Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ross Williams at the Georgia Reporter writes that federal judge Mark Cohen on Monday characterized as unconstitutional a Georgia state law that prohibited contractors for the Georgia state government from boycotting Israel. Cohen is United States District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. This […]
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Rights
How did Conservatives successfully smear “Liberal” (Respect for Liberty and Rights of Others) as Mule Word?
Sacramento (Special to Informed Comment) – The 2020 elections are over, but once again it proved that Liberal-bashing remains a favorite pastime of the Republican party and conservative politicians. Verbal assault on “liberal” politicians and the media, “liberalism,” and the root-word “liberal” by the political right (and occasionally by the hard left) has remained a […]
Pompeo’s attempt to Penalize Boycotters of Israel aims to Strengthen White Nationalism and Roll back Civil Rights
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Carol Morello and Steve Hendrix at the Washington Post report that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Israeli squatters on Palestinian land in the West Bank on Thursday (well, that is my characterization, they didn’t put it that way). In a bid to please his evangelical constituency and potential Jewish […]
Federal Court Allows American Studies Association Boycott of Israel to Stand: Victory for BDS
( American Studies Association) – In a unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has affirmed the district court’s dismissal of the lawsuit filed against the American Studies Association (ASA), its executive director, and eight former ASA officers or committee members: Lisa Duggan, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Sunaina […]
Nelson Mandela’s Church Joins Boycott, Divestment from Israel to Continue anti-Apartheid Struggle
By Asa Winstanley | @AsaWinstanley | – Nelson Mandela’s church, the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, this month endorsed Palestine’s Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS). At a recent conference in Cape Town, the church denounced “Israel’s ongoing ill-treatment and oppression of Palestinian people, and the historic prophetic role played by the church and international […]
Lawsuit Against Salaita & American Studies Assn for Boycotting Israel Dismissed
These desperate lawsuits brought to silence advocates of Palestinian rights make it even clearer who wants to silence debate
War on BDS: How AIPAC-Israel Agenda became USG Priority
“Israel Anti-Boycott Act” is the most egregious of such interventions, for it strikes down the First Amendment
Why Politics in 2019 will have a Lot More Backbone
Democracy in its current iteration can no longer sustain us
1st Palestinian-American Congresswoman will Wear Traditional Dress for Swearing In
& She will lead a congressional delegation to Occupied West Bank, Palestine, to present an alternative perspective on the conflict.