Joining together will “be even more effective in serving our mission and constituencies,” the groups say.The post Left-wing consolidation: Americans for Peace Now and Ameinu merging appeared first on JNS.org.
APN's mission is to educate and persuade the American public and its leadership to support and adopt policies that will lead to comprehensive, durable, Israeli-Palestinian and Israeli-Arab peace, based on a two-state solution, guaranteeing both peoples security, and consistent with U.S. national interests.
Beltway scholar Marc Lynch says even the White House understands Israel practices apartheid, even if it won’t say so publicly, because Palestinian intellectuals have led the way in shifting the foreign policy establishment.
The Illinois Investment Policy Board was created to quash the BDS movement, and newly obtained emails show that board members see themselves having an even broader mission — “protecting Israeli sovereignty” in the West Bank.
Ali Abu Alia, from twitter
We all know that one of the most important events of this eventful year was the police murder last May of George Floyd in South Minneapolis, which, because there had been many George Floyds before George Floyd, set in train massive national protests, real legal reforms, and a cultural shift in attitudes towards structural racism.
2020
ought to be remembered, too, for the murder 10 days ago of a Palestinian boy protesting the Israeli occupation of his village land. Ali Abu Alia was shot in the stomach by an Israeli soldier wielding an American-made rifle. Ali was 15 that day. He was plainly an innocent child. I don’t care how many rocks that child was throwing. There was an occupying army in his village to steal his land for what Israeli law ennobles as “Jewish settlement.”