Qatari-funded Fuel Allowed into Gaza
INA | imemc.org | 2018-10-10
The first truckload of Qatari-funded fuel, of three shipments (truckloads), entered the besieged Gaza Strip on Tuesday afternoon, via the Kerem Shalom border crossing. Three shipments of Qatari-funded fuel were allowed entry to the Gaza Strip by Israeli authorities for Gaza's only power plant. Ma'an sources said that a total …
Israeli Soldiers, Police Harass Olive Pickers in As-Sawiya Village
INA | imemc.org | 2018-10-10
10/07/18 | International Solidarity Movement | As-Sawiya Village A group of Israeli soldiers, one Israeli policeman, and one Israeli settler harassed a group of Palestinian and international olive pickers in As-Sawiya village yesterday, demanding identification and threatening to expel the harvesters from the area. Soon after the group began work, …
Israeli Soldiers, Police Harass Olive Pickers in As-Sawiya Village
Erdan: US Student Will Be Released If She Condemns BDS
INA | imemc.org | 2018-10-10
Israeli minister of Strategic Affairs Gilad Erdan, on Tuesday, said he would reconsider his official stance on denying entry to an American student over alleged links to the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement if she publicly condemned a boycott of Israel. Last week, Lara Alqasem was barred from entering the country …
Samidoun Joins Ahed Tamimi in Spain to Urge Action to Free Palestine (VIDEO)
INA | imemc.org | 2018-10-10
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network joined the welcome for Ahed Tamimi and call for a free Palestine in Madrid on 29 September. Samidoun international coordinator, Charlotte Kates, spoke alongside former Palestinian child prisoner and anti-colonial land defense activist Ahed Tamimi at the annual 2018 Fiesta, organized by the Communist Party of Spain. The event [..
Samidoun Joins Ahed Tamimi in Spain to Urge Action to Free Palestine (VIDEO)
Army Injures Five Palestinians In Gaza
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-10-10
Israeli soldiers shot, Tuesday, five Palestinians with live fire, and caused scores to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation, east of Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza. Medical sources said the soldiers resorted to the excessive use of force against the nonviolent protesters, on Palestinian lands near the perimeter fence, east …
The US Has No Legitimate Reason To Impose New Sanctions On Iran
Vijay Prashad | iranian.com | 2018-10-10
The UN's position against Iran is in bad faith. All the member states and the UN secretariat know that Iran has no nuclear weapons programme. Yet, they have allowed the US and Israel to push against Iran. A friend in Tehran tells me that he marvels at the attitude of the United States ruling establishment […] | The post The US Has No Legitimate Reason To Impose New Sanctions On Iran appeared first on The Iranian.
iranian.com/2018/10/09/us-no-legitimate-reason-to-impose-sanctions-on-iran/
Adnan Continues Hunger Strike for 37th Day
INA | imemc.org | 2018-10-10
Leader of the Islamic Jihad movement, Khader Adnan, from the town of Arraba, in the Jenin district of the northern occupied West Bank, has continued his open hunger strike for 37 days in a row, in protest of his illegal and arbitrary detention. According to the Mohjat al-Quds Foundation for …
The US Has No Legitimate Reason to Impose New Sanctions on Iran
Vijay Prashad | mintpressnews.com | 2018-10-09
The UN's position against Iran is in bad faith. All the member states and the UN secretariat know that Iran has no nuclear weapons programme. Yet, they have allowed the US and Israel to push against Iran. | The post The US Has No Legitimate Reason to Impose New Sanctions on Iran appeared first on MintPress News.
mintpressnews.com/the-us-has-no-legitimate-reason-to-impose-new-sanctions-on-iran/250520/
Army Demolishes Two Rooms, Confiscates Solar Panels Donated By EU
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-10-09
Israeli soldiers demolished, Tuesday, two residential rooms, and confiscated solar panels, in Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Rateb Jabour, the coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in southern Hebron, said the soldiers invaded the al-Halawa …
Army Demolishes Two Rooms, Confiscates Solar Panels Donated By EU
Benjamin Netanyahu Is No Friend to America
Scott Ritter | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-09
Benjamin Netanyahu is no stranger to the American spotlight. A career Israeli politician who attended school in the United States, he specializes in the kind of rhetoric that his American counterparts revel in–a kind of narcissism that's more used car … | The post Benjamin Netanyahu Is No Friend to America appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/benjamin-netanyahu-is-no-friend-to-america/5656502
Israeli Colonists Uproot 39 Trees Near Salfit
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-10-09
A group of illegal Israeli colonist settlers invaded, on Tuesday morning, Palestinian agricultural lands in Bruqin village, west of Salfit in northeastern West Bank, and uprooted 39 olive and almond trees owned by a Palestinian farmer. Bashir Salama, the head of Bruqin Local Council, said the Israeli assailants invaded lands, …
Israeli Colonists Attack Palestinians Picking Olive Trees Near Nablus
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-10-09
A group of extremist illegal Israeli colonists attacked, Tuesday, many Palestinians while picking their olive trees, in the area between Talfit and Qaryout villages, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official who monitors Israel's illegal colonialist activities, said dozens of extremist colonists invaded …
Israeli Colonists Attack Palestinians Picking Olive Trees Near Nablus
Why US Sanctions Won't Change Iran's Foreign Policy
Maysam Behravesh | iranian.com | 2018-10-09
The messages from Tehran are stark. On October 1, Iranian forces fired six missiles at Daesh positions in eastern Syria. The weapons landed within three miles of US troops in the country; one missile shown on Iranian state television carried the slogan: "Death to America, "Death to Israel, Death to al Saud." A statement by […] | The post Why US Sanctions Won't Change Iran's Foreign Policy appeared first on The Iranian.
iranian.com/2018/10/09/why-us-sanctions-wont-change-irans-foreign-policy/
American College Student Held in Israel for Support of BDS Movement
Middle East Monitor | mintpressnews.com | 2018-10-09
Her "crime", according to Israel's Strategic Affairs Ministry, is that while studying for her bachelor's degree in Florida, she was president of an organization that supported a boycott against Israel. | The post American College Student Held in Israel for Support of BDS Movement appeared first on MintPress News.
mintpressnews.com/american-college-student-held-israel-support-bds-movement/250515/
Israeli Soldiers Invade UNRWA Clinic In Jerusalem After Announcing Takeover
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-10-09
Israeli soldiers and employees of the Israeli Health Ministry invaded, Monday, a clinic run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in the Sahera Gate area, in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers and health department employees invaded the clinic, and attempted to …
Israeli Soldiers Invade UNRWA Clinic In Jerusalem After Announcing Takeover
U.S. Student Detained in Israel for Alleged Boycott Support
Staff | truthdig.com | 2018-10-09
Lara Alqasem, 22, was held for a week and finally barred from the country, despite arriving at Ben-Gurion Airport with a valid visa. | The post U.S. Student Detained in Israel for Alleged Boycott Support appeared first on Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists.
truthdig.com/articles/u-s-student-detained-in-israel-for-alleged-boycott-support/
Top Trump aide sought Israeli help in online manipulation during 2016 election – report
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-09
An Israeli private intelligence firm produced three separate proposals to manipulate social media in the US and spread misinformation for the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential elections, according to a new report.
rt.com/usa/440768-trump-aide-sought-israeli-help/
'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/
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/
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'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/
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 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/
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/
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
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
German Far-Right Uses 'Judeo-Christian' Values to Polish its Racism
Shared by Jocelyn Dombroski | 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
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
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
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