It seems Mehlman and the AJC have not heard the message from more moderate elements of the Israel lobby, or from right-wing pollster Frank Luntz. The following May 3 AP article ran in the
From the respected Israeli human rights organization B’tselem, April 30: Southern Hebron hills: Israel reinstates the cancelled barrier route “through the back door” The army has recently issued new orders requisitioning land in the southern Hebron hills along Route 317… Read moreIsraeli wall threatens Palestinian cave-dwellers
The following ran in the New York Jewish Week. It marks a post-M&W pendulum swing, in which more centrist elements of the Israel lobby are speaking out with alarm over what more hard-line elements — The Weekly Standard, The Wall… Read moreCentrist Jewish leaders to Bush: back off the Israel rationale
Sweden and other Scandanavian countries are the harshest European critics of Israeli behavior. One of the largest regions in Norway, Trondheim, has banned the sale of Israeli goods as well. Haaretz, April 28: Israel summons Swedish envoy over NATO drill,… Read moreSweden nixes Italy air show over Israel
Note the last line asserting that the release of the findings at this time is coincidental. Could be, but it certainly serves an important propaganda function as Bush prepares to play Churchill to Ahmadinejad’s Hitler. From Reuters, April 7: BERLIN… Read moreNazis planned Holocaust for Palestine: historians
The final results of Israel’s Knesset election are as follows: Kadima, the party created by Sharon and now led by Ehud Olmert has 29 seats, a disappointment considering polls had projected up to 43 seats at one point. Labor, led… Read moreIsraeli election roundup
This commentary in Egypt’s Al-Ahram Weekly gets it just right. The incredibly sad irony is that Al-Ahram’s editors obviously didn’t read it! The introdek they appended to it assumes the piece is making the same tired point about how the… Read moreArab scholar: “Jewish lobby” scapegoat for imperial interests
On March 16, 2003, Washington state-born activist Rachel Corrie, 23, was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer while acting as a “human shield” against the demolition of a Palestinian home in Rafah, on the Gaza Strip. Last year, Katherine Viner,… Read moreNYC: activists bring Rachel Corrie’s censored words to stage
In October 2004, we reported on the struggle of traditional Palestinian cave-dwellers in the South Hebron region to maintain their lands from Israeli settler theft and encroachment. An update is now provided by Neve Gordon, who witnessed an inspiring joint… Read moreSettler tree-theft from Palestinian cave-dwellers
The Dalai Lama just visited Israel, where no Israeli official would meet with him. According to the following account, a Palestinian NGO also agreed to cancel his visit to the occupied Palestinian territories at China’s request. From the Middle East… Read more“Separatist” Dalai Lama snubbed by Palestinians
The Palestinian press is raising the possibility that Israel may be trying to provoke a response with a recent large spate of “targeted killings.” From the International Middle East Media Center, Feb. 10: Ongoing Israeli Assassinations by Missile said to… Read moreIsrael assassinates 13 in one week
In a big boost to the sclerotic campaign to divest from companies that do business with Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, which includes East Jerusalem, the Church of England reversed earlier expectations, voting to divest from the Caterpillar corporation:… Read moreChurch of England votes to divest from Caterpillar
