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Transcripts from the Israel Lobby Conference Are Now Available!
The "Israel Lobby and American Policy" conference, co-hosted with IRmep, brought together people from across the country (and the world) to critically assess the pro-Israel lobby and the U.S. government's unflinching support for Israel. Below is just a sampling of the speeches given by activists, artists, journalists, lawyers, politicians and others. All transcripts can be found on the Washington Report's website.
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Walter L. Hixson: What’s So Important About the Israel Lobby?
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"The truth is that the lopsided U.S. support for Zionism has fueled a long history of ethnic cleansing, indiscriminate violence both within and beyond Israel's U.N.-recognized borders, an illegal occupation, a proliferation of illegal settlements, relentless police state repression, the emergence of a full-blown apartheid state, Israeli militarization and, finally, determined efforts to repress free speech and smear critics of Israel's egregious policies."
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Dr. Hanan Ashrawi: What, If Any, Policies Have Changed Since the Trump Administration, and New Hope for Palestine’s Future
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"The Biden administration has allowed for the most extreme and ruthless escalation and intensification of Israeli violations. Whether the assault on Jerusalem and the continued ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem, or the military attack on Gaza, with horrific destruction and loss of human life, and settler violence. Settlers are on the rampage everywhere in Palestine. The annexation and expansion of settlements. The home demolitions. Home demolitions are going on at twice the rate in which they were carried out during the Trump period!"
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Don Wagner: The Widespread Influence of Christian Zionism and Growing Backlash Inside American Churches
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"Declare Christian Zionism a heresy. It is a heresy. It takes a portion of the truth, it turns it upside down and empties it and then fills it with racist anti-biblical content. So this is what Christian Zionism and Zionism are. They are ideologies that are idolatrous of the State of Israel, absolutely idolatrous, and that is a violation of the First Commandment. They also are racist and we need to call them to account for the lack of humanity and accountability. We are all equal before God."
Don Wagner's forthcoming book, Glory to God in the Lowest: Journeys to an Unholy Land, can be pre-ordered here.
His 2014 book, Zionism and the Quest for Justice in the Holy Land, can be ordered here.
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