Israeli Nation-State Law is 'Apartheid,' Says Democratic Congresswoman
INA | imemc.org | 2018-10-30
Coverage by Forward of US Representative Betty McCollum's groundbreaking speech at USCPR's 2018 national conference, Together We Rise: A US Democratic Party congresswoman described Israel's nation-state law as "apartheid" at a Palestinian rights event, Mondoweiss reported. Accepting a leadership award at the U.
imemc.org/article/israeli-nation-state-law-is-apartheid-says-democratic-congresswoman/

Australia and Palestine-Israel: The Threat of the Far Right
Al-Shabaka | imemc.org | 2018-10-30
by Noura Mansour on October 28, 2018 for Al-Shakaba Palestinian Policy Network. The government of Australia, along with Israel and the US, recently voted against the UN resolution to elect Palestine as chair of the Group of 77, enabling it to act like a full member state during 2019. That same week, Australian Prime Minister …
imemc.org/article/australia-and-palestine-israel-the-threat-of-the-far-right/

Israeli Forces Demolish Palestinian Home in Jerusalem, Seize Lands in Ramallah
INA | imemc.org | 2018-10-30
Israeli occupation bulldozers, on Monday, demolished a Palestinian owned home in Anata village, northeast of Jerusalem, and confiscated hundreds of dunams of land in Budrus village, to the west of Ramallah. Soldiers demolished a home owned by Saleh Fheidat, in Anata village, under the pretext of building without a permit. According to …
imemc.org/article/israeli-forces-demolish-palestinian-home-in-jerusalem-seize-lands-in-ramallah/

Army Conducts Extensive Searches Of Homes In Tulkarem, Abduct Two Palestinians
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-10-30
Israeli soldier surrounded, Tuesday, Shweika area, north of Tulkarem, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, violently searched and ransacked dozens of homes, and buildings, before abducting two young men. The soldiers abducted Majed Zidan Na'alwa and Omran Hosni Abu Ahmad, from their homes, and took them to …
imemc.org/article/army-conducts-extensive-searches-of-homes-in-tulkarem-abduct-two-palestinians/

Central Council Decides to End All Commitments with Israel
INA | imemc.org | 2018-10-30
The Palestinian Central Council (PCC), which met in Ramallah over two days, decided on Monday to end all commitments in the agreements the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has signed with Israel, suspend recognition of Israel until it recognizes the State of Palestine, end security coordination and end the Paris Economic …
imemc.org/article/central-council-decides-to-end-all-commitments-with-israel/

Israeli Soldiers Abduct Sixteen Palestinians In West Bank
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-10-30
The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, on Tuesday at dawn, at least sixteen Palestinians from their homes, in several parts of the occupied West Bank. The Israeli army said the Palestinians were taken prisoner for their participation in ongoing protests in the occupied West Bank. …
imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-abduct-sixteen-palestinians-in-west-bank-2/

Adnan Sentenced to One Year
INA | imemc.org | 2018-10-30
The Israeli military court in Salem, north of the northern occupied West Bank district of Jenin, sentenced Palestinian detainee Khader Adnan to one year in prison, fined him 1,00 shekels ($270) and 18 months suspended sentence for five years, on Monday. Jawad Boulous, head of the legal department in the …
imemc.org/article/adnan-sentenced-to-one-year/

Trump Administration Ramps Up Threats Against Iran
Shared by Merula Furtado | truthout.org | 2018-10-30
The alleged torture, murder and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, widely believed to have been carried out on orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, may put a crimp in Donald Trump's plans to escalate his aggression against Iran. | Saudi Arabia, the United States and Israel are unified in their hatred of Iran, albeit with different motives. Iran has been in the crosshairs of the United States since the 1979 Iranian Revolution overthrew the vicious, US-installed puppet Mohammad…
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Israel Quietly Sold $250m Worth of Advanced Spy Equipment to Saudi Arabia: Report
Tyler Durden | theantimedia.com | 2018-10-30
(ZHE) — A new bombshell report in the Jerusalem Post confirms that Israel and Saudi Arabia's somewhat "quiet" but growing security relationship is far more extensive than previously thought, as it now includes a $250 million weapons deal. This is unprecedented as the two nations still don't even have official diplomatic relations, as the kingdom has yet to officially recognize …
theantimedia.com/israel-spy-systems-saudi-arabia/

California Jews express heartbreak over recent white supremacist killings in I-80 banner
J.A.I.C. | indybay.org | 2018-10-30
Local Jews hung a banner over Interstate 80 in Berkeley to express their heartbreak over recent racist and anti-Semitic violence against Jewish worshippers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, against Black Americans in the Louisville, Kentucky area, and against Palestinians in Gaza.
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/10/29/18818557.php

Soldiers Abduct Four Palestinians In Jenin And Hebron
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-10-29
The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday afternoon, four Palestinians, including a child, from Jenin and Hebron, in the northern and southern parts of the occupied West Bank. The PPS office in Jenin, said the soldiers abducted Nabil Mohammad Abdul-Jabbar, 31, from Sielet ath-Thaher …
imemc.org/article/soldiers-abduct-four-palestinians-in-jenin-and-hebron/

What It Means to be Israeli: Reflections on Identity From an Israeli Peace Activist
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2018-10-29
Israeli peace activist Miko Peled reflects on what it means to be Israeli and the country's often tenuous relationship with faith, land and history. | The post What It Means to be Israeli: Reflections on Identity From an Israeli Peace Activist appeared first on MintPress News.
mintpressnews.com/what-it-means-to-be-israeli-reflections-on-israeli-identity-from-an-israeli/251171/

ISIS Is a US-Israeli Creation. Top Ten "Indications"
Makia Freeman | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-29
Relevant article first posted on GR in April 2016. | ISIS is a US-Israeli creation, a fact as clear as the sky is blue. It's a truth as black and white as the colors on their flag. For many alternative news … | The post ISIS Is a US-Israeli Creation. Top Ten "Indications" appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/isis-is-a-us-israeli-creation-top-ten-indications/5518627

Israel's Far Right Blame "Leftist" Victims of Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre
Max Blumenthal | mintpressnews.com | 2018-10-29
As Israeli Minister of Education Naftali Bennett sets out to Pittsburgh, prominent members of the governing Likud Party have blamed the Jewish victims of the neo-Nazi massacre "for causing anti-Semitism." | The post Israel's Far Right Blame "Leftist" Victims of Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre appeared first on MintPress News.
mintpressnews.com/israels-far-right-blame-leftist-victims-of-pittsburgh-synagogue-massacre/251135/

Union leaders fault top political leaders for role in synagogue massacre
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2018-10-29
WASHINGTON–Two union leaders, D. Taylor of Unite Here and Mary Kay Henry of the Service Employees, plus the Jewish Labor Committee, faulted top U.S. political leaders, implicitly or explicitly, for fomenting the environment that led to the anti-Semitic synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh and other recent acts of hate. Other union leaders, including Teachers President Randi …
peoplesworld.org/article/union-leaders-fault-top-political-leaders-for-role-in-synagogue-massacre/

Thoughts from a man who grew up at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue
Rick Nagin | peoplesworld.org | 2018-10-29
The horrific anti-Semitic attack that killed 11 people at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh had a special impact on me. I grew up in the heavily Jewish community of Squirrel Hill. I lived within walking distance of the synagogue, was a member of the congregation, attended Sunday school, and had my bar mitzvah …
peoplesworld.org/article/thoughts-from-a-man-who-grew-up-at-pittsburghs-tree-of-life-synagogue/

Soldiers Uproot 200 Olive Trees, 13 Dunams Of Farmland, Near Hebron
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-10-29
Israeli soldiers invaded, Monday, Palestinian agricultural lands in Khirbat Kharouf area, uprooted 200 olive trees, in addition to uprooting 13 Dunams of farmlands, in Beit Ula town, west of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Hashem Badarin, the head of the Palestinian Farmers Services Department in …
imemc.org/article/soldiers-uproot-200-olive-trees-13-dunams-of-farmland-near-hebron/

Rabbi: Trump & GOP Have Blood on Their Hands for Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting & Hateful Violence
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-10-29
Cecil Rosenthal, David Rosenthal, Melvin Wax, Irving Younger, Daniel Stein, Joyce Fienberg, Richard Gottfried, Rose Mallinger, Jerry Rabinowitz, Bernice Simon and Sylvan Simon. Those are the names of the 11 worshipers who were gunned down Saturday in Pittsburgh, when a 46-year-old white man named Robert Bowers entered the Tree of Life synagogue and opened fire, yelling "All Jews must die." It is believed to be the worst anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history. We speak with Ari Lev Fornari, a rabbi at Kol Tzedek Synagogue in West Philadelphia who has worked with HIAS, a Jewish agency that aids refugees that the gunma…
www.democracynow.org/2018/10/29/rabbi_trump_gop_have_blood_on

Israel Crushes Resistance At Home And Abroad
David Sheen | iranian.com | 2018-10-29
The Jewish-Israeli left is in tatters. They make up just a tiny fraction of the Jewish population of the country, and their numbers have been steadily shrinking since the start of the millennium. No alliance of progressive parties can hold a candle to Israel's hawkish governing coalitions. No liberal newspaper can pull the public away […] | The post Israel Crushes Resistance At Home And Abroad appeared first on The Iranian.
iranian.com/2018/10/28/israel-crushes-resistance-at-home-and-abroad/

Illegal Colonialist Settlers Invade Three Homes In Hebron
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-10-29
A group of illegal Israeli colonialist settlers invaded, Monday, three Palestinian homes in the Old City of Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank. Local sources in Hebron said the three homes are old and vacant, and added that the Israeli assailants caused damage to their inner walls, …
imemc.org/article/illegal-colonialist-settlers-invade-three-homes-in-hebron/

After The Khashoggi Murder, It is Up To Israel To Repair The Crack In The Axis of Evil
Andrew Levine | iranian.com | 2018-10-29
On the domestic scene, there is Ted Cruz and Mitch McConnell and many others of a similar caliber, but among world leaders could there by anyone more loathsome than Donald Trump? Because he has so many serious competitors, each of whom is loathsome in different ways, the question is impossible to answer. But Trump is […] | The post After The Khashoggi Murder, It is Up To Israel To Repair The Crack In The Axis of Evil appeared first on The Iranian…
iranian.com/2018/10/29/after-the-khashoggi-murder-it-is-up-to-israel-to-repair-the-crack-in-the-axis-of-evil/

Muslim-American Community Raises Money For Pittsburgh Victims
TeleSur | iranian.com | 2018-10-29
The campaign, hosted by Muslim crowdfunding site LaunchGood, aimed to help the victims, "whether it is the injured victims or the Jewish families who have lost loved ones". The Muslim-American community had raised tens of thousands of dollars in a crowdfunding effort to help Pittsburgh synagogue shooting victims which left at least 11 dead and […] | The post Muslim-American Community Raises Money For Pittsburgh Victims appeared first on The Iranian.
iranian.com/2018/10/29/muslim-american-community-raises-money-for-pittsburgh-victims/

Trump and the GOP Have Blood on Their Hands for Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting
Shared by Samantha Borek | truthout.org | 2018-10-29
Cecil Rosenthal, David Rosenthal, Melvin Wax, Irving Younger, Daniel Stein, Joyce Fienberg, Richard Gottfried, Rose Mallinger, Jerry Rabinowitz, Bernice Simon and Sylvan Simon. Those are the names of the 11 worshipers who were gunned down Saturday in Pittsburgh, when a 46-year-old white man named Robert Bowers entered the Tree of Life synagogue and opened fire, yelling "All Jews must die." It is believed to be the worst anti-Semitic attack in US history. We speak with Ari Lev Fornari, a rabbi at Kol Tzedek Synagogue in West Philadelphia who has worked with HIAS, a Jewish agency that aids refugees that the gunm…
truthout.org/video/trump-and-the-gop-have-blood-on-their-hands-for-pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting/

Members of Netanyahu's Likud Blame Victims of Pittsburgh Pogrom and Echo the Killer's Rhetoric
Max Blumenthal | grayzoneproject.com | 2018-10-28
As Israeli Minister of Education Naftali Bennett sets out to Pittsburgh, prominent members of the governing Likud Party have blamed… | The post Members of Netanyahu's Likud Blame Victims of Pittsburgh Pogrom and Echo the Killer's Rhetoric appeared first on Grayzone Project.
grayzoneproject.com/2018/10/28/members-of-netanyahus-likud-blame-victims-of-pittsburgh-pogrom-and-echo-the-killers-rhetoric/

Palestinian champions 'drift' racing for women
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2018-10-26
Noor Daoud was the only woman to take to the track in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, where the Palestinian car racer impressed the crowds with her "drift" driving skills. | On Palestine's streets, Daoud mastered the art of drift — deliberately oversteering to make the rear wheels skid –and travelled to Sharm el-Sheikh for a regional competition. | "Since I was little I've become used to meeting up with the guys to play football or tennis," said the 27-year-old on the sidelines of the competition. | Racing now dominates her lif…
greenleft.org.au/content/palestinian-champions-%E2%80%98drift%E2%80%99-racing-women

Imposing 'Balance' Requires Distortion of Palestine/Israel Struggle
Gregory Shupak | fair.org | 2018-10-23
Since the Palestinians' Great Return March began on March 30, Israel has killed 217 Palestinians in Gaza, 163 of whom were participating in the demonstrations. Among the dead are 33 children, three paramedics and four people with disabilities; Israel has injured a further 11,155 Palestinians, many of whom will be maimed for l…
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"Reminiscent of South Africa's Grand Apartheid": Israeli Human Rights Group Slams Israel at U.N
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-10-22
Shortly after Israel announced a new "zero tolerance" policy toward demonstrations in Gaza, some 130 Palestinians were injured Friday while protesting ongoing Israeli occupation and demanding the right of return. Four paramedics and 25 children were among the injured. Ten thousand protesters gathered along Israel's heavily militarized separation barrier with Gaza as part of the weekly Great March of Return protests that began March 30. Since then, Israeli forces have killed at least 170 Palestinians, including more than 30 children, and injured thousands more. We speak with Hagai El-Ad, the executive director of…
www.democracynow.org/2018/10/22/reminiscent_of_south_africas_grand_apartheid

Venezuela Takes Center Stage in Brazilian Far Right Presidential Campaign
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2018-10-11
Frontrunner Bolsonaro has vowed to sever diplomatic relations with Caracas and back sanctions while establishing closer ties with the ultra-right government in Israel.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14095