Lobbying by foreign governments and entities is tracked under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Liberia spends the most lobbying the United States, with over $235 million in 2023—far more than any other country. Historically, Saudi Arabia has been one of the most consistent and visible foreign lobbyists in Washington, often focusing on defense, energy, and regional security issues ~+$100million annually

Before Israel, there was the British Mandate - not a Palestinian State: British Mandate of Palestine (1920–1948): Administered by Britain under League of Nations.
Before the British Mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire: Ottoman Empire (1517–1917 CE): Longest continuous rule Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic State of the Mamluks of Egypt - not a Palestinian State. Mamluk Sultanate (1291–1517 CE): Egyptian Islamic rule.
Before the Islamic State of the Mamluks of Egypt, there was the Ayubid Empire- not a Palestinian State.

The early Zionist movement famously insisted on Hebrew labor (avodah ivrit), seeking to avoid exactly the kind of exploitative native labor relations that characterized European colonialism. And it is precisely this refusal to exploit Arab labor that becomes the new “crime.”

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the addition of the word “settler” to “colonialism” doesn’t clarify the charge—it transforms it. It pivots away from historical power relations and towards a symbolic structure in which Jewish collective life itself is deemed illegitimate.

There never was a Palestinian leadership ready to recognize the legitimacy of a Jewish nation-state. That is a constant fact of life in the conflict. The Arab side has rejected any and all partition plans tabletmag.com/sections/israe… Palestinians were never patient enough to even temporarily put a stop to terrorism or defer their demand for return until they could muster better-organized forces. It seems that the cult of death and the worship of martyrs make for an addiction to terror

The Real Reason The Left Hates Israel forward.com/opinion/428549… relationship betw left-leaning groups & anti-Israel activists traces to late 1960’s w alliances around shared post-modernist, anti-colonialist perspective of world which developed half-political, half-philosophical matrix w radical Palestinians despite inherent contradictions

The term “Nakba,” originally coined to describe the magnitude of the self-inflicted Palestinian and Arab defeat in the 1948 war, has become in recent decades a …
Source: Center for Strategic Studies search.app/F1TUv7U5FPCsR6… Yasser Arafat, brought to Gaza & West Bank for 1993 Oslo Accords to establish Palestinian Authority (PA), grasped the immense potential of reincarnating the Nakba as a symbol of Palestinian victimhood rather than a self-inflicted disaster.

An Insider’s Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth tabletmag.com/sections/israe… Hamas charter calls not just for Israel’s destruction but for murder of Jews & blames Jews for engineering French & Russian revolutions & both world wars; charter was never mentioned even when Hamas won Palestinian national election and became region’s most important player

Left-wing dark money groups fuel violent DC protest backing Hamas, Watergate domestic terrorism, anti-US, anti-Netanyahu burnings coloradopolitics.com/familiar-faces… These organizations share ties to terrorist factions, some of the largest and most influential philanthropy networks funded by left-wing billionaires, touted on how they were behind the demonstration and sought to gin up support for the event in the lead-up to Netanyahu's arrival

Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim Brethren or The Society of the Muslim Brothers (Arabic: جمعية الأخوان المسلمون Jamiat al-Ikhwan al-muslimun) has a political approach to Islam, founded in Egypt 1928 by cleric Hassan al-Banna after collapse of Ottoman Empire, promotes Islamic terrorism. According to founder al-Banna, “It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.” bit.ly/brothermus

Hungary's Miklós Horthy passed anti-Jewish measures in emulation of Germany's Nuremberg Laws. First Jewish Law; May 29, 1938 Jews restricted to 20% of commercial enterprise, press, physicians, engineers & lawyers. Second Jewish Law: May 5, 1939 defined Jews racially: 2,3, 4 Jewish-born grandparents. Third Jewish Law: August 8, 1941 prohibited intermarriage & penalized sexual intercourse between Jews & non-Jews. Fourth Jewish Law: September 6, 1942 banned Jews from owning or purchasing land

When the Jews of Medina refused to convert and rejected Muhammad, two of the major Jewish tribes were expelled; in 627, Muhammad's followers killed between 600 and 900 of the men, and divided the surviving Jewish women and children amongst themselves. jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-treatment-… Muslim attitude toward Jews is reflected throughout the Koran, the holy book of the Islamic faith. “They [the Children of Israel] were consigned to humiliation & wretchedness. They brought the wrath of God upon themselves, because they disobeyed & were transgressors” (Sura 2:61).

A Propaganda Model: media serve the ends of a dominant elite. The expansion of the free market was accompanied by an "industrialization of the press." by Noam Chomsky bit.ly/3sDpIOs "advertisers thus acquired a de facto licensing authority since, without their support, newspapers ceased to be economically viable."

Jury nullification - knowing & deliberate rejection of the evidence/ refusal to apply law to send message about social issue larger than case itself or result dictated by law is contrary to jury's sense of justice, morality, or fairness law.cornell.edu/wex/jury_nulli… jury nullification, the jury returns a “not guilty” verdict even if jurors believe beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant broke the law. This can occur because a not guilty verdict cannot be overturned and jurors are protected regardless of their verdicts.

jury nullification - when jury returns Not Guilty verdict although jurors believe beyond reasonable doubt defendant broke the law. Because Not Guilty verdict can't be overturned, jurors can't be punished for verdict fija.org/library-and-re… There is no requirement that jurors must come to a unanimous verdict. If the jury cannot unanimously agree on a verdict of either Guilty or Not Guilty, this is known as a hung jury.

The Changing Global Religious Landscape pewrsr.ch/2o9QApo Christians largest religious group worldwide: a third (31%) of Earth’s 7.3 billion people. Muslims 1.8 billion people: 24% of global population, religious “nones” (16%), Hindus (15%) and Buddhists (7%). Jews are 0.1%

The Holocaust in Ukraine represents the first phase of the Holocaust in which an estimated 1.5 million Jews were shot to death at close range in ravines, open fields, and forests. nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/u… By present-day borders, 1 of 4 Jews murdered in Holocaust was killed in Ukraine. Nazi killing units, which had begun shooting all adult male Jews during the invasion of the Soviet Union, expanded to include a genocide targeting women, children, and entire Jewish communities.

Statement by Scholars of Genocide, Nazism and World War II: Since February 24, 2022, the armed forces of the Russian Federation have been engaged in an unprovoked military aggression against Ukraine. docs.google.com/document/d/1Lg… The attack is a continuation of Russia’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula in 2014 and its heavy involvement in the armed conflict in the Donbas region.

Palestine Vaincra is part of the Samidoun network, which issued a truly Orwellian press release complaining about how their support and incitement for murdering Jews is a human right. elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2022/02/france… We've seen this sort of argument before, that advocating for killing Jews is a human right. It only makes sense if the "human rights activists" do not regard Jews as being human and deserving of rights to begin with.

Palestinian Authority Article 4, “any person who…has abused any information technology…shall be liable to either imprisonment, a fine between two hundred and one thousand Jordanian dinars, or a combination of the two.” addameer.org/publications/b… Article 4 continues to state that, if the abuse or access in question affects governmental data, the sentence shall be “a minimum of five years of temporary hard labour and…a fine of no less than five thousand Jordanian dinars"

refuse the assumption that risk & harm associated w data practices can be bounded to mean same thing for everyone, everywhere, at every time; acknowledge how historical & systemic patterns of violence & exploitation produce differential vulnerabilities manifestno.com refuse to be disciplined by data, devices & practices that seek to shape & normalize racialized, gendered & differently-abled bodies that track, monitor & surveil; commit to taking back control over the ways we behave, live, and engage with data and its technologies.