Updated: "Israeli Soldiers Abduct Eighteen Palestinians in the West Bank"
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-10-08
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, eighteen Palestinians, including one woman, from their homes in several parts of the occupied West Bank. The soldiers invaded and searched many homes across the West Bank, and violently searched them before abducting the twelve Palestinians, including the Fairouz Na'alwa, the sist…
Updated: "Israeli Soldiers Abduct Eighteen Palestinians in the West Bank"
East Jerusalem Palestinian Forced to Demolish Own Home
INA | imemc.org | 2018-10-08
A Palestinian was forced to demolish his own home, on Monday, in the Beit Hanina neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem, after receiving demolition threats from the Jerusalem municipality. Ayman Naim Kawasbeh told Ma'an News Agency that he removed furniture and other belongings, and proceeded to demolish the home in which …
Netanyahu: Army Prepping for Possible Military Assault on Gaza
INA | imemc.org | 2018-10-08
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly informed his cabinet that the army is preparing for a possible military campaign against the blockaded Gaza Strip, in the case that the situation was not improved, according to Israeli media. "If the reality of civil distress in Gaza is diminished, that is …
Netanyahu: Army Prepping for Possible Military Assault on Gaza
Illegal Colonialist Settlers Invade Village In Bethlehem, Photograph Homes And Mosque
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-10-08
A group of illegal Israeli colonialist settlers invaded, Monday, the village of Shoshahla in the al-Khader town, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and photographed many homes, in addition to the local mosque. Ahmad Salah, the media coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall and Colonies …
Illegal Colonialist Settlers Invade Village In Bethlehem, Photograph Homes And Mosque
The Land Belonged to Them: Revisiting a Palestinian Family, 25 Years After Their Land was Taken
Robert Fisk | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-08
counterpunch.org/2018/10/08/the-land-belonged-to-them-revisiting-a-palestinian-family-25-years-after-their-land-was-taken/
'I'm Child of Israeli Occupation': Ahed Tamimi Pens Emotional Letter in Vogue
teleSUR | mintpressnews.com | 2018-10-08
Ahed Tamimi became "the symbol of occupation" because of her arrest but there are 300 other children in the Israeli prisons whose stories are unknown to the world. | The post 'I'm Child of Israeli Occupation': Ahed Tamimi Pens Emotional Letter in Vogue appeared first on MintPress News.
mintpressnews.com/im-child-of-israeli-occupation-ahed-tamimi-pens-emotional-letter-for-vogue/250457/
Criticism of Israeli Policy Is Not Anti-Semitic
James J. Zogby | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-08
I was provoked to write this discussion of what is and what isn't anti-Semitism by an article in Ha'aretz on the "controversy" created by the awarding of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to George P. Smith. According to the … | The post Criticism of Israeli Policy Is Not Anti-Semitic appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/criticism-of-israeli-policy-is-not-anti-semitic/5656440
Army Fires A Missile Into Southern Gaza
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-10-08
An Israeli military drone fired, on Sunday evening, a missile at Palestinian protesters near the Great Return Camp, east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Palestinian sources said the Palestinians survived the attack unharmed. On its part, the Israeli army said its drone fires a missile …
Fun at the United Nations and in Congress: Israel Wins the Comedy Competition
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-08
Most people are unaware of the fact that the annual opening of the United Nations General Assembly, which takes place in September, is actually a major audition opportunity for aspiring stand-up comedians. This year, American President Donald Trump was … | The post Fun at the United Nations and in Congress: Israel Wins the Comedy Competition appeared first on Globa…
globalresearch.ca/fun-at-the-united-nations-and-in-congress-israel-wins-the-comedy-competition/5656447
Settlers Plan to Seize Palestinian Land to Open Road for Themselves
INA | imemc.org | 2018-10-08
Jewish settlers from the illegal Nave Daniel settlement, south of Bethlehem, told Palestinian residents of the village of Shoshahleh in the Bethlehem-area town of al-Khader that they intend to open a road that will connect their settlement to the main Jerusalem-Hebron road, a local official said on Monday. Ahmad Salah, …
imemc.org/article/settlers-plan-to-seize-palestinian-land-to-open-road-for-themselves/
Palestinians Mark 28th Anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Massacre
INA | imemc.org | 2018-10-08
Today marks the 28th anniversary of the massacre of the first Al Aqsa Mosque, which was carried out by Israeli occupation forces. On Monday, October 8, 1990, before noon prayers, the settlers of the so-called "Temple Mount and Eretz Yisrael Faithful Movement" tried to lay the foundation stone for the alleged …
Soldiers Injure Several Palestinians, Invade Lands, In Gaza
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-10-08
Israeli soldiers shot, overnight, one Palestinian with live fire, and caused many others to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation, in addition to invading farmlands, in several parts of the Gaza Strip. Medical sources said the soldiers shot a young man with live fire, east of the al-Boreij refugee camp, …
Israeli Prosecutor Reveals: Requests for Jail without Bail until End of Trial for Facebook Incitement Offenses — For Arab Suspects Only
INA | imemc.org | 2018-10-08
The Israeli courts are keeping Arab political leader Raja Eghbaria in detention at least until 15 October; the prosecutor doesn't deny existence of multiple errors in its translation of Eghbaria's Arabic-language Facebook posts, but says 'it doesn't matter.' An Israeli prosecutor revealed in court yesterday, 7 October 201…
BDS and Workers' Unity are Crucial in Maintaining International Solidarity for Palestine
Ramona Wadi | mintpressnews.com | 2018-10-08
"In recent years, more and more labor unions and individual AFL-CIO chapters are explicitly supporting Palestinian rights while criticizing continued apartheid Israeli human-rights abuses." | The post BDS and Workers' Unity are Crucial in Maintaining International Solidarity for Palestine appeared first on MintPress News.
mintpressnews.com/bds-and-workers-unity-crucial-in-maintaining-solidarity-for-palestine/250438/
Israeli mass murder of Gazans targets children
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-10-08
The ongoing slaughter of men, women and children by the Israel Defense Forces has been treated as a non-event by the major imperialist powers and the corporate media.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/08/isra-o08.html
Israel to Use F-35 Stealth Warplanes Against Syria
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-07
Installation of Russian S-300 air defense systems compromises Israel's ability to continue waging naked aggression against Syrian targets. | Israeli officials claim the IDF is protecting the country's security — despite no threat from Syria, Iran or any other countries. | It's … | The post Israel to Use F-35 Stealth Warplanes Against Syria appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/israel-to-use-f-35-stealth-warplanes-against-syria/5656343
Israel's Gabriella Blum Helped Write the Laws of Drone Warfare. Nearly Two Decades Later, She Has Regrets
Amos Barshad | theintercept.com | 2018-10-07
Israeli lawyers counseled that targeted killings should always be the exception, never the rule. But critical checks on the practice have evaporated. | The post Israel's Gabriella Blum Helped Write the Laws of Drone Warfare. Nearly Two Decades Later, She Has Regrets. appeared first on The Intercept.
theintercept.com/2018/10/07/israel-palestine-us-drone-strikes/
Vandal defaces Jewish center in Virginia with 19 swastikas (VIDEO)
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-07
The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia has been spray-painted with at least 19 swastikas. Although the suspect was captured on CCTV, the vandal still remains at large.
rt.com/usa/440540-swastika-jewish-center-virginia/
PLO Learned Bitter Oslo Lesson: Negotiation With US and Israel Is for Suckers
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2018-10-06
The actual reality in Palestine today is a direct result of the Oslo Accords and is precisely what Israel had always wanted: advancing deeper and more entrenched Israeli control over the lives, land and resources in Palestine while maintaining the appearance of a peace process, the failure of which is blamed on the Palestinians. | The post PLO Learned Bitter Oslo Lesson: Negotiation With US and Israel Is for Suckers appeared first on
mintpressnews.com/plo-learned-bitter-oslo-lesson-negotiation-us-israel-suckers/250416/
Nobel Prize Winner Supports BDS Movement For Palestinian Rights, Ending Military Aid to Israel
leili | bdsmovement.net | 2018-10-05
Nobel Prize Winner Supports BDS Movement For Palestinian Rights, Ending Military Aid to Israel: UpdateA Nobel Prize has been awarded to George P. Smith, a renowned scientist and longtime advocate for Palestinian rights who suppor…
bdsmovement.net/news/nobel-prize-winner-supports-bds-movement-palestinian-rights-ending-military-aid-israel
Everything Is A Hoax, by Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts | unz.com | 2018-10-05
An Israeli expert on terrorism and covert assassination procedures explains that the alleged Russian GRU attack on the Skripals with a supposedly deadly nerve agent is a completely obvious hoax to anyone who knows anything at all. russia-insider.com/en/skripals-are-mi6-hoax-not-worthy-ladies-detective-novels-israeli-expert-demolishes-uk-case/ri24912 The official story, says the expert, is "stupidity on stupidity." I agree with him. The question is: …
www.unz.com/proberts/everything-is-a-hoax/
Roaming Charges: Give Me Condos or Give Me Death!
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-05
In the wake of the Kavanaugh hearings, FoxNews pollster Frank Luntz whined that: "Any political decision made now is accompanied by one side screaming bloody murder. It's terrible for civilized discourse. It's terrible for our democracy." Of course, these are largely ritualized fights, as predictable and scripted as Wrestlemania. When bloody murder is actually taking place (like in Yemen or Gaza) nobody can be heard screaming bloody murder–at least on television.
counterpunch.org/2018/10/05/roaming-charges-5/
The Two-State Solution is Neither
Stanley L. Cohen | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-05
Is the Two-State Solution now the zombie of Western political-thought–an idea long dead, yet still walking the landscape, with bits of it rotting and falling off, while reason and history shoot holes in it, but it keeps staggering on, infecting the political discourse? Who can sincerely believe in it anymore? Least of all, Israel and…
counterpunch.org/2018/10/05/the-two-state-solution-is-neither/
Netanyahu: More Lying at the United Nations
Robert Fantina | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-05
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on September 27, took his dog-and-pony show to the United Nations General Assembly, and advised the world that he knew of a secret site of Iran's (non-existent) nuclear weapons facility. He urged the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to immediately rush to that site, discover the horrible weapons, and thus…
counterpunch.org/2018/10/05/netanyahu-more-lying-at-the-united-nations/
The Trouble With 'Preventing Palestine'
Eric Ortiz | consortiumnews.com | 2018-10-05
Seth Anziska's new book on the Arab-Israeli "peace process" is a useful primer on the conflict, but it does not fully examine the paradox of the Carter administration's solution that we are still living with, argues As'ad AbuKhalil. By As`ad… Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2018/10/05/the-trouble-with-preventing-palestine/
Palestinians Call on EU to Halt Normalization Programs and End Complicity With Israel's Violations of Palestinian Rights and International Law
pacbi | bdsmovement.net | 2018-10-03
Palestinians Call on EU to Halt Normalization Programs and End Complicity With Israel's Violations of Palestinian Ri…
bdsmovement.net/news/palestinians-call-eu-halt-normalization-programs-and-end-complicity-israels-violations
US says Palestine 'not a state,' withdraws from Vienna Convention's 'optional protocol'
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-03
The US is withdrawing from the "optional protocol" in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, John Bolton has confirmed. He said it follows a case brought by Palestine, challenging the US embassy's move to Jerusalem.
rt.com/usa/440247-us-palestine-vienna-convention-protocol/
German Far-Right Uses 'Judeo-Christian' Values to Polish its Racism
Shared by Gregory Wilpert | therealnews.com | 2018-10-02
Shir Hever discusses the new Jewish section in the "Alternative to Germany" far-right party in Germany, and the way that pro-Israeli politics are used to mask Islamophobia, racism against Jews and the xenophobia | The post German Far-Right Uses 'Judeo-Christian' Values to Polish its Racism appeared first on The Real News Network.
therealnews.com/stories/german-far-right-uses-judeo-christian-values-to-polish-its-racism
Laws Targeting Israel Boycotts Fail Again in Court
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-09-28
For the second time this year, a federal judge has ruled that anti-boycott laws likely violate the First Amendment. | A new wave of state laws that try to limit Americans' constitutional right to engage in political boycotts is now 0 for 2 in federal court. | On Thursday night, a federal court blocked Arizona from enforcing a law requiring state contractors to certify that they are not participating in boycotts of Israel. The court agreed with the ACLU that the law likely violates contractors' free speech rights under the First Amendment. | "A restriction of one's ability to participate in collective calls to opp…
aclu.org/blog/free-speech/rights-protesters/laws-targeting-israel-boycotts-fail-again-court
Headlines for September 26, 2018
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-09-26
Trump's Boasts Draw Laughter at United Nations General Assembly, Iran Rejects New Talks with U.S. Amid Trump Administration Threats, Senate Republicans Tap Female Prosecutor to Question Christine Blasey Ford, Amid New Allegations, Senate Won't Delay Kavanaugh Hearings, "Sexually Violent Predator" Bill Cosby Sentenced to 3 to 10 Years, Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Man at Protest, 174th Since March 30, World Bank Warns Gaza Economy Is "Collapsing" Under Israeli Blockade, Argentina: General Strike Targets IMF Loans, Austerity Measures, Federal Judge Restores Endangered Status to Grizzly Bears, Chicago Jurors Show…
www.democracynow.org/2018/9/26/headlines
Palestinian Environmental and Professional Organizations Urge MedPine to Relocate KKL-JNF Sponsored Forestry Conference from Israel
pacbi | bdsmovement.net | 2018-09-21
Palestinian Environmental and Professional Organizations Urge MedPine to Relocate KKL-JNF Sponsored Forestry Conference from Israel: Open LetterPalestinian environment…
bdsmovement.net/news/palestinian-environmental-and-professional-organizations-urge-medpine-relocate-kkl-jnf
Palestinians Thank Prof. Cheney-Lippold for Refusing to Be Complicit in Academically Whitewashing Israeli Apartheid
pacbi | bdsmovement.net | 2018-09-21
Palestinians Thank Prof. Cheney-Lippold for Refusing to Be Complicit in Academically Whitewashing Israeli Apartheid: UpdatePalestinians welcome Prof. Cheney-Lippold's stand for Palestinian rights and urge academics to end all collabo…
bdsmovement.net/news/palestinians-thank-prof-cheney-lippold-refusing-be-complicit-academically-whitewashing-israeli
More than 200 Palestinian Sports Clubs Urge Puma to End Sponsorship of Israeli Teams in Illegal Settlements
pacbi | bdsmovement.net | 2018-09-20
More than 200 Palestinian Sports Clubs Urge Puma to End Sponsorship of Israeli Teams in Illegal Settlements: Open LetterPalestinian football clubs and sports associatio…
bdsmovement.net/news/more-200-palestinian-sports-clubs-urge-puma-end-sponsorship-israeli-teams-illegal-settlements
Apartheid is Always Bitter! A Palestinian Appeal to Chefs to Withdraw from Round Tables in Tel Aviv
pacbi | bdsmovement.net | 2018-09-19
Apartheid is Always Bitter! A Palestinian Appeal to Chefs to Withdraw from Round Tables in Tel Aviv: UpdatePalestinian workers', women's and farmers' associations urge international chefs to cancel their participati…
bdsmovement.net/news/apartheid-always-bitter-palestinian-appeal-chefs-withdraw-round-tables-tel-aviv
Oslo Turns 25, Proves BDS Critical For A Free and Just Future
leili | bdsmovement.net | 2018-09-13
Oslo Turns 25, Proves BDS Critical For A Free and Just Future: UpdateAs the Oslo Accords turn 25, we see that the "peace process" has served as cover for Israel to steal more Palestinian land, expel more Palestinians from their homes and commit war crimes against Palestinians without accountability. It's more important tha…
bdsmovement.net/news/oslo-turns-25-proves-bds-critical-free-and-just-future
French Online Payment Service Provider HelloAsso Refuses to Close Accounts Belonging to BDS Activists
leili | bdsmovement.net | 2018-09-12
French Online Payment Service Provider HelloAsso Refuses to Close Accounts Belonging to BDS Activists: UpdateCompany says that BDS is protected by freedom of expression and asserts that people have the right to criticize Israeli policies |
bdsmovement.net/news/french-online-payment-service-provider-helloasso-refuses-close-accounts-belonging-bds-activists
#KhanAlAhmar: BDS is Our Most Powerful Tool For Accountability and Justice
leili | bdsmovement.net | 2018-09-10
bdsmovement.net/news/khanalahmar-bds-our-most-powerful-tool-accountability-and-justice