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An eye on the groups that try to stifle free debate about Palestine

New York Jets’ Oday Aboushi faces anti-Palestinian smears

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Thu, 07/11/2013 - 19:49

Football player Oday Aboushi, recently drafted to the New York Jets NFL team, is the target of an escalating media smear campaign to associate him with terrorism and extremism, apparently for no other reason than his Palestinian ancestry.

Netanyahu opens JNF classroom in illegal settlement

Submitted by Ben White on Wed, 07/03/2013 - 06:35
Leading Zionist organization has signed a pact for “educational cooperation” with council representing Israeli settlers in the West Bank.

Legal threat delays Northern Ireland settlement boycott motion

Submitted by Asa Winstanley on Mon, 07/01/2013 - 14:50

UK Lawyers for Israel sent emails to local council threatening legal action.

Americans give $274 million to aid Israeli settlements - new report

Submitted by Adri Nieuwhof on Mon, 07/01/2013 - 14:29
Christians United For Israel is among the key donors to Israel’s right-wing groups.

"Bone-breaker" Rabin lauded in new book by veteran lobbyist

Submitted by david on Tue, 06/04/2013 - 19:07
Former American Jewish Congress chief Robert Lifton tries to put a human face on some of Israel’s most notorious war criminals.

Secret files reveal Anti-Defamation League spied on Noam Chomsky

Submitted by Asa Winstanley on Fri, 05/17/2013 - 22:19

Newly-accessible documents were obatined during 1990s civil case against ADL snoops.

Norway denies Oslo Freedom Forum founder Thor Halvorssen’s accusation that it funds Hamas

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Fri, 05/17/2013 - 11:28

The controversial Halvorssen has also affirmed that he sees no reason to stop taking money from Islamophobes to support his Human Rights Foundation, which produces the Oslo forum.

“Journalist not found”: Newseum has expunged Palestinians murdered by Israel from its website

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Thu, 05/16/2013 - 17:04

The Newseum refused to explain why it decided to remove the names of two Palestinian journalists killed by Israel from its memorial.

Anti-Muslim group leaps to defense of American Islamic Congress after EI exposé

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sat, 05/11/2013 - 18:23

There have been some very interesting reactions to Max Blumenthal’s investigation that revealed the virulently anti-Muslim and pro-Israel donors behind the American Islamic Congress.

Zionist group tries to blackmail DC's Newseum over memorial for Palestinian journalists killed by Israel

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 17:58

The two journalists, Mahmoud al-Kumi and Hussam Salama, were targeted and killed last November by Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip, during Israel’s November assault.

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