2019-11-19: News Headlines

Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers (2019-11-19). Occupied Palestine: From BDS To ODS. dissidentvoice.org We spent the last week in Occupied Palestinian Territory, commonly referred to as Israel, where we traveled around the country to visit communities in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Bethlehem, the West Bank, the Nagab, and more. We call Israel Occupied Palestine because it is not just the West Bank and Gaza that are occupied, but all of …

Ramzy Baroud (2019-11-19). How Western Media Bias Allows Israel to Getaway with Murder in Gaza. counterpunch.org An Israeli attack on Gaza was imminent, and not because of any provocations by Palestinian groups in the besieged, impoverished Gaza Strip. The Israeli military escalation was foreseeable because it factors neatly in Israel's contentious political scene. The war was not a question of "if", but "when". The answer came on November 12, when the Israeli military launched a major strike against Gaza, killing an Islamic Jihad Commander, Bahaa Abu al-Ata, along with his wife Asma. More

RT (2019-11-19). 'P*ssy African!' Paulo Costa steps up ugly war of words with UFC middleweight champ Adesanya. rt.com UFC middleweight contender Paulo Costa has reignited his war of words with world champion Israel Adesanya by calling the Nigerian-born New Zealander a "p*ssy African." | Adesanya won his UFC middleweight world title in October with an outstanding second-round knockout of Robert Whittaker. The fight took place in Melbourne, Australia and broke the company's previous attendance record with 57,127. | As soon as Adesanya produced the knockout, he got up on the side of the Octagon fence and gestured towards Costa, who was in the crowd, eager to get onto the canvas to exchange words with his 185 pound rival. | It wa…

RT (2019-11-19). Israeli warplanes strike Damascus, air defenses destroy 'most' of hostile missiles (VIDEO). rt.com Syrian air defenses have repelled an Israeli raid, intercepting several "hostile missiles" over southern Damascus, and destroying majority of them before the projectiles hit the ground, state news agency SANA reported. | Also on rt.com | | Several blasts heard near Syria's Damascus airport — state media | Citing a Syrian military source, SANA reported on Tuesday night that Syrian missile defenses came under "a heavy attack" by Israeli warplanes that targeted the Damascus area from the Israeli-controlled part of the occupied Golan Heights a…

Kevin Zeese (2019-11-19). Occupied Palestine: From BDS to ODS. The Project of a One Democratic State (ODS). globalresearch.ca We spent the last week in Occupied Palestinian Territory, commonly referred to as Israel, where we traveled around the country to visit communities in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Bethlehem, the West Bank, the Nagab, and more. | We call Israel Occupied Palestine because …

Stephen Lendman (2019-11-19). Trump Regime Calls Illegal Israel Settlements Legal. globalresearch.ca There's no ambiguity about the illegality of Israeli settlements. International law on the issue is clear and unequivocal. | It's automatically US constitutional law under its Supremacy Clause (Article VI, Clause 2). | Fourth Geneva's Article 49 states: | "Individual or mass forcible …

IMEMC News (2019-11-19). Army Releases A Palestinian Fisherman Who Was Abducted A Year Ago. imemc.org The Israeli army released, on Monday at night, a Palestinian fisherman who was taken prisoner a year ago, after the navy ships attacked fishing boats in Gaza territorial waters, and opened fire on them. The Palestinian Fishermen's Syndicate said the fisherman, identified as Mohammad Qassem Saidam, was released after a …

Julie Webb-Pullman (2019-11-19). New Zealand Even Hand against Palestine: Jacinda Adern, that Tweet, and Gaza. globalresearch.ca The New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs' (MFAT) tweet on 12 November condemning rocket fire from Gaza while failing to condemn the Israeli extrajudicial assassinations and civilian killings that generated Islamic Jihad's rocket-fire in defensive response, reveals the hypocrisy at …

teleSUR (2019-11-19). Russia Denounces US Decision on Israel Settlements in West Bank. telesurenglish.net The Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday denounced a statement by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the U.S. authorities no longer treat Israeli settlements in the West Bank as inconsistent with international law. | RELATED: | US Says Israel Settlements Not Illegal Under International Law | "We regard this decision of Washington as another step aimed at scrapping the international legal base of the Middle East settlement,…

IMEMC News (2019-11-19). Israeli Soldiers Abduct A Basketball Referee, Scout Leader, In Ramallah. imemc.org Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, a Palestinian scout leader and a basketball referee, identified as George Abu Ghazala, from his home in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and took him to an unknown destination. Media sources in Ramallah said the soldiers stormed George's home and ransacked …

IMEMC News (2019-11-19). Illegal Israeli Colonists Storm A Christian Church In Hebron. imemc.org A group of fanatic Israeli colonialist settlers stormed, on Monday at night, the al-Maskobiyya Church, known as Abraham's Oak Holy Trinity Monastery, in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Eyewitnesses said dozens of illegal colonists, accompanied by a large military force, invaded the Christian Monastery …

WSWS (2019-11-19). J'accuse (An Officer and a Spy): Roman Polanski's masterpiece on the Dreyfus Affair. wsws.org Director Roman Polanski's J'accuse recounts the 12-year struggle to clear Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jewish officer unjustly convicted of spying for Germany in 1894.

Paul Antonopoulos (2019-11-19). U.S. Continues to Draw Lines in Eastern Mediterranean. globalresearch.ca From November 3 to November 14, Israeli, U.S., German, Italian and Greek war jets participated in the "Blue Flag 2019" military exercises out of the Ovda Air Base in Israel's Negev Desert. The timing of these exercises corresponds with Turkey …

WSWS (2019-11-19). US declares Israeli settlements no longer illegal. wsws.org Pompeo's announcement makes clear that Washington will brook no constraints of international law on its pursuit of US hegemony via military means.

United Nations (2019-11-19). UN 'regrets' new US position on legality of Israeli settlements. un.org The longstanding position of the UN regarding Israeli settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territory — that they are in breach of international law — is unchanged, Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said during a press briefing on Tuesday in New York, reacting to the policy reversal announced by the United States.

commondreams (2019-11-19). Shift on Israeli Settlements Violates Norms Established at Nuremberg, Human Rights Attorneys Say. commondreams.org ______________________________…

Yumna Patel (2019-11-19). 'Orwellian Absurdity': US Reversal on Israel's Settlements Draws International Outrage. globalresearch.ca US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Monday that the US was softening its position on Israel's network of settlements in the occupied Palestinain territory, saying it was revoking the notion that settlements are illegal under international law — …

IMEMC News (2019-11-19). Israeli Soldiers Abduct 15 Palestinians, Summon 7 For Interrogation, In al-'Isawiya. imemc.org Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, the al-'Isawiya town in the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, stormed and ransacked dozens of homes, before abducting fifteen Palestinians, and summoned seven others for interrogation. The soldiers invaded the town from several directions, before they started breaking into homes and ransacking them, and …

commondreams (2019-11-19). 140+ Palestinian Groups Urge Boycott of Airbnb Funds, Launch Twitter Storm. commondreams.org ______________________________…

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Eoin Higgins, staff writer (2019-11-19). 'Naked Violation' of Human Rights: Global Condemnation Over New US Position on Israeli Occupation. commondreams.org "The American government's decision to jettison international law and to legitimise the illegal Israeli settlements is probably the very last nail in the coffin of the two-state solution." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/palestine.jpeg

Staff (2019-11-19). Noura Erakat: U.S. Recognition of Israeli Settlements Is "Entrenchment of an Apartheid Regime" democracynow.org The Trump administration has announced it no longer views Israel settlements in the occupied West Bank to be a violation of international law, in another blow to possible Israel-Palestine peace negotiations. On Monday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced a reversal to the U.S. position, putting the U.S. at odds with the international community. A U.N. resolution in 2016 declared the settlements a "flagrant violation" of international law. Israel's embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed Pompeo's announcement as a historic day for Israel, but Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat condemned the…

Staff (2019-11-19). Headlines for November 19, 2019. democracynow.org U.S. Claims Israeli Settlements Are Not Illegal Under International Law, Four Witnesses Slated to Testify in Public Impeachment Hearings, U.N. Condemns U.S. for World's Highest Rate of Children in Detention, Political Crisis in Bolivia Continues After Military Pressure Ousts Evo Morales, American Professor Freed in Prisoner Swap in Afghanistan, 1,000 Students Arrested in Police Siege of Hong Kong University, Coal Mine Blast in China Kills 15; Pipeline Explosion in Bangladesh Kills 7, Deforestation of Brazilian Amazon Skyrocketed Since Bolsonaro's Election, Syracuse Suspends All Fraternity Activities After String…

Robert Fisk (2019-11-18). Michael Lynk's UN Report on Israeli Settlements Speaks the Truth, But the World Refuses to Listen. counterpunch.org He's a very tall man with bright eyes and a broad smile, and he holds out a great paw when he greets you. But Michael Lynk is no gentle giant. He may teach human rights law at the Western University in London, Ontario, but as the UN's special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied More

teleSUR (2019-11-18). US Says Israel Settlements Not Illegal Under International Law. telesurenglish.net The United States abandoned Monday its 40-year-long position announcing Israel's settlements in the occupied West Bank are not "inconsistent with international law." In doing so the North-American country effectively endorsed Israel's right to build settlements, further hindering an already stuck peace process. | RELATED: | Trump 'Frustrated' With Netanyahu Amid Israel's Political Impasse | "The establishment of Israeli civilian settlements is not, per se, inconsistent with in…

IMEMC News & Agencies (2019-11-18). Palestinians Call On Catherine Ringer to Cancel Tel Aviv Concert. imemc.org November 18, 2019 / BDS France Dear Catherine Ringer, The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) urges you to cancel your 19th December show at Barby club in apartheid Tel Aviv. During Israel's 2014 massacres in Gaza that killed more than 2,200 Palestinians, including more …

Tyler Durden (2019-11-18). Pompeo Issues Historic US Policy Reversal: Israeli West Bank Settlements "Not Illegal" theantimedia.com The Trump administration is reversing the official US stance on the illegality of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

IMEMC News & Agencies (2019-11-18). Palestinian Officials Denounce US Decision on Settlements. imemc.org Presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said, today, that the announcement by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, that the Israeli settlements in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank do not violate international law, is null and void, condemned and totally contradicts with international law, resolutions of the international legitimacy that …

IMEMC News (2019-11-18). Soldiers Shoot A Palestinian Near The Annexation Wall In Jenin. imemc.org Israeli soldiers shot, Monday, a Palestinian near the illegal Annexation Wall close to Taher al-'Abed village, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin; the Palestinian is the tenth to be shot by the soldiers in the same area in recent days. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said …

IMEMC News & Agencies (2019-11-18). Two Hunger-strikers in Serious Health Condition. imemc.org The Palestinian Commission of Detainees' and Ex-Detainees' Affairs warned, on Monday, of the deteriorating health conditions of hunger striking Palestinian prisoners Ahmad Zahran and Mosab al-Hindi, who are imprisoned at Israeli Nitzan jail. The commission confirmed that the conditions of the two prisoners are getting worse every day, adding that …

IMEMC & Agencies (2019-11-18). Family Members of Palestinian Detainee Arrested. imemc.org According to the Prisoners Commission, the wife and the brother of a Palestinian prisoner in Israel were arrested, Monday, while attempting to a visit the detainee, The Palestinian News and Info Agency (WAFA) reported. The Commission stated that Israeli forces detained the wife of Ramadan Eid Mashahreh, along with his …

Ryan Cristián (2019-11-18). US Says Israeli Settlements Are Legal, 23 Killed In Bolivia As Violent Coup Ignored & Venezuela Flop. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (11/18/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …

Fight Back (2019-11-17). Protesters demand end to Israeli attacks on Gaza. fightbacknews.org NY, New York – On the evening of November 15, over 150 people gathered on 42nd and Broadway to demand that Israel, backed by the United States government, stop the murder and occupation of Palestinians. | The emergency rally was called by several different organizations in New York City in response to Israel murdering 34 people, including eight children in Gaza. The organizations were Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, CODEPINK: Women For Peace, Labor for Palestine, Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, NY4Palestine, Jews for Palestinian Right of Return, American Muslims for Palesti…

Ryan Cristián (2019-11-17). Bolivia's New US-Made Dictatorship, Netanyahu Wins As Gaza Loses & Iran's Protests Are Trump's Fault. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (11/16/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …

Kim Petersen (2019-11-16). Israeli Zionist Racism Unmasked. dissidentvoice.org Imagine if following the recent federal election in Canada, where the Liberal Party was left with a minority government, that prime minister Justin Trudeau had stated, "We are facing an emergency that is unprecedented in the history of Canada." Why? Imagine that Trudeau explained that "setting up a government that depends on the First Nation …

Ramzy Baroud (2019-11-16). How Western Media Bias Allows Israel to Get away with Murder in Gaza. dissidentvoice.org An Israeli attack on Gaza was imminent, and not because of any provocations by Palestinian groups in the besieged, impoverished Gaza Strip. The Israeli military escalation was foreseeable because it factors neatly in Israel's contentious political scene. The war was not a question of "if", but "when". The answer came on November 12, when the …

Ryan Cristián (2019-11-15). Israel Kills Over 30 In Gaza, Bolivia Coup About Lithium And More & Israeli Group Taking Syria's Oil. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (11/14/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …

Staff (2019-11-15). Headlines for November 15, 2019. democracynow.org Two Killed as 16-Year-Old Student Opens Fire at L.A. County High School, El Paso Walmart Reopens, Three Months After Massacre by Racist Gunman, House Speaker Pelosi Accuses Trump of Bribery, an Impeachable Offense, Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine to Testify She Felt Threatened by Trump, Chile to Hold Referendum on Rewriting Pinochet-Era Constitution, Chilean Protesters Mark Anniversary of Police Killing of Indigenous Activist, Mon Laferte Holds Topless Protest Against Chilean State Violence at Latin Grammys, Indigenous Bolivians Protest as Interim President Orders Evo Morales Silenced, Israel Resumes Bombing as…

Aaron Maté (2019-11-14). Israel's relentless violence on Gaza met by global silence. thegrayzone.com A ceasefire has been reached in Gaza after Israel launched a wave of airstrikes that killed 34 Palestinians, including eight…

Staff (2019-11-14). Headlines for November 14, 2019. democracynow.org U.S. Diplomats Testify Trump Pressured Ukraine to Dig Up Political Dirt on Bidens, Trump Claims He Was "Too Busy" to Watch Impeachment Inquiry, Trump Hosts President Erdogan at White House Amid Turkish Attacks in Syria, 34 Palestinians Killed in Two Days as Israel Bombs Gaza Strip, Exiled Bolivian President Evo Morales Calls for "National Dialogue", Protests Rage as Bolivia's Self-Proclaimed Interim President Swears In Cabinet, Lebanese Soldiers Shoot and Kill Man as Protests Enter Fifth Week, Zimbabwe: Millions at Risk of Starving Amid Climate Change-Fueled Drought, Hundreds of Elephants Die as Drought Grips Sou…

Ramzy Baroud (2019-11-13). The Real Reasons Behind Israel's Arrest of Two Jordanian Nationals. mintpressnews.com The release on November 6 of two Jordanian nationals, Heba al-Labadi and Abdul Rahman Mi'ri from Israeli prisons was a bittersweet moment. The pair were finally reunited with their families after harrowing experiences in Israel. Sadly, thousands of Palestinian prisoners are still denied their freedom, still subjected to all sorts of hardships at the hands of their Israeli jailers. | Despite the jubilant return of the two prisoners, celebrated in Jordan, Palestine and throughout the Arab world, several compelling questions remain unanswered: why were they held in the first place? Why were they released and what ca…

Ryan Cristián (2019-11-12). James Corbett Interview — ISIS Was Created, Armed And Funded By US/Israel & It's An Open Secret. thelastamericanvagabond.com The US government armed Osama Bin Laden; it armed Saddam Hussain with chemical weapons to be used against Iran in 1980; it armed the very groups that later became ISIS. Yet we are sold an entirely different yarn by the US government and its lap dog MSM. Today I have invited James Corbett on the …

ziyaad (2019-11-12). Anglican Church in Southern Africa voted to support non-violent action to end Israel's military occupation of Palestine, especially BDS actions. bdsmovement.net Anglican Church in Southern Africa voted to support non-violent action to end Israel's military occupation of Palestine, especially BDS actions : In the NewsProvincial Synod votes on Israel sanctions, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia
Economic Boycott Cultural BoycottSeptember 26, 2019 | By: | | Anglican Church of Southern Africa

Staff (2019-11-12). Headlines for November 12, 2019. democracynow.org Longtime Bolivian President Evo Morales Takes Asylum in Mexico, Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments on DACA Cases, Televised Impeachment Hearings to Start Tomorrow, Former MA Gov. Deval Patrick May Jump Into 2020 Race, NY Republican Congressman Peter King Retires, Donald Trump Jr. Heckled Off Stage by His Own Supporters, EPA to Restrict Scientific Research Used to Write Public Health Regulations, Israeli Military Kills Palestinian Commander in Targeted Assassination in Gaza, Afghan Government & Taliban Agree on Prisoner Exchange, Chilean Government Bows to Protests & Agrees to Rewrite Constitution, 260 Arrested in…

Ahmed Abdulkareem (2019-11-11). The Houthis Are Preparing for a Planned Israeli Attack on Yemen. mintpressnews.com There are strong indications that Israel is planning to launch airstrikes against Yemen under the pretext of preventing an Iranian military presence from taking hold, much as it did in Syria and Iraq.

patrick (2019-11-11). Jewish group welcomes revocation of Beth Oloth's charitable status. bdsmovement.net Jewish group welcomes revocation of Beth Oloth's charitable status: In the NewsBeth Oloth Charitable Organization has had its tax-deductible status revoked by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) due to its support for Israel's army and activities in Israel's illegal settlements. | January 28, 2019 | By: | | Independent Jewish Voices Canada

PACBI (2019-11-05). Gaza Championship Football Team Urges Argentina and Uruguay National Teams to Cancel "Friendly" Match in Apartheid Israel. bdsmovement.net Gaza Championship Football Team Urges Argentina and Uruguay National Teams to Cancel "Friendly" Match in Apartheid Israel: Open LetterIn an open letter, Khadamat Rafah, the top Gaza League football team, urges Argentina and Uruguay national teams to cancel "friendly" match in apartheid Tel Aviv. Israel denied Khadamat Rafah permits to travel to the 2019 Palestine Cup, causing the finals…

PACBI (2019-11-02). Tell Argentina and Uruguay: There's Nothing Friendly About Israeli Apartheid. bdsmovement.net Tell Argentina and Uruguay: There's Nothing Friendly About Israeli Apartheid: Action AlertUrge Argentina and Uruguay national football teams to stand with Palestinian footballers and cancel the "friendly" match in apartheid Israel. Red Card IsraelNovember 2, 2019 | By: | | Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)

Ryan Cristián (2019-11-02). Baghdadi Deception Exposed, Israel Bombs Gaza After Phantom Rocket & US Violates Own Syria Sanctions. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (11/1/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …

Ryan Cristián (2019-10-26). Russia Has 'Proof' US Is Smuggling Oil In Syria & Did Israel/US Create A Civil War In Lebanon? thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (10/26/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …