This Week In Palestine: Ex-AIPAC journalist MJ Rosenberg speaks at MA Peace Action conference - Бесплатное архивное аудио

In this episode we take a look at the Jewish Lobby and its manifestations at the local and national level. (By “Jewish Lobby,” we mean the racist voice of today’s Israel, which is not the same as that of all Jews.) For our main feature, we present ex-AIPAC journalist MJ Rosenberg, speaking recently at a conference sponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action’s Palestine Working Group. Rosenberg provides a detailed inside look and is well qualified to do so. Before that feature, we report on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s recent decision to refuse paid advertisements on “political or social issues” following an outcry over a pro-Palestinian ad at a Red Line T stop. It is clear that the power of the Jewish lobby was on full display here, and although the ad was based on a verifiable fact, screams of anti-Semitism and hate speech filled the air. We also report on continuing JCRC-sponsored all-expenses-paid trips to Israel for community, religious, and political “leaders” for years and years, including local, state and federal legislative representatives. This time there was some public pushback against the acceptance of such trips by 10 Massachusetts State Senators. We present a Mondoweiss article on that pushback by Nancy Murray of Boston Alliance for Water Justice. After the main feature, we also discuss the raging controversy in the United states and throughout the world concerning the immigration of Syrian refugees. True to form, Israel turns away Syrians, just as it turns away Palestinians coming in to be with their families.