Daily Archives: December 5, 2018

2018-12-05: News Headlines

IMEMC News & Agencies (2018-12-05). 'Life Is All About Trying': Disabled Palestinians Defy Challenges. imemc.org by Mersiha Gadzo Some laughed at him, others told him that he wouldn't succeed. But with a strong will and positive attitude, Abdulrahman Abu Rawaa proved them wrong. With just one arm and a leg each, he can easily ride his bike along Gaza's sandy streets.

IMEMC News (2018-12-05). Elderly Woman Injured After Colonialist Settler Rammed Her With His Car. imemc.org Palestinian medical sources have reported, Wednesday, that an elderly woman was injured, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, after a speeding illegal Israeli colonialist setter rammed her with his car. Mohammad Awad, the head of the Emergency Department of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in Bethlehem, said …

IMEMC News (2018-12-05). Israeli Soldiers Abduct Twenty Palestinians In The West Bank. imemc.org The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has confirmed that Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, at least twenty Palestinians, including children and former political prisoner, in several parts of the occupied West Bank. The soldiers invaded and violently searched dozens of homes across the West Bank, and interrogated many Palestinians, …

IMEMC News (2018-12-05). Army Demolishes A School Near Hebron. imemc.org Israeli soldiers invaded, Wednesday, the Sammoa' town, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and demolished a Palestinian school. Media sources in Hebron said the soldiers surrounded Seemia area, north of the Sammoa' town, and declared it a closed military zone, preventing the Palestinians from …

IMEMC News (2018-12-05). Israeli Soldiers Abduct Four Palestinians, Including A Child, Near Hebron. imemc.org The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, four Palestinians, including a child and a former political prisoner, from the southern West Bank governorate of Hebron. The PPS said the soldiers invaded and searched many homes in the al-'Arroub refugee camp, north of …

Maha Nassar (2018-12-05). 'From The River To The Sea' Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means. zcomm.org Rather than just lecture Palestinians and their supporters about how certain phrases make them feel, supporters of Israel should get more curious about what Palestinians themselves want…

IMEMC News & Agencies (2018-12-05). Rashida Tlaib To Head US Congressional Delegation To West Bank, Endorses BDS. imemc.org US Democratic Representative-elect Rashida Tlaib plans to lead a delegation of American lawmakers to the West Bank, the congresswoman-to-be has told the Intercept. Tlaib, a Palestinian-American, told the publication that the delegation will focus on "Israel's detention of Palestinian children, education, access to clean water, and poverty" and that the …

IMEMC News (2018-12-05). Army Abducts Four Palestinians In Salfit. imemc.org Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, Salfit city, and nearby Iskaka town and Qarawat Bani Hassan village, in Central West Bank, searched many homes and abducted four Palestinians. In Salfit city, the soldiers invaded several neighborhoods, searched homes, and abducted Aziz Fattash. The soldiers also abducted a …

Jonathan Cook (2018-12-05). Israel's New War of Attrition on Jerusalem's Palestinians. counterpunch.org Israel has never hidden its ambition to seize control of East Jerusalem, Palestinian territory it occupied in 1967 and then annexed, as a way of preventing a viable Palestinian state from emerging. Israel immediately began building an arc of Jewish settlements on Jerusalem's eastern flank to seal off its Palestinian residents from their political hinterland, the West Bank. More

IMEMC News & Agencies (2018-12-05). Funeral Held for Disabled Youth in Tulkarem. imemc.org Crowds of Palestinians marched in the funeral of Mohammad Husam Abdul-Latif Habali, aged 22, at noon on Tuesday, in Tulkarem City of the northern occupied West Bank. Habali is a disabled man who worked at a coffee shop in the city until the late night hours. He was shot and …

IMEMC News & Agencies (2018-12-05). ISM Report: Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Continues in Fasayil. imemc.org 12/05/18 International Solidarity Movement, in coordination with Jordan Valley Solidarity, Nablus team, Fasayil al Wusta, Occupied Palestine The ethnic cleansing of Palestine continues. Dunam by dunam, village by village, house by house, the people of Palestine face a slow, systematic genocide in their homeland. Two houses were demolished in the …

IMEMC News (2018-12-05). Soldiers Abduct Three Palestinians In Ramallah. imemc.org Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, Deir Nitham village, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, searched homes and abducted three Palestinians. Media sources said several armored military jeeps invaded the village, before the soldiers stormed and ransacked many homes, and interrogated a few Palestinians. They added …

Whitney Webb (2018-12-05). The Political Lynching of Marc Lamont Hill: What You're Not Being Told. theantimedia.com (MPN) — After his UN Speech marking the International Day of Solidarity with Palestine last week was twisted so as to smear him as an anti-Semite, Marc Lamont Hill was subjected to a "political lynching" that saw him fired from his role as a political commentator on CNN and will now see Temple University — his other employer — investigate whether …

IMEMC (2018-12-05). Army Abducts 24 Palestinians In The West Bank. indybay.org Israeli soldiers abducted, overnight until morning hours Tuesday, twenty-four Palestinians, from their homes in several parts of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported.

IMEMC (2018-12-05). Rashida Tlaib To Head US Congressional Delegation To West Bank, Endorses BDS. indybay.org US Democratic Representative-elect Rashida Tlaib plans to lead a delegation of American lawmakers to the West Bank.

Global Research News (2018-12-04). Selected Articles: George H. W. Bush, Yellow Vests, Trade Wars, Israeli Apartheid. globalresearch.ca Global Research has over 50,000 subscribers to our Newsletter. | Our objective is to recruit one thousand committed "volunteers" among our 50,000 Newsletter subscribers to support the distribution of Global Research articles (email lists, social media, crossposts). | Do not send us …

Miko Peled (2018-12-04). From the River to the Sea: The Inevitable End of Settler Colonialism in Palestine. mintpressnews.com The assumption that a free Palestine calls for the expulsion or killing of Jews is one that is made mostly by those who can see Palestine only as a place where one side rules over and kills the other, but never where all people live in peace.

Middle East Monitor (2018-12-04). Rashida Tlaib to Lead Congressional Delegation to Palestine's Occupied West Bank. mintpressnews.com The first Palestinian-American woman to be elected to Congress, said that her "group will focus on issues like Israel's detention of Palestinian children, education, access to clean water, and poverty."

Whitney Webb (2018-12-04). Exposing the Israel Lobby Groups Behind the "Political Lynching" of Marc Lamont Hill. mintpressnews.com The controversy that has resulted from Marc Lamont Hill's speech is just the latest iteration of a larger effort to silence advocacy for Palestinian rights in the United States, at a time when the Trump administration is set to reveal its Israel-centric "peace plan" that is set to be a disaster for Palestinians.

Andrea Germanos (2018-12-04). Netanyahu Refuses to Resign After Israeli Police Recommend Fraud, Bribery Charges. theantimedia.com (CD) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing calls to resign after Israeli police on Sunday recommended indicting him and his wife on fraud and bribery charges. It's the third such recommendation to hit the prime minister this year. The New York Times lays out the alleged wrongdoing: Between 2012 and 2017, the police said, Mr. Netanyahu "intervened in a blatant and ongoing manner, …

Middle East Eye (2018-12-04). US Congresswoman-Elect Endorses BDS Movement for Palestinian Rights. theantimedia.com (MEE) — Congresswoman-elect Rashida Tlaib has become just the second US lawmaker to express support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights. "I personally support the BDS movement," Tlaib said in an interview with The Intercept news website published on Monday. "I want us to see that segregation and how that has really harmed …

Middle East Monitor (2018-12-03). Two U.S. Police Departments Cancel Training with Israel. mintpressnews.com For the first time since the program's inception in 2002, US police departments are cancelling their annual training trips to Israel amid pressure from organizations affiliated with the BDS movement.

Alex Kane (2018-12-03). Rejecting Israel Lobby's Influence Over Congress, Rashida Tlaib Plans to Lead Delegation to Palestine. theintercept.com For decades, AIPAC has sponsored trips to Israel for new members of Congress. Rep.-elect Rashida Tlaib, a Palestinian-American, is planning an alternative.

stuart_m (2018-11-30). Israel escalating the demolition of Palestine. greenleft.org.au When it comes to the infrastructure of genocide, you could illustrate it using almost any photo of a school, house, shop or village in the West Bank. You could bookmark a Google maps page of a particular West Bank town — then look again in three or six months time and note the destruction wrought. | This is one way of keeping track of the demolitions of Palestinian homes and Israel's attempts to impose an "Israeli only" identity on the landscape. | There has been a redoubling of Israeli efforts to evict Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem and deny remaining Palestinian residents the right to a livelihoo…

Consortiumnews (2018-11-29). Israel's Overlooked Strategic Losses in Wars Against Arabs. consortiumnews.com After conventional Arab armies failed to deter Israeli invasions, Lebanese and Palestinian volunteers have changed the strategic balance in the Middle East, writes As`ad AbuKhalil. 2006 Lebanese War Changed Power Calculus By As`ad AbuKhalil Special to Consortium News In South… Read more →

LEILI (2018-11-26). Palestinian Civil Society Urges World Governments to Impose a Military Embargo on Saudi Regime Over Khashoggi Murder and War Crimes in Yemen, On Israel for War Crimes and Apartheid Against Palestinians. bdsmovement.net Palestinian Civil Society Urges World Governments to Impose a Military Embargo on Saudi Regime Over Khashoggi Murder and War Crimes in Yemen, On Israel for War Crimes and Apartheid Against Palestinians: Update"We appeal to progressives and social movements everywhere to pressure their governments to impose strict military embargoes on all states that are perpetrating crimes against hu…

ziyaad (2018-11-20). Airbnb's Decision to Exit Israel's Illegal Settlements: A Partial Victory for Human Rights & Accountability. bdsmovement.net Airbnb's Decision to Exit Israel's Illegal Settlements: A Partial Victory for Human Rights & Accountability: BNC StatementAirbnb's decision to end its business in Israel's illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory is an important first step. It unfortunately fails to cover settlements in East Jerusalem, which is also occupied according to international law. All Isr…

Phyllis Bennis (2018-11-14). The Crisis in Gaza and a Potential Ceasefire. zcomm.org Discussing the recent Israeli special forces operation inside the Gaza Strip that killed 7 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier, as well as Israeli air strikes and a potential ceasefire…

Huzaifa Zoomkawala (2018-11-12). Palestine: Fadwa Tuqan's poems and data on women's education. zcomm.org And here is my second attempt at bridging the three areas: poems, justice and data visualization. This time, it's the Palestinian poet, Fadwa Tuqan, whose poems I have highlighted alongside some charts depicting the progress over the years on a number of women's education indicators in the West Bank and Gaza. (Earlier, I had used Read more…

SAMIR (2018-11-12). Love Bollywood, hate apartheid! bdsmovement.net Love Bollywood, hate apartheid!: Action AlertThe Israeli government wants to use Bollywood stars to whitewash its oppression against Palestinians. Join us in urging them to refuse to participate. | Cultural BoycottNovember 12, 2018 | By: | | Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)

PACBI (2018-11-05). Palestinians Write to ICRC: Conference in Partnership with Hebrew University Undermines Palestinian Human Rights. bdsmovement.net Palestinians Write to ICRC: Conference in Partnership with Hebrew University Undermines Palestinian Human Rights: UpdateAn International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) conference in partnership with Hebrew University, which is deeply complicit in Israel's flagrant violations of international humanitarian law, undermines Palestinian human rights and our nonviolent struggle to ac…

Max Blumenthal (2018-10-28). Members of Netanyahu's Likud Blame Victims of Pittsburgh Pogrom and Echo the Killer's Rhetoric. grayzoneproject.com As Israeli Minister of Education Naftali Bennett sets out to Pittsburgh, prominent members of the governing Likud Party have blamed…

2018-12-05: Social Media Postees

'From The River To The Sea' Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means
Maha Nassar | zcomm.org | 2018-12-05
Rather than just lecture Palestinians and their supporters about how certain phrases make them feel, supporters of Israel should get more curious about what Palestinians themselves want…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/from-the-river-to-the-sea-doesnt-mean-what-you-think-it-means/

'Life Is All About Trying': Disabled Palestinians Defy Challenges
IMEMC News & Agencies | imemc.org | 2018-12-05
by Mersiha Gadzo Some laughed at him, others told him that he wouldn't succeed. But with a strong will and positive attitude, Abdulrahman Abu Rawaa proved them wrong. With just one arm and a leg each, he can easily ride his bike along Gaza's sandy streets.

'Life Is All About Trying': Disabled Palestinians Defy Challenges

Rashida Tlaib To Head US Congressional Delegation To West Bank, Endorses BDS
IMEMC News & Agencies | imemc.org | 2018-12-05
US Democratic Representative-elect Rashida Tlaib plans to lead a delegation of American lawmakers to the West Bank, the congresswoman-to-be has told the Intercept. Tlaib, a Palestinian-American, told the publication that the delegation will focus on "Israel's detention of Palestinian children, education, access to clean water, and poverty" and that the …

Rashida Tlaib To Head US Congressional Delegation To West Bank, Endorses BDS

Army Demolishes A School Near Hebron
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-12-05
Israeli soldiers invaded, Wednesday, the Sammoa' town, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and demolished a Palestinian school. Media sources in Hebron said the soldiers surrounded Seemia area, north of the Sammoa' town, and declared it a closed military zone, preventing the Palestinians from …

Army Demolishes A School Near Hebron

Army Abducts Four Palestinians In Salfit
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-12-05
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, Salfit city, and nearby Iskaka town and Qarawat Bani Hassan village, in Central West Bank, searched many homes and abducted four Palestinians. In Salfit city, the soldiers invaded several neighborhoods, searched homes, and abducted Aziz Fattash. The soldiers also abducted a …

Army Abducts Four Palestinians In Salfit

Israel's New War of Attrition on Jerusalem's Palestinians
Jonathan Cook | counterpunch.org | 2018-12-05
Israel has never hidden its ambition to seize control of East Jerusalem, Palestinian territory it occupied in 1967 and then annexed, as a way of preventing a viable Palestinian state from emerging. Israel immediately began building an arc of Jewish settlements on Jerusalem's eastern flank to seal off its Palestinian residents from their political hinterland, the West Bank.
counterpunch.org/2018/12/05/israels-new-war-of-attrition-on-jerusalems-palestinians/

Soldiers Abduct Three Palestinians In Ramallah
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-12-05
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, Deir Nitham village, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, searched homes and abducted three Palestinians. Media sources said several armored military jeeps invaded the village, before the soldiers stormed and ransacked many homes, and interrogated a few Palestinians. They added …

Soldiers Abduct Three Palestinians In Ramallah

Funeral Held for Disabled Youth in Tulkarem
IMEMC News & Agencies | imemc.org | 2018-12-05
Crowds of Palestinians marched in the funeral of Mohammad Husam Abdul-Latif Habali, aged 22, at noon on Tuesday, in Tulkarem City of the northern occupied West Bank. Habali is a disabled man who worked at a coffee shop in the city until the late night hours. He was shot and …

Funeral Held for Disabled Youth in Tulkarem

Israeli Soldiers Abduct Four Palestinians, Including A Child, Near Hebron
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-12-05
The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, four Palestinians, including a child and a former political prisoner, from the southern West Bank governorate of Hebron. The PPS said the soldiers invaded and searched many homes in the al-'Arroub refugee camp, north of …

Israeli Soldiers Abduct Four Palestinians, Including A Child, Near Hebron

Elderly Woman Injured After Colonialist Settler Rammed Her With His Car
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-12-05
Palestinian medical sources have reported, Wednesday, that an elderly woman was injured, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, after a speeding illegal Israeli colonialist setter rammed her with his car. Mohammad Awad, the head of the Emergency Department of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in Bethlehem, said …

Elderly Woman Injured After Colonialist Settler Rammed Her With His Car

ISM Report: Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Continues in Fasayil
IMEMC News & Agencies | imemc.org | 2018-12-05
12/05/18 International Solidarity Movement, in coordination with Jordan Valley Solidarity, Nablus team, Fasayil al Wusta, Occupied Palestine The ethnic cleansing of Palestine continues. Dunam by dunam, village by village, house by house, the people of Palestine face a slow, systematic genocide in their homeland. Two houses were demolished in the …

ISM Report: Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Continues in Fasayil

Israeli Soldiers Abduct Twenty Palestinians In The West Bank
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-12-05
The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has confirmed that Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, at least twenty Palestinians, including children and former political prisoner, in several parts of the occupied West Bank. The soldiers invaded and violently searched dozens of homes across the West Bank, and interrogated many Palestinians, …

Israeli Soldiers Abduct Twenty Palestinians In The West Bank

The Political Lynching of Marc Lamont Hill: What You're Not Being Told
Whitney Webb | theantimedia.com | 2018-12-05
(MPN) — After his UN Speech marking the International Day of Solidarity with Palestine last week was twisted so as to smear him as an anti-Semite, Marc Lamont Hill was subjected to a "political lynching" that saw him fired from his role as a political commentator on CNN and will now see Temple University — his other employer — investigate whether …

The Political Lynching of Marc Lamont Hill: What You're Not Being Told

Army Abducts 24 Palestinians In The West Bank
IMEMC | indybay.org | 2018-12-05
Israeli soldiers abducted, overnight until morning hours Tuesday, twenty-four Palestinians, from their homes in several parts of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported.
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/12/04/18819616.php

Rashida Tlaib To Head US Congressional Delegation To West Bank, Endorses BDS
IMEMC | indybay.org | 2018-12-05
US Democratic Representative-elect Rashida Tlaib plans to lead a delegation of American lawmakers to the West Bank.
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/12/04/18819615.php

Exposing the Israel Lobby Groups Behind the "Political Lynching" of Marc Lamont Hill
Whitney Webb | mintpressnews.com | 2018-12-04
The controversy that has resulted from Marc Lamont Hill's speech is just the latest iteration of a larger effort to silence advocacy for Palestinian rights in the United States, at a time when the Trump administration is set to reveal its Israel-centric "peace plan" that is set to be a disaster for Palestinians. | The post Exposing the Israel Lobby Groups Behind the "Political Lynching" of Marc Lamont Hill appeared first on MintPress News.
mintpressnews.com/the-israel-lobby-groups-behind-the-political-lynching-of-marc-lamont-hill/252534/

Rashida Tlaib to Lead Congressional Delegation to Palestine's Occupied West Bank
Middle East Monitor | mintpressnews.com | 2018-12-04
The first Palestinian-American woman to be elected to Congress, said that her "group will focus on issues like Israel's detention of Palestinian children, education, access to clean water, and poverty." | The post Rashida Tlaib to Lead Congressional Delegation to Palestine's Occupied West Bank appeared first on MintPress News.
mintpressnews.com/rashida-tlaib-to-lead-congressional-delegation-to-palestine-west-bank/252519/

Selected Articles: George H. W. Bush, Yellow Vests, Trade Wars, Israeli Apartheid
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-04
Global Research has over 50,000 subscribers to our Newsletter. | Our objective is to recruit one thousand committed "volunteers" among our 50,000 Newsletter subscribers to support the distribution of Global Research articles (email lists, social media, crossposts). | Do not send us … | The post Selected Articles: George H. W. Bush, Yellow Vests, Trade Wars, Israeli Apartheid appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-george-h-w-bush-yellow-vests-trade-wars-israeli-apartheid/5661884

From the River to the Sea: The Inevitable End of Settler Colonialism in Palestine
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2018-12-04
The assumption that a free Palestine calls for the expulsion or killing of Jews is one that is made mostly by those who can see Palestine only as a place where one side rules over and kills the other, but never where all people live in peace. | The post From the River to the Sea: The Inevitable End of Settler Colonialism in Palestine appeared first on MintPress News.
mintpressnews.com/river-to-the-sea-the-inevitable-end-of-settler-colonialism-in-palestine/252495/

US Congresswoman-Elect Endorses BDS Movement for Palestinian Rights
Middle East Eye | theantimedia.com | 2018-12-04
(MEE) — Congresswoman-elect Rashida Tlaib has become just the second US lawmaker to express support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights. "I personally support the BDS movement," Tlaib said in an interview with The Intercept news website published on Monday. "I want us to see that segregation and how that has really harmed …

US Congresswoman-Elect Endorses BDS Movement for Palestinian Rights

Netanyahu Refuses to Resign After Israeli Police Recommend Fraud, Bribery Charges
Andrea Germanos | theantimedia.com | 2018-12-04
(CD) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing calls to resign after Israeli police on Sunday recommended indicting him and his wife on fraud and bribery charges. It's the third such recommendation to hit the prime minister this year. The New York Times lays out the alleged wrongdoing: Between 2012 and 2017, the police said, Mr. Netanyahu "intervened in a blatant and ongoing manner, …

Netanyahu Refuses to Resign After Israeli Police Recommend Fraud, Bribery Charges

Two U.S. Police Departments Cancel Training with Israel
Middle East Monitor | mintpressnews.com | 2018-12-03
For the first time since the program's inception in 2002, US police departments are cancelling their annual training trips to Israel amid pressure from organizations affiliated with the BDS movement. | The post Two U.S. Police Departments Cancel Training with Israel appeared first on MintPress News.
mintpressnews.com/us-police-cancel-israel/252469/

Rejecting Israel Lobby's Influence Over Congress, Rashida Tlaib Plans to Lead Delegation to Palestine
Alex Kane | theintercept.com | 2018-12-03
For decades, AIPAC has sponsored trips to Israel for new members of Congress. Rep.-elect Rashida Tlaib, a Palestinian-American, is planning an alternative. | The post Rejecting Israel Lobby's Influence Over Congress, Rashida Tlaib Plans to Lead Delegation to Palestine appeared first on The Intercept.
theintercept.com/2018/12/03/rashida-tlaib-palestine-israel-aipac-congress-trip/

Cornel West Responds to CNN Firing Marc Lamont Hill
Shared by Hezvo Mpunga | therealnews.com | 2018-12-02
"All he's saying is that Palestinian babies deserve the same rights as Israeli babies" | The post Cornel West Responds to CNN Firing Marc Lamont Hill appeared first on The Real News Network.
therealnews.com/stories/cornel-west-responds-to-cnn-firing-marc-lamont-hill

Israel escalating the demolition of Palestine
stuart_m | greenleft.org.au | 2018-11-30
When it comes to the infrastructure of genocide, you could illustrate it using almost any photo of a school, house, shop or village in the West Bank. You could bookmark a Google maps page of a particular West Bank town — then look again in three or six months time and note the destruction wrought. | This is one way of keeping track of the demolitions of Palestinian homes and Israel's attempts to impose an "Israeli only" identity on the landscape. | There has been a redoubling of Israeli efforts to evict Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem and deny remaining Palestinian residents the right to a livelihoo…
greenleft.org.au/content/israel-escalating-demolition-palestine

Israel's Overlooked Strategic Losses in Wars Against Arabs
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2018-11-29
After conventional Arab armies failed to deter Israeli invasions, Lebanese and Palestinian volunteers have changed the strategic balance in the Middle East, writes As`ad AbuKhalil. 2006 Lebanese War Changed Power Calculus By As`ad AbuKhalil Special to Consortium News In South… Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2018/11/29/israels-overlooked-strategic-losses-in-wars-against-arabs/

Palestinian Civil Society Urges World Governments to Impose a Military Embargo on Saudi Regime Over Khashoggi Murder and War Crimes in Yemen, On Israel for War Crimes and Apartheid Against Palestinians
LEILI | bdsmovement.net | 2018-11-26
Palestinian Civil Society Urges World Governments to Impose a Military Embargo on Saudi Regime Over Khashoggi Murder and War Crimes in Yemen, On Israel for War Crimes and Apartheid Against Palestinians: Update"We appeal to progressives and social movements everywhere to pressure their governments to impose strict military embargoes on all states that are perpetrating crimes against hu…
bdsmovement.net/news/palestinian-civil-society-urges-world-governments-impose-military-embargo-saudi-regime-over

Airbnb's Decision to Exit Israel's Illegal Settlements: A Partial Victory for Human Rights & Accountability
ziyaad | bdsmovement.net | 2018-11-20
Airbnb's Decision to Exit Israel's Illegal Settlements: A Partial Victory for Human Rights & Accountability: BNC StatementAirbnb's decision to end its business in Israel's illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory is an important first step. It unfortunately fails to cover settlements in East Jerusalem, which is also occupied according to international law. All Isr…
bdsmovement.net/news/airbnbs-decision-exit-israels-illegal-settlements-partial-victory-human-rights-accountability

The Crisis in Gaza and a Potential Ceasefire
Phyllis Bennis | zcomm.org | 2018-11-14
Discussing the recent Israeli special forces operation inside the Gaza Strip that killed 7 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier, as well as Israeli air strikes and a potential ceasefire…
zcomm.org/zvideo/the-crisis-in-gaza-and-a-potential-ceasefire/

Palestine: Fadwa Tuqan's poems and data on women's education
Huzaifa Zoomkawala | zcomm.org | 2018-11-12
And here is my second attempt at bridging the three areas: poems, justice and data visualization. This time, it's the Palestinian poet, Fadwa Tuqan, whose poems I have highlighted alongside some charts depicting the progress over the years on a number of women's education indicators in the West Bank and Gaza. (Earlier, I had used Read…
zcomm.org/zblogs/palestine-fadwa-tuqans-poems-and-data-on-womens-education/

Love Bollywood, hate apartheid!
SAMIR | bdsmovement.net | 2018-11-12
Love Bollywood, hate apartheid!: Action AlertThe Israeli government wants to use Bollywood stars to whitewash its oppression against Palestinians. Join us in urging them to refuse to participate. | Cultural BoycottNovember 12, 2018 | By: | | Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) …
bdsmovement.net/news/love-bollywood-hate-apartheid

Palestinians Write to ICRC: Conference in Partnership with Hebrew University Undermines Palestinian Human Rights
PACBI | bdsmovement.net | 2018-11-05
Palestinians Write to ICRC: Conference in Partnership with Hebrew University Undermines Palestinian Human Rights: UpdateAn International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) conference in partnership with Hebrew University, which is deeply complicit in Israel's flagrant violations of international humanitarian law, undermines Palestinian human rights and our nonviolent struggle to ac…
bdsmovement.net/news/palestinians-write-icrc-conference-partnership-hebrew-university-undermines-palestinian-human