Tag: Israel

Horne unmasks U.S. strategies to dominate the globe, starting with Gaza (Listen: The Socialist Program with Brian Becker )

Horne unmasks U.S. strategies to dominate the globe, starting with Gaza (Listen: The Socialist Program with Brian Becker )

February 20, 2024

As a long-time, consistent analyst of this settler colonialist society, and the writer of books on many disparate topics, Horne is in a position to weigh in with some clear perspective on Israel and Historic Palestine. In an interview with Brian Becker, Horne lay out some of the specific manifestations of a shifting political climate, and argued that if anything, the bombardment of Gaza has severely backfired….

On committed anti-Zionist elders, such as Rosalind Petchesky, coeditor of “A Land With a People” (Middle East Eye)

On committed anti-Zionist elders, such as Rosalind Petchesky, coeditor of “A Land With a People” (Middle East Eye)

February 20, 2024

Sumaya Awad, a Palestinian scholar and activist based in New York City: “Seeing a growing movement of unabashedly anti-Zionist Jewish groups is an important and inspiring reminder that these groups are building on a long legacy of Jews who, long before Israel established itself as a settler-colonial state, rejected Zionism and rejected Israel’s ethnic cleansing project… ”

Gerald Horne makes you think – about the lie of the docile subject, from America to Palestine (Watch: Conscious Mindset)

Gerald Horne makes you think – about the lie of the docile subject, from America to Palestine (Watch: Conscious Mindset)

February 20, 2024

One main thread runs through every aspect of every story: Stories of Black rebellion and resistance. When Horne tells of Texas’ efforts to secede and the impact of the arsons of 1860, allegedly set by slaves, he comments, “Our enemies are the ones who put out the rumor that we’re docile, because they want us to be docile today.”  That’s fallacious, he says. “Arsons were one of our favorite tools. Arson, poisonings, insurrections, murders.” And in fact, during the Madison administration, Africans actually joined the British in torching the White House in 1814, sending James and Dolly fleeing.

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