On the day after the Obama administration started bombing the Islamic State (IS – formerly ISIS) in northern Iraq, the Wall St. Journal wrote an editorial on how to defeat them. Among […]
He has to find it first…
Finkelstein on Gaza
This is a 45 minute video but it’s well worth listening to. Finkelstein shoots down one argument after another of the defenders of Israel. If you know anybody who is confused about […]
Debating With Defenders of Israel
Kshama Sawant was on the radio the other evening arguing for her position on Israel/Palestine and the massacre in Gaza. Unfortunately, she allowed herself to be put on the defensive for most […]
Letter from Barbara Lee
A while back we had a confrontation with Barbara Lee about her support for funding for Israel’s military. Since then, we wrote to her criticizing her for her vote for additional funding. Here […]
US capitalist class and Israel
Some in the US claim that the influence of the Israel lobby is the reason that the US supports Israel so strongly. It is true that this lobby is extremely powerful and […]
Perspectives for War on Gaza
It is hard to see how Israel’s attacks on Gaza will not escalate. On the one side, it does not seem that Hamas can back down from its demand that the blockade […]
$ Talks: US Congresswoman Barbara Lee & US Aid to Israel
Barbara Lee presents herself as a “renegade for peace and justice”, and claims to support the rights of the Palestinian people. Despite this, she writes on her own web site, “The […]
Israeli treatment of African asylum seekers approaches Nazi Germany
52% Israeli Jews agree that African refugees in Israel are “a cancer”; 32% support physical assaults on Africans and African businesses. Politicians openly advocate “concentration camps” for and “gassing” of African asylum […]
Oakland Socialist Disrupts The Process
This evening, “my” state assemblymember, Rob Bonta – a good liberal Democrat – held a fraudulent town hall meeting in Oakland. After giving a nice speech about what wonderful things he is […]
San Francisco Protest Against Israeli Atrocities in Gaza
On Sunday, July 20 in San Francisco, some 4-6,000 people protested Israeli atrocities in Gaza. Here is a short video of that protest.