Jewish groups that aid Israel's war crimes can't deny all responsibility for those crimes
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-05-23
Here is something that can be said with great confidence. It is racist — antisemitic, if you prefer — to hold Jews, individually or collectively, accountable for Israel's crimes. Jews are not responsible for Israel's war crimes, even if the Israeli state presumes to implicate Jews in its crimes by falsely declaring it represents all …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/05/jewish-groups-that-aid-israels-war-crimes-cant-deny-all-responsibility-for-those-crimes/
US Winks, Israel Bites? Shifting Middle East Alliances. The War on Iran is "On Hold"?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-23
At the outset of Bush's Second Term, Vice President Dick Cheney dropped a bombshell, hinting that Iran was "right at the top of the list" of rogue enemies of America, & that Israel would, so to speak, "be doing the bombing for us", without US military involvement & without us putting pressure on them "to do it".
globalresearch.ca/us-winks-israel-bites-the-escalation-scenario-the-war-on-iran-is-on-hold/5624691
On Contact: 'Except For Palestine'
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-23
On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses why American liberals refuse to speak out about the crimes the Israeli apartheid state carries out against the Palestinians, with political analyst and author Mitchell Plitnick. | Mitchell Plitnick's new book, with co-author Marc Lamont Hill, is: Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics. | …
popularresistance.org/on-contact-except-for-palestine/
‚ÄãA history of erasure and instrumentality in Palestine
Joris Leverink | roarmag.org | 2021-05-23
Photo by Travel 2 Palestine / Flickr ( CC BY 2.0) | Since its inception as a settler colonial movement in the late 19th century, Zionism has relentlessly pursued a campaign to erase the Palestinian presence in Palestine. It has done so by manipulating the resistance generated by that campaign among Palestinians to its own ends, by instrumentalizing Palestinian resistance so as to de-politicize it and make it appear nothing but criminalized terror. | A key element of settler…
roarmag.org/essays/israel-palestine-settler-colonialism/
AP Firing Shows Right-Wing Hypocrisy, Illusion of 'Objectivity'
Ari Paul | zcomm.org | 2021-05-23
The firing was an example of just how eager and able right-wing organizations are to ruin the career of anyone who dares speak out about social justice in Israel/Palestine…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/ap-firing-shows-right-wing-hypocrisy-illusion-of-objectivity/
Cease Fire in Palestine, 5/20/21
Not One Nickel, Not One Dime | indybay.org | 2021-05-23
After 11 horrifying days of US/Israel war crimes against Palestine, the Palestinians won a cease fire, with no demands met, but the toll tells the story: In Gaza: 230 dead including 64 children, 1710 injured, 75,000 homeless, over 500 homes destroyed. See twitter.com/AdDien90/status/1395398512708243463/photo/1 at twitter.com/hashtag/IsraelExposed?src=hashtag_click&f=live…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/20/18842675.php
Sunday 5/23: Palestine: An Uprising Against Zionism and U.S. Imperialism
Speak Out Now | indybay.org | 2021-05-23
Online event, see website for details…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/20/18842654.php
As Boteach comes for Dua Lipa, has Tactic of Smearing People as anti-Semites for Backing Palestinian Human Rights jumped the Shark?
Juan Cole | juancole.com | 2021-05-23
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Orthodox Rabbi Shmuely Boteach has come after the brilliant, Grammy-award-winning Kosovar-British pop star Dua Lipa with an ad in the New York Times accusing her of anti-Semitism for supporting Palestinian rights. She vigorously denied the charge and denounced the ad. She should also sue for libel. Boteach is a huge …
juancole.com/2021/05/boteach-smearing-palestinian.html
Why Israel Blows Up Media Offices and Targets Journalists
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2021-05-23
Trying to dim the lights on a killing spree…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/20/18842657.php
USA "Iron Dome" media vaccine proved 99% effective in shielding Israel
DLI | indybay.org | 2021-05-23
For the past 2 weeks, since the massive violence perpetrated by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza began(with massive use of US-made planes and bombs), the White House, alongside the "Corporate-bin-Laden" media, had unleashed a media vaccine, aptly coined, "Iron Dome" media shield, that proved to be nearly 99% effective against criticism from nearly the entire world, on the active support of Israel's virtual massacre of Palestinian civilians.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/21/18842684.php
What is Joe Biden's Israel Policy, Exactly?
Phyllis Bennis | indybay.org | 2021-05-23
The Biden administration thought it could muddle through with the usual pro-Israel platitudes, but rising awareness of Israeli apartheid is making that impossible.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/22/18842688.php
Israel and the Palestinians celebrate a ceasefire — but will anything change?
The Conversation | juancole.com | 2021-05-23
By Anthony Billingsley | — Israel and Hamasagreed to a ceasefire. That is good news for everyone involved. The dying can hopefully end and further destruction be avoided — at least for now. Both sides can also claim victory. Hamas can claim to have defended the interests of Palestinians in Jerusalem in contrast to its …
juancole.com/2021/05/palestinians-celebrate-ceasefire.html
Digital Apartheid: Palestinians Being Silenced On Social Media
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-23
Nassar's research, like many others before it, clearly demonstrates that more than three decades after the publication of Said's landmark essay, the exclusion of Palestinian voices from mainstream media narratives in the West — and the attempts to erase the humanity of the Palestinians or whitewash Israel's crimes against them — continue unabated.
popularresistance.org/digital-apartheid-palestinians-being-silenced-on-social-media/
Israel's Horrid Occupation of Palestine
Vijay Prashad | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-22
By Vijay Prasad and Arwa Abu Hashhash — May 20, 2021 | The violence witnessed over the last week in Gaza is part of a seven-decade assault on the people of Palestine by the Zionist regime, but it has been met with resistance by the people at every step. | No one can ignore the events in Palestine. No one disputes the horror of it all. Images of the Israeli bombing of Gaza and the human toll exacted against the Palestinians who live in Gaza have saturated social media and have increasingly drawn attention to the violence by the Israeli state and Zionist settlers against Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinia…
orinocotribune.com/israels-horrid-occupation-of-palestine/
South African Dockworkers Refuse to Unload Israeli Ship in Solidarity with Palestinians
Press TV | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-05-22
A member of the South African Student Congress (SASCO) holds a poster reflecting the face of the late Palestinian political leader, Yasser Arafat, during their protest in solidarity with Palestine outside the Israeli embassy in Pretoria on May 20, 2021. (Photo by AFP) Dockworkers in the South African port city of Durban have refused to offload cargo …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/05/south-african-dockworkers-refuse-to-unload-israeli-ship-in-solidarity-with-palestinians/
AP Sacks Correspondent Critical of Israel
telesurenglish.net | 2021-05-22
In an open letter, Emily Wilder reported that after she had been targetted by Zionist media her AP superiors reassured her that whe would be protected, but a few days later they changed their mind and fired her for allegedly violating AP policies on social networks. | Wilder, who is Jewish, had promoted the Palestinian cause while in college and her latest social media postings had professionally questioned mainstream media, in reporting about Palestine. | "'Objectivity' feels fickle when the basic terms we use to report news implicitly stake a claim," she wrote. "Using 'Israel' but never 'Palestine,' or 'war'…
telesurenglish.net/news/AP-Sacks-Correspondent-Critical-of-Israel-20210522-0005.html
Historic turnout in Southeast for Palestine; thousands in Raleigh, NC, demand end to Israeli apartheid
Liberation Staff Raleigh | liberationnews.org | 2021-05-22
This historic turnout for Palestine this past week in cities in the southeast is also the influence of the nationwide 2020 summer rebellion against police brutality and racism that brought tens of millions of people into the streets.
liberationnews.org/historic-turnout-in-southeast-for-palestine-thousands-in-raleigh-nc-demand-end-to-israeli-apartheid/
The Third Intifada. Israel's Crimes. Palestine's Wrath. Ray of Hope?
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-22
The Israeli forces launched more than 100 airstrikes on the northern tip of Gaza. On the Israeli side, 12 people were killed including 2 children. On the Palestine side, an estimated 248 people including 66 children were killed, with more than 1,900 wounded…
globalresearch.ca/the-third-intifada-israels-crimes-palestines-wrath-ray-of-hope/5745917
The Past is the Present in Palestine
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-22
If the United States and Israel think that normalizing relations with Arab states will weaken our national cause, they should know that this means nothing to Palestinians. The Palestinian people have learned to look only to themselves for rescue. The young Palestinians of today are brimming with rebellion. They have lost faith in the diplomatic route and are fed up with U.S. policy. Be forewarned: Nothing will contain them.
popularresistance.org/the-past-is-the-present-in-palestine/
In U.S., thousands support heroic Palestinian fightback
Minnie Bruce Pratt | workers.org | 2021-05-22
Palestinian resistance continues against the state of Israel's destruction of their homes, seizure of their land, assassination of their leaders and slaughter of their people. This genocidal attack was first made possible by the might and sponsorship of European colonialist powers. The onslaught on Palestine has since been protected and . . . | Continue reading In U.S., thousands support heroic Palestinian fightback at Workers.org…
workers.org/2021/05/56561/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-u-s-thousands-support-heroic-palestinian-fightback
Chris Hedges, Alan MacLeod on Media Bias and the Christian Right's Obsession with Israel
Editor2 | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-22
By Mnar Muhawesh Adley — May 21, 2021 | Chris Hedges and Alan Macloed join MintCast to talk about Israel, Christian Zionism, and media bias. | Images from the Israeli onslaught against Palestine have dominated both news broadcasts and social media as the world expresses its outrage over the bombing of civilian targets. | While the latest violence was triggered by an Israeli attack on the al-Aqsa Mosque, the conflict's roots go back at least to the state's creation in 1948, when Israeli forces ethnically cleansed nearly 800,000 Palestinians from their homeland, razing 500 towns and villages in order to mak…
orinocotribune.com/chris-hedges-alan-macleod-on-media-bias-and-the-christian-rights-obsession-with-israel/
The Palestine Litmus Test
Margaret Kimberley | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-22
President Joe Biden…
globalresearch.ca/palestine-litmus-test/5745898
Palestinian resistance will intensify
Newsclick | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-05-22
After 11 days of brutal bombing by Israel and determined resistance by the Palestinian people, a ceasefire has been declared in Gaza. The impact of these developments will be significant, not only for Palestine and Israel, but for the region as a whole. Newsclick's Prabir Purkayastha analyses the ceasefire, the regional implications and the future of Palestinian resistance.
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/05/22/palestinian-resistance-will-intensify/
Roger Waters and Gabor Maté on Israel's apartheid wars and the price of speaking out for Palestine
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2021-05-22
In a Grayzone livestream, Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters and renowned psychotherapist Gabor Maté discuss Israel's latest assault on Gaza, the rising power of Palestine solidarity activism, and their own paths to clarity on the issue…
thegrayzone.com/2021/05/22/roger-waters-gabor-mate-israels-apartheid-wars/
Nearly 200,000 Gather in London for History-Making Demonstration of Solidarity With Palestinians
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2021-05-22
Despite the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, said Labour politician John McDonnell, "we will not cease our campaign in solidarity until there is justice." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/londonpalestineprotest1300x681.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2021/05/22/nearly-200000-gather-london-history-making-demonstration-solidarity-palestinians?cd-origin=rss
"Greater Israel": The Zionist Plan for the Middle East
Israel Shahak | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-22
When viewed in the current context, the war on Iraq, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing wars on Syria and Iraq, the war on Yemen, must be understood in relation to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East…
globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east/5324815
Palestinians endure, resist after 11 days of U.S.-backed Israeli massacre
Richard Becker | liberationnews.org | 2021-05-22
Despite the devastating toll taken by the Israeli onslaught, the Palestinian people have emerged with their will to resist unshaken.
liberationnews.org/94952-2/
Podcast Ep 36: How Palestinian resistance defeated Israel
Nora Barrows-Friedman | electronicintifada.net | 2021-05-22
Ali Abunimah and Jon Elmer discuss growing sophistication of Palestinian tactics.
electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-36-how-palestinian-resistance-defeated-israel
Biden: End Your Co-Belligerent Backing of Israeli War Crimes
Ralph Nader | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-05-22
As Senator, Vice President, and now President, your self-promoted/displayed empathy has a problem. You can't seem to connect the Israeli military powerhouse's occupation to the oppression and destruction of innocent Palestinian civilians, illegal seizure of Palestinian land/water, and daily violations of U.S. and international law. Israel's military is deliberately bombing these families, the offices of …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/05/biden-end-your-co-belligerent-backing-of-israeli-war-crimes/
Biden: End Your Co-Belligerent Backing of Israeli War Crimes
Ralph Nader | commondreams.org | 2021-05-22
"To know about what is happening daily" on the ground in Gaza, "you do not need to rely on the evidence compiled by the U.S. mainstream media… just take it from the Israeli media and Israelis themselves." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gaza-rubble1300x681.jpg …
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Palestinians brutalized despite ceasefire | Protests continue to demand end to Israeli apartheid
Answer Coalition | answercoalition.org | 2021-05-22
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www.answercoalition.org/palestinians_brutalized_despite_ceasefire
Israeli invasion of al-Aqsa Mosque Compound Shows Conflict remains Hot despite Ceasefire, Angers Muslims Worldwide
Juan Cole | juancole.com | 2021-05-22
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Only half a day after a ceasefire went into effect between the Palestinians in Gaza and the government of Binyamin Netanyahu in Israel, the peace was disturbed in Jerusalem at the flashpoint al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Rabi' Sawaid reports for Arab 48 that confrontations broke out Friday afternoon between worshipers at …
juancole.com/2021/05/compound-ceasefire-worldwide.html
Ceasefire puts no end to Israeli repression
Maureen Clare Murphy | electronicintifada.net | 2021-05-22
Police attack Palestinians in Jerusalem after weeks of mass arrests.
electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/ceasefire-puts-no-end-israeli-repression
Israel Is Ethnically Cleansing Gaza
Eric Zuesse | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-22
This started becoming …
globalresearch.ca/israel-ethnically-cleansing-gaza/5745840
What Is Joe Biden's Israel Policy, Exactly?
Phyllis Bennis | juancole.com | 2021-05-22
( Foreign Policy in Focus) — So just what is the Biden administration's policy towards Israel? Why did Biden take so long to respond to the violence as it spiraled out of control in Jerusalem and Gaza? Why do Biden's repeated "Israel has the right of self-defense" litanies so closely match the positions of his …
juancole.com/2021/05/bidens-israel-exactly.html
South African Dockworkers Refuse to Unload Israeli Ship in Solidarity with Palestinians
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-22
Dockworkers in the South African port city of Durban have refused to offload cargo from an Israeli ship in a show of solidarity with Palestinians, and in protest at Tel Aviv's military aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip.
popularresistance.org/south-african-dockworkers-refuse-to-unload-israeli-ship-in-solidarity-with-palestinians/
"We Want Real Dignity and Freedom"
Raji Sourani | zcomm.org | 2021-05-22
Gazans Welcome Ceasefire But Demand End of Siege & Occupation…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/we-want-real-dignity-and-freedom/
'The Hamas' Are Coming: A View of the Violence from Inside Israel
Editor2 | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-22
By Miko Peled — Occupied Jerusalem, May 20, 2021 | There are never Palestinians, never people, only "The Hamas." The Hamas thinks;" "The Hamas believes;" "The Hamas should know;" "When the Hamas understands, he will stop;" and finally, "When The Hamas is hit hard he will never dare to attack Israel again." | After less than 48 hours in Jerusalem, it's clear to me that the slaughter in Gaza will not end anytime soon. There is broad popular support in Israel for the endless bloodshed and Benjamin Netanyahu is as strong as ever both domestically and internationally. | According to the Israeli press, Netanyahu a…
orinocotribune.com/the-hamas-are-coming-a-view-of-the-violence-from-inside-israel/
La culpa no es del totí
Elsa Claro | globalizacion.ca | 2021-05-22
En el 2014, Estados Unidos pidió a Israel "evitar cualquier tipo de incursión terrestre" en la Franja de Gaza, dado que "pondría en riesgo a más civiles". Sin embargo, ‚ÄãTel Aviv pasó por alto la solicitud y compuso un mortal…
globalizacion.ca/la-culpa-no-es-del-toti/
La culpa no es del totí
Elsa Claro | globalizacion.ca | 2021-05-22
En el 2014, Estados Unidos pidió a Israel "evitar cualquier tipo de incursión terrestre" en la Franja de Gaza, dado que "pondría en riesgo a más civiles". Sin embargo, ‚ÄãTel Aviv pasó por alto la solicitud y compuso un mortal…
globalizacion.ca/la-culpa-no-es-del-toti/
Israeli security forces storm al-Aqsa after Gaza ceasefire
wsws.org | 2021-05-22
Israel's air strikes continued up until the ceasefire brought a temporary end to the one-sided war that has killed at least 243 Palestinians, including 65 children, and wounded more than 1,900.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/22/gaza-m22.html
What Is Joe Biden's Israel Policy, Exactly?
Phyllis Bennis | zcomm.org | 2021-05-22
The Biden administration thought it could muddle through with the usual pro-Israel platitudes, but rising awareness of Israeli apartheid is making that impossible…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/what-is-joe-bidens-israel-policy-exactly/
Israeli Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinian East Jerusalem is a Spark in a Tinderbox: What I Saw There
Mohammed Samaana | juancole.com | 2021-05-22
Belfast (Special to Informed Comment) — The latest escalation in violence in the Middle East was sparked by the Israeli government plan to ethnically cleanse dozens of Palestinian families from the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem. Most of these families had been previously forced from their homes in 1948 when Israel was created …
juancole.com/2021/05/ethnically-palestinian-longstanding.html
Israeli Forces Attack Muslim Worshipers in al-Aqsa Mosque, 80 Palestinians Injured
Editor2 | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-22
Israeli forces stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem al-Quds in a move condemned as "provocative" amid international efforts to de-escalate tensions in the occupied Palestinian territories. | Eighty Palestinians were injured as Israeli forces stormed al-Aqsa Mosque after noonday prayers on Friday, May 21, and fired sound bombs and rubber bullets at worshipers. | The Israeli troops also arrested a number of young people, some of them wounded, at Bab al-Asbat (Lions' Gate) during the raid, and prevented medical staff from attending to the wounded. | The Palestinian presidency condemned the Israeli regime…
orinocotribune.com/israeli-forces-attack-muslim-worshipers-in-al-aqsa-mosque-80-palestinians-injured/
"The Hamas" are Coming: A View of the Violence from Inside Israel
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-22
There are never Palestinians, never people, only "The Hamas." The Hamas thinks;" "The Hamas believes;" "The Hamas should know;" "When the Hamas understands, he will stop;" and finally, "When The Hamas is hit hard he will never dare to attack Israel again."
popularresistance.org/the-hamas-are-coming-a-view-of-the-violence-from-inside-israel/
It's Past Time to End U.S. Funding of Israeli Violence
Sonali Kolhatkar | zcomm.org | 2021-05-22
What else could billions of American tax dollars buy instead of innocent deaths?>…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/its-past-time-to-end-u-s-funding-of-israeli-violence/
Will Biden Stay in Bibi's Pocket?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-22
Netanyahu's own words, videotaped two decades ago, show his disdain for the malleability of former U.S. presidents. As it turns out, Netanyahu had good reason to hold them in contempt as he "maneuvered" around them to ensure unstinting American support for status-quo Israeli domination of the Palestinians.
popularresistance.org/will-biden-stay-in-bibis-pocket/
The Biggest Threat to Israel Is the Occupation
Michael Winship, Angela Godfrey-Goldstein | commondreams.org | 2021-05-22
Netanyahu says, "We must live by the sword"—but he's never tried alternatives. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/end-occupation1300x681.jpg …
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