Bernie Sanders confirmed on Friday that he will not attend the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington next week, and his campaign revealed that the candidate's offer to address the gathering by video link was turned down by the organizers.
Far away from AIPAC, Bernie Sanders made a dissenting speech in Salt Lake City, where he spoke up for suffering Palestinians. It received little broadcast media attention.
Clinton called the BDS movement “alarming” and accused activists of “bullying” Jewish students on college campuses.
One of the greatest free speech threats in the West is now spreading on U.S. soil.
Israeli politicians railed against Bernie Sanders, even after he admitted that he misstated the number of Palestinians killed in Israel's bombardment of Gaza in 2014.
This is how a government-funded program consults with hard-core pro-Israel ideologues to choose its guests, with sexism and malice pervading the process.
There is a coordinated and well-financed campaign led by Israel and its supporters literally to criminalize political speech and activism against Israeli occupation.
The Center for American Progress censored its own writers to placate anger from AIPAC and embraced some shockingly extreme policies of militarism.
Mass, warrantless surveillance is inherently abusive and unjustified, and one shouldn't need a report that this was done to the Benjamin Netanyahus and Pete Hoekstras of the world to realize that.
Campus censorship is used against the Left at least as much as by the Left. And a ban on criticizing deceased public figures is a recipe for propaganda.
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