2018-08-23: News Headlines

IMEMC News (2018-08-23). Erekat: "Israel's Illegal Expansion Of Colonies, Direct Outcome of American Greed" imemc.org Dr. Saeb Erekat, a member of the Executive Committee of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) strongly denounced Israel's approval of hundreds of new units in its illegal colonies in the occupied West Bank, and said the move is an outcome of the American greed, and the U.S.

INA (2018-08-23). UNRWA Confronts Deficit of $270 Million. imemc.org The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) currently faces a budget deficit of $270 million, which could cause serious consequences for the humanitarian situation in the region. During a UN security council meeting, UN Deputy Secretary General for Political Affairs Rosemary Anne DeCarlo said, "We always […]…

IMEMC News (2018-08-23). Israeli Soldiers Abduct A Palestinian In Hebron. imemc.org Israeli soldiers abducted, Thursday, a Palestinian man from Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported that the soldiers invaded Wadi as-Somman area, in Hebron, and abducted Husan Abu Sneina, 27, after storming his home and violently searching it. The […]…

Ramzy Baroud (2018-08-23). Gaza Without Cancer Medicine as Haley Blames Arabs for Washington's Sins. counterpunch.org On Sunday August 12, news from Gaza was distressing: The Ministry of Health announced that it would no longer be able to treat cancer patients in the Israel-besieged Strip. "Colon and lung cancer, as well as lymphoma patients cannot be provided with the necessary therapy now," said Dr. Mohammed Abu Silmiya, director of Abdulaziz Al-Rantisi Hospital for Children. More

Ahmad Kabariti (2018-08-23). Israeli Restrictions Strangle Gaza's Cancer Patients. globalresearch.ca Featured image: Joory Basheer, 3, and her father at the Palestinian Society for Cancer Care. | For the fourth time in two months, Nevin Abu El-Jidian failed to cross the Erez checkpoint, …

IMEMC News (2018-08-23). Soldiers Abduct A Palestinian In Nablus. imemc.org Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday at dawn, a young Palestinian man in the al-Mughayyir village, northeast of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. The soldiers also attempted to abduct a child, but he was not at home during the invasion. Marzouq Abu Na'im, a member of the Local Council […]…

Consortiumnews.com (2018-08-23). Being Pro-Palestinian Doesn't Make Jeremy Corbyn an Anti-Semite. consortiumnews.com The Israelis' war on the leader of the Labour Party is really a war on free speech that's meant to silence critics of Israel in the UK and elsewhere, argues As'ad AbuKhalil. By As'ad AbuKhalil Special to Consortium News In… Read more →

IMEMC News (2018-08-23). Israeli Colonialist Settlers Attack Homes And Cars Near Nablus. imemc.org A group of fanatic illegal Israeli colonialist settlers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, the village of Orif, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and attacked homes and cars, causing property damage. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors Israel's illegal colonialist activities, said the Israeli assailants […]…

IMEMC News (2018-08-23). Israeli Colonialist Settlers Injure Two Palestinians Near Nablus. imemc.org Medical sources have reported that two Palestinians were injured, on Thursday at dawn, after being attacked by illegal Israeli colonialist settlers near Nablus, in northern West Bank. The sources said the two Palestinians, identified as Suleiman Edrees Qanni, 20, and Yahia Na'im Qanni, 23, were moved to Rafidia hospital, suffering […]…

Mehdi Hasan (2018-08-23). Benjamin Netanyahu Is Fine With Anti-Semites — as Long as They Support Israel's Occupation. theintercept.com Benjamin Netanyahu often accuses his political opponents of anti-Semitism, but has no qualms surrounding himself with actual card-carrying anti-Semites.

INA (2018-08-23). Barghouti: "SodaStream is Still Subject to Boycott" imemc.org Earlier this week, PepsiCo announced that it signed an agreement to buy SodaStream, a producer of home-carbonation machines. SodaStream has faced global boycotts because of its complicity in Israel's grave violations of Palestinian human rights. Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the BDS movement for Palestinian rights, said:…

wsws.org (2018-08-23). Facebook escalates censorship of left-wing, anti-war organizations. wsws.org On Tuesday, Facebook announced the removal of hundreds of user accounts and pages, many of them opposing the crimes of the American, Saudi and Israeli governments in the Middle East.

Steve Gilmartin (2018-08-23). KPFA Management Abandoning The Station's Principles. indybay.org The KPFA of 2018, however, seems all-too aligned with national security state messaging, with its constant parroting of corporate media's evidence-free "Russia meddled" narrative and, with occasional exceptions, no recognition of the grotesque but almost completely unexamined and outsized influence of the state of Israel over US politics. | The unhealthy hierarchical structure of the station—well protected and benefited paid staff versus a majority of unprotected unpaid staff—also falls into the pattern of haves and have-nots in our society at large, and the negative consequence of such a structure is…

teleSUR (2018-08-22). Palestinian Prisoners Express Solidarity With U.S. National Prison Strike. mintpressnews.com Several members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, all of whom have been jailed by Israel for their participation in the struggle for national independence, have released a statement in solidarity with the national U.S. prisoners strike, which began on Tuesday. | "We write today as imprisoned Palestinians of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, held in Israeli jails for our participation in struggle for the liberation of our land and people from colonialism and occupation," the letter opened. | "Today, we extend our solidarity to the prisoners in the jails of the United States participating in the national prison strike beginning on August 21, fighting exploitation, racism and capitalism from within the heart of imperialist prisons…Black communities, Latino communities, Arab communities are under attack, facing mass incarceration and a system that seeks to imprison and…

Robert Fisk (2018-08-22). Uri Avnery: One of My Few Heroes in the Middle East. counterpunch.org I must admit that Uri Avnery was one of my Middle East heroes — there aren't many — and his story is worthy of a movie, though there will be no Spielbergs to direct it: writer, journalist, leftist, veteran of the Israeli army in the country's War of Independence — and, as he never forgot, the same war which drove 750,000 Palestinians from their home and lands. More

INA (2018-08-22). 382 New Homes in Illegal West Bank Settlements Approved. imemc.org Israeli occupation authorities have agreed to build hundreds of units in West Bank settlements, as well as to legitimize two new settlement outposts, Israeli media reported on Wednesday. Israeli occupation authorities approved construction of 382 new housing units in the West Bank settlements, some in relatively isolated locations. The Israeli newspaper […]…

RT (2018-08-22). 'Something very good' for Palestinians: Israel friend Trump now wants fair play in Middle East. rt.com After sparking fury by moving the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, President Donald Trump has now dangled a carrot in front of Palestinians by promising that they "will get something very good" in future negotiations.

RT (2018-08-22). F-35 lands nose-down after midflight emergency over Florida (PHOTO). rt.com An F-35A Lightning II assigned to the test squadron of the US Air Force has suffered an in-flight emergency and was forced to land at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, where its front nose gear collapsed.

Jonathan Cook (2018-08-21). In Detaining Peter Beinart, Israel Has Declared it No Longer Represents Millions of Jews Overseas. counterpunch.org Nazareth There are few places in Israel where its apartheid character is more conspicuous than the imposing international airport just outside Tel Aviv, named after the country's founding father, David Ben Gurion. Most planes landing in Israel have to circle over the West Bank before making their descent. Below, more than two million Palestinians living More

Bethany Zaiman (2018-08-20). I'm One of the Young People Who Walked Off Birthright Israel This Summer. thenation.com I'm One of the Young People Who Walked Off Birthright Israel This Summer appeared first on The Nation.

pacbi (2018-08-20). More Than Half of the Invited Speakers Withdraw From Scientific Workshop at Israeli Settlement University. bdsmovement.net More Than Half of the Invited Speakers Withdraw From Scientific Workshop at Israeli Settlement University: UpdateSix of the eleven invited speakers have confirmed their withdrawal from a physics workshop at Ariel University, which is built on occupied Palestinian land in an illegal Israeli settlement. Palestinian academics urge remaining speakers to withdraw from the workshop. | Academic BoycottAugust 20, 2018 | By: | | Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)

Democracy Now! (2018-08-20). Headlines for August 20, 2018. democracynow.org CNN: Bomb That Killed 40 Yemeni School Children Was Made by U.S. | , California: ICE Arrests Man Driving His Wife to the Hospital to Give Birth, ICE Agents Forcibly Reseparate Fathers from Sons at Karnes Detention Center | , Ex-CIA Director John Brennan May Sue Trump over Stripped Security Clearances | , NYT: White House Counsel Donald McGahn Cooperating with Mueller Probe | , Israeli Troops Kill 2 Palestinians and Injure Hundreds More During Friday's Protests, Longtime Israeli Peace Activist Uri Avnery Dies at 94 | , Afghan President Offers Conditional Ceasefire with Taliban | , U.N.: Brazil Can't Bar Lula from…

Hezvo Mpunga (2018-08-18). New Information Reveals How Israel Covered-Up the Killing of Four Boys in Gaza. therealnews.com Shir Hever discusses the Intercept report, revealing that the Israeli military used an armed drone to kill four children playing football and injure four others. The Israeli investigation of the killing is exposed as a sham

Democracy Now! (2018-08-13). Headlines for August 13, 2018. democracynow.org Korean Leaders to Meet Next Month in Pyongyang, On Anniversary of Charlottesville, White Supremacist Rally in D.C. Fizzles, Baltimore Police Officer Resigns After Videotaped Repeatedly Punching Man, Trump to Sign $716 Billion Military Spending Bill with Over $21 Billion for Nuclear Weapons, Afghanistan: Over 200 Killed After Taliban Attacks Critical City of Ghazni, Israeli Forces Shot Dead Gazan Medic Armed with "Bandages & Surgical Masks", U.N.: China Is Detaining Over 1 Million Uyghurs in Massive Internment Camp, Maduro Welcomes FBI to Come to Venezuela to Help Probe Assassination Plot, White House Looks to Sto…

pacbi (2018-08-10). Western Authors Take Stand in Israel/Palestine Conflict by Refusing to Be Published in Israel. bdsmovement.net Western Authors Take Stand in Israel/Palestine Conflict by Refusing to Be Published in Israel: In the NewsRenowned authors have refused to have their works distributed by Israeli…

pacbi (2018-08-10). Oppression Education: Israeli Academic Institutions Throw Their Lot With the Israeli Security Elite. bdsmovement.net Oppression Education: Israeli Academic Institutions Throw Their Lot With the Israeli Security Elite: AnalysisThree recent events in Israel's largest universities demonstrate academic and security institutions are actually increasing their cooperation. | Academic BoycottJuly 23, 2018 | By: | | Shir Hever

leili (2018-08-08). Top 70 Moments of Solidarity & BDS for Palestine in 2018. bdsmovement.net Top 70 Moments of Solidarity & BDS for Palestine in 2018: UpdateHere's a short-list of moments in 2018 demonstrating growing recognition of Israel's crimes against the Palestinian people and inspiring efforts around the world to hold Israel accountable for its gross violations of human rights. Support for Palestinian rights has grown in parliaments, city c…

pacbi (2018-08-03). Palestinians Call for Boycott of Meteor Music Festival in Israel. bdsmovement.net Palestinians Call for Boycott of Meteor Music Festival in Israel: UpdatePalestinians urge participating artists to withdraw from the festival as a meaningful contribution to our struggle for freedom, justice and equality. | Cultural BoycottAugust 3, 2018 | By: | pacbi (2018-07-31). Team Justice Scores. Adidas No Longer Sponsoring Israel Football Association. bdsmovement.net Team Justice Scores. Adidas No Longer Sponsoring Israel Football Association: UpdateFollowing a global campaign, Adidas is no longer sponsoring football teams in illegal Israeli settlements. Palestinians call on new sponsor Puma to end complicity with Israel's violations of international law. | Cultural Boycott Red Card IsraelJuly 31, 2018 | By: | | Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)

pacbi (2018-07-30). Irish MEP calls for 2019 Eurovision Boycott in light of Israel's 'Nation State' vote. bdsmovement.net Irish MEP calls for 2019 Eurovision Boycott in light of Israel's 'Nation State' vote: In the NewsMember of European Parliament calls on Ireland's public br…

pacbi (2018-07-30). Over 18,000 people sign petition calling on Iceland to boycott Israel Eurovision. bdsmovement.net Over 18,000 people sign petition calling on Iceland to boycott Israel Eurovision: In the NewsThe petition cites Israel's human rights violations against Palestinian people and calls on national broadcaster RUV to withdraw Iceland from the contest. | Cultural Boyc…

pacbi (2018-07-30). Dublin Lord Mayor calls for boycott of next year's Eurovision in Israel. bdsmovement.net Dublin Lord Mayor calls for boycott of next year's Eurovision in Israel: In the NewsThe Lord Mayor of Dublin has called for a boycott of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest following Israels's win in Lisbon on Saturday night.