may find themselves unjustly accused of antisemitism based on the IHRA definition.”

[david-goldrock]

"Beyond the rainbow- Be'er Shev'?a"

Beyond the rainbow is a show by Kan (the Israeli public broadcast), that shows the LGBT community outside of Tel Aviv. This episode is about the Be'er Sheva's drag scene

[amaditalks]

I really need for people to start connecting some dots.

Russia, a nation guilty of horrid human rights abuses for decades, continues indiscriminate bombings of residential areas in Syria and is engaging in a war of wholesale destruction against Ukraine, and by extension a proxy war with NATO (which includes the US), for the expansion and reassertion of its empire and dominance against allied western Europe.

China, a nation guilty of horrid human rights abuses for decades, is engaging in a war of interference and aggression with the political apparatus of several sovereign nations (including the US) and has announced its intention to forcibly retake Taiwan, for the expansion and reassertion of its dominance in the Pacific.

Iran, a nation guilty of horrid human rights abuses for decades, is engaged in a proxy game of chicken with Israel (and by extension the US as its main ally) via the combatant groups it funds and arms: Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Houthi Rebels, with a very real threat of becoming a full scale regional war with the stakes being nothing less than the destruction of Israel and expansion and reassertion of Islamist dominance in the entire SWANA.

Russia, China and Iran are formally allied to one another.

That is why the US is not going to stop supporting or funding Israel, even if we might institute limitations on how that funding is used (or more realistically, changing what military equipment we send them), and even if Biden is grey rocking Netanyahu in every communication.

We know (as do all nations) that the abandonment of an ally at a time of conflict sends horrible messages to other allies (will we abandon them if things get dicey? Will we use our size and resources to force our will on them rather than respecting their sovereignty? Is our alliance for them or for our imperial interests?) and sends a signal to the enemies of the (ex) ally that they can do what they please without the threat of the nation with the largest military watching.

In the current global climate, the US is the bulwark against Russia, China and Iran doing whatever they want, to whomever they want, wherever they want. We aren’t going to do anything that messes with that precarious balance.

It’s also why the Biden administration and Democrats are so adamant about continuing support to Ukraine, and why it is so alarming that Republicans are disinclined to do so, at best, and outright opposed at the baffling worst.

The world is complex, brutal and in many saddening ways an ongoing game of 4D chess that cannot be reduced down to slogans and sentence fragment imperatives. It’s necessary to look at things from both the micro and macro perspectives.

[workersolidarity]

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💥ISRAELI OCCUPATION KILLS SENIOR IRGC OFFICER IN STRIKE ON DAMASCUS IN SYRIA💥

The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) announced the assassination of Brig. Gen. Razi Mousavi, a senior official in the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in an air strike on military facilities in Damascus, the Syrian capital on Monday, according to a report in the Israeli media.

The report says that Mousavi “was killed during an attack by the Zionist regime a few hours ago in Zeinabiyah district in the suburbs of Damascus,” the official IRNA news agency reports.

He was described as “one of the most experienced advisors” in the IRGC.

According to the report, Mousavi was responsible for coordinating the military alliance between Syrian Forces and the Iranian IRGC in Syria.

The IRGC has threatened to respond to the killing of Mousavi, saying that “the usurping and barbaric Zionist regime will pay for this crime.”

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@WorkerSolidarityNews

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Sanjana Karanth at HuffPost:

A bill expanding the definition of antisemitism was passed on Wednesday by a bipartisan vote in the House — but despite the legislation on its face claiming to help federal officials better protect Jewish students on school campuses, critics say it is misleading and will only serve to crack down on the free speech rights of students currently protesting Israel’s ongoing military offensive in Gaza and the U.S. government’s continued support. The House voted 320-91 in support of the Antisemitism Awareness Act, establishing a broader definition of antisemitism to enforce federal anti-discrimination laws. The bill would codify the intergovernmental International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism into the legal framework established by the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bars discrimination based on shared ancestry, ethnic characteristics or national origin.

“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities,” the IHRA’s working definition of antisemitism, as adopted in 2016, reads. “Manifestations might include the targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity,” the IHRA adds. “However, criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic.” Seventy Democrats and 21 Republicans voted against the House bill, which now goes to the Senate. If passed and then signed into law by President Joe Biden, the bill would expand what counts as illegal ethnic discrimination to include anything covered by the IHRA’s definition of antisemitism.

[...] The Biden administration and Congress have faced increased scrutiny from within the U.S. for their continued support of Israel’s siege in Gaza, which began after Hamas militants killed about 1,200 people on Oct. 7 in Israel and took roughly 250 hostage. The Israeli offensive has since killed more than 34,000 Palestinians in Gaza and displaced at least 80% of the region’s residents, has destroyed important infrastructure like schools, hospitals and religious institutions and has brought on a famine. If the bill is enacted, the Department of Education could use its expanded definition of antisemitism to stifle the ongoing antiwar protests at college campuses across the U.S., according to the bill’s opponents.

In recent weeks, students from multiple faiths, races and ethnicities have begun camping out on school grounds, calling for the U.S. to stop funding Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and for their universities to divest from companies financially tied to Israel.

Witness descriptions and footage from the campus protests portray the demonstrations to be generally peaceful — though the arrival of counterprotesters and police, who have been recorded assaulting and arresting students and professors, has caused them to turn violent. Law enforcement agencies, often called in by university administrators, have so far arrested about 2,000 protesters, according to a tally by The Associated Press.

The House passed the Antisemitism Awareness Act in bipartisan fashion 320-91, with 70 Democrats and 21 Republicans voting no to the bill. The bill seeks to broaden the definition to antisemitism to match the one defined by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.

The bill sounds good, but in practice, serves as a tool to suppress all legitimate criticism of Israel and their apartheid state, and to be used as a cudgel to stop student protests against Israel's genocide in Gaza on campuses nationwide.

[aflamethatneverdies]

Israel, pound for pound, is the best investment the US has ever made. Israel is the purest expression of Western power, combining militarism, imperialism, settler colonialism, counterinsurgency, occupation, racism, instilling ideological defeat, huge profitable war-making and hi-tech development into a manticore of destruction, death, and mayhem. From Israel’s victory in the 1948-1949 war, US planners saw the country as a regional military power that could contain Arab military and political ambitions. Amidst France’s imperial sunset in the Arab region, the country aligned with Israel – trying to deliver a blow to Nasserist Egypt through the 1956 Tripartite Aggression with Britain and Israel, and armoring Zionism for its successful 1967 war against radical Arab nationalism in the frontline states. Green-lit by the US, the war left the Syrian Ba’athist fusion of Arab nationalism and Marxist-Leninism in shambles and slammed the Nasserist national development project. Israel also became a useful assassin, eliminating Arab radical luminaries from Mehdi Ben Barka to Ghassan Kanafani.  From 1970 onwards, US military aid into Israel turned the country into a unique asset: an offshore arms factory; a regional irritant to Arab peace, stability, and popular regional development; a destructive gyro of world-wide counterinsurgency; a black hole drawing in regional surpluses and devoting them to endless defensive and offensive armament, away from social-popular welfare spending and non-military development. Uniquely, the US allowed Israel to keep the military aid partially within the country, slowly and steadily building up a massive military industrial capacity. Meanwhile, US-based capital inflows accelerated, taking advantage of Israel’s highly educated workforce in the defense sector, resting upon super-exploiting the Palestinian colonial underclass in other sectors. In return, Israel armed reactionary forces world-wide: from Argentina to Brazil to Chile, helping evade Congressional restrictions on arms shipments to the Nicaraguan Contras and advanced armaments to the South African apartheid regime. On a world scale, Israel has protected the political architecture of global capitalism. And its US domestic adjunct, the Anti-Defamation League, presaged wider Zionist capitalist investment in repression by carrying out wide-ranging spying on anti-racist, anti-Zionist, Arab-American and anti-apartheid movements.  Throughout this period, the US-Israeli ‘Special Relationship’ grew ever-more-intimate as relentless imperial proxy warfare and sanctions – from Libya to Lebanon – tarnished developmentalism, degraded republican aspirations, and often evaporated regional Marxism. Class inequalities widened as the Gulf, Egypt, and Lebanon became nodes of regional and global accumulation. The Israeli option for boosting world-wide accumulation through wars on republicanism and revolution served the US ruling class well. The ‘peace process,’ known as Oslo, imposed after the fall of the USSR and the encirclement of Ba’athist Iraq, sought neo-colonial neoliberalism under military occupation in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as part of the post-Soviet attempt to crystallize ‘the end of history’ through neutralizing or evaporating remaining sources of friction or strategic obstacles to the US project.  Incoming Palestinian diaspora capital alongside a corrupt Palestinian Authority (PA) was the US’s junior partner in the state-building agenda. Israeli capital became a seamless transnational component of the US’s globalization project, with large elements in burgeoning hi-tech counterinsurgency. 

[taiwantalk]

Ethnic Jews all over the world better understand that the biggest threat in the world to Israel and Jews all over the world is Russia and whoever putin chooses to form alliance with publicly and secretly.

It’s delusional to ignore who russia is arming and only focus on how potus is playing foreign affairs.

Russia is not even hiding the fact that russia is forming alliance with Iran and then arming Hamas to attack Israel

[secular-jew]

Preach Dumisani !!

[queersatanic]

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It's been a while since we re-watched this video from nonprofit The Alliance for Integrity and Justice, but it really does exceed parody in terms of how completely it's opposed to any sort of protest against or opposition to the state of Israel, including completely nonviolent strategies by people in the USA pushing for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).

That organization ("AIJ") is not and should not be important to most people; for us, the relevance is that Cevin Soling — the co-owner of The Satanic Temple which has been suing us for three and a half years — also owns that nonprofit, and it exists to target anyone who supports Palestinian people but particularly university campus students.

However, by being so inept and over-the-top, it really makes clear what other, more competent people will say with more subtlety.

[deborahdeshoftim5779]

Israeli journalist Caroline Glick discusses the red-green alliance working against Israel during the latest round of Palestinian terror from Gaza, the evil of the Iranian regime, and the necessity of helping the Iranians overthrow the Ayatollah and (my addition) destroying the Islamic Revolution.