The End of Free Speech? Criminalizing Criticism of Israel | By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

||| On October 16, 2004, President George W. Bush signed the Israel Lobby’s bill, the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act. This legislation requires the US Department of State to monitor anti-semitism worldwide. To monitor anti-semitism, it has to be defined. What is the definition? Basically, as defined by the Israel Lobby and Abe Foxman, it boils down to any criticism of Israel or Jews…

You Are There: The Occupied Garden/ By Mazin Qumsiyeh

” Then two fears ran through my mind that caused me to sweat: What if I run out of gas near a settlement on a Jewish religious holiday when those settlers think we should not be driving? And even worse, what if the soldiers in the towers or security people at the gates of these settlements see this Palestinian car making a turn in an empty gas station? With their well-known reputation for hair-trigger fingers they could simply shoot and ask questions later (as they have done before).”