The Price Of Criticizing The State Of Israel

Israel is well-known for having a potent U.S. lobby that not only influences Congress and the mainstream media but intimidates Americans who dare criticize its policies toward the Palestinians.

Dennis J Bernstein
بواسطة Dennis J Bernstein
Protesters demonstrate against a state-sanctioned backlash against the movement for Palestinian human rights after Gov. Cuomo signed a McCarthyite executive order requiring state agencies to divest from organizations that support the Palestinian call to boycott companies profiting from, or cultural or academic institutions complicit in, Israel's oppression of the Palestinian people. (Photo: Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/ Sipa via 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 the grandson of a revered Rabbi, I have been roundly denounced by pro-Israeli representatives and their Zionist lobbyists in the U.S. I’ve stopped

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Infowars Is Anti-Semitic But Pro-Israel? Alex Jones Goes Zionist Under Trump

‘Because Barack Obama has cursed Israel at the United Nations, America is now under a curse,’ reads the tagline of a blog post recently reprinted by Infowars.

Kit O'Connell
بواسطة Kit O'Connell
The only openly Anti-Semitic Alex Jones,’ is now staunchly Zionist.

AUSTIN, Texas --- Infowars, an alternative multimedia outlet notorious for peddling hoaxes and anti-Semitic ideas, is now toeing a far-right, extremist line on U.S.-Israel relations. The site’s shifting political viewpoint is another sign of the transformation that Alex Jones, the site’s founder, has undergone as he’s transitioned from an

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ANALYSIS: Casinos, Newspapers, Elections: If It Can Be Bought, Sheldon Adelson Will Buy It

The casino magnate is following the plays he wrote in Israel to achieve familiar results in Nevada: buy up media property, use that media to promote a pro-Zionist, pro-right wing agenda, and hope that the public votes according to what they read.

Richard Silverstein
بواسطة Richard Silverstein
Sheldon Adelson

SEATTLE --- Less than a year ago, Nevada’s largest paper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, was sold as part of a group of seven regional newspapers for $100 million. This week, the reporters at the paper discovered it had been sold again. But the latest sale was exceedingly unusual. The Review-Journal was not part of a package deal. It was sold as

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