What About Israel’s Atomic Weapons?
Despite 400 Warheads, Nuclear Program Remains in Shadows. Israel’s best kept secret is not of the “maybe yes, maybe no” variety. In fact it is a “yes” so definitive that it has 162 million Google entries. Honest. That’s what Google’s response is when you type in “Israel’s nuclear policy” — books, articles, essays, arguments, all [...]
National Coalition Decries NYPD Spying As Symptomatic of Erosion of Civil Freedoms
A coalition of national and local organizations, whose mission is to educate the public about the erosion of civil and political freedoms in our society has issued a statement protesting the surveillance of Muslim students by the NYPD. The Associated Press has revealed that from 2006–2009, the New York Police Department was carrying out illegal surveillance of Muslim students and their [...]
Is Israel’s Government Involved in Harassment Lawsuit Against Washington Food Cooperative?
In late 2010, the board of the Olympia Food Co-Op voted to stop carrying Israeli goods in solidarity with the international Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), setting off a political firestorm with international implications. Whatever one may think about the value of BDS, as the Center for Constitutional Rights notes, “The Supreme Court has held that peaceful [...]
Ninth Commemoration of the Political Persecution of Professor Sami Al-Arian
On this day nine years ago Dr. Sami Al-Arian was snatched from his family and community by the U.S. authorities in a pre-dawn raid that the professor described in a poem. Thus, tomorrow marks the beginning of the tenth year of the incessant persecution of a voice of conscience for freedom in Palestine, and equal [...]
Is NYPD Running Wild? Patterns of Brutality Raise Questions About Mayor’s Control of Police
Behind the NYPD’s beating of Jateik Reed and the killing of Ramarley Graham is a long history of police harassment. A series of incidents last year, in some cases where police broke the law, has sullied the reputation of the NYPD. From the department’s handling of Occupy protesters and journalists, to officers’ participation in illegal gun sales and a ticket-fixing [...]
Tomgram: Noam Chomsky, Hegemony and Its Dilemmas , Imperial Hegemony and Its Discontents
Back in May 2007, I stumbled across online sketches at the website of a Kansas architectural firm hired to build a monster U.S. embassy-cum-citadel-cum-Greater-Middle-Eastern command center on 104 acres in the middle of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. They offered an artist’s impressions of what the place would look like — a giant self-sufficient compound both prosaic (think [...]
U.S. Attitudes Toward Egypt (2012)
JZ Analytics was commissioned by New York University (Abu Dhabi) to conduct an online survey of American attitudes toward Egypt. Conducted in January 2012, the poll shows: • Americans hold a net negative view of Egypt• Americans are wary of the Muslim Brotherhood’s role in government• Americans are sharply divided along partisan lines when it [...]
Radical U.S. Muslims Little Threat, Study Says
WASHINGTON — A feared wave of homegrown terrorism by radicalized Muslim Americans has not materialized , with plots and arrests dropping sharply over the two years since an unusual peak in 2009, according to a new study by a North Carolina research group. The study, to be released on Wednesday, found that 20 Muslim Americans [...]
BDS Movement Hopes To Go Mainstream National Boycott Israel Conference Uses Language of Left
The movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel — long painted as a fringe group by the Israel advocacy community — is seeking to wrap itself in the mantle of the mainstream American left. At the movement’s first-ever national conference, presenters and attendees compared BDS to the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott, the Cesar Chavez [...]
Muslim-American Terrorism in the Decade Since 9/11
Twenty Muslim-Americans were indicted for violent terrorist plots in 2011, down from 26 the year before, bringing the total since 9/11 to 193, or just under 20 per year (see Figure1). This number is not negligible – small numbers of Muslim-Americans continue to radicalize each year and plot violence. However, the rate of radicalization is [...]
