2020-07-02: News Headlines

Peoples Dispatch (2020-07-02). Protests erupt across Palestine against Israeli annexation plan. peoplesdispatch.org Protesters gathered in major West Bank cities of Ramallah, Jericho and Bethlehem, as well as in Gaza city in Gaza, to put forth a united Palestinian front against Israel's illegal, unilateral actions…

Ali Salam (2020-07-02). Palestinians Protest Israel's Annexation Plans in Gaza, Ramallah. imemc.org Thousands of Palestinians participated in a large rally in Gaza, on Wednesday, expressing their rejection of the occupation states annexation plans, Quds News Network reported. Political leaders and civilians attended the demonstration, raising Palestinian flags and reciting slogans against the expropriation of the Palestinian Jordan Valley, and other parts of …

_____ (2020-07-02). History Provides Clues Into Israel's West Bank Annexation. popularresistance.org Palestine has been annexed, occupied, stolen, and Palestinians have been dispossessed, exiled, caged, detained, subjected to an apartheid regime, and killed by the state of Israel for over seven decades. Every few years the world wakes up to protest some aspect of Israeli apartheid, occupation, or a massacre, and then it returns safely to its deep slumber. | Every so often, Israel manages to awaken the angst of the European Union and other international organizations with some announcement or another, a murderous attack on Palestinians, a declaration of annexation or "sovereignty," and then, as if under the influ…

Vijay Prashad (2020-07-02). We are in Palestine, Habibi, and Palestine is Heaven. dissidentvoice.org Sliman Mansour (Palestine), Revolution Was the Beginning, 2016. Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. It is impossible to be calm about the fate of the Palestinian people. Since 1948, they have been denied their country and denied their right to exist. One United Nations resolution upon another has said that …

Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal (2020-07-02). Israel Guilty of Crimes against Humanity, Genocide against the People of Palestine. globalresearch.ca Israel is currently in the process of implementing the illegal annexation of Palestinian lands. The issue of "illegality" must be put in context. We are dealing with a broader issue: Crimes against Humanity and Genocide against the People of Palestine. …

Global Research News (2020-07-02). Israel Guilty of Crimes against Humanity, Genocide: 2013 Judgment of the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal. globalresearch.ca Israel is currently in the process of implementing the illegal annexation of Palestinian lands. The issue of "illegality" must be put in context. We are dealing with a broader issue: Crimes against Humanity and Genocide against the People of Palestine. …

Ali Salam (2020-07-02). Israeli Settlers Steal Water, Raze Palestinian-owned Lands near Nablus. imemc.org Illegal Israeli settlers, Wednesday, levelled large stretch of Palestinian-owned land, in the northern West Bank districts of Nablus and Qalqilia, local sources said. Palestinian official who monitors Israeli settlement activity in the area, Ghassan Daghlas, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that illegal Israeli colonists, accompanied by a bulldozer, proceeded to …

Fight Back (2020-07-02). Israeli annexation of West Bank: More stolen land as time runs out for occupation. fightbacknews.org The Israeli apartheid regime is poised to commit a new crime against Palestine: the annexation of up to 30% of the West Bank. As things stand Israel effectively controls Palestine, with the heroic people of Gaza confined to an open prison and the hapless Palestinian Authority serving as accomplices to the occupation. | The significance of the annexation is twofold. First, it codifies the theft of Palestinian land. It is a statement to one and all, "We are stealing this, and it is ours forever." Second, it is the declaration of the end of a solution that was never really a solution at all, the so-called 'two state…

_____ (2020-07-02). What Price Will Israel Pay For Annexing The Last Of Palestine? popularresistance.org The systematic and collective appropriation of Palestinian land by the State of Israel is not an accident of British colonial history. Palestinians are not the Chagos Islanders of the Eastern Mediterranean, a people considered by the UK government to be too weak and scattered to bother about. | The dispossession of Palestinian land was a product of British foreign policy. Lord Balfour may not have intended a Jewish state when he issued his declaration in 1917 recognising the rights of Jews to set up a "homeland", a deliberately ambiguous phrase. At that point, two percent of Palestine was owned by Jews. | In an e…

Ali Salam (2020-07-02). Israeli Forces Order Halt Construction, Confiscation to Palestinians in West Bank. imemc.org The Israeli military, on Wednesday, distributed confiscation notices to Palestinian owners of hundreds of dunams of agricultural lands in Jab'a village, in the southern occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Local sources said the lands to be confiscated are owned by the Masha'leh and Tous …

Al-Mezan Center For Human Rights (2020-07-02). Mezan: "Marking the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Al Mezan Highlights Abuse of 92 Children Crossing Gaza's Buffer Zone" imemc.org Al-Mezan Center For Human Rights: Press Release: To mark the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Al Mezan highlights its recent monitoring and documentation concerning the torture and abuse of Palestinian children attempting to cross the Israeli-imposed buffer zone, or access-restricted area, in Gaza.

Ryan Grim (2020-07-02). J Street Facing New Pressure to Back Conditioning Aid to Israel. zcomm.org More than 1,000 former and current members of J Street U are calling on the group's leadership to get behind a legislative effort to condition funding of the state of Israel if it goes forward with illegally annexing Palestinian territory…

IMEMC News (2020-07-02). Soldiers Abduct A Lawyer, Who Previously Spent 9 Years In Prison, While His French Wife, Child, Were Deported. imemc.org Israeli soldiers abducted, two days ago, a Palestinian lawyer with French citizenship, from occupied Jerusalem, a former political prisoner who was previously imprisoned for more than nine years, and moved him to the al-Maskobiyya interrogation facility. The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported that the soldiers abducted Salah Hammouri while …

Islam Times (2020-07-02). Former PM Mahathir Calls on Muslims to Focus on Fighting Israeli Regime. globalresearch.ca In an interview with a Lebanese-based media on Wed., Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad said, "Muslims must stop fighting among themselves and focus on 'Israeli enemy' instead." | "I know that there are great powers that seek instability among Islamic countries, but …

Islam Times (2020-07-02). Mahatir Calls on Muslims to Focus on Fighting Israeli Regime. globalresearch.ca In an interview with a Lebanese-based media on Wed., Mahathir Mohamad said, "Mislims must stop fighting among themselves and focus on 'Israeli enemy' instead." | "I know that there are great powers that seek instability among Islamic countries, but we are …

Jamaal Bowman (2020-07-02). Mobilizing people who are "disenfranchised and ignored" zcomm.org Interview with Jamaal Bowman on NY Primary Upset, Rent Strikes, Police Brutality & Opposing West Bank Annexation…

yenisafak (2020-07-02). Israel registers highest daily rise in virus cases. yenisafak.com Israel on Thursday confirmed 966 new cases of the novel coronavirus, the highest single-day spike since the virus was first detected on Feb. 21, the country's Health Ministry said.The country reported two more deaths from the virus over the past 24 hours, the ministry said in a statement.Israeli authorities have so far reported 26,452 infections, including 324 deaths and 17,481 recoveries.The number of active cases, which dropped below 2,000 last month, rose to 8,647 after a spike in recent days.Israel lifted most of the COVID-19-related restrictions after the daily number of virus cases dropped below 20 last mon…

_____ (2020-07-01). Twitter Targets Accounts Of Outlets Covering Unrest In Bolivia. popularresistance.org Social media giant Twitter took the step of suspending the official account of MintPress News on Saturday. Without warning, the nine-year-old account with 64,000 followers was abruptly labeled as "fake" or "spam" and restricted. This move is becoming a frequent occurrence for alternative media, especially those that openly challenge U.S. power globally. | Immediately preceding the ban, MintPress had been sharing stories about Israeli government crimes against Palestinians, the Saudi-led onslaught in Yemen (both funded and supported by Washington), and about activists challenging chemical giant Monsanto's latest p…

_____ (2020-07-01). Pro-Israel Racist Group ADL Moves To Co-Opt Black Lives Matter. popularresistance.org For those who yearn for an end to systemic racism, these are exhilarating times as Black activists and organizations lead a global uprising against symbols and structures of white supremacy. | But if you are a racist group masquerading as a civil rights organization, these days are fraught with the danger that you'll get found out. | It's a balancing act that has for years bedeviled the Anti-Defamation League, a major Israel lobby group in the United States. The crisis is particularly acute right now as the ADL tries to portray itself as an ally of Black Lives Matter while also shielding Israel from criticism ove…

Staff (2020-07-01). Jamaal Bowman on NY Primary Upset, Rent Strikes, Police Brutality & Opposing West Bank Annexation. democracynow.org As a surge of a progressive candidates of color see victories in Democratic primaries across the country, we speak with former Bronx middle school principal Jamaal Bowman about his upset victory over New York Congressmember Eliot Engel, the 16-term Foreign Affairs Committee chair. Bowman ran on a Green New Deal, Medicare for All platform and recently joined protests demanding an end to racism and police brutality. He says his upset over Engel came down to mobilizing people who are "disenfranchised and ignored" by the political establishment. "We didn't just target those who consistently vote in primaries. We targ…

Peoples Dispatch (2020-07-01). Global protests against Israel's 'Annexation Plan'. peoplesdispatch.org Protests, both on the ground and on the virtual platforms, were organized on Wednesday July 1 across the world to denounce the proposed Israeli annexation of parts of the occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank. Several organizations are also demanding international sanctions against Israel if it goes ahead with the move. | Civil society movements, including the Palestinian Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS), organized protests in countries such as the US, the UK, Canada, Germany and Spain, among several others. | Israel had announced that it would start the process of annexation of the parts of the occupied…

Juan Cole (2020-07-01). Sanders, AOC, Tlaib Threaten to Cut Israeli Funding. zcomm.org The letter is a turning point in US-Israeli relations since 1967, during which the American public and political elite has been happy to support Israeli colonization of the Palestinians…

RT (2020-07-01). France warns Israeli annexation of West Bank won't be 'without consequences'. rt.com France has warned that any Israel annexation of the West Bank "could not be left without consequences" and said that it is "examining different options" at a national level and with its European partners. | "Annexation of Palestinian territories, whatever the perimeters, would seriously throw into question the parameters to resolve the conflict," Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told a parliamentary hearing on Wednesday. | Israel plans to annex as much as 30 percent of occupied Palestinian territory, which has been met with disapproval from much of the international community, including the UK and EU.

Ali Salam (2020-07-01). US Organizations Demand Change in US Foreign Policy Towards Israel and Palestine. imemc.org In a letter to US presidential candidates Joe Biden and Donald Trump, more than 100 US organizations appealed to the potential leaders to adopt a moral and principled foreign policy regarding Palestine and Israel, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. The organizations that endorsed the letter included American Muslims for …

Abdel Bari Atwan (2020-07-01). Israel's West Bank annexation scheme. thealtworld.com If the latest land-grab triggers the response it deserves, good could yet come out of evil | It belittles and demeans the Palestinian cause to reduce it to the issue of the 30% of the West Bank and Jordan Valley which Binyamin Netanyahu is proposing to annex to Israel. The territory targeted for annexation is already under occupation, as is Palestine in its entirety. Yet for many years the world has kept silent about this occupation, lulled by Israel's deceptions and the collusion of its international partners, and buying into the illusion that the Oslo Accords and their bogus promises would somehow bring it to a…

Jehan Alfarra (2020-07-01). Remembering the Handover of 'One Palestine, Complete'. globalresearch.ca On this day in 1920, the first High Commissioner for Palestine Herbert Samuel, was handed the administration of the country by the British government and signed a receipt saying "one Palestine, complete" | *** | On this day in 1920, the …

Steve Sweeney (2020-07-01). UN human rights chief brands Israel's annexation of more Palestinian land illegal. peoplesworld.org

Robert Fantina (2020-07-01). Israeli Police Brutality: Unnoticed Murder of Palestinian Autistic Man Eyad Hallaq. globalresearch.ca It is sometimes difficult to comprehend the savagery of the Israeli police state. There may be two reasons for this: 1) because the actions of the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) and illegal settlers are so extreme and violent as to …

IMEMC Staff (2020-07-01). Israeli Authorities Deliver Confiscation Warrant to Palestinian Family in Jerusalem. imemc.org Israeli occupation authorities delivered, Tuesday night, a confiscation warrant to a Palestinian family in the Wadi Al-Hilweh neighborhood of Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem. According to the Wadi Al-Hilweh Information Center (Silwanic), the warrant is pertaining to an Israeli authorities' plan to confiscate the home of Palestinian Samareen family, …

Salena Fay Tramel (2020-07-01). Palestinian farmers fight against annexation and pandemic. zcomm.org The violent Israeli encroachment and annexation of Palestinian land is putting the future of the West Bank and its residents in an extremely vulnerable position…

Mohammed El-Kurd (2020-07-01). My Grandmother, Icon of Palestinian Resilience. thenation.com My Grandmother, Icon of Palestinian Resilience…

IMEMC News (2020-07-01). Army Demolishes A Home, A Barn, In Al-'Isawiya In Occupied Jerusalem. imemc.org Israeli soldiers demolished, Wednesday, a Palestinian home and a barn for horses, in the eastern part of the southern area of the al-'Isawiya town, in occupied Jerusalem, in addition to destroying water pipelines. Mohammad Abu al-Hummus, a member of the Follow-Up Committee in al-'Isawiya, said the soldiers demolished a home, …

IMEMC News (2020-07-01). Israeli Soldiers Close Two Main Roadblocks In West Bank. imemc.org Israeli soldiers closed, on Wednesday at night, two main permanent military roadblocks in the occupied West Bank, blocking vital Palestinian traffic and isolating vast West Bank areas, without providing any explanation. Media sources said the soldiers sealed the Container roadblock, northeast of Bethlehem and east of occupied East Jerusalem, which …

Mohammed El-Kurd (2020-07-01). My Grandmother, My Icon of Palestinian Resilience. thenation.com My Grandmother, My Icon of Palestinian Resilience…

IMEMC News (2020-07-01). Illegal Israeli Colonists Occupy Palestinian Lands In Hebron. imemc.org A group of fanatic Israeli colonialist settlers, illegally squatting on Palestinian lands, invaded and occupied, on Tuesday evening, Palestinian lands on a hill near the bypass road at the entrance of Sa'ir town, east of Hebron, in the southern part of the illegally occupied West Bank. Local sources said dozens …

IMEMC Staff (2020-07-01). Israeli Troops Abduct Twenty Six Palestinians Including Two Women. imemc.org Israeli troops abducted, early Wednesday morning, twenty six Palestinians, including two women, from different parts of the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Local Palestinian sources said that Israeli troops abducted ten Palestinians from different neighborhoods in the occupied East Jerusalem, identified as Ahmad Abu Al-Rab, Akram Salaymeh, Muhammad Amira, …

IMEMC News (2020-07-01). Israeli Soldiers Demolish A Palestinian Home In Jerusalem. imemc.org Israeli soldiers demolished, Wednesday, a Palestinian home in Deir al-Sunna neighborhood, in Jabal al-Mokabber, southeast of occupied East Jerusalem. Media sources said the soldiers stormed the home, owned by the family of Yassin Za'atra, and demolished it, under the allegation of being built without a permit. They added that the …

Raul Diego (2020-07-01). Israel Defense Ministry Launches COVID-19 Voice Test for Americans. mintpressnews.com A company formed at the behest of the Israeli Ministry of Defense has begun collecting voice data from Americans to detect COVID-19 symptoms through technology with dubious diagnostic value, but highly profitable applications in law enforcement.

Eric Alterman (2020-07-01). In New York, Zionism and Liberalism Faced Off—and Liberalism Won. thenation.com In New York, Zionism and Liberalism Faced Off—and Liberalism Won…

commondreams (2020-07-01). Unlawful "Annexation" Plan for the Occupied West Bank Must be Stopped. commondreams.org ______________________________…

yenisafak (2020-07-01). Israel records highest daily coronavirus count. yenisafak.com Israel on Wednesday confirmed 859 new coronavirus infections, the highest daily number of cases since the virus was first detected on Feb. 21, the country's health ministry said.Israeli authorities have so far reported 25,547 infections, including 320 deaths and 17,389 recoveries.Israel lifted most of the COVID-19 measures after the daily number of virus cases dropped below 20 last month.The Israeli government has relaxed a lockdown imposed to stem the spread of coronavirus, reopening schools, universities, shopping malls and restaurants.Nevertheless, the country's Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said Sunday that…

sputniknews (2020-07-01). Palestinians Evicted From West Bank, Americans Evicted From Homes. sputniknews.com Trump and Biden are flooding the airways with empty words as a cash cliff approaches.

en.mehrnews (2020-07-01). Iran's Parl. speaker pens letter to heads of intl. assemblies on Israeli occupation. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 01 (MNA) — Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf penned letters to the heads and secretary generals of international institutions and forums and called on them to adopt decisive steps in confronting and halting Israeli regime's illegal measures.

en.mehrnews (2020-07-01). British PM says Tel Aviv's annexation plan 'violation of intl. law'. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 01 (MNA) — UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson asked the Zionist regime not to annex West Bank, warning that the United Kingdom views this move as a violation of international law, which will not be accepted by London.

Jessica Corbett, staff writer (2020-07-01). 'Day of Rage': Palestinians and Global Allies Rise Up Against Annexation Plan and Israeli Apartheid. commondreams.org "The Palestinian struggle today is not just about fighting annexation, which we must continue to do. It is about dismantling the entire system of apartheid." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1223723777.png

Philip Giraldi (2020-06-30). The Fall of Eliot Engel: Israel-Firster Defeated in Congressional Primary. globalresearch.ca Sometimes listening to the morning news on television is a bit like entering into an alternate universe. Last Wednesday, the day after primary elections in New York State, CBS News reported that New York Congressman Eliot Engel was "facing a …

Philip Giraldi (2020-06-30). The Memorials to Judah Benjamin. thealtworld.com Jewish slave-owners exempt from attacks by #BLM? | The current wrath directed against anything or anyone having had anything to do with slavery or even racial discrimination includes destroying historical memorials and monuments as well as changing names that have stood for more than a century. Much of it has been focused on white nominally Christian males, mostly of Anglo-Saxon stock, understandable as the United States was a child of Great Britain and a majority of the country's leaders for nearly two centuries came from families descended from the British Isles. | Slavery in the United States version is, of co…

Miko Peled (2020-06-30). Learning From the Past: History Provides Clues into Israel's West Bank Annexation. mintpressnews.com Since 1948, Israel has annexed, occupied, taken, destroyed, built, and renamed everything from individual homes and property to public spaces, to historic monuments. And it has no intention, or reason, to stop.

Marwa Osman (2020-06-30). Looting Palestine—MES EP. 60. thealtworld.com Benjamin Netanyahu has announced the time would be ripe on July 1 for his regime to permanently seize Palestinian territory by annexing swathes of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley. In the meantime, Palestinians called on political leaders in the Arab and Muslim world to join hands in defense of the Palestinian cause and devise mechanisms to stop Israel's plan. To discuss this issue with us from the occupied West Bank Dr. Amal Wahdan, Human Rights Advocate. | Meanwhile, the conflict in Libya has taken a new turn. Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's threat to take military action if the city of Sirte or the…

IMEMC Staff (2020-06-30). Israeli Troops Abduct Ten Palestinian Residents in the West Bank. imemc.org Israeli troops abducted early on Tuesday ten Palestinians from different parts of the West Bank and in the internationally-recognized occupied East Jerusalem. The Ramallah-based Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) said in a statement that Israeli troops abducted five Palestinian residents from the Aida refugee camp and the Nahaleen village of …