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Benjamin Netanyahu has forged an alliance with racists. AIPAC should condemn him, not make him a featured speaker at its policy conference.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday February 26, 2019
Quote of the day:
“If, and only if, it would have reached a fifth of the status ‘Skin’ reached in the world, they would
already be talking in terms of slander and contempt of Israel, and asking why anyone should fund this
creation."
--Yedioth film critic, Binyamin Tobias, writes about why an Israeli version of Israeli director Guy Nattiv's US film on racism in America couldn't succeed in Israel.*
--Yedioth film critic, Binyamin Tobias, writes about why an Israeli version of Israeli director Guy Nattiv's US film on racism in America couldn't succeed in Israel.*
Americans for Peace Now (APN) calls on the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) to condemn Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his alliance with a racist ultra-nationalist Israeli party, and to disinvite him from its annual policy conference.
In response to the firestorm that has erupted over Prime Minister Netanyahu’s brokering a deal designed to bring Kahanists into the Knesset, AIPAC on Friday issued a tepid statement. It called the Otzma Yehudit (“Jewish Power”) party “racist and reprehensible.” It failed, however, to say a word about the Prime Minister, who has aligned himself with this Kahanist party and is working to bring it into government.
On Saturday, the very next day, AIPAC announced it was “honored” that Benjamin Netanyahu will speak at its policy conference next month, just days before Israel’s general elections.
Yossi Alpher is an independent security analyst. He is the former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, a former senior official with the Mossad, and a former IDF intelligence officer. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday February 25, 2019
Quote of the day:
"This is a mockery. Ahed Tamimi sat eight months in prison for a slap. May every soldier know from now
that he is allowed to become a human animal, to abuse and to humiliate."
--MK Esawi Freij (Meretz) responded to the plea bargain according to which one of the five soldiers from the Netzach Yehuda battalion who severely abused a detained Palestinian father and son would be sentenced to six and a half months in prison.*
--MK Esawi Freij (Meretz) responded to the plea bargain according to which one of the five soldiers from the Netzach Yehuda battalion who severely abused a detained Palestinian father and son would be sentenced to six and a half months in prison.*
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday February 24, 2019
Quote of the day:
“I am sorry from the depths of my heart if what I said offended any one of you, but I cannot help but
see the heavy price that we are paying through our children, our soldiers, for the reality of ruling over
another people. A reality that has lasted for 52 years."
--TV journalist Oshrat Kotler choked up as she told viewers Saturday after receiving thousands of death threats for saying last week that "They send children to the army, to the Territories, and get them back human animals. That’s the result of the occupation.”*
--TV journalist Oshrat Kotler choked up as she told viewers Saturday after receiving thousands of death threats for saying last week that "They send children to the army, to the Territories, and get them back human animals. That’s the result of the occupation.”*
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Ha'aretz: "Clashes Erupt During Eviction of Palestinian Family From East Jerusalem Home" (1/19/19)Hagit Ofran of the anti-settlement organization Peace Now said: "...it's cruel and hard-hearted to throw a family out of their home and move other people in for political ideological reasons... (it) undermines the moral basis of the Israeli demand that Palestinians not be given the right of return to their properties." Read >> |
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JTA: "Ilhan Omar apologizes to Jewish groups for hurt caused by AIPAC tweet" (1/19/19)APN participated in a confidential conference call with Jewish organizations in which Rep. Ilhan Omar apologized for any hurt caused by her tweets suggesting that AIPAC pays politicians to support Israel. Read >> |
In the wake of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's brokering
of an agreement that will bring the extreme right-wing Otzma Yehudit party into the Knesset, Americans for
Peace Now is joining with fellow Jewish organizations to call on the wider Jewish community to affirm that
Kahanists have no place in the Knesset. The multi-organizational statement follows.
Kahanists Are a Danger to Israelis and Israeli
democracy
This week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, keen to shore up his electoral position, orchestrated the unification of the extreme right-wing party Otzma Yehudit (“Jewish Power”) with the National Union so that it could enter the Knesset in a consolidated right-wing bloc. This is dangerous and deeply concerning. Otzma Yehudit is the latest iteration of a political party based on teachings of racist demagogue Meir Kahane.
Americans for Peace Now (APN) calls upon fellow American
Jewish organizations to join it in condemning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's embrace of the
extremist right-wing political party Otzma Yehudit ("Jewish Power").
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday February 20, 2019
Quote of the day:
“The Kahanists and the homophobes: the two parties no one wants, but Netanyahu needs.”
—Haaretz’s Allison Kaplan Sommer writes about Netanyahu’s lobbying of rightist religious parties to merge with the Kahanist-Jewish supremacist 'Otzma Yehudit' (‘Jewish Power’) party and Eli Yishai’s far-right ultra-Orthodox nationalist party, 'Yachad,' which is campaigning against LGBT parenthood, and both of which are at great risk of failing to reach the threshold to enter Knesset, which could throw as many as three Knesset seats away and potentially make or break Netanyahu’s success in forming a right-wing bloc. Haaretz’s Bradley Burston writes that Netanyahu is 'evil' for trying to keep a Kahanist party in the Knesset in order for him to save his own seat.*
—Haaretz’s Allison Kaplan Sommer writes about Netanyahu’s lobbying of rightist religious parties to merge with the Kahanist-Jewish supremacist 'Otzma Yehudit' (‘Jewish Power’) party and Eli Yishai’s far-right ultra-Orthodox nationalist party, 'Yachad,' which is campaigning against LGBT parenthood, and both of which are at great risk of failing to reach the threshold to enter Knesset, which could throw as many as three Knesset seats away and potentially make or break Netanyahu’s success in forming a right-wing bloc. Haaretz’s Bradley Burston writes that Netanyahu is 'evil' for trying to keep a Kahanist party in the Knesset in order for him to save his own seat.*