Barack Obama

Video: Chicago solidarity activists attempt to deliver giant Valentine heart petition to Obama

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 01:38

On the occasion of Valentine’s Day, Palestine solidarity activists in Chicago attempted to deliver a giant heart-shaped petition to Obama’s campaign headquarters in Chicago which called for an end to US aid to Israel.

Israel lobby's machinations on Iran probed in new book

Rod Such
21 February 2012

Trita Parsi’s A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama’s Diplomacy with Iran is an exhaustive account of what happened to Obama’s campaign pledge towards Iran, particularly after the Israeli government and its lobby in the United States challenged the very notion of diplomacy.

In scandalous new campaign video, Obama takes Israel pandering to dangerous levels

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 14:19

Is Barack Obama running for reelection as President of the United States or Prime Minister of Israel? A new Obama campaign video makes it increasingly hard to tell, and even more ominously ratchets further the Israelization of US politics.

Why is it open season on Palestinians in US presidential race?

Hasan Abu Nimah
Amman
12 January 2012

The pro-Israel rhetoric of some election hopefuls is so extreme that they make George W. Bush seem reasonable by comparison.

The phony war over which US party loves Israel most

Josh Ruebner
10 January 2012

US support for Israel, once a carefully nurtured bipartisan consensus, is fast degenerating in the context of the 2012 presidential election into a mud-slinging partisan contest as to which party, in the words of Mitt Romney, who leveled the accusation against Obama, is more guilty of having “thrown Israel under the bus.”

Are Obama supporters playing up Jewish religion of new White House chief to appease pro-Israel groups?

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 22:12

Under attack from Republicans for supposedly not being pro-Israel enough, US President Barack Obama has been doing all he can to prove that he is indeed the most pro-Israel president in history.

New Lowkey album a soundtrack to the human struggle

Alexander Billet
16 November 2011

Iraqi-British rapper Lowkey’s new album Soundtrack to the Struggle is not only a listening experience, but a call for a fundamentally different world.

US aid freeze designed to further punish Palestinians

Michelle Gyeney
11 October 2011

The US Congress has voted to freeze aid to the Palestinian Authority worth $200 million. The common theme of the freeze is the disruption of activities that might reinforce the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) drive for statehood.

A Fake Partisan Fight Over a Fake Palestinian State, Updated

Submitted by Jaime Omar Yassin on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 17:47

Several months ago, the GOP made a legislative three-ring circus out of the immigration issue. Branding President Barack Obama an addict to extreme leftism, Republicans staged an intervention-performance to prevent him from compulsive granting of amnesty to undocumented immigrants.

US raised academic boycott vote with Norwegian government, Wikileaks shows

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Sat, 08/27/2011 - 22:25

Cables released this week by Wikileaks show that the US government raised with the Government of Norway concern over a motion to boycott Israeli academic institutions at University of Science and Technology in Trondheim (NTNU) in Norway.

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