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Israel’s push to evict Palestinians from their houses in East Jerusalem, and its crackdown on Palestinian protests of the evictions, have been getting international attention in a largely negative light. And several U.S. congresspeople are condemning the evictions as illegal and calling on the U.S. government to restrict U.S. aid over the human rights violations. […]
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Several progressive U.S. congresspeople condemn Jerusalem evictions– as State Dep’t blames both sides for violence
May 9th, 2021 
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No Comments »McWhorter: Race Relations Have Gotten Less Honest and Progressive Since Summer 2020
May 8th, 2021 Awake Goy On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Columbia University Professor and author John McWhorter said that back in the mid-2000s, race relations were “a little more honest and a little more progressive” than they are, especially since the summer of 2020. McWhorter said, “I am beginning to think that I miss 2004, 2005. Because race […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: gotten, honest, mcwhorter, progressive, relations, since, summer No Comments »Palestinian professor says he was denied job with progressive lawmaker over his views on Israel
April 21st, 2021 Awake Goy A Palestinian professor says that newly-elected Illinois Congresswoman Marie Newman promised him a job but backed out of a signed contract after he criticized her positions on Israel. Iymen Chehade has filed a breach of contract lawsuit and a national-origin discrimination claim against the congresswoman. Newman’s campaign dismissed the accusations as “fallacious.” A former Bernie […]
Posted in News Tags: denied, israel, lawmaker, palestinian, Professor, progressive, views No Comments »Newsom recall deflates progressive dreams
April 16th, 2021 Awake Goy The governor last fall asked state lawmakers to send him a fracking ban, but that was well before the recall became a real possibility. Newsom said this year he still supported the idea; environmentalists, however, say he did nothing to muscle it through the Capitol, and some suspect he preferred to avoid having to deal […]
Fight back when the Israel lobby bullies progressive organizations
April 8th, 2021 Awake Goy This week, a major battle is raging behind the scenes at the New Democratic Party (NDP) around Palestinian rights. As a Jew, I am mighty pissed off at Israel’s defenders trying to hijack my Jewish identity and bully progressives into abandoning our Palestinian sisters and brothers. The Israel lobby’s latest weapon of choice is the […]
Mondoweiss Podcast: Dissecting ‘progressive except for Palestine’ with Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick
April 6th, 2021 Awake Goy Subscribe: Overcast / Apple / Google / Spotify / Stitcher / TuneIn / Deezer Earlier this year, Mondoweiss contributing writer Sarah Doyal reviewed the new book, Except For Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics, from authors Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick. Sarah wrote: “Delving into the phenomenon long-named in leftist circles as “Progressive Except […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: dissecting, except, lamont, mondoweiss, Palestine, podcast, progressive No Comments »‘We Cannot Take for Granted’ Support for US-Israel Ties, Argues Progressive Congressman Torres in Interview
April 3rd, 2021 Awake Goy Congressman Ritchie Torres endorses Andrew Yang for his candidacy for Mayor of New York City on Morningside Drive in New York on January 14, 2021. Photo: Lev Radin/Sipa USA Despite a history of left-wing Zionism in the United States, a growing strand of anti-Israel sentiment among progressives is cause for concern, according to US Congressman […]
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: argues, cannot, congressman, granted, israel, progressive, support No Comments »Progressive Christian Hopes Heaven Will Feature Segregated Spaces For Every Tribe, Tongue, Nation
March 20th, 2021 Awake Goy Progressive Christian Hopes Heaven Will Feature Segregated Spaces For Every Tribe, Tongue, Nation MONTEREY, CA—Local progressive Christian Charlie Jenks was pondering the promise of Scripture that in the new heaven and the new earth there will be people from every tongue, tribe, and nation worshiping Jesus. Jenks prides himself on accepting all cultures and races […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: christian, feature, heaven, hopes, progressive, segregated, spaces No Comments »Israeli-Dutch Jew leads new progressive party into Dutch parliament
March 19th, 2021 Awake Goy AMSTERDAM — At 18, Itay Garmy made an unconventional choice for graduates of his large public high school in Amsterdam: He moved to Israel with plans to join the army. Garmy, whose parents met in Israel, entered a pre-military preparatory program in the Negev Desert with massive ambitions. “I wanted to become the prime minister of […]
New definition of antisemitism includes progressive ‘threat’ to Democratic Party support for Israel
March 18th, 2021 Awake Goy Now that the Biden administration and dozens of European governments have adopted the IHRA definition of antisemitism that makes it antisemitic to single out Israel for criticism or compare Israel to Nazi Germany, an Israeli thinktank wants to take the definition further. Merely excluding Israel from the progressive agenda, and thereby endangering Israel’s bipartisan support […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: Antisemitism, definition, democratic, includes, party, progressive, threat No Comments »Skidmore College Students Denied Trial Period for ‘Progressive Zionists for Peace’ Club
March 16th, 2021 Awake Goy Jonsson Tower, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY. Photo: Peter Flass / Wikimedia Commons Two Skidmore College students accused the private university of political bias, after being denied a trial period on Saturday for their “Progressive Zionists for Peace” student club. Nessa Goldhirsch Brown and another student asked the New York university’s Club Affairs Committee for […]
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: college, denied, period, progressive, skidmore, students, trial No Comments »Progressive House members call on Biden administration to support Palestinian rights
March 16th, 2021 Awake Goy Twelve House members have sent Secretary of State Antony Blinken a letter, calling on the Biden administration to commit to a foreign policy that “supports the human rights and dignity of Palestinian people.” The letter asserts that Biden should oppose all forms of annexation, withdraw the Trump administration’s “peace plan” for the region, and call […]
Posted in News Tags: Administration, biden, house, members, palestinian, progressive, support No Comments »False ‘Progressive’ Church in Nashville Says Bible Isn’t ‘the Word of God … Inerrant or Infallible’
February 20th, 2021 Awake Goy A so-called progressive ‘church’ in Nashville has drawn opposition after posting a message on social media stating that the Bible isn’t “the Word of God … inerrant or infallible.” The organization, calling itself “GracePointe Church,” led by false teacher Josh Scott posted the disturbing message on Facebook on Sunday, February 7. The post related to […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: bible, church, false, inerrant, infallible, nashville, progressive No Comments »Bill de Blasio calls Israel ‘a fundamentally progressive concept’
February 19th, 2021 Awake Goy New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called the State of Israel “a fundamentally progressive concept” while criticizing the boycott Israel movement in an interview. In a segment of a Bloomberg interview that was published in the Jewish Insider newsletter, De Blasio was asked if he was concerned about a rise in support for the […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: blasio, Calls, concept, fundamentally, israel, progressive No Comments »Cuomo and Newsom symbolize the rot of corporate democrats — and the dire need for progressive populism
February 17th, 2021 Awake Goy The governors of New York and California — the most populous states led by Democrats — now symbolize how slick liberal images are no substitute for genuinely progressive priorities. After 10 years as New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo is facing an uproar over revelations that his administration intentionally and drastically undercounted the deaths from COVID in nursing homes. Meanwhile, […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: corporate, cuomo, Democrats, newsom, populism, progressive, symbolize No Comments »Progressive PAC kick-starts search for challengers to Manchin, Sinema
February 2nd, 2021 Awake Goy Manchin and Sinema’s opposition to eliminating the legislative filibuster — which requires a 60-vote threshold for most legislation — is the main reason No Excuses is putting a call out for possible challengers. Progressives have increasingly pressed Senate Democrats and President Joe Biden to end the filibuster, arguing that in an evenly divided Senate it […]
The Ill-Advised Progressive Push to Get Stephen Breyer Off the Supreme Court
January 14th, 2021 Awake Goy FILE PHOTO: Associate Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer arrives for the swearing in ceremony of Judge Neil Gorsuch as an Associate Supreme Court Justice in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, U.S., April 10, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo If you need to have someone to censure for the current makeup of the […]
Will Trump’s mania to slice and dice the right help or hurt the progressive agenda?
January 5th, 2021 Awake Goy What happens when a national party badly splinters? In 1992 Bill Clinton collected 45 million votes, convincingly retiring an incumbent president garnering only 39 million votes and 168 Electoral votes. Ross Perot, an outsider, independent/libertarian, hurt Bush I not by winning a state but 20 million votes, denting the right. But Perot the outside spoiler […]
Biden/Harris and the progressive case against a ‘return to normal’
January 2nd, 2021 Awake Goy While Joe Biden and Kamala Harris probably aren’t the leaders that American progressives would have liked for their country at this critical time, most would agree that just about anyone would be better than the malignant narcissist who has put his feelings about losing the presidential election above the suffering of his fellow citizens during […]
What Election Day revealed about progressive policies
December 24th, 2020 Awake Goy [embedded content] Voters have given Joe Biden and Congress a progressive mandate to enact real change. Americans are hungry for change, as evidenced by what happened on Election Day. Voters handily supported progressive ballot initiatives across the country. In Florida, an amendment to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour passed with 61 percent […]
Sharanksy calls out ‘progressive’ antisemitism panel for anti-Zionism
December 17th, 2020 Awake Goy Natan Sharansky responded on Wednesday to Tuesday’s “Dismantling Anti-Semitism: Winning Justice” panel, which made headlines for being hosted by individuals with well-documented anti-Zionist claims.”For the so-called progressives, all the world is the fight between ‘oppressors’ and ‘oppressed.’ ‘Oppressors’ are always wrong and ‘oppressed’ are always right,” Sharansky said at a panel created in order to […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: Antisemitism, Calls, panel, progressive, sharanksy, zionism No Comments »Seeking the progressive leader
December 16th, 2020 Awake Goy Since 2015, and even before that, Bernie Sanders was a leader of progressive Americans. Even though he was not the Democratic nominee in 2016, once Clinton lost, he was the undeniable leader of the progressives. As the horrors of the Trump years fell upon us, Bernie was the one to whom we looked as the […]
Israel becomes big issue in GA Senate race and — a progressive Democrat folds
December 11th, 2020 Awake Goy Let’s put our Objective Hats on and state that there is news out of Georgia, Israel has become a big issue in one of the Georgia Senate runoff races that take place in January. Democratic challenger Raphael Warnock has a history of comments critical of Israel, and his opponent is trying to make the most […]
Report: Progressive CUNY Faculty Group Scheduled Meeting on Shabbat to Exclude Orthodox Jewish Professor
December 9th, 2020 Awake Goy Kingsborough Community College. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. A group of faculty members at the City University of New York’s Kingsborough Community College (KCC) are suspected of purposely excluding an Orthodox Jewish colleague from a meeting by scheduling it on Shabbat, according to a New York Post report. The meeting in question was to be held in […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: faculty, group, meeting, progressive, report, scheduled, shabbat No Comments »Progressive judicial group to Biden: Pick a Black woman for solicitor general
December 5th, 2020 Awake Goy Fallon criticized Katyal, a partner at Hogan Lovells who served as acting solicitor general during the Obama administration, for representing Nestlé in oral arguments before the Supreme Court on Tuesday. The case revolves around whether Nestlé and Cargill should be held responsible for their African suppliers allegedly using child slaves. Fallon also faulted Frederick, a […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: biden, black, group, judicial, progressive, solicitor, woman No Comments »Dems reject progressive foreign policy vision for the U.S.
December 4th, 2020 Awake Goy Meeks Wins Last year Joe Biden told a group of rich donors that “nothing would fundamentally change” if he was elected. He was talking about their wealth, but his declaration could probably be applied to foreign policy. Since beating Trump, Biden has staffed his cabinet and transition team with veterans of the National Security Blob. […]
Progressive coalition stages worldwide Black Friday protests to ‘make Amazon pay’
November 29th, 2020 Awake Goy “Amazon takes too much and gives back too little. It is time to Make Amazon Pay.” Those are the words of a global coalition of warehouse workers, trade unionists, climate justice activists, and citizens who have organized worldwide protests this Black Friday to challenge the exploitative and anti-democratic practices of one of humanity’s most powerful […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: black, coalition, friday, progressive, protests, stages, worldwide No Comments »Progressive Spirit Podcast: Gilad Atzmon on the Upcoming US Civil War
November 26th, 2020 Awake Goy Posted on November 25, 2020 by fada1 NOVEMBER 25, 2020BY GILAD ATZMON John Shuck writes: Gilad Atzmon returns to discuss what he sees as a civil war brewing in the United States over dividing lines that are based on identitarian politics. In this educational and informative interview, he elaborates on a recent post of his, […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: atzmon, civil, gilad, podcast, progressive, spirit, upcoming No Comments »Biden: I Have ‘Very Progressive Agenda’ and ‘Significant Representation’ from Progressives in Administration
November 25th, 2020 Awake Goy During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of “NBC Nightly News,” Joe Biden said that he isn’t taking nominating Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) off the table for Cabinet positions, but noted that there already is “significant representation among progressives in our administration,” and that his “very ambitious, very progressive agenda,” will […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: Administration, agenda, biden, progressive, progressives, representation, significant No Comments »Joaquin Castro aims to bring the progressive wave to the House Foreign Affairs Committee
November 21st, 2020 Awake Goy After an exhausting election season rife with dizzying electoral math and threats to democracy, the House of Representatives is gearing up for yet another round of electoral tug of war over its vacant committee chairmanships, including an election next week for House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC). After hawkish, anti-Palestinian rights stalwart Rep. Eliot Engel lost […]
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