AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed: Here's What Happens When a U.S. Senator Calls for Israel to Be Held Accountable for Atrocities

U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy has piqued the temper of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and faces a rebuke from within his own party after demanding for an investigation into “gross violations of human rights” by Israel and Egypt, the top recipients of American military aid....
http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/heres-what-happens-when-us-senator-calls-israel-be-held-accountable-atrocities

Israel’s Right Wing Is Trying To Squash Progressive Speech

The Israeli government has long maintained that it believes in a two-state solution. But under the right wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu, such an outcome looks less feasible than at any other time in recent history. The situation for Palestinians in the Occupied Territories has long been dire, but now activists and human rights workers say the country’s right wing has Israeli progressives in their crosshairs....
http://thinkprogress.org/world/2016/03/03/3753138/israel-attacks-progressives/

Dr. Mads Gilbert Has A Prescription For Gaza

Little to no access to water, food, electricity, sanitation, proper healthcare – these are just some of the things that have resulted from the Israeli siege of Gaza. And Dr. Mads Gilbert has got something to say about it.
Interview:
https://youtu.be/TH2-RVJGQ_8

9 Hatemongers (Besides Trump) Who Will Be Honored Guests at the AIPAC Summit

Pro-Israel activists plan to boycott Trump's AIPAC speech, but they won't condemn these hate mongers.
http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/9-hatemongers-besides-trump-who-will-be-honored-guests-aipac-summit

Major Leader of the American Jewish Mainstream Does 180, Calls State of Israel a 'Failure'

"In every important way, Israel has failed to realize its promise for me."
http://www.alternet.org/world/major-leader-american-jewish-mainstream-does-180-calls-state-israel-failure

Israel Announces $26 Million Cyberattack on Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement and Muslims in the West

In coordination with the Israeli tech industry, government unleashes a new spy and sabotage plan.
http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/israel-announces-26-million-cyber-attack-boycott-divestment-and-sanctions-movement

Controversial Israel Supporter Funneling Millions Into Clinton Campaign

While the contributions are not surprising from long-time Clinton-backers, $3 million of them notably poured in after the presidential hopeful authored a letter to Haim Saban in July of 2015, seeking advice on "how we can work together” to defeat the growing movement to Boycott, Divest from, and Sanction (BDS) Israel...
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/controversial-israel-supporter-funneling-millions-clinton-campaign

We Found the Real War on Christmas!

We often hear about the war on Christmas, mostly from Fox News. It’s nonsense in America of course, but in Israel it’s starting to get a little more real. Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

"The leader of Jewish extremist group Lehava has likened Christians to "bloodsucking vampires" and called for their expulsion from Israel, in a tirade published a few days before Christmas...

In the piece titled Eradicate the Vampires, Gopstein went on to warn that missionaries spent "billions of dollars to get a foothold in the Holy Land," and have "infested entire communities."

"I call on [Jews] to raise their voices and fight the perverse phenomenon [of Christianity]," he concluded. "Christmas has no place in the Holy Land... Let us remove the vampires from our country before they drink our blood again. We have given them enough already.””
https://youtu.be/sYWdbQh2Cg4

Most Israelis support extrajudicial killings

Findings by Israel Democracy Institute reflect hardening attitudes among Jewish citizens amid tensions and violence...
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/11/israelis-support-extrajudicial-killingspolls-151108123738192.html

Greatest Anti-Religion speech? Christopher Hitchens

https://youtu.be/-pmArHBW9ns

After 2,000 years, Christians in Gaza disappearing

The ongoing Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip and the highest unemployment rate in the world are prompting Christians to leave the besieged area in droves, some using the holiday season to their advantage...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/12/20/after-2000-years-christians-gaza-disappearing/77503936/

Al Jazeera America: Israeli troops kill two Palestinians in West Bank raid

Israeli troops killed two Palestinian gunmen during a clash in the occupied West Bank on Monday that was sparked by an army incursion to demolish the family home of a jailed Palestinian, Palestinian medical sources and residents said.
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/11/16/israeli-troops-kill-two-palestinians-in-raid.html

10 Falsehoods That Netanyahu Told During His Appearance At CAP

In a wide-ranging forum, the hawkish prime minister invoked several of his favorite claims about the Israeli-Palestinian ... Read more

Israeli anger as EU agrees to label settlement products

Producers must clearly label produce coming from settlements built on land illegally occupied by Israel and sold in EU.  Read more

How The American Religious Right Is Making The Middle East Peace Process Impossible | ThinkProgress

...But over the past few decades, the American Religious Right’s actions in the region have extended far beyond the broad consensus endorsing Israel’s right to exist, morphing instead into a form of faith-based activism that makes the area’s multitudinous issues more complicated. Often with the blessing of conservative politicians, funders, and pundits, right-wing Christian and Jewish groups in the United States have consistently offered financial assistance for the construction and maintenance of settlements in the West Bank that international law says are illegal, as well as lending support to fringe “outposts” that even the Israeli government often does not formally recognize. These constructions are passionately opposed by Palestinians, the international community, and the United States, which has repeatedly called them a “barrier to peace.”...
http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/11/10/3720765/religious-right-israeli-settlements/

Hebron hospital shooting: 'It was unnecessary killing'

Cousin of Abdullah al-Shalaldeh, killed by Israelis in a hospital raid, was fatally shot in a separate incident.  Read more

Netanyahu: EU Should Be 'Ashamed' Of Decision To Label Settlement Products

BRUSSELS (AP) — Relations between the European Union and Israel took a dive on Wednesday after Israel derided a decision by the 28-nation bloc to labe... Read more

The battle over BDS --

Patricia Sabga explains how the BDS (Boycott, Divest, and Sanction corporations that do business with Israel) movement is galvanizing pro-Palestinian and Pro-Israeli students on college campuses.
https://youtu.be/8IsK3b9f1xA

This map should change the way you think about foreign aid - Vox

...As you can see, the biggest recipient by a long way is Israel (this is fiscal year 2014 data, but nothing's changing), and two other big ones are Egypt and Jordan, which both have aid packages that are tied up with their peace treaties with Israel. None of these are poor countries (indeed, Israel is downright rich), and the point of the money is to advance an American foreign policy agenda — not to help the poor... http://www.vox.com/2015/11/8/9684494/foreign-aid-map

Bachmann Warns: Rapture Coming Soon, So Convert As Many Jews As Possible

Ex-U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) warned Wednesday that Jesus is "coming soon," making the task of converting the masses – particularly Jews – even... Read more