More good news from the Jewish world. Abraham Riesman, a 35-year-old writer for New York Magazine, has published a long, critical/loving article on his grandfather Robert Riesman (1919-2004), who was a leader of the Israel lobby in Rhode Island, with close ties to politicians in the ocean state. The article in New York Magazine is […]
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Jewish flight from Zionism continues with Riesman piece criticizing grandfather’s role in Israel lobby
Rutgers Professor: Criticizing Knife Attacker Ma’Khia Is ‘Fat Shaming’
Rutgers University professor Brittney Cooper says people who criticize Ma’Khia Bryant, the black teenager who was shot after attempting to murder another girl with a knife, are fat shaming her. Cooper was invited onto MSNBC Thursday to discuss the fatal police shooting of Bryant, who is seen on camera wielding a knife and attempting to […]
Jamaal Bowman removes tweet criticizing Israel’s vaccine policy
WASHINGTON — Freshman Democrat Jamaal Bowman removed a tweet that criticized Israel’s vaccine policy. The removal, first noted Thursday by Jewish Insider, urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ensure that Palestinians receive coronavirus vaccinations and added that “this cruelty is another reminder of why the occupation must end.” Israel, which is operating one of […]
Ron Paul Suspended From Facebook Following Column Criticizing Big Tech Censorship
Facebook blocked former presidential candidate Ron Paul from his own page on Monday. Paul said he was suspended without notice other than ‘repeatedly going against our community standards’ and had never received notice of violating community standards in the past. Suspending Ron Paul must surely make it even clearer that ‘safety’ might not be the […]
Law Professor Disciplined by University for Criticizing Scottish Hate Crime Bill
MILTON KEYNES, U.K. (The Christian Institute) — [A] law professor has been disciplined by the Open University (OU) after he warned of the Scottish hate crime bill’s impact on those who maintain that men cannot become women. Alistair Bonnington argued that the bill would “make it a crime for anybody to deny that a ‘trans’ woman […]
Kim Jong-un Executes 5 Top Officials for Criticizing His Policy
On Thursday, US media referred to a soon-to-be-released book by veteran American reporter Bob Woodward, who claimed, in particular, that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had once bragged about putting the head of his uncle on display after having him executed. Five North Korean Economy Ministry employees were executed by a firing squad […]
British Patriot Jez Turner faces a prison sentence for criticizing Jews
Sourced from the Jewish website Campaign Against Antisemitism NEO-NAZI LEADER JEREMY BEDFORD-TURNER CONVICTED OF INCITEMENT TO RACIAL HATRED OVER “LET’S FREE ENGLAND FROM JEWISH CONTROL” SPEECH, FOLLOWING LANDMARK LEGAL VICTORY WON BY CAA Moments ago, neo-Nazi leader Jeremy Bedford-Turner was unanimously convicted by a jury of incitement to racial hatred over a speech he gave […]
U.S. Congress Split Over Whether Criticizing Israel Constitutes anti-Semitism
A potential addition to the federal anti-discrimination statute says verbal attacks on Israel count as anti-Semitism A U.S. House of Representatives committee heard tough exchanges between proponents and opponents of a bill that would codify a definition of anti-Semitism that incorporates a controversial component addressing attacks on Israel. The nine witnesses appearing Tuesday at a […]
Egypt summoned western ambassadors for criticizing detention of human rights lawyer Metwally
Fahwad Al-Khadoumi (nsnbc) : Egypt’s Foreign Ministry has summoned the ambassadors of Canada, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom over criticism of the […]
US Jews need to stop criticizing Israel if they want two-state solution — Israeli liberal
On Sunday, the Israel Policy Forum, which is liberal Zionist, held a Middle East conference at Temple Emanu-El in New York (along with the Clintonite foreign-policy thinktank CNAS), and it is amazing what rightwing ideas were expressed there by two Israeli advocates for the two-state solution. These Israelis are desperate. Desperate about Israel’s lurch toward a totalitarian […]
The Price Of Criticizing The State Of Israel
Protesters demonstrate against a state-sanctioned backlash against the movement for Palestinian human rights. New York City, June 9, 2016. (Photo: Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/ Sipa/AP) There are very few journalist in the U.S. or Europe who have the courage to report fairly on Israel’s seemingly endless illegal occupation of Palestinian lands. Personally, as a Jewish-American, and […]
Mom Given Five Citations After Criticizing Cop For Blocking Traffic
(Police State Daily) A mother from South Florida says she received five citations, including a felony charge, from a police officer who retaliated against her for simply telling him she didn’t appreciated the way he was blocking traffic. According to Kristy Hernandez, she was attempting to drop her son off at Ben Sheppard Elementary School in Hialeah, […]
Do you know what you eat? A common unlisted food additive may induce food allergies
What would you think if I told you that not all additives and preservatives are listed on food labels? You’d probably say I didn’t know what I was talking about. Well, many chemicals used in food processing don’t seem to make it into print on package labels! One is the synthetic preservative and antioxidant […]
Duggar cult founder plans Kansas ‘retreat’ to set up arranged marriages for teen girls
Wanna hear a true American horror story? A group of ultra-conservative Christian men are planning to meet up in Kansas later this year to arrange marriages for their pubescent daughters … and they don’t believe their daughters’ consent is actually necessary. Quiverfull patriarch, Vaughn Ohlman, who runs a website promoting early, “fruitful” marriage for […]
Rally held in Tehran to remember Armenian killings of 1915
A large crowd of Armenian citizens, sporting purple signs, converged on Saint Sarkis Cathedral in central Tehran to mark the 101st anniversary of the 1915 massacre of Armenians in what they say was a genocide by the Ottoman Turks. An estimated 1.5 million Armenians were killed and their property destroyed or confiscated during the period […]
Haaretz Report: US Officials Knew Israel Was Lying About Its Nuclear Program
The complete report on the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission’s visit is part of the new batch of declassified documents. According to the report, people at Dimona told the Americans that the reactor’s output would probably be doubled in the near future. “This could have served as a warning signal and a worrying indicator that the […]