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Israel Turns to Unlawful Detention When Propaganda Fails to Silence Anti-Zionists
By Ian Firstenberg Early on July 30, dozens of armed soldiers and at least one dog stormed the house of a prominent BDS coordinator near Ramallah. His 9-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter protested loudly as their father was taken out in handcuffs. Mahmoud Nawaja’a, 34, is a national coordinator for

Jackie Fielder Blows Away Scott Wiener in Grassroots Support for D11 Senate Race
By Ian Firstenberg In the race for California Senate District 11, challenger Jackie Fielder beat out incumbent Scott Wiener in small dollar local donations during the pandemic months, highlighting the candidate’s grassroots support. According to recent finance reports, Fielder collected roughly $215,000 between February and June, compared to Wiener’s $265,000

Details From This Week’s Board of Supervisors Meeting
Guest post by Wesley Wells We’re sitting through the San Francisco Board of Supervisors meetings and breaking them down for you so you don’t have to! Here’s the mini minutes for the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, July 28, 2020. The full agenda can be accessed on the BoS website.

How to Tell if a Company Really Supports BLM
To get a clearer picture on whether a company actually supports BLM, or just engages in opportunist window-dressing, you can take any and all of the following steps:

All the Things You Missed at the Board of Supervisors Meeting
We’re sitting through the San Francisco Board of Supervisors meetings and breaking them down for you so you don’t have to!

What Do Anti-BDS Laws Tell Us About America’s Future?
By Ian Firstenberg On Monday July 13, Republican Governor Mike Parson of Missouri signed an executive order prohibiting the state from doing business with companies that support the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions, or BDS, movement that calls on international lawmakers to end “support for Israel’s oppression of Palestinians.” Missouri is the

America’s Complicated Relationship with the TV Show ‘Cops’
Guest Post by Limus Woods The longest running TV reality show in history, Cops, was permanently cancelled a few weeks ago amid the many protests across the country against police brutality. A spokesperson from Paramount said that they don’t have any plans to bring it back at all, and that

Reopening vs. Lockdown is a False Dichotomy
Guest Post by Marc Norton California is seeing a surge in coronavirus infections, and most of our government misleaders, from Governor Gavin Newsom on down, are trying to sweep the true story under the rug with the same kind of blowhard fake news that we hear from the Trump administration.