The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday 1st February 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Moderation rules are more lenient for this section, but try and play nicely.
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Whats going on? The New York Times is publishing opinion pieces by the extraordinary Michelle Alexander. She is openly questioning the USA establishment line on Israel/Palestine.
“Our elected representatives, who operate in a political environment where Israel’s political lobby holds well-documented power, have consistently minimized and deflected criticism of the State of Israel, even as it has grown more emboldened in its occupation of Palestinian territory and adopted some practices reminiscent of apartheid in South Africa and Jim Crow segregation in the United States.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/opinion/sunday/martin-luther-king-palestine-israel.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fmichelle-alexander&action=click&contentCollection=undefined®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection