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news4dzhozhar · 24 days

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There are so many US politicians on the AIPAC dole that a video had to be compiled to list them all. Both parties have no problem taking millions from a foreign assets lobbyists. Compare this list to those who signed that insane letter threatening the ICC at the Hague. Notice anything?

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themilfking · 6 months

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wait I know why we hate AIPAC but what did ADL do? I thought the anti defamation League was good

The ADL is an Israeli/Zionist advocacy group at its core. It's main priority as an organization is to protect Israel and its mission for a Jewish Ethno-State. This is especially true under Johnathan Greenblatt's leadership who has said "antizionism is antisemitism" It's easy to think that the "Anti Defamation League" has no underlying agenda given its history as a "civil rights organization" but it has constantly used that as a screen for extremely right wing positions on Israel. Some of their greatest hits include: Equating Students for Justice in Palestine, JVP, and CAIR to "white supremacists" simply because they strongly oppose an ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. A leaked ADL memo revealing how ADL plans to "soften" the news to Americans that Israel plans to annex the West Bank. (Source). In this leak Greenblatt recognizes that the annexation is a violation of basic human rights. To me this is a clear indication that they are less concerned with civil rights and more concerned with shaping the public image of Israel, especially in the US. Really urge you all to read this leak! Supported South African Apartheid (surprise surprise) and participated in propaganda against Nelson Mandela and the ANC. They even employed a spy named Roy Bullock to infiltrate the anti-apartheid campaign in the US. They later settled a law suit for this. (Source) That's not even close to the only time they've utilized spies. THIS recent leak of Greenblatt talks about ADL having spies in Jewish Voice for Peace and other organizations. It also talks about how they are having a hard time with the global youth no longer buying into their propaganda. Another source you should give your full attention to. PLEASE listen to that whole thing. It's truly terrifying. You're gonna hear them talk a lot about why Tiktok is a danger to their mission.

HERE is an article about how the ADL has a long history of smearing black activists, working with Police/ICE, and its attempts to demonize the BDS movement. I could go on and on about how terrible and deceitful the ADL is. The sources above are a good start to understanding why we shouldn't trust the ADL but please look into all the other things they've done like working with the FBI to spy on Arab Americans, infiltrating student organizations they find to be a threat to "Israel's image", surveillance, the people who fund/donate to them etc.

The best way to fight orgs like this is to share/spread this info as much as you can. It's clearly working because they're losing global support especially with the youth.

#fuck israel #fuck the adl #scum #free palestine #adl

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fantastic-nonsense · 28 days

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I know it's cold comfort to everyone protesting and watching the protests against US funding of Israel right now, but the needle on Palestine has already moved further than I would have ever thought possible in so short a time.

For nearly 75 years, the conversation around sending money and weapons to Israel has remained staunchly ingrained in the American public imagination as something that is both good and uncontroversial. 2014 (the first time Israel's brutality against Palestinians truly went worldwide on social media) was the first time I believed that public sentiment change was possible. But that was a cracked door of genuine sympathy. Israel's behavior this time has blown the door wide open. I've seen more movement on the issue of American military aid and political support to Israel in the past 6 months than I have in the past 10 years.

When I did my graduate thesis on how to advocate for more effective international arms control against state actors who violated human rights, I was explicitly told by my client to stay away from Israel for the case study portion. They were an exception to every law and rule we had, so it was useless to talk about them. Fast forward two years, and we are having genuine conversations about Israel's ongoing, routine human rights violations and the need to condition their military aid that I would have considered impossible last year.

I never thought I would see AIPAC talked about in Democratic circles like they talked about the NRA. I never thought I would see people who work in the political sphere and aren't explicitly doing human rights advocacy talk about the Leahy Laws and the human rights conditions of the Foreign Assistance Act in relation to Israel. I never thought I would see federal politicians repeatedly call out Israel's brutality on the floor of Congress. I never thought I would see "normies" talking about the state-level anti-BDS laws that the pro-Israel lobby has advocated for and helped pass over the past decade. Hoped and wished it would happen, sure. But thought it actually would? No. But it's finally happening!

And if there's a silver lining in this whole awful mess, it's that it's clear Israel has lost the long-term war of public opinion. Every single poll of under 30s (and to a certain extent, under 40s) is pretty clear on that.

Regardless of what happens here in this moment, Israel's unique relationship with the United States is done the second the current crop of legislators retires or is pushed out of office. We're starting to see politicians who are willing to have that conversation already, thanks to everyone who has gotten involved in state and federal elections and helped support candidates who value human dignity and sympathize with Palestine. Within ten years at most—and more reasonably within the next five depending on how 2028 shakes out—the funding conversation will look VERY different (as long as you all keep voting, anyway). Progress is slow, but it IS happening.

#israel #israeli palestinian conflict #palestine #free palestine #world politics #us politics

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theravenkin · 7 months

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hey followers and mutuals:

just a reminder that you can help suffering palestinians from afar. it feels hopeless, but there's always something we can do.

you can donate. i've been donating to the palestinian children's relief fund; there's also a chapter on campus at my university. there are other organizations you can donate with, too: unicef and launchgood are good ones too i think. it doesn't have to be a hundred dollars at a time; give whatever you can afford. just remember why you're giving in the first place.

you can boycott. boycott starbucks, boycott mcdonald's, boycott nestle products, coke products, unilever products...there are so many fucking companies with their hands in israel's pockets (and vice versa) right now. even better, the boycotts are working. starbuck's stocks have dropped like crazy in the past couple of weeks; the world is feeling our collective effects. boycotts work if we stick to them. go to bdsmovement.net to learn about more companies you can boycott or pressure.

you can call your representatives. call and email your representatives every single day. you can call the white house. you can tell them that you are a registered voter and that you will not be voting for any candidate who does not demand a ceasefire. tell them that you will refuse to support any elected official who accepts bribes from AIPAC (such as democrats Brian Higgins, Gregory Meeks, Joseph Morelle, and Ritchie Torres of NY and Pete Aguilar, Ami Bera, and Julia Brownley of Cali). flood those motherfuckers with messages. it does more than you think.

you can share. get on social media and find those palestinian journalists and civilians who are sharing in real time scenes from Gaza. it's gruesome and it is horrifying, but people (especially those so removed from it) need to see it to understand. western media can only spread so much propaganda; when you've seen those dying children, people crying and searching through rubble for their families, something is bound to change. go to instagram and follow motaz (@motaz_azaiza), bisan (@wizard_bisan1), plestia (@byplestia), the heroes on the ground in gaza, risking their lives. they start each new post with "i'm still alive", often worrying that they may not be for long. palestinians are begging the rest of the world to listen and to tell their story in case they don't make it. they just want to be remembered. that's the very least we can do.

you can have conversations. talk to your friends, your family. post on social media. address it directly. it will be uncomfortable. you dont have to be aggressive about it; just try to appeal to people's humanity, present them with the facts, and if you must, show them the gruesome footage from gaza or the badly veiled propaganda from israeli officials. do anything you can to get them to care. tell them how they can help. get people talking about it, even just thinking about it.

you can educate yourself. i've learned more about the history of israel and palestine in the last few days than i ever had before. and let me tell you: learning the objective facts of history makes it 200% easier to know who to support.

you can support your muslim, jewish, and arab friends. they all need it right now. check in on them and see how they're doing. let them know that you're trying to do something; even though it feels small, it will mean something to them, i promise. let them know you're there and you support them.

please please share and do whatever you can to help those suffering without food, water, electricity, or medical care right now. don't be afraid of the issue because it's "sensitive" or "controversial". it's uncomfortable to face, but it should be more uncomfortable to allow thousands to die while we do nothing.

free palestine. 🇵🇸

#free palestine #palestine #🇵🇸#free palestine 🇵🇸#israeli apartheid #middle east #support palestine #stand with palestine #stand with gaza #stop the genocide

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jadeseadragon · 5 months

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@nycdsa

"Thousands of working-class New Yorkers marched last night through Manhattan to demand a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and justice for Palestine!

Labor unions representing over 350,000 workers along with Palestinian, Jewish, Muslim, and community organizations are united in calling on our legislators to listen to their constituents and end their complicity in Israel’s war crimes.

NY electeds in Congress who have refused calling for a ceasefire have taken over $2M in funds from AIPAC. We reject these far-right interests funding a genocide and demand politicians represent the interests of working class people."

📸 @olivertwisty.eth

📸@humayardim

#free palestine #ceasefire now

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hussyknee · 6 months

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The wild thing about the Vote Blue rhetoric is that according to them, Biden is an uwu helpless baby who's had no power to stop any of the shit that's gone down the last three years but if Trump comes to power he can end democracy as you (don't) know it. You just have to get through this election cycle because the GOP can't find its own ass with both hands and a mirror on a stick and they're breaking apart, but they're also about to transform into the Third Reich. If Biden gets a second term you can totally push him further left when he isn't even up for re-election, but not with half the country on the streets a year out from when he does still need their votes. Biden can't get Netanyahu to stop because he has no power over Israel, but Trump will be able to destabilize democracy all across the world. The enemy is either weak or strong, y'all can't have it both ways.

Also, "If democrats haven't earned your vote, what has the republicans done to earn your complicity"????? You think this is how democracy works??? But oh, that's right you don't have a democracy, you have Evil (genocide without personal enjoyment) and Super Evil (genocide with personal fun). But you need to Vote Blue to save the democracy you don't have. Which they've had three years and one more to get around to saving, just like they had two years to legislate Roe vs Wade and eight before that, but they need another four to do anything.

"We cannot afford to divide the left and alienate voters!" you yell, as you harrass people whose relatives are currently being starved and blown to pieces as the entire world watches, a full year before elections, proving you have no intention of holding the Dems accountable even for a literal genocide. Because your winning strategy here is to scream at people for having a moral compass and basic empathy for their fellow human. These are luxuries you cannot afford because the GOP doesn't have any either, but the two parties are different bro, I swear bro, pay no attention to Hakeem Jeffries standing next to Mike Johnson and Christian Zionists bro, don't look at how much AIPAC has bought and paid for the whole of Congress bro, don't look at the bipartisan support for sending billions to Zionists overseas while cutting funding for every public service bro, don't look at how much more land for fracking they've sold off than Trump ever did bro, don't look at cop city and the border wall and ICE crackdowns and kids still in cages three years later bro, Biden totally controlled COVID and saved millions of lives unlike Trump and the pandemic is definitely not still raging bro, queer and reproductive rights are definitely not flaking off piecemeal under the Dems right now bro, Project 2025 can definitely happen when Obama couldn't even push through Medicaid with a trifecta bro, bro where are you going bro—

#vote blue #genocide joe #vote biden #blue no matter who #shit liberals say #free palestine #gaza genocide #knee of huss

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fairuzfan · 7 months

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I am learning more and more how deep american political support for israel runs, I'm not american so i had to research the history of american support for israel. I was surprised to see it was so strong even across party lines, israel gets bipartisan support. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if trump was in office at the moment instead of biden, i don't think that it would make any material difference. He would just be more overtly racist about it

Yes! Actually for every election cycle since I was old enough to understand how elections worked, my dad and I would discuss which candidate was funded by AIPAC as a litmus test for how anti-Palestinian they'll be in office. I think the only current people who are in office without AIPAC/CUFI backing are Tlaib (definitely without backing), Bush, Omar, and Andre Carson? Give or take a couple of them lol.

I'm a firm believer that Biden just knows how to be polite about his racism. He's just as bad as Trump, it's just that he knows how to keep quiet.

When a government is decided by how much money you pour into a candidate, either by lobbying groups or by private companies (like weapons manufacturers), then it's not a democracy! You have no choice in the matter especially if they can redistrict your areas to make a candidate more likely to win! What's the point in participating in a sham system where you have no voice unless you have money!

#tbd on how local governments really have any impact

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azspot · 4 months

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Biden has always been an ardent militarist — he was calling for war with Iraq five years before the U.S. invaded. He built his political career by catering to the distaste of the white middle class for the popular movements, including the anti-war and civil rights movements, that convulsed the country in the 1960s and 1970s. He is a Republican masquerading as a Democrat. He joined Southern segregationists to oppose bringing Black students into Whites-only schools. He opposed federal funding for abortions and supported a constitutional amendment allowing states to restrict abortions. He attacked President George H. W. Bush in 1989 for being too soft in the “war on drugs.” He was one of the architects of the 1994 crime bill and a raft of other draconian laws that more than doubled the U.S. prison population, militarized the police and pushed through drug laws that saw people incarcerated for life without parole. He supported the North American Free Trade Agreement, the greatest betrayal of the working class since the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act. He has always been a strident defender of Israel, bragging that he did more fundraisers for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) than any other Senator.

Chris Hedges

#biden

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crowandtalbot · 7 months

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Put this on tiktok but it's likely going to get removed:

AIPAC is behind most of the pro-Irsael to the point of cutting $14 billion from our IRS budget to help fund their military type craziness. Most US politicians are in their pocket and they are also the ones pushing legislation to make criticizing the Israel government illegal in the US and deporting all Palestinians in the US and just a shit ton of other anti-Arabic foreign policy.

Also a reminder that Netanyahu (Israeli Prime Minister, currently under investigation by the International Criminal Court for war crimes from before and after the continued siege of Gaza started) and his extremist administration are pushing for "Greater Israel" which would involve conquering Jordan, Lebanon, parts of Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. The proposed map looks like this:

There are many ways American imperialism and Evangelical Zionism would benefit from this map. It gives an American ally control of natural gas reserves off the coast of Gaza, it gives access to build the Ben Gurion Canal and the ability to construct an oil pipeline from Saudi Arabia into Europe and dominate the energy sector. It also allows America to funnel its Jewish population out of America without expressly deporting them. There is literally so much wrong with this.

But Americans can protest AIPAC directly and attempt to sever the connection between this lobbying group and our politicians. First by checking if our reps have already accepted AIPAC money (I recommend using opensecrets.org but googling usually works just as well), contacting them, and telling them that if they continue to accept AIPAC and AIPAC affiliate donations you will volunteer for thier opposition in the coming election. Then try to find a candidate running who doesn't accept AIPAC money and volunteer or donate for their campaign. Also, you don't have to be a politician's constituent to contact them. This means you can spam-fax their office or mail them physical form letters demanding action against Israel's genocide. These physical documents must be handled by actual staff and preserved so this is very disruptive for them.

AIPAC also has a website with a contact form and phone number you can call.

I would recommend filling the name and address fields with junk information (nothing too obvious for them to filter out) and then type whatever you would like to say in the actual message part.

And it wasn't hard for me to find a mailing address for them either.

However it is unlikely this is the only office they have, or that office even has many workers in it. Also if I can successfully convince people to pester them like we did to all those republican rallies in 2020, they can ask Google to remove that info and then remove their contact info from their website.

If we can disrupt AIPAC we can do a lot more good, not just for Palestine, but for Israel and other American backed genocides like in Congo and Sudan.

Please re-blog this, don't just like and move on.

#free palestine #free congo #free sudan

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paperstorm · 5 months

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Why do you understand why there not speaking is it cause if the careers cause I think that’s pathetic

University presidents are being smeared day after day after day in the New York Times, Gigi Hadid is losing work, Palestinian activists are being doxed, politicians are being censured for saying things like 'genocide is bad', journalists like Mehdi Hasan are being silenced or fired, AIPAC is funding literal insurrectionists to the tune of millions in order to maintain the flow of weapons to Israel. We are in a very intentional and calculated resurgence of McCarthyism. The consequences, professional or otherwise, for speaking up for Palestine are real. You are allowed to think it's pathetic if people don't speak up for fear of consequences but it is actively harmful to act like the consequences don't exist in the first place. That just provides cover to the power systems that are perpetrating them.

#israel/palestine discussion

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mediamonarchy · 25 days

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news4dzhozhar · 27 days

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Are we expected to believe this was all just coincidence? Starting to see who actually runs things in the US?

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cazort · 7 months

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I am seeing a lot of news items about the march in Washington D.C. today. I personally knew at least two people who went to this march and possibly more because I haven't been in touch with all of my friends who might have gone to it.

A lot of news outlets are framing this as a "pro-Israel" march, whereas others are framing it as a protest against antisemitism.

Far-right extremist zionist groups like AIPAC are undoubtedly going to try to use the large attendance at this event to fuel their narrative that people "support Israel" meaning that they support everything that Israel is doing right now.

But if you actually talk to people who went to this march, you find that their views are complex. Many of them (probably an overwhelming majority of them) are highly critical of Netanyahu's government and concerned about the extreme violence that this government has been carrying out. Keep in mind that even conservative media in Israel have covered the fact that Netanyahu's government supported Hamas for years, and all left-leaning media there is already highly critical of him. I have heard him described as "Israel's version of Trump".

There is a tendency in some subcultures to frame the whole topic of Israel and Palestine as a sort of strict binary, a sort of "You're either with us or you're with them." and there is a ton of money flowing into this narrative, and the reason is that it keeps the existing government in power and keeps US military aid flowing into it. AIPAC alone has a budget in the neighborhood of $69-77 million per year, and there are a lot of other organizations and also big private donors. AIPAC hammers in hard the idea that any criticism of Israel or Zionism is "antisemitism" and equates participation in any pro-Palestinian cause as "supporting Hamas" and then argues that it involves arguing for the extermination of all Jews in Israel because that is what the original Hamas charter called for. And the ADL, which historically was a good organization that worked against antisemitism in the framework of opposing all hate ideologies, has recently been taken over by far-right hardliners much like AIPAC, and now has a stance equating criticism of Israel with anti-semitism. And the ADL has an even bigger budget, around $81-101 million annually. These and other organizations are pouring millions into trying to get you to think of these things in binaristic terms, and they have basically become propaganda arms for the government in Israel, lobbying groups to try to ensure that the billions in military aid (which are much bigger than the budgets of these organizations) keep flowing.

But if you actually talk to people you find no one actually believes this stuff. Go to a pro-Palestine protest and ask people how they feel about Hamas and nearly everyone dislikes Hamas. After all, Hamas was supported and funded by the Israeli government for years as part of a strategy to divide and discredit the Palestinians, and people are also appalled at things like how Hamas intimidates, threatens, and jails any sort of internal opposition, and of course how their attacks in Israel sparked the recent genocidal rampage Israel has gone on.

Similarly, talk to people going to these pro-Israel and anti-antisemitism protests and you find people don't actually support the current Israeli government. Many of them directly blame Netanyahu for the attacks. Many of them are appalled by the violence being committed against Palestinians, not only now, but over the past many decades. And those who are not appalled, it's not that they don't care, it's mainly that they don't know; propaganda can be powerful.

So I hope this clarifies. You do not want to see Jews, even Jews who actively support Israel, as the enemy here. It is important to keep talking to all these people, and building as broad a consensus as possible to cut off U.S. military aid to Israel, to expose the dark money flowing into AIPAC, the co-opting of the ADL by far-right extremism, and the way these organizations are conspiring to funnel billions into the Israeli military and use them to finance their genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people, a campaign that goes hand-in-hand with supporting Hamas and Islamic extremism, and thus also goes hand-in-hand with tragic explosions of violence against some of the most vulnerable Israelis as well. These groups also fuel antisemitism because they benefit from it and can use it to advance their agenda.

It is horrific and we need to all work together to stop it NOW.

#israel #palestine #israel palestine conflict #aipac #antisemitism

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beldaroot · 3 months

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"i know both presidential candidates support genocide, but we still need to vote-" ENOUGH. y'all always emphasize the right to vote, but your civic duty literally starts and ends with voting. if you say you're going to vote for someone regardless of what they do, even if you oppose a majority of their policies, how effective is your vote? how are you utilizing the power of your vote to pressure change?

i've seen so many posts saying we have to think about lgbtq+ people, women, bipoc, immigrants, and disabled people this election since it's not just the palestinian genocide that's on the ballot and i just wished y'all would just admit that you're racist. that you would just end this facade of caring for palestinians when you actually believe the livelihoods of americans are more important. genocide should be the red line for everyone, it is quite possibly the worst thing that could happen to a group of people, and yet you're finding ways to minimize it bc it could affect an election that is already steeped in fascism.

you say we have to talk to these minority groups to understand the dangers of a trump win, but none of you are talking or listening to palestinians. palestinians who are dying from our tax dollars and bc our president has vetoed a ceasefire three times now, cut unrwa funding, and sends israel weapons every 36 hours. a president who is:

supporting the "toughest" border security bill (bipartisan btw)

calling undocumented immigrants "illegals" at the sotu

saying he'll sign the tiktok ban bill into law (bipartisan again)

hugging and kissing fascists like netanyahu and meloni

saying he doesn't know how classified documents got into his house but can retell the 40 beheaded babies lie twice

not scheduling campaign events in universities to avoid being interrupted by young voters, therefore alienating his base further

saying no jewish person is safe without israel, implying jewish people aren't safe in the country he runs

not willing to expand the supreme court

not forgiving all student loan debt as he promised to do

saying "i've never been supportive of, you know, 'it's my body, i can do what i want with it'" in regards to women's reproductive health

removing telehealth from medicare beneficiaries

limiting covid precautions, allowing almost 1k dying per week since 2024 started

how has this man shown he's capable of stopping this feared project 2025 when he is actively appeasing to the right instead of his own base? when he has done nothing to stop trump from even being on the ballot once again? when he's not addressing the hundreds of thousands who voted uncommitted or the 80% of his base who want a ceasefire? when elected officials are ignoring people will, that is not a democracy.

we're living in a world where journalists of colors are being laid-off in mass in major media companies that only show half the news bc they're owned by billionaires. we're using nitrogen gas as a death penalty and criminalizing bail funds. homelessness is at its highest in a decade. boeing planes are falling apart in the sky and whistleblowers are dying. it's 70 degrees in march.

i'm telling you that voting blue isn't going to cut it. especially when you have democrats like nyc governor hochul sending the national guard to search bags to send a "psychological" message of safety. or like fetterman who are bought by aipac. or when the democratic minneapolis city council voted to increase rideshare drivers' wages, but now lyft/uber are leaving the city bc they don't want to pay their drivers more. it isn't just individuals, it's a whole system that is corrupt. if you want to show that your vote matters, you need to do that actual work to make your voices heard so your representatives are pressured to change course towards popular will. this should not be a cult where you blindly give your vote away to candidates unwilling to change.

#that tweet that's like 'y'all are hypersexual desensitized lazy unbothered uninformed and DEMONIC' is what i think of lots of you most day #again this election is a sham and institutions won't save us but GOD if you're voting - actually make your vote useful #dl

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🤔 … The creation of a 'new nation' after WWII ... carrying the guilt of the Holocaust and not wanting Jews on European lands!!

By: LaillaB, founder of ‘Reclaim the Narrative’, from LinkedIn …

"Soon after WWII, US statesman Dean Acheson warned that creating Israel on land already inhabited by Palestinians would “imperil” both American and all Western interests in the region.

Despite warnings such as this one, President Truman supported establishing a Jewish state on land primarily inhabited by Muslims and Christians.

US politicians pushed this policy over the forceful objections of top diplomatic and military experts.

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As the book “Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel” demonstrates, these politicians were bombarded by a massive pro-Israel lobbying effort that ranged from well-funded and very public Zionist organizations to an “elitist secret society” whose members included Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.

This book brings together meticulously sourced evidence to illuminate a reality that differs starkly from the prevailing narrative.

It provides a clear view of the history that is key to understanding one of the most fatal injustices of our time.

"If you never read another book, read this one." – The Daily K Diaries.

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Another work of major importance, Mearsheimer and Walt deepen, expand and confront the “United States of America“ argument.

John Mearsheimer, is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and Stephen Walt, Professor of International Relations at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, It was a New York Times Best Seller.

They describe the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the United States provides to Israel and argues that this support cannot be fully explained on either strategic or moral grounds.

This exceptional relationship is due largely to the political influence of a loose coalition of individuals and organizations that actively work to shape U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction.

Mearsheimer and Walt provocatively contend that the lobby has a far-reaching impact on America's posture throughout the Middle East--in Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, and toward the question o Palestinian--and the policies it has encouraged are in neither America's national interest nor Israel's long-term interest.

"The Lobby doesn’t want an open debate, of course, because that might lead Americans to question the level of support they provide."

In fact, Israel is a liability to the broader effort to deal with the war on terror, more important, saying that Israel and the US are united by a shared terrorist threat has the causal relationship backwards; the US has a terrorism problem because it is so closely aligned with Israel, not the other way around.

“The bottom line is that AIPAC, which is a de facto agent for a foreign government, has a stranglehold on the U.S. Congress." … 🤔

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The Left Is Finally Building A Response To AIPAC 🐖 🐷 🐗 (The Incurable Zionist Cancer)

AIPAC has Become the Key Force Against Progressives in Democratic Primaries, But a New Coalition is Seeking to Protect the Party’s Left Flank.

— Akela Lacy | March 11 2024 | The Intercept

Palestine Solidarity Demonstrators hold placards that say “Dump AIPAC” at a rally in New York City on February 22, 2024. Photo: Jimin Kim/Sipa via AP

After Decades Of avoiding Direct Involvement in Electoral Politics, the country’s flagship Israel lobby group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, formed a pair of political action committees in recent years and has been spending millions on political races.

Its targets have been progressives, with AIPAC becoming heavily involved in Democratic primaries. In addition to recruiting candidates to challenge incumbent Democrats, the group plans to spend at least $100 million on 2024 races.

Now, progressives are fighting back, building a bulwark against the pro-Israel lobby onslaught with a new campaign to reject AIPAC.

A group of 25 progressive organizations — including Justice Democrats, the Working Families Party, the IfNotNow Movement, and Jewish Voice for Peace Action— launched the Reject AIPAC coalition Monday. The coalition plans to organize against AIPAC across electoral, political, and digital arenas. One facet of the plan calls for a seven-figure electoral spending campaign to defend members of Congress being targeted by AIPAC.

In a press release announcing its launch, the coalition said it would work to “organize Democratic voters and elected officials to reject the destructive influence of the Republican megadonor-backed AIPAC on the Democratic primary process and our government’s policy towards Palestine and Israel.”

Financed by AIPAC’s major donors, including Republican billionaires and key GOP funders, the 2021 launch of the Israel lobby’s new super PAC was readymade to outspend progressives. AIPAC and its allies have reshaped the electoral field in key primaries, shifted the balance of power in Congress, and imposed costly consequences for criticism of U.S. support for Israel’s human rights abuses.

The Washington debate around the Israeli–Palestinian conflict has become particularly fraught amid Israel’s relentless assault on the Gaza Strip. Even as the International Court of Justice ruled that a case against Israel for genocide should proceed, progressive members of Congress have been attacked for using the term — or, early on in the war, just for calling for a ceasefire.

AIPAC recruited and is bankrolling a challenger to Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., for instance, who made early and forceful calls for a ceasefire in the Gaza war. Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., who faced an AIPAC spending onslaught in 2022, is expected to face millions in AIPAC expenditures again this year.

“We have watched as AIPAC has done everything it can to silence growing dissent in Congress against Netanyahu’s assault on Gaza — which has killed over 31,000 Palestinians — even as Democratic voters overwhelmingly support a ceasefire and oppose sending more blank checks to the Israeli military,” the coalition said. “Now, AIPAC’s Republican donor-funded Super PAC, the United Democracy Project, is threatening to spend $100 million targeting the handful of Black and brown members of Congress who have led the calls for a ceasefire and the equal protection of Palestinian and Israeli lives.”

AIPAC And Its Allies’ Growing Influence on Democratic Party Politics has presented a major problem for progressives. The organizations backing progressives rely mostly on small-dollar donors and can’t compete with AIPAC’s war chest.

Even as it attacks Democrats on the parties left flank, however, AIPAC has cozied up to the GOP’s far right. In the 2020 election, AIPAC endorsed more than 100 Republicans who voted to overturn the results of that year’s presidential race.

This year, the group encouraged Republicans to switch parties to vote in at least one Democratic primary where it recruited Westchester County Executive George Latimer to run against Bowman. AIPAC is the biggest donor to Latimer’s campaign so far, The Intercept reported.

While progressive candidates like Lee have fended off AIPAC and its allies, its chilling effects reach far beyond elections. The group also has an outsized lobbying influence on Capitol Hill and spends millions of dollars a year on lobbying efforts, another arena in which the left has been outmatched.

The Reject AIPAC coalition says it will try to counterbalance those efforts on the Hill and call on members to disavow AIPAC’s endorsement and instead sign a pledge not to take any more money from the group. For the moment, however, many senior Democrats, including those in leadership, have benefited from AIPAC’s largesse.

“The overwhelming influence of corporate Super PACs on our democracy and elections has expanded the gap between voters and their elected leaders into a canyon that has been exploited by every special interest and corporate lobby,” the coalition said. “Rejecting AIPAC is a crucial step in putting voters back at the center of our democracy.”

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