Category Archives: PALESTINE / ISRAEL

MACKLEMORE’S GREAT SONG AND VIDEO

https://x.com/i/status/1837225591675965518 MACKLEMORE’S SONG https://x.com/i/status/1837225591675965518 From Mitchel Cohen: Here, it stops The circles of deceit broken promises, rancid dreams here it stops this beach of crushed utopias preparations for world war here it stops this litany of lies false refuge in religion here it stops Israel murders in our name here it stops imperial designs here […]

KATIE HALPER FIRED BY “THE HILL” FOR CHALLENGING ISRAEL’S APARTHEID AGAINST PALESTINIANS

Right on to Katie Halper and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) for challenging the Democrats in Congress over their financing of Israeli apartheid. Germane to Katie’s post below is a poem/song I wrote in 1988: https://www.mitchelcohen.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Here-it-Stops-1988.mp3   from Mondoweiss Katie Halper loses job at ‘The Hill’ after calling on progressives to dismantle Israeli apartheid The firing of […]

SHIREEN ABU AKLEH, assassinated by Iraeli snipers

Dave Rovics’ haunting song about the City of Jenin.                                               Shireen talks about how she became a journalist (click) Israel officials make excuses. They lie. They intentionally targeted Shireen. (click) What the hell […]

DAYS OF ATONEMENT

Some outrages are worse than others. Still, why should we set one injustice against the other, as though seeking greater exhibitions of revulsion at the one oppression or injustice than at the other. And yet we do. The murder of Eric Garner last year at the hands (literally) of one of New York’s “Finest” is […]

WHY I HATE THANKSGIVING

Learn the Truth about Thanksgiving, this celebration of genocide of millions of people native to the Americas, as well as the ritual mass-slaughter of 43 million turkeys for this one day, in this year alone. INTRODUCTION GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER? On Thanksgiving morning 2003, George W. Bush showed up in Iraq before sunrise for […]