The sophists taught, rather publicly, the view that the summit of happiness is to combine the appearance of justice with actual injustice: Gregory McBrayer; in Brill’s Companion to Leo Strauss. (Professor at Center of Columbia University Deportation Scandal Is Former Israeli Spy) Mahmoud Khalil, 30–year-old holder of a green card permitting him permanently to live and… Read More Patrick Lawrence: Season of the Sophists
Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth argues that “Zionism and Americanism are the front-lines of Western civilization and freedom in our world today” — pedals the usual absurdity that the Hebrew Bible, written 4,000 years ago, can be used to draw contemporary national borders. Chris Hedges Christian Nationalists who form the bedrock of support for Donald Trump… Read More Trump’s Christian Fascists and the War on Palestine
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ashraf al-Hur reports at al-Quds al-`Arabi [Arab Jerusalem] that the extremist government in Israel has escalated its military attacks on the Gaza Strip in the past few days. The moves come after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declined to start the second phase of the ceasefire… Read More Juan Cole: Israel Returns to Deliberately Starving Palestinian Civilians in Gaza, Planning for Further Total War
This is what Israel is doing now, just to be clear. A Nakba. Gideon Levy Something is happening for the first time in Israeli history. One war has yet to fully die down, but Israel is already stoking the next one. We have been denied the luxury of a moment to breathe or a bit… Read More When the Third Intifada Breaks Out, Don’t Forget That Israel Instigated It
By Middle East Monitor Gary Lineker, Khalid Abdalla, Anita Rani and Miriam Margolyes have joined over 500 film, TV and media workers in condemning censorship and racism after the BBC pulled a documentary about children’s lives in Gaza. The media professionals, including nine BBC staff, sent a letter to the broadcaster’s Director-General Tim Davie, Chair of the Board Samir Shah, Chief Content… Read More 500 Programme-Makers Condemn Censorship, Racism After BBC Pulls Gaza Documentary
It’s hard to accept that a dispositive majority of Americans love Trump and revel in his bigotry. To say that would amount to saying that the ground out of which American democracy grows is poisoned…. on the matter of Palestine, America’s lower depths have lower depths, its appetite for atrocity in the Middle East is… Read More Monstrous originality
NB: This is a crime unfolding right in front of our eyes; barely spoken of or called out for what it is by the so-called civilised world. The impunity enjoyed by the USA and Israel, backed up by covert or overt military assistance of the Western powers is a token of their brazen colonial attitude… Read More The Demon of Ethnic Cleansing Has Been Let Out of the Bottle in Israel
From Jairus Banaji’s Facebook page A builder fantasizes about transforming Gaza into the Riviera of the Middle East, with a string of luxury hotels for the consumption of the world’s super-rich. Netanyahu looks baffled and even pained by the thought, because this real estate fantasy transforms the Israeli state into a mercenary that has unwittingly… Read More Trump on Ketamine
Dilip Simeon NB: This is part of a paper that I wrote in October 2023. Trump’s new declaration that he intends to complete the process of ethnic cleansing is merely the latest and most brazen declaration of the murderous impulses of American imperialism. He and his cronies will meet the same fate of the Presidents… Read More Nation-states as national homes; and Sir Edwin Montagu’s views on Zionism (1917)
Despite the ceasefire, Benjamin Netanyahu is capitulating to extremists who have no problem with ethnic cleansing. And they’ve found an ally in Donald Trump Ben Reiff The ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas has now entered its second week. Over the past two weekends, Hamas has handed over seven Israeli hostages in exchange for the release of… Read More Israel’s far right is planning for a Gaza without Palestinians
After the truth-shower 