Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein is a MintPress analyst who has written the Tikun Olam blog since 2003, specializing in Israeli politics and US foreign affairs. Silverstein works to expose the excesses of the Israeli national security state. He breaks major news stories that are often under judicial gag or military censorship, and which may not be reported in Israel. He has been published in Haaretz, Al Jazeera English, the Forward, Christian Science Monitor, Middle East Eye, and the Seattle Times. He speaks Hebrew fluently and incorporates the Hebrew-language press into his blog and other publications. He earned a BA from Columbia University, a BHL from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and MA in Comparative Literature from UCLA. He did two years of undergraduate and graduate study at the Hebrew University. He lives in Seattle. Follow Richard on Twitter: @Richards1052

Special Analysis: She Said What? Holocaust Scholar Denies Middle East Refugee Crisis

Endorsing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s refusal to accept Syrians fleeing the chaos of a civil war raging at home, Deborah Lipstadt argues that the current refugee crisis isn’t at all comparable to the plight of European Jews before and during the Holocaust.

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Migrants walk from the Macedonian border into Serbia, near the village of Miratovac, Serbia, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015. Several Eastern European countries are cooperating on controlling the flow of migrants at the external borders of the European Union, Zsolt Nemeth, head of the Hungarian parliament's foreign relations committee said Tuesday could set an example for the rest of the 28-nation bloc. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

SEATTLE --- Deborah Lipstadt is one of the world’s best-known Holocaust scholars. In her work, she has railed against the moral indifference and outright hostility of the U.S. government toward Jewish European refugees both before and during the Holocaust. She also took on one of the foremost Holocaust deniers, David Irving, in a libel lawsuit

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Eyewitness To Hebron IDF Murder of Hadil Al-Hashloumon: ‘I Never Saw Any Knife’

Israeli Defense Forces soldiers repeatedly shot an 18-year-old Palestinian college student last month, claiming she’d pulled a knife on a soldier while trying to cross a checkpoint on her way to class. But one eyewitness argues otherwise.

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Picture 10 – 7:46 a.m.

SEATTLE --- At 7:45 a.m. on Sept. 22, 18-year-old Hebron native Hadeel al-Hashlamoun was on her way to class at a local university. A metal detector rang out when she attempted to pass through Checkpoint 56. She complied when she was approached by Israeli Defense Forces soldiers from the Nahal Brigade and asked to open her bag. Then the soldiers

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Israel’s ‘Disappeared’: Those Who Betray The State Fall Into Maw Of Oblivion

“Prisoner X2,” a Mossad agent who was caught spying for Iran, was arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned in secret. He’s not the first, and certainly not the last, double agent to face such a fate.

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A special MintPress Analysis: SEATTLE --- Israeli intelligence has a vaunted reputation for being the most sophisticated, aggressive, and sometimes most brutal in the world. It protects the interests of the nation with great vigilance. The exploits of it’s intelligence agency, the Mossad in particular, have been the subject of countless Hollywood

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Here’s What A Jewish Journalist Has To Say About Iran After Meeting With Ayotallahs

The Jewish Forward’s Larry Cohler-Esses recently traveled to Iran, where he learned that, despite the cries of the Israel lobby and Benjamin Netanyahu, Iranians are a lot like Israelis — they’ve got hopes and fears and they’re also critical of their government.

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Image: Courtesy of Larry Cohler-Esses Larry Cohler Esses with Aghamir Miri and his wife, holding replicas of the bears they want to protect.

SEATTLE --- Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s recently elected president, traveled to the United Nations two years ago and made an impressive entrance on the international stage. The Jewish Forward’s assistant managing editor, Larry Cohler-Esses, took advantage of this amazing opportunity and called the Iranian U.N. mission to request an interview with Iran’s

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Torpedoing The Deal: US Media Promotes Israel Lobby’s Campaign Against Iran Deal

The Israel lobby is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a campaign aimed at shutting down the P5+1 deal with Iran. Who in the media is helping to keep this campaign above the fold?

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A screenshot from a Fox News alert airing the now debunked information that Iran will be allowed to use it's own inspectors as part of the nuclear deal.

MintPress Analysis --- As Congress draws ever closer to voting on the Iran nuclear deal negotiated by the P5+1 powers, pressure is building on both sides of the debate. The Israel lobby is in the midst of spending as much as $50 million on a campaign to defeat the deal, while a far smaller number of NGOs plan to spend considerably less to promote

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Así es como Israel niega a los palestinos-estadounidenses el derecho a visitar su patria

“Tomaron algo que se suponía que serían unas vacaciones de mis largas horas de trabajo, una reconexión con mi tierra natal y mis viejos amigos, y lo convirtieron en una pesadilla infernal”, dice un palestino-estadounidense, describiendo su deportación forzosa desde el aeropuerto Ben Gurion de Israel. .

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Stranded passengers wait in Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo)

Boycott, apartheid and ethnic cleansing are cringe-inducing terms for many Israelis. They’re terms that would have been labeled “extremist” when uttered by critics just two decades ago, but with the increasingly deteriorating situation in Israel-Palestine, they’ve become more apt by the day. Ethnic cleansing, in particular, began as a phenomenon

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It’s Time To Hold Israel, Israelis And American Zionists Financially Responsible For Terrorism

A special MintPress ANALYSIS

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SEATTLE --- How do you hold a nation legally responsible for acts of terrorism perpetrated either by its citizens or the state itself? One solution is the International Criminal Court, which exists for such matters. However, the ICC largely avoids taking on cases outside of Africa. Critics accuse the ICC of operating with a political agenda in

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