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Analyses of Trump’s Peace Plan for Israel-Palestine, “Deal of the Century” (Updated)

contact@ifamericansknew.org January 28, 2020 apartheid, bantustan, deal of the century, Jerusalem, Netanyahu, settlement, south africa

US President Donald Trump’s “Deal of the Century” violates international law in a number of ways. It gravely violates the rights and dignity of the Palestinian people. It gives Israelis the illusion of security while in reality trapping them within an unstable regime based on racial oppression. Read analyses from the New Yorker, UK Guardian, Mondoweiss, Informed comment, and American Conservative. Also gives link to the 181-page document of the plan…

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American Zionists choose lies over children

Kathryn Shihadah January 23, 2020 Betty McCollum, blame the victim, child imprisonment, child soldier, child torture, defense of children international, dehumanization, Elor Azaria, Gadna, h.r.2407, human rights violation, human shield, IDF, israel defense forces, israel lobby, Mark Mellman, military camp, nation-state law, Netanyahu, NGO Monitor, no way to treat a child, nurit peled-elhanan, racism, StandWithUs, yaakov fadida, Zionist Organization of America, ZOA

A bill before Congress seeks merely to stop US aid dollars from subsidizing the incarceration and torture of Palestinian children. Pro-Israel organizations would rather believe outrageous fallacies than stand up for these kids’ rights.

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Voting for World Zionist Congress heats up

contact@ifamericansknew.org January 23, 2020 World Zionist Congress

Voting has begun for the World Zionist Congress, as Israel partisans on the left and the right vie for influence… among other things, the WZC decides how $5 billion will be spent… (Palestinians need not apply)

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O Little Town of Bethlehem, what has become of thee?

contact@ifamericansknew.org December 26, 2019 Banksy, Bethlehem, Christian Zionism, Christmas, evangelical, gaza blockade, occupation, religious freedom, separation wall, zionism

Millions of travelers to Bethlehem believe the hasbara: Jews Good, Palestinians Bad; Jews victims, Palestinians perpetrators; because of the Holocaust, the world owes us, and must condone what we’re doing to Palestinians; those who criticize our racist policies are outright anti-Semites; we are God’s Chosen, therefore we can do no wrong.

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Anti-Semitism Envoy Elan Carr puts Israel (not Jews) front and center

contact@ifamericansknew.org December 17, 2019 ADL, Anti-Defamation League, anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, colonialism, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, jewish voice for peace, jvp, neturei karta, racism, settler colonialism, special envoy anti semitism, us department of education

Trump’s anti-Semitism envoy boldly equates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism, & considers Israel “a central tenet” of Judaism – despite the many voices within the global Jewish community, including within Israel itself, critical of Israel. Carr demands: Every law enforcement office and every prosecutorial agency must force everybody who has even a hint of antisemitism to undergo a tolerance program.

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Israel lobby is the reason for perpetual oppression of Palestinians

contact@ifamericansknew.org December 10, 2019 AIPAC, barack obama, Netanyahu, settler colonialism, Sheldon Adelson, tom friedman

In this frank, and frankly courageous piece, Philip Weiss lays bare the agenda of the Israel lobby and how it has manipulated the American Jewish community and the US government for decades. But, he predicts, the lobby is dying, and in its wake, peace is achievable.

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Why media reports on Palestine are consistently inaccurate

contact@ifamericansknew.org October 25, 2019 antisemitism, Censorship, israel lobby, mainstream media, media bias, zionism

The Israel lobby has created an atmosphere in which journalists shy away from honest reporting on the Israel/Palestine issue. They are so fearful of being labeled anti-Semitic, they “daren’t even ask the [necessary] questions.”

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Cleansing the Negev: Israel plans to evict “tens of thousands” of Palestinian Bedouin

contact@ifamericansknew.org October 19, 2019 al-araqib, bedouin, expulsion, judaization, sayah abu madhim, zionism

Israel uses benign terms to hide the true nature of its plans to evict tens of thousands of indigenous Bedouin from their homes, many of whom have been uprooted at least once before. The reality is that this is part of Israel’s overarching, 70-year-long ethnic cleansing project to create a Jewish state.

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Fundraising gala: does the IDF really need another $37 million?

contact@ifamericansknew.org September 27, 2019 Elor Azaria, friends of idf, IDF, leahy laws, military aid, most moral army

The Friends of the IDF gala Wednesday raised a small fortune for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) – a military machine that uses American aid to kill and maim.

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If Americans Knew: “This is why we exist”

contact@ifamericansknew.org September 23, 2019 ADL, AJC, antisemitism, clovis, first amendment, gv wire, iak, if americans knew, istandwithalisonweir, slander

Alison Weir has weathered criticism and hate, slander and insults, in the quest for justice for Palestinians. Her organization, If Americans Knew, reconfirmed its reason for existence in the ups and downs of a recent, difficult controversy.

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