The Trump administration has changed how the Department of Education handles allegations of discrimination against Jewish students, now using a broader definition of anti-Semitism that could potentially include any critique of the state of Israel—including campaigns that call attention to the Israeli government’s…
Since America can’t seem to appreciate Roseanne Barr’s hilarious racism, she plans to start toting her bigoted charms around a new country—Israel. How nice for them!
Thanks to the Trump administration’s penchant for unbridled cruelty, a major United Nations program aiding Palestinian refugees will no longer receive a penny of funding from the United States. This comes at a time when European and Arab countries are ramping up their support for the program.
Bloomberg reports that the Trump administration will announce its withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council, citing “hypocrisy and criticized as biased against Israel.”
The president’s lawyer would like to clarify something he said about Stormy Daniels. On Wednesday, Rudy Giuliani said: “If you’re going to sell your body for money, you just don’t have a reputation. I may be old fashioned, I dunno.” He also said: “The business you were in entitles you to no degree of giving your…
Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle.
While American and Israeli officials celebrate the opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem on Monday, Israeli military forces are massacring Palestinians protesting the widely condemned decision at the Gaza border. The death toll is rising so quickly that it will likely be outdated when you read this. As of 9:29 a.m.…
Ivanka and Jared, per Jared’s role as Innovations Officer and in Ivanka’s new official capacity as an Unpaid Employee, are off to oversee the Middle East.
Well, here we are again, getting blasted in the eye by an administration that behaves, in many ways, like an organ with no functioning mental capacity. At 2 p.m. on Tuesday, President Trump announced that he would be pulling out of the nuclear deal with Iran, against the wishes of a hostile, nearly-nuclear nation, our…
Ahed Tamimi, a 17-year-old Palestinian girl who was arrested for hitting and kicking two Israeli police officers, accepted a plea deal in which she’ll serve eight months in prison.
Three teenage Lorde fans from Israel are suing two New Zealand women—in New Zealand—for “emotional injury” caused by their alleged role in Lorde’s decision to cancel her Tel Aviv concert.
On Sunday, Lorde announced she had cancelled her June 5 concert in Tel Aviv, Israel in response to criticism from fans and activists promoting the tenets of BDS, a movement to divest from Israel in protest of the country’s occupation of Palestine.
Right in the midst of a global uproar over Donald Trump’s arbitrary decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem–a declaration which sparked tear gas and fires in Lebanon, Israeli gunfire and an air strike over Gaza, four Palestinians dead, hundreds injured, an emergency UN Security Council…
On Thursday, supermodel Bella Hadid, who is of Palestinian descent, posted an emotional protest on Instagram against Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, undermining the multi-faith sanctity of the territory and furthering the oppression of the Palestinian people. Last night she and her…
According to a new Washington Post report, Donald Trump does not fully understand the implications of his decision to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel and move the U.S. embassy there. This isn’t particularly surprising for a man who does not fully understand literally anything, up to and including how to keep…
Welcome to another episode of “Donald, Jared, and Donald’s Company Lawyer Bring Peace to the Middle East With No Trouble Whatsoever.” Today, Trump formally recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and announced plans to move the U.S. embassy there from Tel Aviv, fulfilling a campaign pledge at the cost of…
Oooh, I just found a packet of Tums in the women’s bathroom.
Five interfaith delegates from the Jewish Voice for Peace, the American Muslims for Palestine, and the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship were banned from boarding a flight to Israel via Frankfurt from Washington DC’s Dulles airport on Sunday, an action they believe is the beginning of a crackdown against activists who…
Another lovely day in the bullshit mines.
You really would not have been able to tell, from my barely touched and poorly-written teen diaries, that writing was an activity I would someday be paid for. I averaged about two entries per entire journal, and at some point stuffed them all into a large metal lockbox to hide them from my parents and lost the key.
