Open letter From UNRWA Commissioner-General to Palestine Refugees and UNRWA Staff
Pierre Krähenbühl | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-04
Background | UNRWA is confronted with an increased demand for services resulting from a growth in the number of registered Palestine refugees, the extent of their vulnerability and their deepening poverty. UNRWA …
globalresearch.ca/open-letter-from-unrwa-commissioner-general-to-palestine-refugees-and-unrwa-staff/5652951
Colombia's Recognition of Palestine Irreversible: Duque
teleSUR/mrs-MH | telesurtv.net | 2018-09-04
President Ivan Duque said his predecessor's decision to recognize Palestine's statehood is protected by the constitution and cannot be changed.
www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Colombias-Recognition-of-Palestine-Irreversible-Duque-20180904-0008.html
Colombian President: Recognition of Palestine 'Irreversible'
INA | imemc.org | 2018-09-04
Colombia's new President, Ivan Duque Márquez, on Monday, told a local radio station that the decision to recognize Palestine, made by Juan Manuel Santos in the last few days, was "irreversible" because "the president of the republic is the person designated by the constitution to manage foreign relations." Any government …
Colombian President: Recognition of Palestine 'Irreversible'
Palestine Activists Hopeful as Bachelet Takes Office at UN
teleSUR / md-MS | telesurtv.net | 2018-09-04
The U.N. Human Rights Council, which opens a three-week session on Sept 10, is due to hold a debate on extending the mandate of its investigators on Yemen. It will also examine the next steps toward ensuring justice in Myanmar.
www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Palestine-Activists-Hopeful-as-Bachelet-Takes-Office-at-UN-20180903-0013.html
189 Homes Still Face Threat Of Demolition In Al-Walaja
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-09-04
Waleed Assaf, the head of the National Commission against the Israeli Annexation Wall and Colonies, said that the al-Walaja village, west of Bethlehem, is still facing the Israeli demolition of 189 of its homes. Speaking to the Palestinian Radio on Tuesday morning, Assaf said the demolitions are part of a …
Army Injures Several Journalists Near Ramallah
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-09-04
Israeli soldiers resorted, Tuesday, to the excessive use of force against Palestinian journalists, holding a nonviolent protest near Ofer military base and prison, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, demanding the release of their colleague Ali Dar Ali. The soldiers fired gas bombs and concussion grenades at …
Will the Trump Regime Clash with Russia and Iran Over Syria's Offensive to Liberate Idlib?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-04
Idlib province, Syria is controlled by US-supported Al-Nusra and other Al Qaeda affiliated terrorists. | So-called "rebels" or "opposition forces" are mercenary hired guns — used by Washington, NATO, Israel and regional …
globalresearch.ca/will-the-trump-regime-clash-with-russia-and-iran-over-syrias-offensive-to-liberate-idlib/5652906
Israeli Soldiers Abduct 27 Palestinians In The West Bank
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-09-04
The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, on Tuesday at dawn, 27 Palestinians, including former political prisoners, from their homes, in several parts of the occupied West Bank. The invasions targeted dozens of homes in many communities across the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem. The soldiers …
Israel Evacuates 3 Families in Jordan Valley
INA | imemc.org | 2018-09-04
Israeli authorities, on Tuesday, delivered evacuation notices to three Palestinian families from the al-Burj area, in the northern Jordan Valley of the West Bank. Mutaz Bisharat, a Palestinian official in charge of Jordan Valley's settlement file with the Palestinian Authority (PA), said that the Israeli authorities delivered the evacuation orders …
Israeli Soldiers Demolishes A Home And A Shed In Anata
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-09-04
Israeli soldiers invaded, Tuesday, Anata town northeast of occupied East Jerusalem, and demolished an inhabited Palestinian home. Media sources said dozens of soldiers, accompanied by bulldozers, surrounded Fheidat neighborhood in Anata town, and completely isolated it, before invading it. They added that the soldiers then demolished a home, owned by …
Israel's Fifth Column
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-04
Referring to Israel during an interview in August 1983, U.S. Navy Admiral and former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Thomas Moorer said: | "I've never seen a President — …
globalresearch.ca/israels-fifth-column/5652926
Army Injures Several Schoolchildren In Hebron
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-09-04
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday morning, the Schools Area in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, leading to protests before the army fired rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs and concussion grenades, causing many to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation. Medical sources in Hebron said …
Report: Israel Using Judicial System to Facilitate Settlement Project
INA | imemc.org | 2018-09-04
Madeeha Araj/ NBPRS/PNN (photo: The illegal settlement of Ofra, Reuters) The National Bureau for Defending the Land and Resisting Settlement stated that the Israeli Central Court's resolution on keeping hundreds of settlement units in the occupied West Bank, under an Israeli judicial procedure called "market regulations," is a dangerous precedent …
Report: Israel Using Judicial System to Facilitate Settlement Project
Show Jumping in Gaza: Riding Brings Hope (VIDEO)
INA | imemc.org | 2018-09-04
For more than 10 years, the headlines coming out of Gaza have been relentlessly grim: three wars, a worsening humanitarian crisis, and political division — all playing out under the restrictive Israeli siege. But, there are pockets of normal life where people, especially children, can escape the chaos.
Israel Signals It Could Attack Iranian Military Assets in Iraq
Middle East Monitor | mintpressnews.com | 2018-09-04
Lieberman said: "I am saying that we will contend with any Iranian threat, and it doesn't matter from where it comes … Israel's freedom is total. We retain this freedom of action." | The post Israel Signals It Could Attack Iranian Military Assets in Iraq appeared first on MintPress News.
mintpressnews.com/israel-attack-iran-iraq/248673/
Israel's Smear Campaign Will Not Stop Until Jeremy Corbyn Fights Back
Asa Winstanley | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-04
I am one of very few journalists on the left to have covered the Labour Party's supposed "anti-Semitism crisis" from its beginning three years ago, if not the the only one. …
globalresearch.ca/israels-smear-campaign-will-not-stop-until-jeremy-corbyn-fights-back/5652942
Trump's UNRWA Funding Cuts Part of a New Formula to Erase Most Palestinians
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2018-09-04
It is puzzling that the state of Israel claims its own legitimacy derives from the right of Jewish people to "return" to their biblical homeland after 2,000 years of exile — but demands that Palestinian refugees drop their claim to return after 70 years and forget their homeland. | The post Trump's UNRWA Funding Cuts Part of a New Formula to Erase Most Palestinians appeared first on MintPress News.
mintpressnews.com/trumps-unrwa-funding-cuts-part-of-new-formula-to-erase-most-palestinians/248736/
Anti-Israelism and Anti-Semitism: the Invidious Conflation
Sheldon Richman | counterpunch.org | 2018-09-04
I and others have warned that enactment of the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act now before Congress would threaten free speech and free inquiry on America's college campuses and beyond. As I've explained, this bill incorporates a conception — a "definition" plus potential examples — of anti-Semitism that conflates criticism of Israel's founding and continuing abuse of…
counterpunch.org/2018/09/04/anti-israelism-and-anti-semitism-the-invidious-conflation/
UK: Momentum's Jon Lansman aids witch-hunt against Corbyn, joins Blairites at Jewish Labour Movement event
wsws.org | wsws.org | 2018-09-04
Momentum leader Jon Lansman joined pro-Zionist and pro-Blairite figures to issue a blatant apologia for their campaign to blackguard the left as anti-Semitic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/09/04/lans-s04.html
The Truths That Won't be Told: How Israel Spies on US Citizens
Alain Gresh | counterpunch.org | 2018-09-03
An investigative documentary by Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera scheduled for broadcast earlier this year was expected to cause a sensation. Its four 50-minute episodes centred on the young and personable James Anthony Kleinfeld, British, Jewish, an Oxford graduate who speaks six languages including Dutch and Yiddish and is well-informed about Middle East conflicts — seemingly…
counterpunch.org/2018/09/03/the-truths-that-wont-be-told-how-israel-spies-on-us-citizens/
Selected Articles: US-Israel Coalition Is Burying the Palestinians Alive
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-03
For almost seventeen years, Global Research, together with partner independent media organizations, has sought Truth in Media with a view to eventually "disarming" the corporate media's disinformation crusade. | To reverse the …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-us-israel-coalition-is-burying-the-palestinians-alive/5652837
Trump administration ends funding for Palestinian refugees
wsws.org | wsws.org | 2018-09-03
The cutoff of funding is meant to punish Palestinians for protesting Washington's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/09/03/unrw-s03.html
Sharp rise in right-wing attacks on Palestinians and Israeli peace and rights activists
wsws.org | wsws.org | 2018-09-01
The nationality law, enshrining Israel's status as the nation-state of the Jewish people, not the state of all its citizens irrespective of religion or ethnicity, is fanning the flames of racial hatred.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/09/01/isra-s01.html
How Israel Spies on US Citizens
Alain Gresh | thenation.com | 2018-08-31
How Israel Spies on US Citizens appeared first on The Nation.
thenation.com/article/how-israel-spies-on-us-citizens/
NYC DSA, Ocasio-Cortez Stand by State Senate Candidate Julia Salazar, Despite Story Disputing Her Biography
Zaid Jilani | theintercept.com | 2018-08-30
The state Senate campaign of Julia Salazar, a prominent member of the New York City Democratic Socialists of America, was jolted last week when Tablet Magazine published a story casting doubt on several parts of the candidate's biography — from self-describing as an immigrant to her claim of Jewish lineage. | The controversy represents a new chapter for DSA, as it grows from a marginal player on the fringes of politics into an organization with serious political clout. The group grew during the 2016 primary campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders and then surged in the wake of the election of Donald Trump, as activists looked to take down not just the agenda of the new president, but also the political and economic system that created him. The June victory of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez cemented the organization's place in New York politics, leading Cynthia…
theintercept.com/2018/08/30/julia-salazar-dsa-colombia-immigrant/
Censored documentary a testament to 'incredible' power of Israel lobby, Max Blumenthal says (VIDEO)
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-30
The suppression of a documentary produced by Qatar-funded Al Jazeera about Israeli influence in Washington demonstrates the incredible power and influence wielded by the Israel lobby, journalist Max Blumenthal told RT.
rt.com/usa/437266-blumenthal-documentary-israel-lobby/
New York renamed 'Jewtropolis' on Snapchat map, Jewish New Yorkers respond with jokes
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-30
Users of Snapchat's Snap Map feature saw New York renamed 'Jewtropolis', in an apparent act of online vandalism. The apparent hack triggered cries of anti-Semitism, but also top-quality jokes from New York's Jews.
rt.com/usa/437272-snapchat-jewtropolis-hack-map/
Leaked Scenes from Censored Documentary Reveal Israel Lobbyist Noah Pollak Astroturfing an Anti-Palestinian Protest
Max Blumenthal | grayzoneproject.com | 2018-08-29
Exclusive leaked scenes from Al Jazeera's "The Lobby — USA" documentary show how Emergency Committee for Israel Executive Director Noah… | The post Leaked Scenes from Censored Documentary Reveal Israel Lobbyist Noah Pollak Astroturfing an Anti-Palestinian Protest appeared first on Grayzone Project.
grayzoneproject.com/2018/08/28/leaked-scenes-from-censored-documentary-expose-israel-lobbyist-noah-pollak-astroturfing-an-anti-palestinian-protest/
Manufacturing dissent: Leaked footage reveals US Israel lobby astroturfing student event (VIDEO)
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-29
A fake pro-Israel protest manufactured by US-based lobbying groups has been exposed in an exclusive clip from a censored Al Jazeera documentary on Israel's influence in the US.
rt.com/usa/437197-lobby-israel-astroturfing-palestinian-group/
Labour Party Must Reject Biased IHRA Definition That Stifles Advocacy For Palestinian Rights
leili | bdsmovement.net | 2018-08-27
Labour Party Must Reject Biased IHRA Definition That Stifles Advocacy For Palestinian Rights: UpdatePalestinian civil society issues a statement urging the UK Labour Party and trade unions to reject IHRA's false, anti-Palestinian definition of antisemitism which seeks to conflate antisemitism with criticism of Israel. This definition aims to silence criticism of Israeli policies that clearly violate Palestinian human rights. | Right To BoycottAugust 27, 2018 | By:
| | Palestinian civil society groups …
bdsmovement.net/news/labour-party-must-reject-biased-ihra-definition-stifles-advocacy-palestinian-rights
FIFA Continues to Ignore Israel's Very Real Violence
pacbi | bdsmovement.net | 2018-08-24
FIFA Continues to Ignore Israel's Very Real Violence: UpdateThe world governing body of football ignores Israel's attacks on Palestinian athletes while it sanctions the President of the Palestinian Football Association. | Cul…
bdsmovement.net/news/fifa-continues-ignore-israels-very-real-violence
More Than Half of the Invited Speakers Withdraw From Scientific Workshop at Israeli Settlement University
pacbi | bdsmovement.net | 2018-08-20
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) …
bdsmovement.net/news/more-half-invited-speakers-withdraw-scientific-workshop-israeli-settlement-university
Western Authors Take Stand in Israel/Palestine Conflict by Refusing to Be Published in Israel
pacbi | bdsmovement.net | 2018-08-10
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…
bdsmovement.net/news/western-authors-take-stand-israel-palestine-conflict-refusing-be-published-israel
Oppression Education: Israeli Academic Institutions Throw Their Lot With the Israeli Security Elite
pacbi | bdsmovement.net | 2018-08-10
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 …
bdsmovement.net/news/oppression-education-israeli-academic-institutions-throw-their-lot-israeli-security-elite
Top 70 Moments of Solidarity & BDS for Palestine in 2018
leili | bdsmovement.net | 2018-08-08
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…
bdsmovement.net/news/top-70-moments-solidarity-bds-palestine-2018
Team Justice Scores. Adidas No Longer Sponsoring Israel Football Association
pacbi | bdsmovement.net | 2018-07-31
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) …
bdsmovement.net/news/team-justice-scores-adidas-no-longer-sponsoring-israel-football-association
Irish MEP calls for 2019 Eurovision Boycott in light of Israel's 'Nation State' vote
pacbi | bdsmovement.net | 2018-07-30
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…
bdsmovement.net/news/irish-mep-calls-2019-eurovision-boycott-light-israels-nation-state-vote