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... [Representative Illhan Omar] was accused of parroting an old anti-Semitic trope which held that Jews would never be fully loyal citizens of the countries in which they lived. The accusation that they held "dual loyalties" has justified the oppression of Jews dating back to the Roman Empire.   So Donald Trump raised some eyebrows on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, when he bragged to a crowd of Republican Jews gathered in Las Vegas that he had "stood with your prime minister at the White House," The reality is that Jewish Americans worry less about Israel than things like health care, the economy, and the environment… Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/07/benjamin-netanyahus-proposal-would-bury-the-two-state-solution     The Israeli PM's West Bank annexation idea is likely to have had the nod from Trump.   …Jeremy Ben-Ami, the president of the US-based progressive advocacy group, J Street, said Netanyahu's statement was intended to sabotage the creation of a Palestinian state and potentially endangered Israeli lives…   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

http://bostonreview.net/politics/donna-nevel-mark-tseng-putterman-what-anti-semitism-is?fbclid=IwAR2JOqeYNdn1LD74TNP9wIuLn005CWf3K4ejKprZ7smPbGHyN6QCFZXXjKc   Two Jewish activists discuss the place of anti-Semitism in contemporary movements for social justice.   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://mondoweiss.net/2019/03/approaches-discusses-movement/   …A majority of the demonstrators have abided by the insistence for peaceful protests, yet many have thrown rocks, lobbed burning tires or released incendiary kites that have burned acres of Israeli farmland. Israeli forces have shot at demonstrators with live-fire and tear gas, the kites are now being intercepted by drones. … The UN says  Israeli forces have killed 260 Palestinians in the demonstrations that began last March, and have injured more than 26,000, nearly 7,000 of whom were struck with live bullets. Palestinians have killed two Israeli soldiers, and injured four during protests by the fence… "Our demands were simple and honorable, we want to return, we want a dignified life. Even those engaged in armed resistance started to understand how effective peaceful nonviolence can be," he said. "But I would like to raise all of these disagreement...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/world/middleeast/netanyahu-arabs-election.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FIsrael&action=click&contentCollection=world&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection .   With three weeks to go, the Israeli election is so close that Arab voters, who make up only a fifth of the population, could help bring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's long career to an abrupt end.   Mr. Netanyahu has been fanning the flames of anti-Arab sentiment almost daily.   He has warned Israelis that his main challenger, the retired army chief Benny Gantz, would " hand over parts of the homeland to the Arabs " and that he would make alliances with Arab parties that " want to destroy " Israel. Mr. Netanyahu has also joined forces with a racist faction whose leaders support expelling Arab citizens and call them "the enemy....

https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/03/gaza-interior-ministry-warn-operatives-rockets-fired-israel.html   The Gaza Strip Interior Ministry said in its March 14 statement that the movement is following up on the Gaza rockets that were fired in defiance of a national consensus against them, and stressed that measures will be taken against the violators. For the first time since 2014, two rockets were fired toward Tel Aviv on March 14, despite the Egypt-brokered truce agreements between Hamas and Israel. Although the military wings of both Hamas and the Islamic Jihad denied responsibility  for the rockets fired, Israel shelled dozens  of military targets belonging to Hamas and the Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip without causing casualties.   This is the rst time that the Interior Ministry explicitly declared that rocket operatives, in a time of truce, will be prosecuted. .. Hassan Abdo, a political analyst close to th...

https://972mag.com/you-have-the-power-to-stop-apartheid-an-open-letter-to-aipac/140666/ American Jews, who play such a central role in what happens in Israel, can put an end to the oppression of Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line. But only if they tell Israelis that enough is enough… The fading relevance of the Green Line is creating a demographic balance between Jews and Palestinians between the river and the sea. To deal with this fact, the government will try to deepen its control over six million Palestinians. Oppression will lead to a cycle of resistance, subsequent greater oppression, followed by a popular uprising. More power will lead to expulsions, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity. American Jews could end up paying the price for Israel's actions, and the world may no longer be able to look you in the eyes...   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member