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The phony war over which US party loves Israel most

http://electronicintifada.net/content/phony-war-over-which-us-party-loves-israel-most/10794 OPINION/EDITORIAL The phony war over which US party loves Israel most Josh Ruebner The Electronic Intifada 10 January 2012 (Issam Rimawi/APA images) “No Aid to Israel?” wonders a recent Facebook ad sponsored by US President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign. “Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Newt Gingrich say they would start foreign aid to Israel at zero. Reject their extreme […]

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Will the Holy Cow of Aid to Israel Survive the Dull Blade of Across-the-Board Budget Cuts?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-ruebner/israel-us-aid_b_1158170.html The Israel lobby can breathe a sigh of relief now that Congress has agreed to fund the government through next fall, including a record-breaking $3.075 billion in military aid to Israel. This earmark may have emerged unscathed in this year’s budget battle, but because the super committee failed to produce a deficit reduction plan, […]

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Rabbi Outcast Book Panel

National Press Club, December 8, 2011

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Support Today’s Freedom Riders

http://original.antiwar.com/josh-ruebner/2011/11/23/support-todays-freedom-riders/ Support Today’s Freedom Riders End U.S. support for Israeli apartheid by Josh Ruebner, November 24, 2011 Fifty years ago, Freedom Riders braved beatings and arson by supremacists intent on maintaining apartheid in the Jim Crow South. By challenging segregated transportation through nonviolent action, these African American and white activists set in motion a process that […]

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For Green Party, Another Mixed Verdict from Voters

http://www.sungazette.net/arlington/news/for-green-party-another-mixed-verdict-from-voters/article_33fe184e-0aed-11e1-aba8-001cc4c03286.html Posted: Wednesday, November 9, 2011 12:15 pm by SCOTT McCAFFREY, Staff Writer | 3 comments Voters sent what could be construed as a mixed message to the Arlington Green Party on Nov. 8. The party’s County Board candidate, Audrey Clement, picked up 9,724 votes based on unofficial counts reported Nov. 9 by the State Board of Elections. That […]

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Combat HIV/AIDS or Protect Israel’s Denial of Palestinian Rights?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-ruebner/us-israel-peace-_b_1082234.html Josh Ruebner National Advocacy Director, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation Posted: 11/ 9/11 01:29 PM ET Now that Palestine has become a full member of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) after an exuberant 107-14 vote in its favor, two obscure sections of U.S. law may force the United […]

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Columbia, SC, Street Presentation on U.S. Military Aid to Israel

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Euphradian society co-hosts debate on Israeli Occupation

http://www.dailygamecock.com/news/item/2739-euphradian-society-co-hosts-debate-on-israeli-occupation By Derek Legette, The Daily Gamecock news@dailygamecock.com Thursday, 03 November 2011 23:00 Alumnus, advocacy director argue on state of conflict in Middle East An Israeli-Palestinian debate on whether or not Israeli should withdraw from the land that some say belongs to Palestine heated up the Rutledge Chapel Thursday night. After the 1967 Six Day War […]

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Sen. Wyden should hold Israel to same standard as Bahrain

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/190631-sen-wyden-should-hold-israel-to-same-standard-as-bahrain By Josh Ruebner, National Advocacy Director of the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation – 10/30/11 05:39 PM ET Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) is admirably legislating against U.S. arms sales to Bahrain, the autocratic Gulf kingdom which has killed at least 30 protesters during the Arab Spring. To suppress protests, Bahrain has arrested more […]

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Fund Community Needs or Israel’s Misdeeds?

Josh Ruebner, National Advocacy Director of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, went to Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC, on October 6, 2011, on the opening day of the “Occupy DC” protest, to ask people what they think of the United States spending more than $3 billion per year on weapons for Israel […]

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