A Matter of InterestAs Israel rains bombs on Iran, striking civilian and military targets alike, its advocates in the United States conduct a campaign of their own.
As Israel rains bombs on Iran, striking civilian and military targets alike, its advocates in the United States are conducting a campaign of their own. Drop Site News and The American Prospect reported today that AIPAC has been hounding House Democrats to put out statements assuring that they “stand with Israel.”
That’s just another example of AIPAC’s incredible influence, which, as Alex Bronzini-Vender notes on our site, didn’t come up much at WelcomeFest, a recent centrist meeting of the minds that was otherwise very concerned with the power interest groups have over the Democratic Party. Meanwhile, Israel’s multifront assault continues, and Jasper Nathaniel urges us not to lose sight of what’s happening in the West Bank, where dispossession and settler violence have been normalized by an expanded bureaucracy.
“If Israel’s war on Gaza is a genocide livestreamed to the world, its project in the West Bank is an extraordinarily efficient campaign of ethnic cleansing executed through the hidden levers of civil governance.”
“Criticizing art on the basis of its popularity is typical of anti-sell out and slacker discourse, but Tottenham is too crafty to typecast Sean as a flat, puritanical aesthete.”
“It turns out there’s a lot of money to be made in fucking up health care. That’s where the mission of some of these companies starts to look a little less big-hearted.”
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