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As Facebook continues to receive criticism for its handling of hate speech, corporations and advertisers are pulling away as part of #StopHateForProfit, an activist campaign forcing the social network to counteract harmful content on its platform.

The initiative created by a civil rights coalition that includes the Anti-Defamation League, the NAACP, Color of Change, and other nonprofits believes Facebook failed to censor President Donald Trump when he warned protesters in Minneapolis, "When the looting starts, the shooting starts.

The group organizing the boycott has called on businesses to pause Facebook advertising for the month of July. Facebook earns over 98 percent of its revenue from ads, which brought in $70 billion in 2019 alone.

Lets send Facebook a powerful message: Your profits will never be worth promoting hate, bigotry, racism, antisemitism and violence, the Anti-Defamation League wrote.

The campaign comes amid widespread racial justice protests across the U.S. The Anti-Defamation League claims Facebook allowed incitement to violence against protesters fighting for racial justice in America in the wake of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, Rayshard Brooks and so many others. Could they protect and support Black users? Could they call out Holocaust denial as hate? Could they help get out the vote? They absolutely could. But they are actively choosing not to do so, the organization wrote on #StopHateForProfits webpage.

We deeply respect any brands decision, and remain focused on the important work of removing hate speech and providing critical voting information, Carolyn Everson, Facebook's vice president for global marketing, told NBC News. Our conversations with marketers and civil rights organizations are about how, together, we can be a force for good.

One estimate suggests that more than 530 companies will participate in the boycott. Heres how some of these companies are addressing their connection to Facebook.

Volkswagen

In solidarity with #StopHateForProfit, Volkswagen Group of America is suspending central advertising on Facebook and Instagram for the month of July while we assess their fit as relevant platforms for our brand communications, a company spokesperson told NBC News.

VW firmly believes in the right to free speech for all. But hate and dangerous online misinformation should not go unchecked. We expect our advertising partners to reflect our values, and Volkswagen as well as other companies must hold them to the same standards we demand of ourselves.

Adidas and Reebok

Racist, discriminatory, and hateful online content have no place in our brand or in society, the company said in a statement. As we focus on better practices within our company and communities to ensure lasting change in the fight against racism, Adidas and Reebok will also pause advertising on Facebook and Instagram globally throughout July.

The company added that it would be developing criteria to hold ourselves and every one of our partners accountable for creating and maintaining safe environments.

Levi Strauss & Co.

We at Levi Strauss & Co. have a responsibility to speak up and take action when we see major issues arise that impact our employees, fans and community at large, Jen Sey, Levis chief marketing officer, wrote in a statement.

Thats why we are joining the #StopHateForProfit campaign, pausing all paid Facebook and Instagram advertising globally and across all our brands to hit pause on hate. We will suspend advertising at least through the end of July. When we re-engage will depend on Facebooks response, the statement continued.

Chipotle Mexican Grill

The fast casual restaurant chain has temporarily paused ads on Facebook and Instagram, saying Chipotle is committed to our brand purpose of cultivating a better world.

We are temporarily pausing paid advertising on Facebook and Instagram starting July 1 while we work together to better understand the changes they are making, said Chris Brandt, the companys chief marketing officer. We will continue to be part of the solution to fight systemic racism and create inclusive communities.

CVS Health

The health care giant said it would pause advertising on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter for at least 30 days and said it will use that time to define our strategy going forward, built around the simple principle that we wont support any platform that isnt taking meaningful steps to eliminate hate speech and misinformation.

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Starbucks

Starbucks announced that it plans to suspend advertising on all social media platforms.

We believe in bringing communities together, both in person and online, and we stand against hate speech, the coffee giant said in a statement. We believe more must be done to create welcoming and inclusive online communities, and we believe both business leaders and policy makers need to come together to affect real change.

Intercontinental Hotels Group

Intercontinental Hotels Group, whose brands include Crowne Plaza, Kimpton, and Holiday Inn, has joined other companies in what has become a global boycott on Facebook. The company did not provide specifics on how long they would suspend ads on the platform.

Conagra Brands

We stand by our company values including broadmindedness and integrity, and believe there is no place for hate, intolerance and racism in the world or on social media, the packaged food company, which owns brands such as Orville Redenbachers and Chef Boyardee, told NBC News.

That's why Conagra Brands is pausing all paid Facebook and Instagram advertising in the U.S. across our brand portfolio throughout the rest of the calendar year.

Microsoft

Microsoft stopped advertising on Facebook in the U.S. in May and has now suspended its ad campaigns on the platform globally, according to a report from Axios.

"Based on concerns we had back in May we suspended all media spending on Facebook/Instagram in the U.S. and weve subsequently suspended all spending on Facebook/Instagram worldwide," Microsoft chief marketing officer Chris Capossela wrote in an internal post to company employees.

Microsoft, which is Facebooks third-largest advertiser, is mostly concerned about inappropriate content adjacent to its ads, Axios wrote.

Ford

We are pausing all national social media advertising for the next 30 days to re-evaluate our presence on these platforms, the auto giant said.

The existence of content that includes hate speech, violence and racial injustice on social platforms needs to be eradicated. We are actively engaged with industry initiatives led by the Association of National Advertisers to drive more accountability, transparency and trusted measurement to clean up the digital and social media ecosystem.

Clorox

The Clorox Company will stop advertising spending with Facebook, Inc. through December, the company wrote in a statement on its website.

As a people-centered company committed to our values, we feel compelled to take action against hate speech, which we believe will increase through the balance of the year. This creates an increasingly unhealthy environment for people and our purpose-driven brands.

Honda

For the month of July, American Honda will withhold its advertising on Facebook and Instagram, choosing to stand with people united against hate and racism, the company told NBC News. This is inalignment with our companys values, which are grounded in human respect.

Verizon

Verizon announced last week that it would suspend advertising on Facebook.

"We're pausing our advertising until Facebook can create an acceptable solution that makes us comfortable and is consistent with what we've done with YouTube and other partners," John Nitti, chief media officer for Verizon, said.

The company spends approximately $1billion each year on advertising.

Unilever

One of the largest advertisers in the world, Unilever announced last week it would pull its ads from Facebook in support for the #StopHateForProfit campaign.

Continuing to advertise on these platforms at this time would not add value to people and society," the company said. "We will be monitoring ongoing and will revisit our current position if necessary."

Ben & Jerrys

As of July 1, we will pause all paid advertising on Facebook and Instagram in the United States as part of the #StopHateForProfit campaign, the company told NBC. We call on Facebook, Inc. to take the clear and unequivocal actions called for by the campaign to stop its platform from being used to spread and amplify racism and hate.

Coca-Cola

The beverage giant said it will stop running ads on social media platforms for the next 30 days, as it reevaluates where it spends its advertising budget.

There is no place for racism in the world, and there is no place for racism on social media, CEO and chairman of the company James Quincey told Adweek.

Other brands participating in the massive campaign include Patagonia, The North Face, and Best Buy. While the campaign exists for the month of July, some companies including Conagra and Clorox plan to suspend their advertising on Facebook for the remainder of the year.

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It is steadily becoming clear where the woke brigade will go once the current moral panic over racism has run its course (which cant be long, following the newsthat London estate agents have stopped using the term master bedroom to avoid its connotations with slavery). A week ago Andrew Willshire wrote hereof how the activist group Hope Not Hate has now decided that climate change denialism is now a hate crime.

Now comes another sign that climate change is becoming the next woke battleground. Earlier this week, an environmental campaigner, Michael Shellenberger wrote a mea culpa on the website of Forbes.com. On behalf of environmentalists everywhere I would like to formally apologise for the climate scare we have created over the past 30 years, it began. Climate change is happening. Its just not the end of the world. Its not even our most serious environmental problem.

Shellenberger, who has been campaigning against the destruction of the rainforest since the age of 16, has not given up his campaign. On the contrary, that is the very reason he has changed his mind. Previously, he worked as an advocate for renewable energy persuading the Obama administration to invest $90bn (72bn) into renewables, he says. But he has now changed his mind. He has calculated that at present, 0.5 per cent of land on Earth is used for the production of energy. If the world switched to 100 per cent renewables, however, we would have to use 50 per cent of all land on Earth for wind farms, solar farms, growing biofuels or forest plantations to feed wood-burning power stations and so on. The devastation this would cause has led him to the conclusion that if we are going to reduce carbon emissions the only practical way is via nuclear power.

Now you may or may not agree with that conclusion. Personally, I have serious misgivings about using nuclear fission to provide the worlds energy needs, given the economic devastation that another Chernobyl or Fukushima would bring to a densely-populated country. Nuclear fusion, if we could get it to work on a commercial scale, would be a different story although everyone has been promising that for the past half century, and there is a limit to how many billions you can throw at a technology in the hope of a breakthrough.

Anyway, that is by the by. What is surely true is that the worlds future energy needs, and the extent of the damage wrought on the climate by man-made carbon emissions, are areas of legitimate debate. If you do disagree with Shellenberger, you have every right to do so. But that is not, of course, how woke politics functions. The aim now is not to engage with political opponents but to attempt to put them beyond the pale, to try to delegitimise their opinions by making out that they belong on some far-right fringe from which the general public needs to be protected.

I know that the above facts will sound like climate denialism to many people, Shellenberger wrote prophetically in his Forbespiece. Not half. His piece has now been taken down by Forbes. A US journalist who tried to find out why was issued only with the following statement: Forbes requires its contributors to adhere to strict editorial guidelines. This story did not follow those guidelines, and was removed.

It is not hard to decode: a bunch of climate alarmists decided that Shellenberger is inconvenient to their cause and have tried to cancel him by complaining to the website and the website caved in. Fortunately, Shellenberger has reposted his piece, so you can still read it here and judge for yourself what editorial guidelines Forbesjudged it to breach (after initially passing it for publication).

The attempt to classify climate change denialism as a hate crime has been coming for quite a while. The very use of the word denial is an attempt to put anyone sceptical of climate alarmism in the same pigeonhole as holocaust deniers. Incidentally, I recently wrote a novel, The Denial, about a meteorologist who falls foul of climate activists because he values observation over alarmist predictions. I intended it as a satire set in the near future, but by the time it is publishedin September it looks as if it may well have become the present.

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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., on Thursday co-sponsored legislation that would provide $1.2 billion to ensure federally-assisted senior housing facilities have the resources to protect residents during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Seniors in Oregon and across the country face serious dangers from both COVID-19 and inaction from the federal government to protect them,Wyden said.Congress must ensure seniors can remain in their homes and have the proper safeguards to stay healthy. The Emergency Housing Assistance for Older Adults Act would provide those urgently needed resources for federally-assisted senior housing facilities to protect their vulnerable residents.

The Emergency Housing Assistance for Older Adults Act of 2020 would provide $1.2 billion to the Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly and Section 8 Project-Based Rental Assistance programs, including $845 million for obtaining PPE, cleaning and disinfecting properties, hiring additional staff and providing rental assistance.

The average age of residents in Section 202 properties for older adults is 79, and nearly 39 percent of residents are older than age 80. Their average annual income falls below $14,000 and there are profound disparities in both COVID-19 infections and virus-related deaths.

The bill also includes:

Wyden joined Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., to introduce the bill, as well as Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Bob Casey, D-Pa., Ed Markey, D-Mass., Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.

The legislation is endorsed by AARP, Leading Age and B'nai B'rith International.

Earlier this week, Wyden introduced theCoronavirus Housing Counseling Improvement Actto expand access to critical assistance programs and services for millions of families struggling to remain in their homes because of the COVID-19 pandemic and economic fallout. According to research, homeowners who receive counseling have a better chance at avoiding default, protecting their credit scores, reducing debt and securing mortgage modifications.

A copy of the bill text is availablehere.

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In the aftermath of George Floyds death, anti-racism protests have rippled across the world. 'Black Lives Matter' has become a rallying cry for the rights and equality of Black people and many people around the world sat up and took notice for the first time this summer.

So, when I saw a recent tweet from the Black Lives Matter UK Twitter account, my heart sank.

'As Israel moves forward with the annexation of the West Bank, and mainstream British politics is gagged of the right to critique Zionism, and Israels settler colonial pursuits, we loudly and clearly stand beside our Palestinian comrades.

FREE PALESTINE.'

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As a Black Jewish woman, the antisemitic undertones of the tweet made me feel as though I was torn between two communities, and that the two sides of my identity were being pitted against each other. Being part of two marginalised groups is difficult enough on a daily basis as it is, let alone when racism or antisemitism comes from within one of my communities.

Not only was the tweet upsetting to me as a Black Jew, but it was also dangerous because it would have two major consequences: to stoke division between Black people and Jewish people who found the tweet harmful; and derail a very important message about Palestinian liberation as Israel plans to annex the West Bank. But what made it so damaging?

Id just like to start by saying: it is not antisemitic to criticise the actions of the Israeli government; the Israeli government is planning to annex the West Bank, which will be a gross violation of Palestinian human rights and international law. Black Lives Matter critiquing this isn't the issue, and many Jews and Israelis are against it as well. And, while Zionism means the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel, it can be critiqued when extremist politicians like Benjamin Netanyahu manipulate it for political ends or if you oppose the concept of ethno-nationalist states in general, and do not single out the only Jewish state in your critique; however, this can sometimes become a sensitive issue when put in the context of Jewish persecution over millennia, and must be navigated carefully. So, it was not the expression of solidarity with Palestinians, or even the critique of Zionism, that was the issue.

The part of the tweet that was problematic was the language surrounding 'gagged'.

A long-standing, well-known antisemitic conspiracy theory is "Jews control the world" and contemporary antisemites often exchange the word 'Jews' with 'Israel' to hide their bigotry; a prime example is the 'Israel did 9/11' conspiracy theory, or the idea that 'Zionists control the world'. Therefore, when BLM UK said "British politics is gagged of the right to critique Zionism" it immediately set off alarm bells in my head; 'gagged' by whom?

If someone is being 'gagged' there must be an omnipotent 'gagger'. Then, when you ask that question, it begins to become clear that the language of the tweet has a sinister angle to it it was playing into the old trope that Jews control the media and global politics. Not only that, but it was a bizarre choice of words in the British political context right now - given all major political parties have condemned the looming annexation, and Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy (who is also the Chair of Labour Friends of Palestine) has called for sanctions on Israel should they move forward with annexation.

And this is why the wording of the tweet became an issue. The poor choice of language slipped into an antisemitic trope - perhaps without BLM UK even realising; modern antisemitism can be very insidious as the issues in the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn demonstrated. And the tweet had real consequences: I, and other Black Jews, were subjected to an onslaught of abuse online - with some calling me a "white supremacist zionist wh*re" for highlighting the problematic language of that tweet.

It was particularly painful for Jews in my position because it felt like our identities were suddenly incompatible - making us feel as though we can be Jewish or Black, but not both. As I anticipated, the tweet became a fertile environment for division and a battleground for racists - for those who are anti-Palestinian, for those who that were antisemitic, for those that were anti-Black, and for those who were all of these things.

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A lot of Jewish people who support the Black community began to feel deeply uncomfortable with aligning themselves with Black Lives Matter. Political opponents to Black Lives Matter manipulated the situation to suggest BLM was an antisemitic endeavour, and far-left antisemites began to suggest Jews were making their concern up about the tweet and that it was because they didnt care about Palestinians. The row continued - meanwhile, neither Black people, Jews, or Palestinians gained anything from the situation; the only people that benefited were racists.

And that is why the use of language was so disappointing in the tweet - because it triggered a sequence of behaviour that was so easy to avoid but so difficult to remedy. It also demonstrated how imperative it is for left-wing movements to educate themselves on how to speak about Israel without being antisemitic, and how to recognise modern antisemitism.

Because, until this happens, anti-racism movements will undermine themselves, important conversations about anti-racism and liberation will continue to be derailed and ultimately, it will continue to benefit the oppressor, not the oppressed.

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The whole land of Canaan I will give to you as an everlasting possession to you and your dependents after you.

It is claimed that God spoke those words to Abraham almost four millennia ago. Very convenient for 20th century Zionists whose founding fathers from Herzl to Ben Gurion were either agnostics or atheists from Europe whose ambitions and plans were to supplant through colonial settlement, the indigenous Palestinian people who had lived there for centuries.

A Jewish state would be a protective wall for Europe against Asian barbarism declared Herzl. We will spirit the penniless Palestinians across the border when the time comes, he averred. Whats good for the Jews stated Churchill, is good for the British Empire.

There were then, and to this day, other interests and claptrap motivating the land grab, culminating in Donald Trumps Deal of the Century and annexation by Israel of a huge slice of what the Bible calls Samaria and Judaea. Those Zionist non-believers became quite adept at cynically manipulating the biblical narrative for their own ends. The Abrahamic prophecy continues to be debated by theologians, historians and politicians to this day with an unholy, racist alliance having developed between USA-based, anti-Semitic evangelicals and Zionism.

The latest self-serving episode has seen two South African Chiefs, our learned Justice of the Constitutional Court, Mogoeng Mogoeng, and the countrys orthodox Jewish religious leader, Rabbi Warren Goldstein, in cosy discourse for the Israeli-mouthpiece, the right-wing Jerusalem Post. From their learned dialogue, which has caused an uproar, it appears that neither gentleman has learned much from our liberation struggle or Freedom Charter, which begins with the inclusivist words, South Africa belongs to all who live in it.

If you choose to believe that real estate promise from on high, you really ought to present factual evidence other than the utterance of words by an invisible deity some 4,000 years ago. That is if you are making a highly contested case on behalf of one people over another as the learned Chiefs from South Africa have sought to do.

Reference to a land called Canaan is most intriguing. The Biblical Old Testament teaches that Moses en route to the Promised Land, despatched his spies into that territory to report on the terrain, the populous, agricultural production, the military power of the state etc. Hardly showing that the result was all going to depend on the will of Jehovah, the God of Israel. It is evident that even according to the biblical narrative there was no land without a people awaiting a people without a land, as modern Zionists claimed when speaking of Palestine in the 20th century.

The people we know as Palestinians today had lived in that land for centuries, tilling their fields, developing towns and trading centres, art and culture. This was a thriving populous, according to British census figures. There were 1,033,314 Palestinians in 1932 compared to 174,606 Jews. That minority had grown from a few thousand in 1882 when the Zionist project was launched from Europe [Edward Said: The Question of Palestine.] Owing to the increase of Jewish settlers in the wake of the Nazi Holocaust, the number jumped to half that of indigenous Palestinians by 1948. The increase was because the US, Britain and even South Africa accepted only a token number of Jewish refugees who preferred those destinations over a Zionist homeland.

That fateful year of the Nakba (catastrophe in Arabic ) saw over 700,000 Palestinians ethnically cleansed from the land of their birth; hundreds massacred and almost 500 ancestral villages destroyed the names removed from Israeli maps. [Illan Pappe: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine]. For those who are not prepared to accept claims based on a biblical narrative, history speaks. What do we know, from historical and archaeological research about this land of Canaan? I recall when I first visited the West Bank in 2004, as a government minister, being greeted by the mayor of Qalqilya, (almost entirely enclosed by Israels monstrous Apartheid Wall) with his proud words: Welcome to our old Canaanite town.

From 3000BC to 1000BC a Canaanite Kingdom covered historic Palestine and what is Israel, Lebanon and much of Syria and Jordan. By the time of Roman rule, the people were a potpourri of farmers, traders, artisans and townspeople, nomads, pagans, old Canaanite tribes Hebrew, Persian, Samaritan, Arab, Greek and from the seventh century AD, converts to Islam. [Marcia Kunstel and Joseph Albright, Their Promised Land]. Many Jews had been expelled by the Romans in the 2nd century and prospered for centuries among the Arab people in neighbouring lands. An example of good neighbourliness destroyed by the rise of Zionist Israel.

Our chief justice ought to beware of mixing his faith with politics and choose his company more wisely. He has committed a grave disservice to the universal principles of inclusivity our democratic country and Constitution is founded upon, but a disservice particularly to the Palestinian people. He needs to prostrate himself before them and beg forgiveness.

The ancestral heritage of the present-day Palestinian people is the Canaanite parent tree which became Arabised by the 7th-centuryspread of Islam with the outcome that the melting pot of people are now so completely Arabised that we cannot tell where the Canaanites leave off and the Arabs begin.[Illene Beatty: Arab and Jew in the Land of Canaan] From intermarriage that took place over centuries it is more than likely that the many of the ancient Hebrews are a component of this racial mix. Apart from the biblical claims, historical research proves these facts, as do archaeological digs which attest not only to the Canaanite Middle Bronze Kingdom, but that the site of Jerusalem was a fortified Canaanite town in 1,800 BC. [Dr. Ronny Reich: The Jewish Bulletin, 31 July 3 1998]

Despite frantic and sustained Israeli archaeological efforts, no evidence has been forthcoming of any comparable advanced Judaic civilisation in Jerusalem or the Holy Land as claimed existed in the mythical Kingdom of Solomon and David around 1000BC as descending from Abraham. There are no relics or historical record to show this existed, not even simple pottery shards nor any sign of monumental architecture [Finkelstein and Silbermans The Bible Unearthed Archaeologys New Vision of Ancient Israel; Shlomo Sand: The Invention of the Jewish People; John Rose: The Myths of Zionism].

Even Simon Schama, highly respected international scholar, himself a Zionist, has been forced to come to terms with some of the new research that undermines so much of the Zionist claptrap about the ancient world. Whatever the biblical belief system how on earth can any sane human being recognise the ancient kingdom of David and Solomon as a model for the map of todays Middle East? Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian writer and one-time friend of Israel has stated.

Israel today, with all its power, and support of the US, Britain and to a lesser degree the EU, which glibly assume Israels right to exist, whether they use the Bible or realpolitik for justification, have given the Zionist state the impunity to unleash what Illan Pappe has termed incremental genocide of the Palestinian people. Our chief justice ignores the plight of the dispossessed Palestinians and bestows on Israel, as though he is the hand of God, the sole right to ownership of Jerusalem and the Holy Land.

Even if we ignore the volumes of historical research referred to and simply speak of Israels divine right to the real estate of the land once called Palestine, take heed of what the Jewish philosopher, Erich Fromm had to say as Israel manoeuvred to seize much of Palestine in 1948. He stated of Israels claim to exclusive ownership: If all nations would suddenly claim territory in which their forefathers had lived two thousand years ago, the world would be a madhouse.

The chief justice, who has a fundamentalists belief in everything biblical, should at least have the morally correct sense of accepting in todays real world the rights of a people who have lived in the Holy Land for all those centuries Christians, Muslims and Bedouin nomads not only the once upon a time dispersed Jews. He has come down on the side of a people given the right of return from any corner of Earth never having set foot in Israel. On the other hand, Palestinian refugees driven out of their homes in 1948 and 1967 by the barrel of a gun are denied such rights. Where is the chief justices sense of justice?

He has allowed himself to be played for a sucker by the chief rabbi, a fanatical Zionist who once declared to me that Israel had the right to the land wherever Abraham had left his footprints from Cyprus to the surrounds of Cairo, to Jordan, parts of Iraq and Syria along with the Lebanon. How generous Israel was, the learned rabbi told me, to only claim such a small percentage of all that territory. Our chief justice ought to beware of mixing his faith with politics and choose his company more wisely. He has committed a grave disservice to the universal principles of inclusivity our democratic country and Constitution is founded upon, but a disservice particularly to the Palestinian people. He needs to prostrate himself before them and beg forgiveness.

The current plight of the people of the Holy Land, where asymmetrical force and resources, injustice, state brutality and human suffering of the dispossessed abounds, forces us to confront ignorant biblical fundamentalism, a curse that undermines true faith and morality. DM

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The July 1st deadline has come and gone, and annexation hasnt arrived. But dont celebrate yet. Its delayed not cancelled. The Trump White House is divided on the details; the international protest is stronger than expected; and Israel has a renewed coronavirus crisis that ought to be getting its governments full attention.

But with Donald Trumps polling numbers in the US tumbling and rumours that Trump may even drop out of the November election if he thinks he cant win, Prime Minister Netanyahu will be wanting to get the ball rolling on annexation as soon as possible.

And once its on the Knesset statute books will it ever come off? Like the Settlements project, annexation will creep forward month by month and year by year until the desired new status quo is achieved. That means enlarged Israeli sovereignty/apartheid (ultimately including the Jordan Valley), total control of security from the river to the sea and disconnected, semi-autonomous Palestinian Bantustans. Trump will have been the enabler, but the political legacy will be Netanyahus to enjoy and the Palestinians to endure.

If youre looking for a simple explainer for whats coming, try this 7-minute video from the Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence.

Whats been notable over the last few months, is the way in which even the prospect of annexation has revealed so much about the nature of the Israel/Palestine situation. There is a parallel to be drawn with how Covid-19 has also been an exposer of truths about the unfairness and inequalities of societies around the world. Perhaps, annexation is just a subset of the surfacing of injustice which weve seen across the globe in 2020 and which has stirred locked-down populations to question their tolerance for institutionalised immorality.

Heres three examples of truth telling which annexation has revealed.

Far too often in global political debate Israel/Palestine is presented as a conflict. A conflict between two sides; a conflict between competing nationalisms; or between a democracy and terrorism; or even a religious war between Judeo-Christianity and Islam. We constantly hear that both sides must make peace through direct negotiations as if they have equal standing and equal resources to make their case. Annexation has shown us how wrong all these presentations are. Israel/Palestine is about power who has it and who does not.

Only Israel has the power, and the powerful friends, to act unilaterally to change the course of history. The Palestinians have no Settlements on Israeli land. The Palestinians have nothing to annex and no sovereignty they can extend. The Palestinians did not take land in war and then use legalised theft to dominate the territory. Trumps Peace to Prosperity is not the deal of the century or even a realistic two-state solution, it is a final document demanding everlasting Palestinian submission.

This time though there is no convincing or coherent narrative of Israeli security to justify this expression of the power dynamic. There is no gathering of Arab forces on the border. There are no PLO terrorist vipers in Beirut. No suicide bombers in Tel Aviv. No Hezbollah threat in southern Lebanon. No Hamas rockets landing on Sderot. No nuclear weapons directed from Tehran. This is the simple application of power by one people over another and it exposes, for all the world to see, the true dynamic on the ground.

Israel is a state willing and able to ignore international law;willing and able to deny Palestinians freedom of movement and future access to their land;willing and able to create apartheid for Palestinians while maintaining democracy for Jews.

Annexation is a truth teller.

Theres a good reason why moderate (Liberal) Zionists have felt so concerned about the prospect of annexation. If it goes ahead, their preferred version of Zionism, one based on two states for two peoples, will finally get the decent burial service its needed for some time. And when that happens Liberal Zionism goes out of business.

It wont be the first version of Zionism that loses its meaning and its relevance.

The cultural Zionism of Asher Ginsberg was over by the 1920s, if it ever really had traction.

The bi-national Zionism of Martin Buber, Judah Magnes, and Henrietta Szold never took hold.

The socialist state building Zionism of David Ben-Gurion was only ever socialism for Jews and was over by 1977 when Likud first won power.

The Oslo Zionism of Rabin and Peres was murdered by a right-wing Jewish fanatic and anyway amounted to less than it sounded.

The only variety of Zionism still on offer is the ethno-nationalist creed of Benjamin Netanyahu and the many politicians in Israel who sit to his right in the Knesset.

Annexation has revealed that the notion that there is a spectrum of Zionism (from left to right or moderate to extreme) is in practice a myth, or at best wishful thinking.

So how will Annexation play out in the UK where Liberal Zionism is the dominant outlook across the Jewish community?

Theres already been much gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands.

Meanwhile, the Board of Deputies, the body which purports to represent British Jewry to the wider world, has made a vow of silence on the issue, pleading that its job is to hold the community together and not take sides in a divisive debate. Its not a good look, nor, based on past behaviour, a very convincing one.

A letter by high-profile Jewish figures addressed to the outgoing Israeli ambassador to London, concluded by saying that annexation would: pose an existential threat to the traditions of Zionism in Britain. They are right about that. The relationship between British Jews and Israel is on the brink of imploding. Not even the Board of Deputies will be able to hold a convincing consensus together.

And to escalate an already dire situation for Zionism in Britain, Israel has just appointed Tzipi Hotovely, an extreme pro-Settler politician with zero interest in a two-state solution to be its new ambassador to the Court of St James. Its a truly disastrous appointment if you care about the survival of Zionism in Britain. But if, like me, you think Zionism has had its day, it will be fun to watch Hotovely pouring petrol on the fire.

Today, the only Zionism that matters is the version soon to arrive in London and primed to defend annexation. If you dont like it, its time to find a new vision for the Jewish future and a new way for Jews to relate to the State of Israel.

And theres a further conflict brewing between the Board of Deputies and the Labour Party. But this time the Board will not win. Last weekend, Labours shadow Foreign Secretary, Lisa Nandy, announced that if Israel goes ahead with annexation, her party will call for a trade boycott against the West Bank Settlements.

It is a shameful proposition to which the UK cannot be a silent witness.

Its too little and too late, but it marks a significant shift in Labour policy and goes further than Labours last manifesto under Jeremy Corbyn. The president of the Board of Deputies was not happy.

The tactic of BDS [Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions] is divisive and seeks to strike at the very legitimacy of the State of Israel, the Middle Easts only democracy and the worlds only Jewish State.

It was the usual boilerplate response to anyone calling for sanctions against Israel of any description, under any circumstances. But this time is sounds like a bum note from a busted instrument out of tune with how the public will view Israel, and indeed how a great many British Jews will see things too. Using words like legitimacy and democracy in the context of annexation and the further assault on Palestinian rights shows a shocking lack of ethical understanding, not to mention self-awareness. Sanctions against Israel may finally have come of age.

Annexation is a truth teller.

The annexation debate is revealing much that has always been peculiar and often incoherent about the nature of the relationship between Israel and Jews living in the diaspora.

If, like me, you grew up in synagogue community and a Jewish youth movement you would have learnt and been encouraged to feel that Israel is core to your Jewish identity.

In return, Israel gives us diaspora Jews a privileged status and the right of return to our ancestral homeland.

I can think of no other country that claims to be the state, not of its citizens, but of a global ethno-religious grouping. I can think of no other group of people who sees its relationship to a nation state as not just historic or religious but metaphysical in its dimensions and complexity. Its as if without this state I/we cannot truly exist, nor can my/our identity as a Jew be fully expressed.

In just 70 years a religious/political ideology, a reading of Jewish history, a world view about antisemitism, has created a deep emotionally constructed paradigm that now dominates every aspect of formal, organised Jewish life. No wonder we get so vexed about the politics of Israel and its global reputation. We have been super-sensitised to this state, and the Zionist thinking that underpins it, since the day we were born.

But annexation is cracking the paradigm open and surfacing truths that were always there if you were brave enough to look.

Our national refuge, our national redemption, has been built on the wrecked existence of the Palestinian people. And with annexation, we are about to begin the final phase of their long and tortured dispossession.

Our project of salvation was only possible through a colonialism informed by Jewish exceptionalism and an eccentric application of European nationalism. With appalling irony, we took the very elements that had plagued Jewish history for millennia and inflicted them on another people.

We cannot undo this history, but we can choose to confront it. Now would be a good moment.

Annexation is a truth teller.

COVID-19 is generating much reflection about values and priorities all around the world. We are awash with post-pandemic re-thinking. Our tolerance for poverty, racism, unfairness and inequality has worn thin during these last few months.

That makes Zionism (certainly the only version of it thats still left standing) looking more out of touch and out of date than ever before. Annexation will push it firmly over the line into the wrong side of history. Ideologies that use narratives of exceptionalism and security for one ethnic-religious group at the expense of another, need to be consigned to museums and academic history courses, along with statues of slave traders and confederate generals. Weve had enough of it, and enough of the people who find excuses for it.

In the short term, the future looks bleak. But if this year has taught us anything, its that change can happen rapidly, and public opinion can change radically. What looks unbreakable now can be shattered tomorrow.

Annexation is a truth teller. Listen to the truth.

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Labour leader Keir Starmer recently sacked shadow education secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey after she shared an interview on social media that he saidcontained an antisemitic conspiracy theory. Starmer claims he wants to send a strong message that under his leadership there will be zero tolerance of antisemitism.

In reality, hes just going along with the final chapter of a ludicrous, transparently manufactured, and politically-motivated smear campaign orchestrated by Zionist interests along with Tory and Labour right elements. Together, they had the shared goal of sabotaging Jeremy Corbyns chances of becoming prime minister and now want to raze any last remaining vestige of his term as Labour leader from frontline British politics.

As The Canary has previously argued, the underlying premise that criticising the violent actions of Israels state security forces is antisemitic which is what happened in Long-Baileys case is patent nonsense. But thats not all. Because closer examination reveals that perhaps its those who tacitly accept this narrative who are buying into antisemitic insinuations.

For one thing, the assumption that all Jews support Israels behavior, its current stance vis-a-vis the conflict or even its continued existence as a Jewish state, is completely false. Some of the most outspoken voices condemning Israels actions are themselves Jewish. This includes Norman Finkelstein, one of the worlds leading experts on the conflict in Palestine who is not only himself Jewish but also the son of Holocaust survivors. The Canary spoke to Finkelstein in an exclusive two-part interview last year in which he likened the antisemitism smear campaign against Corbyn to the Salem Witch Hunts.

Others include Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned linguist and political dissident, the late British historian Tony Judt and many other Jewish intellectuals and activists around the world.

In fact, some of Israels fiercest critics are themselves Israelis. Gideon Levy, for instance, is a columnist for the progressive Israeli newspaper Haaretz and has described the building of settlements within the occupied territories as the most criminal enterprise in [Israels] history.

Ilan Pappe, meanwhile, has written books with titles such as The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and Ten Myths About Israel, which condemn Israels foundation as a settler-colonial project that inevitably entailed the expulsion of the Palestinians. Both of them are not only staunch critics of Israeli policy, but also support a one-state solution to the conflict, which for them ought to establish a secular non-sectarian state with equal rights for Jews and Palestinians.

There is also an important historical context to keep in mind. Because long before Israels founding there were divisions about whether or not Jews should aspire to the establishment of a Jewish state. In fact, Zionism had major rival movements that called for Jews to fight instead for equal rights in the countries in which they already lived, such as the Bundists. As Pappe puts it:

Since its inception in the mid-nineteenth century, Zionism was only one, inessential, expression of Jewish cultural life. It was born out of two impulses among Jewish communities in Central and Eastern Europe. The first was a search for safety within a society that refused to integrate Jews as equals and occasionally persecuted them.

The second impulse was a wish to emulate other new national movements mushrooming in Europe at the time. This was based on the ethnic-nationalist idea that nationhood is based on ethnic identity rather than sharing common borders and language.

In a strange irony, Zionism later shared this ideological feature with other influential ethno-nationalist movements of the early 20th Century, including German National Socialism. Ken Livingstone was effectively forced out of the Labour Party for pointing out this straightforward fact during a television interview in 2016. Finkelstein came to Livingstones defense, stating:

Livingstone maybe wasnt precise enough, and lacked nuance. But he does know something about that dark chapter in history. .

Hitler wasnt wholly hostile to the Zionist project at the outset. Thats why so many German Jews managed to survive after Hitler came to power by emigrating to Palestine. But, then, Hitler came to fear that a Jewish state might strengthen the hand of international Jewry, so he suspended contact with the Zionists. Later, Hitler perhaps contemplated a territorial solution for the Jews.

Livingstone is more or less accurate about this or, as accurate as might be expected from a politician speaking off the cuff.

In short, at various points in the 1920s and 1930s, Nazism and Zionisms respective leaderships were in agreement that Jews shouldnt live in Germany but rather in a state somewhere else, such as Palestine, albeit for different reasons.

To this day, many Jews reject this ethno-nationalist idea that Israel is where Jews rightfully should live simply by virtue of being Jewish. Equally, many also reject the notion that Israel should serve as some kind of safe haven where Jews can go and live as an ethnic majority. As Judtput it in an interview with The Atlantic:

Why is it ok for a Jewish minority to dominate an Arab majority, its leaders to call for expulsions of majority members, etc., but not ok for a democracy to have a majority and minority both protected under law?

He added:

[The fear of there not being a Jewish-majority state in the world] is the fear of the paranoid hysteric like the man at the dinner table in the story I wrote in the New York Review who had never been to Israel but thought I should stop criticizing it because We Jews might need it sometime.

I find this contemptible [people who take this view] are quite happy to see Arabs killed in their name, so long as other Jews do it. Thats not fear, that is something between surrogate nationalism and moral indifference.

Finally, the notion that all Jews support Israels behavior is not only false but also defamatory. Because Israel is one of the worlds worst and most prolific human rights violators. It occupies the West Bank and blockades the Gaza Strip while continuing to build settlements in the former in flagrant violation of international law and countless United Nations resolutions. It denies Palestinians living in these areas even the most basic of rights. So much so that many mainstream figures, including former US president Jimmy Carter, have described Israel as an apartheid state. And, worst of all, it frequently uses violence against this civilian population, including shooting dead unarmed protesters and even children as young as nine years old.

So by implying that criticism of Israel is a criticism of all Jews, those who buy into the tenets of the antisemitism smear campaign are, in turn, implying that all Jews support, or perhaps even are themselves implicated in, the above actions of Israel and its security state apparatus. This is every bit as outrageous as it would be to claim that every last member of the Chinese diaspora, including the roughly five million Chinese-Americans living in the United States, must by definition support the human rights violations of the Chinese government.

There is another irony to this situation still. Because this insinuation is antisemitic even according to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliances (IHRA) own definition. It states that Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel and that targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity constitutes antisemitism. Yet it simultaneously says that Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor also constitutes antisemitism.

As a result, its entire criteria appears not just ridiculous but also internally contradictory. Because it insists that Israel should be a state exclusively for Jewish people yet at the same time says that conflating Israel with all Jews is antisemitic. Finkelstein described the IHRA definition to The Canary as completely idiotic and said that Corbyns willingness to adopt it was a fatal mistake.

The IHRA definition is, in fact, so absurd that the line between parody and reality is getting increasingly blurred. The Skwawkboxs Steve Walker recently posted about a complaint he made to the Labour Party in which he reports Starmer for conflation of Jewish people with actions of Israeli government in breach of IHRA code. The complaint reads:

By describing Maxine Peakes criticism of Israel as an antisemitic conspiracy theory, Mr Starmer has collectively equated Jewish people with the Israeli state.

As a member of the Labour Party I am appalled at this casual antisemitism and lack of care by its leader.

Its difficult to discern whether Walker is joking or being deadly serious and perhaps thats the point. The charge of violating IHRAs code in this way could arguably also be levelled at other Labour right figures such as Nia Griffith, Stella Creasey, and Wes Streeting.

Clearly, the antisemitism smear campaign has now become so bizarre that reality has been turned on its head. Regrettably, both Corbyn beforehand, and now Long-Bailey, one of his only remaining allies in front bench British politics, have foolishly acted as if one can appease these ruthless forces. Obviously, its impossible to appease something whose goal is to destroy your political career by any means possible and irrespective of what you say or do.

The result has been that they have helped to banish themselves back to the backbenches and put the Labour-right back in the drivers seat. The left must now regroup, reassess, and reorganize for the battles ahead. Because these forces will no doubt do the same thing all over again next time a challenge to the status quo comes along. As Labour legend Tony Benn once said: every single generation has to fight the same battles again and again and again. Theres no final victory. And theres no final defeat.

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This is a great surprise. Israels annexation plans have put tremendous pressure on liberal Zionist organizations to finally put their money where their mouth is, or Americas money: and punish Israel for its occupation instead of just yapping. Now 1000 alumni of J Streets youth organization, J Street U, have told the parent organization, your methods dont work, its time to sign on, and sign on strongly, to any legislation that would reduce aid to Israel if it goes ahead with annexation.

The letter parallels the letter Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and three other congresswomen have written to the Trump administration saying the U.S. should withhold military aid from Israel if it moves to annex portions of the West Bank.

Here is the letter to J Street from more than 1000 alumni (first reported by the Intercept this afternoon). It says Nothing will stop Israel from annexing except real material consequences. So quit with the damn lip service, it doesnt work.

Time and again, J Street has organized letters of condemnation, Jewish communal pressure, and congressional measures that fall short of creating material consequences for Israels actions. Those efforts have not and will not impede Israels attempts to expand its control of the West Bank, so long as its primary means of supportAmerican aidis untouched.

The letter-writers say that this is an unprecedented moment and a decisive test for the progressive movement. Israeli leaders act with impunity.

Israels leaders are proceeding with annexation because they expect no real consequence for doing so. Now, as they threaten to make that control [of the West Bank] permanent, most American leaders and institutions have expressed outrage, but few have indicated that moving forward will result in material consequences: a tangible erosion of American monetary support.Israels leaders must understand, instead, that proceeding with annexation will come at a cost. Only when Israeli leadership feels that doing so will jeopardize a portion of its $3.8 billion in annual American assistance will it have a real reason to reconsider.

The signatories, who include public figures and Jewish professionals (rabbis, leaders of Jewish non-profits, elected officials, staff for elected officials, journalists, community organizers, lawyers) conclude:

We ask J Street to stand in strong support of any legislation that will reduce American assistance to Israel if it decides, once and for all, to annex the West Bank.

Time and again in recent weeks, American Zionists have pleaded with Israel not to annex because it will put wind in the sails of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign. The alumni letter shows just that, inasmuch as the signatories are endorsing a form of sanctions.

Their letter arrives at the same time as the letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo from Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Pramila Jayapal, Rashida Tlaib, and Betty McCollum, now signed by 9 other congresspeople and Sen. Bernie Sanders. If Israel goes ahead with annexation, we should condition our $3.8 billion in military aid, and maybe withhold some of it, the letter says.

The rightwing Israel lobby group AIPAC, which has not had a critical word to say about annexation, is going haywire over the congressional letter, in a stream of tweets and a letter-writing campaign aimed at painting the congresspeople as operating against US interests and the two-state solution.

The Israel lobby appears to be fracturing. If J Street is under pressure from the left, AIPAC is under pressure from the center, with organizations like American Jewish Committee and ADL expressing criticism of Israels plans.

J Street has gotten away so far with equivocating on punishing Israel. On one hand, it has called out AIPAC for not condemning Israeli annexation. And it has said that annexation might cause some Democrats to seek to condition aid to Israel. But it has also repeatedly refused to take that position itself.

At the J Street conference last fall, its president Jeremy Ben-Ami welcomed the conversation among Democratic presidential candidates about conditioning foreign aid to Israel over human rights violations, but didnt endorse such conditioning.

This is definitely in the conversation now. Its really important. Does the United States provide anybody with money without restriction? Right, there are laws that govern how American aid can be used. Those laws apply to Israel just like every other country in the world. So the notion that we just provide this aid, we send the dollars over, and thats the last thing that happens, doesnt make any sense and so its really good to see several of the candidates raising the question Are we going to foot the bill for annexation, right, should American dollars be going to pay for the expansion of settlements? Should it be going to the demolition of Palestinians villages.

Its not a matter of reducing. Let me be really clear. J Street doesnt think theres a reason to reduce the level of the aid. The question is what is it being used for, should there be restrictions on it? We should be enforcing the laws that are on the books and have some transparency about what is going on.

The J Street U alumni are pressing Ben-Ami to take real action at last.

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A FIGUREHEAD of the Black Lives Matter movement who has given speeches alongside Star Wars actor John Boyega believes the campaign has been "hijacked" by a group of far-Left activists.

ImarnAyton, 29,said she organised the Black Lives Matter protest in London's Parliament Square on June 6 and a peaceful rally in Hyde Park on June 20.

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In an outspoken attack, she vented her fury at Black Lives Matter UK, the campaign group that has attracted more than 1m in donations.

Black Lives Matter UK has supported defunding the police, overthrowing capitalism and "targeted sanctions against Israel's apartheid regime".

Actress Imarn told the Mail on Sunday: "The Black Lives Matter movement is a separate entity to Black Lives Matter UK. I have no contact with Black Lives Matter UK and they have not been on the ground once.

"A lot of people assume they were the driving force behind the protest when in actual fact they just support the protests.

"The issue with BLM UK is they have not revealed themselves, they have not been transparent. They are abolitionists, they believe in the removal of prisons, smashing capitalism and abolishing the police."

Black Lives Matter UK was formed in 2016 but rose to prominence this year after the death of George Floyd in the US and a campaign in Britain to tear down statues of figures linked to slavery or colonialism.

A crowdfunding campaign launched by the group on June 2 has raised 1.1 million.

Last month the group was accused by Jewish groups of the "spread of hatred" after its official Twitter account put out a series of messages about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In a string of posts to its 60,000 followers, the account claimed British politics had been "gagged of the right to critique Zionism".

The BLM UK account wrote: "As Israel moves forward with the annexation of the West Bank, and mainstream British politics is gagged of the right to critique Zionism, and Israel's settler colonial pursuits, we loudly and clearly stand beside our Palestinian comrades. FREE PALESTINE."

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Imarn, who lives in Peckham in South London, added: "I am just mortified because everyone has given money and they are not going to use that to better the black community. They are going to use it to abolish the police, remove prisons and get rid of capitalism.

"Why on earth would you donate 1 million to people that are not actually doing anything for the black community here and now?"

The 29-year-old said she wanted to remove the statue of Winston Churchill but believed in peaceful protests and blasted those who had vandalised monuments.

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She said: "We want equality - to be treated fairly - that is all that we ask for, and for justice for those who have been harmed.

"I am not here for vandalism, I am not here to tear down statues, because that does not help black people.

"Don't get me wrong, I want those statues down.

"But shouting at Boris Johnson outside Downing Street does not help black people.

"We are here for peace - black people are seen as violent, black people are seen as aggressive, and black people are seen as angry, so we are trying to stop that stigma."

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer warned the BLM message was getting "tangled up" and branded calls to defund the police "nonsense".

BLM UK hit back, tweeting that "as a public prosecutor, Sir Keir Starmer was a cop in an expensive suit".

It comes after Sir Keir sacked Rebecca Long-Bailey from her post as shadow education secretary after she refused to take down a tweet on an article containing an allegedly anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.

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