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A lot of attention is being drawn these days in Israel to the Jewish Power party, and its leader Itamar Ben Gvir. The party, which morphed out of the late rabbi Meir Kahane’s fundamentalist Kach party (Kahane was banned in 1988 from running due to racism), has experienced a meteoric rise from near obscurity (and […]
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Racist Israeli pol Ben Gvir is now welcome at kibbutzes
September 23rd, 2022 
Awake Goy The news is that former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is threatening to make a comeback in the November election and recapture his old job. Experts cite a few reasons things are looking good for Netanyahu. 1, Israeli politics are very rightwing; and Netanyahu is the most popular candidate, and his bloc is polling at […]
Netanyahu poised to lead most rightwing government in Israeli history
September 20th, 2022 Awake Goy September 15 was a deadline for the submission of parties for the Israeli elections, set for November 1. At this point it appears likely that Israel will be seeing one of its most extreme right-wing governments in history. Benjamin Netanyahu has reemerged as a beacon of stability for the right, and if he leads Israel’s […]
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Tags: government, history, israeli, netanyahu!, poised, rightwing 
No Comments »Gaza attack was ‘incredible boost’ and ‘good debut’ for Yair Lapid
August 24th, 2022 Awake Goy Israeli PM Yair Lapid’s unprovoked attack on Gaza that killed 17 children was part of a “good debut” for him with Israeli voters in his race against Netanyahu, says Tal Shalev of Walla News. Lapid faces the “hatred” of rightwing media, who echo Netanyahu’s racist talking point, Lapid can only form the next government with […]
Tom Friedman normalizes apartheid in the ‘New York Times’
July 1st, 2022 Awake Goy NYT columnist Tom Friedman painted the past year in Israel—the first Netanyahu-free year since 2008—as an icon of democracy, where Israeli Jews and Palestinian citizens of Israel danced together under the blue and white flag, in harmony and happiness. That is a contemptible piece of fiction which erases apartheid, blames Palestinians for their own ongoing […]
Posted in Benjamin Netanyahu, NEW YORK TIMES Tags: apartheid, friedman, normalizes, Times No Comments »Don’t meet Netanyahu in Israel if you respect human rights — ADC urges Biden
June 30th, 2022 Awake Goy The ADC tells Joe Biden, The United States has an obligation to Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist killed by an Israeli sniper May 11, to find out what happened to her. “If this happened in any other country, the US would have at a minimum called for an independent investigation. It is not lost […]
Posted in Benjamin Netanyahu Tags: biden, human, israel, netanyahu!, respect, rights, urges No Comments »I won’t cut the baby in half, Bennett declares– and the baby is apartheid
June 24th, 2022 Awake Goy Support for apartheid is the one thing that unifies Israeli Jewish parties. The prime minister likens the separate-and-unequal law in the West Bank to Solomon’s baby, while the leader of the left Zionist Meretz Party says that a Palestinian colleague who voted against extending the law “was malicious and unfair… despicable.” Source
2021 in review: Business as usual in DC, but Palestine activists scored huge wins
December 29th, 2021 Awake Goy This year was marked by a number of a political setbacks, but it also produced inspiring victories. As it comes to an end, we thought we’d take a look back on 2021. In addition to looking at Washington’s support for Israel’s violence, we wanted to take stock of what Palestine activists accomplished through their tireless […]
Posted in Benjamin Netanyahu, News Tags: activists, Business, Palestine, review, scored, usual No Comments »“I don’t think Bibi ever wanted to make a deal.”
December 17th, 2021 Awake Goy First things first: you probably already know, but Mondoweiss is able to do the depth and quality of journalism we do in large part because we are funded by a huge community of individual donors who care about honesty and integrity in reporting – people like you. If you haven’t already, can you take a moment […]
It’s time for the U.S. to treat Israel like a normal country and tell it to screw off
December 6th, 2021 Awake Goy The news from the Middle East is that negotiators in Vienna are trying to restart the Iran deal, and Israel is doing all it can to throw a wrench into the works. Its officials are leading a “blitz” to end the talks: the Prime Minister has called on the U.S. for an “immediate cessation of […]
Posted in barack obama, Benjamin Netanyahu Tags: country, israel, normal, screw, treat No Comments »For Democratic leaders, and Tom Cotton too, Lapid is a rock star who says nothing about Palestine
October 15th, 2021 Awake Goy The big news on our issue in Washington is that Benjamin Netanyahu is gone, and Joe Biden and the Israel lobby are celebrating. Yair Lapid, the foreign minister and alt-PM in the new Naftali Bennett government, came to Washington this week and was treated like a rock star by the lobby. Here at last is […]
Posted in Benjamin Netanyahu, News Tags: about, cotton, democratic, lapid, leaders, nothing, Palestine No Comments »Israel can’t be faulted for anything, thanks to hasbara culture’s narrative of Jewish victimhood
September 21st, 2021 Awake Goy My work is focused on hasbara culture: the social construction of alternative reality centering on the victimization of the Jewish people that has little to do with the real world. But despite hasbara culture’s ideas being ahistorical, its concepts and discourse on Jew hatred are now conventional wisdom in Jewish and American political culture. And that […]
Posted in Benjamin Netanyahu Tags: anything?, Culture, faulted, hasbara, israel, narrative, thanks No Comments »Israeli officials are ‘alarmed’ by U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan
September 4th, 2021 Awake Goy Israeli officials have reacted with “alarm” to the images of the United States leaving Afghanistan, arguing that the U.S. has empowered Israel’s enemies, according to an expert observer. Some say the withdrawal shows why Israel can never leave the occupied Palestinian territories. Bottom line– The American “Forever war” is still getting raves in Israel. Israeli […]
Posted in Benjamin Netanyahu Tags: Afghanistan, alarmed, israeli, Officials, withdrawal No Comments »Did Israel just fail to be singularly racist?
July 8th, 2021 Awake Goy One of Israel’s most singularly racist laws just expired last midnight: the ‘temporary’ ban on Palestinian family reunification, which had previously been extended every year since 2003. But let it be made crystal clear – the law did not expire because Israel stopped being an Apartheid state, and the political reason for the failure to […]
Biden won’t make Obama’s mistake — so there will be ‘no daylight’ between U.S. and Israel
July 5th, 2021 Awake Goy Joe Biden is showing up his former boss, Barack Obama, in a key area of foreign policy. He has decided to have no public daylight between the United States and Israel, in the political interests of himself and the new Israeli government. The strategy helps explain why Biden has had very little public criticism of […]
Posted in barack obama, Benjamin Netanyahu Tags: between, biden, daylight, israel, mistake, obama, there No Comments »Israel is torn between ‘temporary’ and permanent Apartheid
July 1st, 2021 Awake Goy One of the first challenges to the new Israeli government is the passage of yet another extension to the “temporary order” from 2003, which bans Palestinian family unification. Human Rights Watch, in their April report on Israeli Apartheid, explains family reunification policy cogently: The 1952 Citizenship Law also authorizes granting citizenship based on naturalization. However, […]
Posted in Benjamin Netanyahu, News Tags: apartheid, between, israel, permanent, temporary No Comments »Biden should use US aid as leverage on Israel
June 15th, 2021 Awake Goy Last December Professor Emeritus of International Relations at Oxford University Avi Shlaim wrote in Foreign Policy that at some point in President Biden’s administration he would have to address the ongoing problem of Israel/Palestine. That time has come, of course not at Biden’s choosing and likely sooner than Shlaim expected. His oped recalled a story […]
How Gaza dethroned the king of Israel
June 10th, 2021 Awake Goy How did Benjamin Netanyahu manage to serve as Israel’s longest-serving prime minister? With a total of 15 years in office, Netanyahu surpassed the 12-year mandate of Israel’s founding father, David Ben Gurion. The answer to this question will become particularly critical for future Israeli leaders who hope to emulate Netanyahu’s legacy, now that his historic […]
America’s ironclad commitment to Israel is more ideological than logical
June 9th, 2021 Awake Goy Two central pillars of U.S. foreign policy discourse have long been to be staunchly pro-Israel, while maintaining the language of Iran as a menacing threat. This dual discourse is so ingrained in U.S. policy thinking that its rhetoric bleeds into American popular culture. But what is the merit of this unquestionable policy position in terms […]
Posted in Benjamin Netanyahu Tags: america, commitment, ideological, ironclad, israel, logical No Comments »The beginning of the end of Netanyahu?
June 4th, 2021 Awake Goy A nerve-wrecking 35 minutes before the end of his 28-day mandate to form a government, Yair Lapid of the Yesh Atid party informed President Reuven Rivlin Wednesday night that he had managed to form a coalition. It is an ungainly beast: And it’s not yet clear it will actually be voted in. The next prime minister […]
Israelis need Netanyahu more than they care to admit
June 3rd, 2021 Awake Goy The news is that Israeli centrist lawmaker Yair Lapid, head of the Yesh Atid party (“There is a Future”), declared to the President Reuven Rivlin, that he had managed to put together a majority supported coalition to govern the country. He managed to proclaim this just before his mandate to form the coalition ran out, […]
Bennett government would make Israel easier to sell in ‘progressive circles,’ leading Israel advocate says
June 2nd, 2021 Awake Goy Israel’s advocates in U.S. politics are excited by the possible replacement of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by Naftali Bennett, in a “change” coalition. Even though Bennett is to the right of Netanyahu, his coalition would include a few leftleaning Israelis, and that will make Israel easier to sell. “You can’t deny that America is better […]
Posted in Benjamin Netanyahu, News Tags: bennett, circles, easier, government, israel, progressive, would No Comments »Bennett will oust Netanyahu as Israeli PM under reported deal
June 2nd, 2021 Awake Goy Right-winger Naftali Bennett is to replace Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel’s prime minister under a power-sharing deal announced by centrist Yair Lapid just ahead of a midnight deadline tonight in Israel. Netanyahu has served as prime minister since 2009, the longest term of any Israeli p.m. He has so far survived a series of four elections […]
Posted in Benjamin Netanyahu, News Tags: bennett, israeli, netanyahu!, reported, under No Comments »Egyptian Mediators Try to Build on Israel-Hamas Ceasefire
May 23rd, 2021 Awake Goy Palestinians shake hands after returning to their destroyed houses following Israel-Hamas truce, in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, May 21, 2021. Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem Egyptian mediators sought to reinforce a day-old ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants on Saturday, and aid officials appealed for a period of calm to start tackling a humanitarian […]
Posted in Benjamin Netanyahu, Middle East Tags: build, ceasefire, egyptian, Hamas, israel, mediators No Comments »Biden’s opposition to an Israeli ceasefire is nothing new
May 21st, 2021 Awake Goy The headlines read various versions of “Biden supports a ceasefire!” Israeli bombs and missiles have killed 232 Palestinians, 65 of them children, and left more than 1,900 wounded and 75,000 homeless in Gaza. Twelve have died in Israel. Shouldn’t support for an immediate end to the slaughter be automatic? What does it mean when the […]
Posted in Benjamin Netanyahu, united nations Tags: biden, ceasefire, israeli, nothing, opposition No Comments »IDF launches waves of strikes against Gaza amid rare pause in rocket attacks
May 18th, 2021 FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Israeli aircraft carried out a series of strikes against targets in the Gaza Strip early Tuesday even as Palestinian terrorists in Gaza appeared to temporarily pause the rocket fire toward Israel. Rockets were fired toward Israel just before midnight Monday, with no further attacks until dawn Tuesday, when alarms sounded in communities near Gaza and […]
Posted in Benjamin Netanyahu Tags: against, attacks, launches, pause, rocket, strikes, waves No Comments »Joe Biden Supports Israeli Ceasefire After Pressure from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Left
May 18th, 2021 Awake Goy President Joe Biden expressed his desire for an Israeli ceasefire of operations against Hamas, after a growing force of leftist Democrats criticized his support of Israel. Biden spoke with Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu Monday afternoon, walking back his support for Israel’s aggressive response in Palestine to Hamas rocket attacks. The Israeli military response against Hamas […]
Posted in Benjamin Netanyahu Tags: after, Alexandria, biden, ceasefire, israeli, pressure, supports No Comments »Ilhan Omar: ‘Appalling’ Biden Would Allow Weapons to Be Sent to Israel
May 18th, 2021 Awake Goy Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), in a statement Monday, said the “United States should not stand idly by” allowing casualties to rise in Gaza while President Joe Biden lets “precision-guided weaponry” be given to Israel “without any strings attached.” “The violence in Israel and the Gaza Strip is spiraling out of control,” Omar said in the […]
Posted in Benjamin Netanyahu Tags: allow, appalling, biden, ilhan, israel, weapons, would No Comments »Biden Tells Netanyahu US Supports Gaza Ceasefire, Israel’s Right to Self-Defense
May 18th, 2021 Awake Goy Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and US President Joe Biden, then vice president, speak in front of media in Davos, Switzerland, on January 21, 2016. Photo: AP/Michel Euler 2016 © i24 News – US President Joe Biden spoke to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday night, stating American support both for Israel’s “right to […]
Posted in Benjamin Netanyahu, white house Tags: biden, ceasefire, israel, netanyahu!, right, supports, tells No Comments »Netanyahu, Gantz said to weigh fresh partnership; all sides strongly deny notion
May 18th, 2021 FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda A television report Monday said that representatives of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader and Defense Minister Benny Gantz have again discussed a potential coalition partnership after the conflict with Gaza is over, due to the apparent collapse of the possibility of a coalition led by Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett. The […]
Posted in Benjamin Netanyahu Tags: fresh, gantz, netanyahu!, partnership, sides, strongly, weigh No Comments »
