Several decades ago, liberal Jews and African-Americans were at the forefront for the U.S. fight for civil rights, but the demands from Israel for Jews to support Zionism to the detriment of Palestinian rights created a rift that grows wider even…
Tag: Lawrence Davidson
US/Israeli Hypocrisy on Human Rights
Israel’s Losing Narrative
The Periodic Slaughter of Palestinians
The U.S. Persecution of Sami Al-Arian
The neocon exploitation of the 9/11 attacks led to the disastrous Iraq War but also unleashed anti-Muslim bigotry within the American political/media system and even within the U.S. courts, as the ugly persecution of Sami Al-Arian reveals, reports Lawrence Davidson.
Selective Sympathy in Israel/Palestine
The mainstream U.S. media often reveals its bias by selecting some personal tragedies for saturation coverage while downplaying or ignoring similar horrors to “others,” such as the massive attention given to the search for three kidnapped Israeli teens, as Lawrence Davidson observes.
Forgetting Who Messed Up Iraq
GOP Descent into Mindless Meanness
Since the days of Richard Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” a crass appeal to angry pro-segregationist whites the Republican Party has descended into a political nastiness that has corroded the foundations of American democracy, a problem that Lawrence Davidson examines.
Money and Second-Class Citizenship
As America divides more and more into a class-stratified society, the idea of “gated communities” has spread into other areas of separation in which the rich get special benefits, the middle class is treated shabbily and lower-income people face outright disdain, Lawrence Davidson reports.