Skip to main content

Tidbits – Oct. 3 – Reader Comments: Israel Blocked Humanitarian Aid to Gaza; GOP Anti-Worker Policies; Remembering Peter N. Carroll; Alva L’nez Jones Buxenbaum, Educator and Activist; Books About Palestine; Campus Free Speech Crises, 1964/2024; More

Portside
Reader Comments: Israel Blocked Humanitarian Aid to Gaza; GOP Has Anti-Worker Policies; Remembering Peter N. Carroll; Alva L'nez Jones Buxenbaum, Educator and Activist; Books About Palestine; The Campus Free Speech Crises, 1964/2024; Cartoons; more..

Damning Report Reveals How Antony Blinken Lied to Congress on Israel

Hafiz Rashid The New Republic
Leaked documents show that the secretary of state received two explosive reports on Israel blocking aid to Gaza—right before he told Congress the exact opposite. Two U.S. government agencies advocated a pause in arms sales to Israel, in May.

The US Diplomatic Strategy on Israel and Gaza Is Not Working

Daniel Levy The Guardian
US policies strengthen Benjamin Netanyahu – whose political preference in the short term is an open-ended war, not a deal. Netanyahu is a loose cannon, which Kamala Harris should have no interest in reloading 10 weeks out from an election.

The Du Bois Doctrine

Zachariah Mampilly Foreign Affairs
Du Bois is rightly venerated for his work on civil rights. But by discarding him, the American foreign policy establishment robbed itself of one of the twentieth century’s most perceptive and prescient critics of capitalism and imperialism.

The Break-Up?

John Feffer Foreign Policy in Focus
Are the United States and Israel heading toward a divorce?

Ukraine, Israel and the Two Joe Bidens

Matthew Duss The New Republic
In Ukraine, Biden has spent two years articulating a stirring argument for a rules-based order. In Israel, he set about burning that argument to the ground. Is a morally consistent foreign policy possible?
Subscribe to U.S. foreign policy