My debate with Coleman Hughes, in which I try to demolish the longstanding claim that Palestinians have repeatedly rejected good two-state deals. The fact is they've never been offered an actual state. You can watch here or listen on my Nonzero podcast. youtube.com/watch?v=a95OYJ…

The US subsidizes Israel’s military, provides Israel diplomatic cover at the UN and defends it against accountability at the ICC and international condemnation.

That’s a pretty good deal for Israel.

But what does the US get from this relationship?

.ICC is being threatened by Congress due to its pending arrest warrants for Israeli officials… While 🇮🇱 Minister Smotrich issues genocidal threats:
“We must destroy Rafah….wipe out the memory of Amalek! …There's no half- measure. absolute destruction!”

“And his worst issue approval rating  – for his handling of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza – yields 28% approval to 71% disapproval, including an 81% disapproval mark among those younger than 35 and majority disapproval among Democrats (53%).”cnn.com/2024/04/28/pol…

StateSpox on 🇮🇱 human rights abuses: Standards are consistent with all countries

Reporter: So what is the standard

Patel: Standard is accountability and that’s different on a country by country basis

Reporter: Then it’s not a standard if it’s different from country to country

'ICC investigators had taken testimony from staff who had worked in the main hospital in Gaza City in the north of the enclave, Al Shifa, and the main hospital in Khan Younis in the south, Nasser.' reuters.com/world/middle-e…

There’s a bipartisan effort in Congress to equate criticism of the secular state of Israel to violence toward Jewish people in America.

The latter is illegal and the former is protected speech, but if a false equivalency is established, it will be forbidden to criticize Israel.

The pro-Palestine protests outside the WH correspondents dinner.

I asked Joseph E. Stiglitz, longtime Columbia University scholar and Nobel-winning economist, what the establishment doesn’t understand about what campus protesters are trying to say.

the.ink/p/joseph-stigl…

nytimes.com/2024/04/27/us/… 🤔

And the US, via its flow of weapons and diplomatic cover for Israel, is complicit in these atrocities.

How is this in our interest? How does this make Americans safer?

The Biden administration has determined that three military battalions with the Israel Defense Forces committed 'gross human rights violations' against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank but will remain eligible for U.S. military aid abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden…

If your answer to university protests is more force to shut it down then you also owe an explanation for how much force is too much and what price we’re willing to pay to stifle dissent.

It’s seven months before the election and college students and professors are being arrested for protesting Biden’s disastrous foreign policy.

This is what an emerging electoral disaster for an incumbent looks like.

I’m inside the Columbia campus now, and the pro-Israel crowd is yelling through the gates at students. “Stop wasting mommy and daddy’s money!” “You want to camp? Go camp in Gaza!” “Go back to Gaza!”

Billionaire Jeff Yass linked to $16m in donations to anti-Muslim and pro-Israel groups dlvr.it/T5xp9K

“Zionism is a false idol that has taken the idea of the promised land and turned it into a deed of sale for a militaristic ethnostate,” says ⁦Naomi Klein⁩. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Probably because of the narrow-mindedness of encroaching middle age, I didn't think the current generation of college students had this capacity for mobilization and collective action on the scale we're seeing across campuses in this country. I also never imagined that

“The fact Yass is donating to Gaffney and Horowitz’s organizations shows how extreme his politics are,” Tommy Vietor told Eli Clifton

responsiblestatecraft.org/jeff-yass/

Washington’s pursuit of an increasingly complex network of security arrangements in the Asia-Pacific — aimed at countering China — is a dangerous game.

Read QI's Michael D. Swaine & Mike Mochizuki in New York Times Opinion: nytimes.com/2024/04/24/opi…