Episode 095 - Laundering Money for War Crimes
Michael and Lara break down the newly released ‘US National Strategy to Counteract Antisemitism’ and find, unsurprisingly, that it’s rooted in support for the state of ‘Israel’ and received little to no coverage by the western media. Furthermore, 50 organizations across the US have been found to be involved in fundraising for illegal Israeli settlements, and much of this ‘fundraising’ masquerades as charitable activity. A recent law that was proposed in New York to prohibit charitable organization from funding illegal settlements was met with backlash from the Israeli lobby, despite this being agains the Geneva Convention. Money laundering is just another way that the state of ‘Israel’ uses and controls the US, who in turn shell out 4 billion dollars to them each year. Michael goes on to expose the IOF officers caught at a shooting range, naked. This shines more light on the relationship between weapons, sexual violence, and destruction that sits at the root of zionist logic. Sexual violence has been used as a tactic to eradicate Palestinians, and the sexualization of IOF members has been used to attract American spouses for IOF soldiers. Despite the open calls for genocide by the IOF and its supporters, pro-Palestinian support is still classified as antisemitic, and the US media and government are still controlled by the Israeli lobby.
To consult the sources used in the preparation of this episode, please see:
Background/Contextualizing Sources
A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution (HRW)
Israel’s 55-year occupation of Palestinian Territory is Apartheid (OHCHR)
Israeli occupation Forces To Demolish Home Of 95-Year-Old Palestinian (Palestine Online)
Videos
"IDF soldiers jailed for naked firing range practice (The Times of Israel on X)
Israel forces immobile elderly Palestinian to evacuate her home (YouTube)
Articles/References
Nakba74: Rethinking Zionism as a gendered colonial enterprise (Mondoweiss)
Socialists Want to Crack Down on Israeli War Crimes (Jacobin)
Why the ‘Holy Land Five’ must be exonerated and released from prison (Mondoweiss)
Gaza children's artwork, removed from London hospital, looks for new home (Middle East Eye)
Thread by @Liam_O_Hare on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App
U.S.-National-Strategy-to-Counter-Antisemitism.pdf (whitehouse.gov)
Times of Israel Removes Article Calling For Palestine to Be 'Obliterated' (mediaite.com)
Moving Forward on Palestine | Jeffrey Camras | The Blogs (archive.is)
Here's the full text of the deleted Times of Israel post backing genocide in Gaza (Vox)
Israeli forces shoot and injure 13 Palestinians during raid near Jericho (WAFA)
UK study of 1948 Israeli massacre of Palestinian village reveals mass grave sites (The Guardian)