Jeff on Netanyahu/Congress; Tomorrow's Webinar; Webinar Videos; Jonathan Cook on the Fall of Empires
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mendacious ("civilization vs barbarism"; "people who love life vs people who love death"); manipulative (parading of Israeli soldiers of color, hostage families, Holocaust survivors, throwing vicious racist epithets at Palestinians, fanning right-wing American jingoism); distorting (Palestine has always been a Jewish homeland, denying Zionist settler colonialism); outright lying (almost no Palestinian civilians killed in Gaza, Israel facilitates humanitarian aid to Gaza, denying genocide) -- and so much more. Demagoguery is Netanyahu's specialty.
No less shameful was the response of Congress, which gave repeated applause and cheers to a series of hollow slogans shouted at them by Netanyahu, who actually talked to them in simple phases like you would to small children. Democrats less -- some 80 representatives and nine Senators boycotted the address, and they stood up in adulation less than Republicans -- but still shameful. The stunning lack of intellectual sophistication of Congress was on full display, of course. They responded to being manipulated like an audience in a film or believers in an evangelical church.
What I'm watching is not just shameful; it's sobering. Just look at the level of the people running our world, morally or intellectually.
Tomorrow, Wednesday July 31, 1:00pm ET Register HERE
Join Dr. Michael Spath, co-chair of ICAHD-USA, in conversation with three activists and organizers working steadfastly for human rights and social justice.
Dr. Neve Gordon, third generation Israeli academic, author and anti-zionist.
Jonathan Cook, Middle East Eye, July 26 Photo: Nathan Howard/Reuters
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A WORD FROM JEFF
ON NETANYAHU'S JULY 24 ADDRESS TO CONGRESS: I am watching the most shameful event I have ever seen, certainly one of the most shameful in modern history: Netanyahu's address to a joint session of the American Congress (for the fourth time!). A casebook study of demagoguery:
UPCOMING WEBINAR
Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council and human rights activist;
Rev. Allison Tanner, Apartheid Free Communities Initiative; Rev. Ranwa Hammamy, Congregational Justice Organizer, Unitarian Universalist Association WATCH ICAHD WEBINAR RECORDING "Apartheid & Terrorism Intensify in the West Bank" On 17^th July, participants Rasheed Khudairy, Awdeh Al-Hathaleen, and Guy Hirschfield spoke about their challenge to survive the constant threats and violence from settlers and the Israeli army. WATCH THE VIDEO (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_qpgrC2Zlk) and hear directly from these activists on the ground who are on the cutting edge in working for justice.
WATCH BRAVERMAN/NEVE GORDON INTERVIEW
Dr. Neve Gordon, third generation Israeli academic, author and anti-zionist.
View the recording of their July 17 conversation HERE
Read moreNEWS, ANALYSIS & OPINION
Only a failing US empire would be so blind as to cheer Netanyahu and his genocide (https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/us-failing-empire-so-blind-cheer-netanyahu-and-his-genocide?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email of Netanyahu at congress)