Daily Archives: April 6, 2020

2020-04-06: News Headlines

RT (2020-04-06). Israel to mass produce beard-friendly masks for the follicled faithful. rt.com Israeli authorities have announced that they will produce custom-made face masks to protect the religious in the country, who sport beards as part of their faith, from the coronavirus. | In a move that will no doubt come as a relief to Israel's religious faithful, there will be no orders issued by government to mow down their mutton chops, or curtail their chin curtains. | Israeli authorities have asked the public to cover their mouths and noses in public, but this provides somewhat of a challenge to pious proponents of pogonotrophy; Jewish, Muslim and Christian groups in the country all wear beards as a sign…

John Nichols (2020-04-06). Wisconsin's In-Person Voting Threatens Health and Democracy. thenation.com Wisconsin's In-Person Voting Threatens Health and Democracy…

Ali Salam (2020-04-05). Settlers Flood Palestinian Farm Lands near Hebron. imemc.org Illegal Israeli settlers on Sunday, flooded Palestinian-owned farms planted with grapes, near the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank, a local source reported. Local activist, Mohammad Awad, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that extremist colonial settlers from Gush Etzion settlement bloc, built on …

IMEMC News (2020-04-05). Army Causes Dozens Of Palestinians To Suffer Effects Of Teargas Inhalation In Kufur Qaddoum. imemc.org Israeli soldiers invaded, late on Saturday evening, the town of Kufur Qaddoum, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, and caused dozens of Palestinians to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation during ensuing protests. The Coordinator of the Popular Committee in Kufur Qaddoum, Morad Eshteiwi, stated that several …

IMEMC News (2020-04-05). Israeli Soldiers Abduct Jerusalem Governor. imemc.org Israeli soldiers abducted, Sunday, the Palestinian Governor of occupied East Jerusalem, Adnan Gheith, after storming and ransacking his home in Silwan town, south of Jerusalem. Media sources said the soldiers violently searched the property after breaking into it, causing damage, and abducted the governor. It is worth mentioning that this …

Ali Salam (2020-04-05). Military Forces, Settlers Deny Palestinian Farmers Access to their Land near Bethlehem. imemc.org Israeli occupation forces and extremist Israeli settlers on Sunday prevented Palestinian farmers from accessing their lands in the village of Tuqu', southeast of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to sources. Tayseer Abu Mfarreh, mayor of the village, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that a large unit of …

Rami Almeghari (2020-04-05). Israel May Impose Lockdown on East Jerusalem to Stop the Spread of Coronavirus. imemc.org Israeli TV Channel, Kan, reported on Sunday that Israeli authorities in the internationally-recognized occupied East Jerusalem, may impose a total lockdown on some Palestinian-populated neighborhoods and some other religious Jewish communities in East Jerusalem, itself. The report by Kan TV suggested that five areas, including the two Palestinian neighborhoods of …

Rami Almeghari (2020-04-05). Israeli Police Abduct Two Palestinian Youths in East Jerusalem. imemc.org Israeli police forces on Sunday, invaded one of the neighborhoods in the internationally-recognized occupied East Jerusalem, and abducted two Palestinian youths, local sources reported. Sources and witnesses said that Israeli police in the old city of East Jerusalem, broke into the homes of Ahmad Salayma and Mohammad Swaity and abducted …

Rami Almeghari (2020-04-04). Armed Israeli Settlers Storm Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem. imemc.org Israeli colonial settlers, on Saturday, stormed the Palestinian neighborhood of Wadi Alrababa in Silwan village in the internationally-recognized occupied city of East Jerusalem, southern West Bank. Local media outlets and witnesses said that about 25 armed colonial settlers stormed the neighborhood and embarked on provocative actions towards local unarmed Palestinian …

Ali Salam (2020-04-04). Israeli Forces Injure Dozens of Palestinians in Kufur Qaddoum. imemc.org A Palestinian youth was injured when Israeli forces opened fire at Palestinian citizens, while dozens of Palestinians choked on tear gas in Kufur Qaddoum village, in the northern West Bank district of Qalqilia on Friday, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Morad Eshteiwi, the coordinator of the Popular Committee against the …

Rami Almeghari (2020-04-04). Palestinian Governor of East Jerusalem Issues a Passover Warning. imemc.org The Palestinian Authority's (PA) Governorate for the internationally-recognized occupied East Jerusalem, issued a warning, Saturday, for Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem, against buying Jewish-owned property during the Passover holidays. The governorate's statement, ahead of the Jewish holiday of Passover, came in the context of the rapidly-spreading coronavirus, in many Israeli …

John Nichols (2020-04-04). 'We Will Not Sit Back and Let Transit Workers Be Treated Like Cannon Fodder'. thenation.com 'We Will Not Sit Back and Let Transit Workers Be Treated Like Cannon Fodder'

IMEMC News (2020-04-03). Jerusalem Minister: "I Was Forced To Wear A Dirty Mask, With Signs Of Dried Blood On It" imemc.org Shortly after his release from the al-Maskobiyya interrogation facility in occupied Jerusalem, the Palestinian Government Minister of Jerusalem, Fadi al-Hadmi, said that the soldiers violently searched his home, and used dogs to inflict maximum damage, in addition to forcing him to wear a dirty mask that had signs of dried …

Omar Shaban (2020-04-03). Gaza's New Conflict: COVID-19. counterpunch.org At a time when everyone was celebrating the arrival of a new decade, a rare once-in-a-100-year event took the world by surprise: a major global pandemic named COVID-19. Governments around the world struggled to fight the virus, taking extreme measures to contain it with nearly one billion people now living in confinement. At first, Palestinians

Ramzy Baroud (2020-04-02). New Reports Place Israel Among World's 25 "Declining Democracies" mintpressnews.com Both Freedom House and V-DEM's Annual Democracy Report shows Israel is experiencing a precipitous decline in democracy. Thought that would hardly be surprising to the 2 million Arab citizens that live there.

Ramzy Baroud (2020-04-02). Tunisia Leads the Way: New Report Exposes Israel's False Democracy. dissidentvoice.org Tunisia is the Middle East's greatest success story, according to the findings of the V-Dem Annual Democracy Report 2019. One of the world's most regarded annual reports on democracy and good governance, the V-Dem Report is produced by the V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy) Institute at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. While Tunisians can be …

Jonathan Cook (2020-04-02). How the Joint List Got it All Wrong for ever Believing Benny Gantz. dissidentvoice.org Benny Gantz, leader of the Blue and White party, abandoned the central plank of his platform at the weekend — that he would never sit in a coalition with Benjamin Netanyahu, who has led Israel continuously for the past 11 years. A former military general, Gantz justified his dramatic change of course under cover of …

John Nichols (2020-04-02). 'People Should Not Be Forced to Put Their Lives on the Line to Vote'. thenation.com 'People Should Not Be Forced to Put Their Lives on the Line to Vote'

Miko Peled (2020-03-31). Remembering Theresa Halasa: Revered Veteran of the Palestinian Resistance. mintpressnews.com Amman, Jordan — "I didn't join the Palestinian resistance because I experienced suffering, I joined out of a sense of patriotism," Theresa Halasa, a revered veteran of the Palestinian resistance said this in an In 1972, Halasa was one of four Palestinians who hijacked a Belgian Sabena airliner en route to Tel-Aviv. The objective was to keep the passengers hostage until the Israeli government agreed to release Pal…

Middle East Eye (2020-02-07). Russia Says Israel Used Civilian Plane as Human Shield During Syria Strikes. theantimedia.com Russia accused Israel of "making a total mockery of the lives of hundreds of innocent civilians."

CounterSpin (2020-01-31). Omar Baddar on Israel/Palestine 'Peace' Plan, Rainey Reitman on Greenwald Persecution. fair.org MP3 Link This week on CounterSpin: It is strange to think that you could create a plan to shape the relationship between two entities, in consultation with one but not the other, and then not just declare it, yourself, a "win-win," but also say to the unconsulted party, "You better take it, or else." Yet …

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Israel to mass produce beard-friendly masks for the follicled faithful
rt.com | 2020-04-06
Israeli authorities have announced that they will produce custom-made face masks to protect the religious in the country, who sport beards as part of their faith, from the coronavirus. | In a move that will no doubt come as a relief to Israel's religious faithful, there will be no orders issued by government to mow down their mutton chops, or curtail their chin curtains. | Israeli authorities have asked the public to cover their mouths and noses in public, but this provides somewhat of a challenge to pious proponents of pogonotrophy; Jewish, Muslim and Christian groups in the country all wear beards as a sign…
rt.com/news/485077-israel-fitted-masks-protect-beards/

Wisconsin's In-Person Voting Threatens Health and Democracy
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2020-04-06
Wisconsin's In-Person Voting Threatens Health and Democracy…
thenation.com/article/politics/wisconsin-covid-primary-election/

Settlers Flood Palestinian Farm Lands near Hebron
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-05
Illegal Israeli settlers on Sunday, flooded Palestinian-owned farms planted with grapes, near the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank, a local source reported. Local activist, Mohammad Awad, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that extremist colonial settlers from Gush Etzion settlement bloc, built on …
imemc.org/article/settlers-flood-palestinian-farm-lands-near-hebron/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=settlers-flood-palestinian-farm-lands-near-hebron

Army Causes Dozens Of Palestinians To Suffer Effects Of Teargas Inhalation In Kufur Qaddoum
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-04-05
Israeli soldiers invaded, late on Saturday evening, the town of Kufur Qaddoum, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, and caused dozens of Palestinians to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation during ensuing protests. The Coordinator of the Popular Committee in Kufur Qaddoum, Morad Eshteiwi, stated that several …
imemc.org/article/army-causes-dozens-of-palestinians-to-suffer-effects-of-teargas-inhalation-in-kufur-qaddoum/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=army-causes-dozens-of-palestinians-to-suffer-effects-of-teargas-inhalation-in-kufur-qaddoum

Israeli Police Abduct Two Palestinian Youths in East Jerusalem
Rami Almeghari | imemc.org | 2020-04-05
Israeli police forces on Sunday, invaded one of the neighborhoods in the internationally-recognized occupied East Jerusalem, and abducted two Palestinian youths, local sources reported. Sources and witnesses said that Israeli police in the old city of East Jerusalem, broke into the homes of Ahmad Salayma and Mohammad Swaity and abducted …
imemc.org/article/israeli-police-abduct-two-palestinian-youths-in-east-jerusalem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-police-abduct-two-palestinian-youths-in-east-jerusalem

Israeli Soldiers Abduct Jerusalem Governor
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-04-05
Israeli soldiers abducted, Sunday, the Palestinian Governor of occupied East Jerusalem, Adnan Gheith, after storming and ransacking his home in Silwan town, south of Jerusalem. Media sources said the soldiers violently searched the property after breaking into it, causing damage, and abducted the governor. It is worth mentioning that this …
imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-abduct-jerusalem-governor/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-soldiers-abduct-jerusalem-governor

Military Forces, Settlers Deny Palestinian Farmers Access to their Land near Bethlehem
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-05
Israeli occupation forces and extremist Israeli settlers on Sunday prevented Palestinian farmers from accessing their lands in the village of Tuqu', southeast of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to sources. Tayseer Abu Mfarreh, mayor of the village, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that a large unit of …
imemc.org/article/military-forces-settlers-deny-palestinian-farmers-access-to-their-land-near-bethlehem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=military-forces-settlers-deny-palestinian-farmers-access-to-their-land-near-bethlehem

Israel May Impose Lockdown on East Jerusalem to Stop the Spread of Coronavirus
Rami Almeghari | imemc.org | 2020-04-05
Israeli TV Channel, Kan, reported on Sunday that Israeli authorities in the internationally-recognized occupied East Jerusalem, may impose a total lockdown on some Palestinian-populated neighborhoods and some other religious Jewish communities in East Jerusalem, itself. The report by Kan TV suggested that five areas, including the two Palestinian neighborhoods of …
imemc.org/article/israel-may-impose-lockdown-on-east-jerusalem-to-stop-the-spread-of-coronavirus/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israel-may-impose-lockdown-on-east-jerusalem-to-stop-the-spread-of-coronavirus

Palestinian Governor of East Jerusalem Issues a Passover Warning
Rami Almeghari | imemc.org | 2020-04-04
The Palestinian Authority's (PA) Governorate for the internationally-recognized occupied East Jerusalem, issued a warning, Saturday, for Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem, against buying Jewish-owned property during the Passover holidays. The governorate's statement, ahead of the Jewish holiday of Passover, came in the context of the rapidly-spreading coronavirus, in many Israeli …
imemc.org/article/palestinian-governor-of-east-jerusalem-issues-a-passover-warning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=palestinian-governor-of-east-jerusalem-issues-a-passover-warning

Israeli Forces Injure Dozens of Palestinians in Kufur Qaddoum
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-04
A Palestinian youth was injured when Israeli forces opened fire at Palestinian citizens, while dozens of Palestinians choked on tear gas in Kufur Qaddoum village, in the northern West Bank district of Qalqilia on Friday, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Morad Eshteiwi, the coordinator of the Popular Committee against the …
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Armed Israeli Settlers Storm Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem
Rami Almeghari | imemc.org | 2020-04-04
Israeli colonial settlers, on Saturday, stormed the Palestinian neighborhood of Wadi Alrababa in Silwan village in the internationally-recognized occupied city of East Jerusalem, southern West Bank. Local media outlets and witnesses said that about 25 armed colonial settlers stormed the neighborhood and embarked on provocative actions towards local unarmed Palestinian …
imemc.org/article/armed-israeli-settlers-storm-palestinian-neighborhood-in-east-jerusalem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=armed-israeli-settlers-storm-palestinian-neighborhood-in-east-jerusalem

'We Will Not Sit Back and Let Transit Workers Be Treated Like Cannon Fodder'
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2020-04-04
'We Will Not Sit Back and Let Transit Workers Be Treated Like Cannon Fodder'…
thenation.com/article/activism/public-transportation-worker-covid/

Gaza's New Conflict: COVID-19
Omar Shaban | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-03
At a time when everyone was celebrating the arrival of a new decade, a rare once-in-a-100-year event took the world by surprise: a major global pandemic named COVID-19. Governments around the world struggled to fight the virus, taking extreme measures to contain it with nearly one billion people now living in confinement. At first, Palestinians…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/03/gazas-new-conflict-covid-19/

Jerusalem Minister: "I Was Forced To Wear A Dirty Mask, With Signs Of Dried Blood On It"
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-04-03
Shortly after his release from the al-Maskobiyya interrogation facility in occupied Jerusalem, the Palestinian Government Minister of Jerusalem, Fadi al-Hadmi, said that the soldiers violently searched his home, and used dogs to inflict maximum damage, in addition to forcing him to wear a dirty mask that had signs of dried …
imemc.org/article/jerusalem-minister-i-was-forced-to-wear-a-dirty-mask-with-signs-of-dried-blood-on-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jerusalem-minister-i-was-forced-to-wear-a-dirty-mask-with-signs-of-dried-blood-on-it

Tunisia Leads the Way: New Report Exposes Israel's False Democracy
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-02
Tunisia is the Middle East's greatest success story, according to the findings of the V-Dem Annual Democracy Report 2019. One of the world's most regarded annual reports on democracy and good governance, the V-Dem Report is produced by the V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy) Institute at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. While Tunisians can be …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/tunisia-leads-the-way-new-report-exposes-israels-false-democracy/

New Reports Place Israel Among World's 25 "Declining Democracies"
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-02
Both Freedom House and V-DEM's Annual Democracy Report shows Israel is experiencing a precipitous decline in democracy. Thought that would hardly be surprising to the 2 million Arab citizens that live there.
mintpressnews.com/new-report-show-decline-democracy-israel/266307/

How the Joint List Got it All Wrong for ever Believing Benny Gantz
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-02
Benny Gantz, leader of the Blue and White party, abandoned the central plank of his platform at the weekend

'People Should Not Be Forced to Put Their Lives on the Line to Vote'
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2020-04-02
'People Should Not Be Forced to Put Their Lives on the Line to Vote'…
thenation.com/article/politics/wisconsin-democratic-primary/

Remembering Theresa Halasa: Revered Veteran of the Palestinian Resistance
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2020-03-31
Amman, Jordan