JON. COOK—When they speak of an anti-semitism “crisis” in the party, these Labour MPs – and the fervently pro-Israel lobby groups behind them like the Jewish Labour Movement – intentionally gloss over the fact that many of the prominent activists who have been investigated, suspended or expelled for anti-semitism in recent months – fuelling the claim of a “crisis” – are in fact Jewish.
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August 9, 2018
Dancing on Alex Jones’ media grave is an exercise in political myopia, warns Lee Camp in this episode. And we agree.
Abby Martin demolished Maher a few years back, but his toxicity and cynicism have, if anything, escalated, so we decided to repost this excellent piece deserving of widest circulation.
LEE CAMP—Lee speaks with Teodrose Fikre, who aims to revolutionize the way news is consumed. Fikre writes to unite victims of injustice and counter the for-profit monetization of injustice by the mass media industry. He’s the editor of the Ghion Journal, a publication of the people, by the people, and for the people that serves as a critical alternative to the journalism hijacked by Wall Street. As the working class fixates on identity politics, Wall Street continues sucking the wealth out of the working class. In other news, Clinton still doesn’t seem to realize that the vast majority of Americans are done with politicians that are blatantly in bed with Wall Street. She acknowledges the “anger and resentment” following the 2008 crash, yet won’t acknowledge that the crash was manufactured by the very entities that fund her.
TONY SUTTON—Shupak examines various dubious media narratives explaining how Israel has the right to defend itself against Palestinian attacks. However, he points out, they mislead readers, “by ignoring the permanent violence of Israel’s colonisation of Palestine and the aggressive pursuit of ethnic supremacy that this colonisation entails.” He illustrates this by showing how, in one editorial, “the Times describes Hamas’s ‘heavily armed militia’ as a barrier to resolving the Palestine-Israel question, but makes no similar comment about Israel’s vastly more powerful military arsenal, which includes nuclear weapons,” adding, “The legitimacy of the coloniser’s violence is unquestioned, whereas the violence of the colonised is presented as illegitimate”.
