MESOPOTAMIA NEWS Opinion – When My Daughter Called Israel an Apartheid State, I Objected. Now, I’m Not So Sure
In the shadow of annexation, the embodiment of power prevailing over justice and international law, I am running out of counter-arguments. This is how Israel is losing America
Allen S. Weiner – Katie A. Weiner – Published at 16:25 5 July 2020 HAARETZ
Look at its cities and towns, whose streets are flooding with protesters calling for transformative justice and an end to state-sanctioned violence against innocent civilians.
Look at New York’s 16th Congressional District, where Eliot Engel, a staunch congressional Israeli ally for more than 30 years, was recently ousted by Jamaal Bowman, a progressive black educator who told Jacobin magazine he doesn’t “understand why American taxpayers are subsidizing the detention of Palestinian children while Democrats are criticizing child detention at the Mexican border.”