American Cash Jordan, possibly a flag-waving MAGA Trump fan, inserts insensitive commentary about neighboring Mexico, which is protesting gentrification and displacement. This is when a population drives up prices for locals, forcing them to relocate (be displaced). Rents have shot up 47% due to American behavior.
People mad at us must be antisemites. What else could explain why they're resisting our project?
(TRT World) Fascism is a terrible hypocrisy for former victims of it who still paint themselves daily as the ultimate victims. How will one group of white supremacist Jews impose themselves on a brown population and displace them right off their land? They may need some nonwhite help. “We need people who are born workers. Their standard of living and their needs are lower.”
Zionism is built upon the idea of a Jewish homeland — but in that Jewish homeland, not all Jews are equal. [Who is supreme among them? The white Europeans claiming Jewish ancestry and saying they own all of this land by divine decree, an idea they've successfully sold to fundamentalist and evangelical Christian Zionists.]
GUEST: Jewish academic Benjamin Balthaser is an associate professor of multi-ethnic US literature at Indiana University, South Bend.
He is the author of the forthcoming book, Citizens of the Whole World: The American Jewish Left and Cultures of Anti-Zionism, due out this fall (Verso Books).
He sits in conversation with Mitch Jeserich on Letters & Politics (KPFA.org, Berkeley) about American Jewish thinking, once very anti-Zionist until the 6 Day War.
Then Zionism, the idea of having a right to return to a land your ancestors (Jews) wrote in a book (the Bible) was yours for all time, started to get a foothold. If when you arrive on that land and find it full, say, "These are not a people," therefore the land is empty.
"We'll take it over with British and American help and say we built it out of nothing. Never mind that we work for empire, our own, British globalism, and a nascent American urge to control the oil-rich and geopolitically strategic region."
Even Leftist Jews can get behind that, right? If not, they're antisemites and need to be expelled from the culture and community if not the religion. But we're secular so that doesn't matter, and the Ultra-Orthodoxreligious Jews assure us we're behaving in an anti-biblical way in complete contravention to religious dictates.
Setting up a CIA-groomed dictator in Bibi Netanyahu, as well as his brother, to run the settler colonial project is a mere expedient, and soon Israeli prime ministers will align with their own interests, sell weapons to whomever they want, and take over all the land they can conquer from Lebanon to Egypt, to Jordan to Qatar. Israel will be the capital of a new empire for and by Zionist Jews.
Sorry, Imam, it's just that the Rabbi here and I have many of the same fans in the USA.
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(Journeyman Pictures) With a comparison between apartheid South Africa and Israel's displacement of Palestinians from Palestine, this documentary traces the future of one conflict from the past of another.
Weaving the history of apartheid into the complex issues facing Jewish Israelis and non-Jewish Palestinians, it highlights the frighteningly similar laws and tools used by Israel and racist apartheid-era South Africa.
It's a dark picture of the present but offers hope based on the peace that South Africa eventually found.
Noam Chomsky destroys the idea that "Israel" has some special right to be settler colonialists
(BabyGirl) Oct. 15, 2023: Dr. Chomsky is Jewish and a famous social scientist (co-author of Manufacturing Consent), an MIT linguist, and a public intellectual revered in most of the world, purposely ignored in the U.S. (except maybe on Amy Goodman's Democracy Now!or a Hollywood movie about him but not about his research or political opinions).
Does Israel care about anything he says? It seems that unless a Jewish person tows the Zionist party line, they're as good to Israel as an Arab. And the only good Arab is a... Yeah, so, it seems certain neither the US nor its illegal occupation project in the Middle East cares what this famous Jewish analyst has to say.
‘They came here to attack Arabs.’ Welcome to life in Israel’s ‘mixed cities’
(AJ+) Al Jazeera is funded in whole or in part by the Qatari government (Wiki). Aug. 5, 2021: “Inside Israel, we are Palestinians too.”
When solidarity protests erupted across the country in May, a Palestinian resident in the city of Lydd (or Lod after Israel renamed it) told AJ+ that local right wing Jewish Israelis marked their homes with red paint so they could be targeted for attacks by armed colonial Jewish settlers.
This is part of a much larger project happening in Lydd, where ultranationalist Jewish Israelis have been moving into the city for over a decade with resources and support from the racist and divisive police state of Israel. The group is called the Garin Torani, or “Torah Seeds,” and its goal is to create a Jewish majority in Palestinian Arab-majority neighborhoods. Residents AJ+ spoke with say that while the city has welcomed these Jewish extremist colonialist-settlers, it has also ignored the basic needs of Palestinian Arab citizens.
In the aftermath of recent violence that left two people dead, one Jewish and the other Palestinian, new levels of mistrust and generational trauma are haunting these residents.
AJ+ went to Lydd to find out how Palestinians with Israeli citizenship are challenging the country’s de facto policy of divide and rule while demanding freedom from colonial oppression.
(National Park Diaries) Aug. 21, 2023: GOMBE NATIONAL PARK
The Gombe Chimpanzee War was an intergroup conflict between two chimpanzee communities in Gombe National Park, Tanzania, Africa.
Prior to this conflict being observed, it was thought that chimpanzees were largely peaceful creatures and vegetarians. But Jane Goodall and other researchers soon opened up a whole new world of chimpanzee conflict and social dynamics with their observations of this conflict.
It's a fascinating look at the brutality of the natural world and perhaps provides an opportunity to reflect on our human capacity for violence as well.
China Intensifies Resettlement of Tibetan Nomads Michael Lipin, Washington (VOA, Aug. 28, 2009)
The Chinese government announced this week that it has moved about 50,000 Tibetan nomads out of a nature reserve in the west of the country as part of a resettlement program that began in 2005. Beijing says the program is meant to protect the ecosystem of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. But Tibetan activists accuse the Chinese government of destroying an ancient nomadic culture that treats the environment with respect. More>>
Nomad village settlement in Darlag County, Golok Prefecture, Qinghai Province, China (VOA/File).
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The Chinese government announced this week that it has moved about 50,000 Tibetan nomads out of a nature reserve in the west of the country as part of a resettlement program that began in 2005. Beijing says the program is meant to protect the ecosystem of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. But Tibetan activists accuse the Chinese government of destroying an ancient nomadic culture that treats the environment with respect. More>>
Nomad village settlement in Darlag County, Golok Prefecture, Qinghai Province, China (VOA/File).
