United Nations: Forced Expulsion Of Palestinians Violates Law
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-06-03
United Nations representatives have denounced the potential forced expulsion of Palestinian families from their homes in occupied East Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood as a "violation of international law".
popularresistance.org/united-nations-forced-expulsion-of-palestinians-violates-law/
The Fumbling King of Palestine: Palestinians are Defeating the Oslo Culture
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-06-03
The political discourse of Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, is similar to that of an ineffectual king who has been isolated in his palace for far too long. The king speaks of prosperity and peace, and tirelessly counts his innumerable achievements, while his people are dying of starvation …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/06/the-fumbling-king-of-palestine-palestinians-are-defeating-the-oslo-culture/
This time may be different: on the UN commission of inquiry investigating violations in the occupied Palestinian territory
Eds. | mronline.org | 2021-06-03
Thanks to a rapidly changing political context the new UN Human Rights Council commission announced on May 27th may be different from those in the past–this one may actually help hold Israel accountable. | June 3, 2021…
mronline.org/2021/06/03/this-time-may-be-different-on-the-un-commission-of-inquiry-investigating-violations-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territory/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=this-time-may-be-different-on-the-un-commission-of-inquiry-investigating-violations-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territory
4 June, Toulouse: Palestine Stand — Solidarity is our weapon!
Staff | samidoun.net | 2021-06-03
Friday, 4 June 11 am to 1 pm Metro Bagatelle Toulouse, France Facebook : www.facebook.com/events/225330892443874/ On Friday, 4 June, Collectif Palestine Vaincra will organize a Palestine Stand at the exit of Bagatelle metro station in Toulouse, France, in solidarity with Palestine. In the aftermath of the murderous Israeli assault on Gaza, Palestine, the Palestinian people need our support more than ever in their struggle for return and liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea. All are invited to join in, gather stickers and flyers, take solidarity photos and sign on to the campaign to free Georg…
samidoun.net/2021/06/4-june-toulouse-palestine-stand-solidarity-is-our-weapon/
Activists aim to block Israeli ships from US ports in solidarity with Palestinians
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-06-03
Palestinian rights activists are aiming to block ships operated by an Israeli shipping line from unloading cargo in key US port cities as part of a campaign to pressure Israel over its numerous violations of international law. | The Arab Resource and Organizing Center (Aroc), which is leading the effort, told Middle East Eye on Wednesday that its "Block the Boat" campaign had successfully prevented a ship operated by Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd from docking in Oakland, California.
popularresistance.org/activists-aim-to-block-israeli-ships-from-us-ports-in-solidarity-with-palestinians/
Antisemitism's Misdirection: Who Gets Hurt?
Ira Glunts | counterpunch.org | 2021-06-03
Unfounded or unconfirmed charges of antisemitism made by US pro-Israel organizations which are then parroted by the pro-Zionist US mainstream press, always increase when Israeli actions become so hideous they shame even some of its most dedicated supporters. With the latest Israeli shelling of Gaza, its evictions of Palestinians from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in…
counterpunch.org/2021/06/03/antisemitisms-misdirection-who-gets-hurt/
PDF of June 3 issue
Workers World Party | workers.org | 2021-06-03
Download the PDF. U.S. behind detention of Venezuelan diplomat Release Alex Saab! Ama-zen? Alabama mine strike. Editorial: Reparations NOW for Black Tulsans! A year after George Floyd, fight police terror! Cleveland, Seattle, Oakland. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free: March on Washington Global class impact Being . . . | Continue reading PDF of June 3 issue at Workers.org…
workers.org/2021/06/56810/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pdf-of-june-3-issue
Labor for Palestine: US Union Activists Pass Support Resolutions
repost | indybay.org | 2021-06-03
Rank and file workers are passing pro-Palestinian resolutions across the country, including right here in San Francisco, where the teachers' union took a firm stand for the Palestinian liberation struggle. See www.commondreams.org/views/2021/05/31/us-unions-are-voicing-unprecedented-support-palestine…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/31/18842880.php
United Palestinians have changed the course of history
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-06-03
The Palestinian revolt of 2021 will go down in history as one of the most influential events in irreversibly changing the collective thinking in and around Palestine. Only two other events can be compared with what has just transpired in Palestine: The revolt of 1936 and the first intifada that began in 1987.The general strike and rebellion of 1936 to 1939 were momentous because they represented the first unmistakable expression of collective Palestinian political agency. Despite their isolation and humble tools of resistance, the Palestinian people rose up across the country to challenge both British and Zionist…
popularresistance.org/united-palestinians-have-changed-the-course-of-history/
Friday 6/4: Palestine 101 & Naksa Community Teach-In
Angela | indybay.org | 2021-06-03
1331 S Nutwood St, Anaheim, CA…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/06/02/18842914.php
Thursday 6/3: Collective Liberation From Minneapolis to Palestine
Angela | indybay.org | 2021-06-03
Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/31/18842878.php
5/29/21 March on Washington for Palestine
Stop US Aid to Israel | indybay.org | 2021-06-03
On May 29, 2021, for the first time in memory, there was a March on Washington for Palestine, endorsed by over 130 groups, with some 35,000 people walking in the rain from the Lincoln Memorial to the White House.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/06/01/18842882.php
A Fart Joke Is Not a Pogrom
Talia Lavin | thenation.com | 2021-06-03
A Fart Joke Is Not a Pogrom…
thenation.com/article/world/israel-palestine-fart-pogrom/
Some Israeli perspectives on the tragedy of the Middle East
Richard Drake | juancole.com | 2021-06-03
( Richard Drake) — The sickening events lately occurring in the Middle East have shocked and outraged the conscience of the world. The experts who have tried to pacify the Middle East, whatever their real intentions, obviously have failed to achieve anything but the preservation of a status quo guaranteed to produce one crisis and …
juancole.com/2021/06/israeli-perspectives-tragedy.html
Iranian ship, petrochemical plant hit by fires amid threats from Israel
wsws.org | 2021-06-03
Tensions have mounted in the context of an imminent change of government in Israel and continuing talks in Vienna on reviving the Iran nuclear deal.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/03/iran-j03.html
Israel To Seek $1Bn Replenishment For Iron Dome From U.S., As New Coalition Government Forms In Israel
Anonymous007 | southfront.org | 2021-06-03
On June 2nd, Israeli defense minister Benny Gantz will travel to the US in order to request a $1bn replenishment…
southfront.org/israel-to-seek-1bn-replenishment-for-iron-dome-from-u-s-as-new-coalition-government-forms/
Israel's New Mossad Chief Threatens More Assassinations and Attacks Inside Iran
Dave DeCamp | globalresearch.ca | 2021-06-03
On Tuesday, the …
globalresearch.ca/israel-new-mossad-chief-threatens-more-assassinations-attacks-inside-iran/5746874
Top Ways Israel's Netanyahu Torpedoed Mideast Peace and Harmed Israel and America
Juan Cole | juancole.com | 2021-06-03
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — A step was taken by his rivals toward unseating long-serving Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday when opposition parties all along the political spectrum from left to right formed a coalition of national unity. Ironically, that coalition only reached a majority in parliament by accepting for the first time …
juancole.com/2021/06/israels-netanyahu-torpedoed.html
Friends lost and children orphaned
Hamza Abu Eltarabesh | electronicintifada.net | 2021-06-03
Stories from Gaza under attack.
electronicintifada.net/content/friends-lost-and-children-orphaned/33321
Thursday 6/3: We All Live in Gaza – Special Documentary Screening – Fundraiser
Maurice Jacobsen | indybay.org | 2021-06-03
Screening will be at the Grand Lake Theater, Oakland, 3200 Grand Ave. Seating will be limited to a social distanced safe 200…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/31/18842876.php
Why did Israel bomb bookstores?
Ruwaida Amer | electronicintifada.net | 2021-06-02
Samir Mansour's library was a vital resource for Gaza's students.
electronicintifada.net/content/why-did-israel-bomb-bookstores/33311
New Investigation Reveals Role of Israeli Operatives in Colombia's "Political Genocide"
Dan Cohen | mintpressnews.com | 2021-06-02
Known as the "Red Dance," the systematic murder of the Patriotic Union remains one of the most extreme cases of political violence in Latin America and new evidence suggests that it was concocted by one of the most decorated spies in Israeli history.
mintpressnews.com/investigation-israel-mossad-colombia-genocide-rafael-eitan/277499/
Syria's elections: "The legitimate, democratic expression of the Syrian people."
| workers.org | 2021-06-02
Statement from the International Delegation to the 2021 Syrian Presidential Election This independent delegation was assembled to witness the May 26, 2021, presidential election in Syria and to investigate on-the-ground conditions of Syrian life in the current period. Activists and journalists from Palestine, Syria, South Africa, France, Canada and the . . . | Continue reading Syria's elections: "The legitimate, democratic expression of the Syrian people." at Workers.org…
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5 June, Madrid: Palestine demonstration — with the Intifada of Unity
Staff | samidoun.net | 2021-06-02
Saturday, 5 June 12 pm Cibeles to Callao, Madrid Info: www.instagram.com/p/CPka22gjWl5/ On June 5, 1967, the Zionist entity, Israel, perpetrated one of the largest massacres in Palestine, condemning more than 400,000 Palestinians to join the rest of the displaced after the Nakba of 1948. For this reason we will go out to the streets again in support of the Palestinian people confronting the ongoing Nakba and the genocide, ethnic cleansing and plunder still continuing. For the right of return, to historical reparations, for the liberation of prisoners, and against international complicity, we call on you t…
samidoun.net/2021/06/5-june-madrid-palestine-demonstration-with-the-intifada-of-unity/
Israel: Violence, hate speech, discrimination against Palestinian minority must stop — UN expert
contributors | juancole.com | 2021-06-02
( UN Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner) | GENEVA | — A UN human rights expert condemned attacks on Israel's Palestinian minority by extreme right-wing and vigilante groups, including settlers — at times with the reported backing of security forces — and urged Israel to fully and equally protect all of its citizens …
juancole.com/2021/06/violence-discrimination-palestinian.html
5 June, Frankfurt: Naksa Day — Palestinian Resistance Continues
Staff | samidoun.net | 2021-06-02
Saturday, 5 June 4 pm Hauptbahnhof (Central train station) Frankfurt, Germany Info: www.instagram.com/p/CPngcUZLPbj/ The 54th anniversary of Naksa, the wound that will never heal. The day the Zionist occupation annexed further parts of Palestine, the Naksa was the continuation of an illegal occupation, the continuation of the Nakba. Nineteen years earlier, in 1948, the Zionist occupiers unilaterally proclaimed the establishment of Israel, stole 78% of Palestine, and uprooted and displaced more than 800,000 Palestinians from their homeland. The colonization of Palestine has continued to this day in a viole…
samidoun.net/2021/06/5-june-frankfurt-naksa-day-palestinian-resistance-continues/
6 June, Amsterdam: Stand up for a free Palestine!
Staff | samidoun.net | 2021-06-02
Sunday, 6 June 3 pm Dam square Amsterdam, Nederland Info: www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=113192577631424&id=100068220454753 Join Samidoun Nederland and many more activists and organizers for Palestine to take the streets in Amsterdam and stand up for Palestine! | The article 6 June, Amsterdam: Stand up for a free Palestine! appeared first on Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network.
samidoun.net/2021/06/6-june-amsterdam-stand-up-for-a-free-palestine/
Jewish Defenders of Palestinian Rights Say 'Together We Can Stop Machinery of Division and Fear'
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2021-06-02
"The work of dismantling all oppression is OUR collective work. We will not be pitted against each other," wrote 300+ Jewish leaders. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/israel-protest1300x681.jpg …
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The Fumbling King of Palestine: Palestinians are Defeating the Oslo Culture
Ramzy Baroud | commondreams.org | 2021-06-02
"Neither Washington, Tel Aviv, nor Mahmoud Abbas' PA can possibly resuscitate the past and the miserable culture that Oslo has imposed on the Palestinian people." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/abbas_1-1.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2021/06/02/fumbling-king-palestine-palestinians-are-defeating-oslo-culture?cd-origin=rss
Labor for Palestine: US Union Activists Pass Support Resolutions
repost | indybay.org | 2021-06-02
Rank and file workers are passing pro-Palestinian resolutions across the country, including right here in San Francisco, where the teachers' union took a firm stand for the Palestinian liberation struggle. See www.commondreams.org/views/2021/05/31/us-unions-are-voicing-unprecedented-support-palestine…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/31/18842880.php
Was Mark Ruffalo wrong to accuse Israel of Genocide?
Juan Cole | zcomm.org | 2021-06-02
The precise characterization is less important than an acknowledgment that it is wrong to keep Palestinians in a condition of statelessness and without basic human rights…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/was-mark-ruffalo-wrong-to-accuse-israel-of-genocide/
Was Mark Ruffalo wrong to accuse Israel of Genocide?
Juan Cole | juancole.com | 2021-06-02
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The great actor and great humanitarian Mark Ruffalo apologized on Twitter last week for asserting that Israel was committing "genocide" toward the Palestinians, saying that the accusation was inaccurate, inflammatory and disrespectful and he had thought better of it. He also implied that such language was related to anti-Semitic hate …
juancole.com/2021/06/ruffalo-accuse-genocide.html
Was Mark Ruffalo wrong to accuse Israel of Genocide?
Juan Cole | juancole.com | 2021-06-02
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The great actor and great humanitarian Mark Ruffalo apologized on Twitter last week for asserting that Israel was committing "genocide" toward the Palestinians, saying that the accusation was inaccurate, inflammatory and disrespectful and he had thought better of it. He also implied that such language was related to anti-Semitic hate …
juancole.com/2021/06/ruffalo-accuse-genocide.html
Thursday 6/3: Making Sense of Palestine Today: A Panel (Part 3 of 3)
Angela | indybay.org | 2021-06-02
Zoom Webinar…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/30/18842855.php
Thursday 6/3: Collective Liberation From Minneapolis to Palestine
Angela | indybay.org | 2021-06-02
Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/31/18842878.php
5/29/21 March on Washington for Palestine
Stop US Aid to Israel | indybay.org | 2021-06-02
On May 29, 2021, for the first time in memory, there was a March on Washington for Palestine, endorsed by over 130 groups, with some 35,000 people walking in the rain from the Lincoln Memorial to the White House.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/06/01/18842882.php
'Not Another Nickel!' Thousands march in Washington, D.C. against U.S. support for apartheid Israel
Morgan Artyukhina | liberationnews.org | 2021-06-02
The protest came just days after a ceasefire ended Israel's inhumane bombardment of Gaza, which has killed more than 200 people, 65 of whom were children.
liberationnews.org/not-another-nickel-thousands-march-in-washington-d-c-against-u-s-support-for-apartheid-israel/
'Not Another Nickel!' Thousands march in Washington, D.C. against U.S. support for apartheid Israel
Morgan Artyukhina | liberationnews.org | 2021-06-02
The protest came just days after a ceasefire ended Israel's inhumane bombardment of Gaza, which has killed more than 200 people, 65 of whom were children.
liberationnews.org/not-another-nickel-thousands-march-in-washington-d-c-against-u-s-support-for-apartheid-israel/
Another poll signals fall in US support for Israel
Ali Abunimah | electronicintifada.net | 2021-06-02
Young Americans overwhelmingly blame Israel for recent violence.
electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/another-poll-signals-fall-us-support-israel
Israel: Coalition Deal Reached To Oust Netanyahu
telesurenglish.net | 2021-06-02
Israel's opposition leader Yair Lapid announced on Wednesday that a deal was reached to form a coalition government that would end the 12-year rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. | RELATED: | Gaza Reconstruction Requires Lifting of the Israeli Blockade | The statement by centrist Lapid and his main partner, nationalist hardliner Naftali Bennett, came about 30 minutes before a midnight deadline to put together a new governing coalition following the March 23 elections. | An…
telesurenglish.net/news/Israel-Coalition-Deal-Reached-To-Oust-Netanyahu-20210602-0022.html
After Gaza Slaughter, Israel Wants Another $1 Billion Out of the US
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-06-02
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) confirmed that Israel will make the request a day after he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. "There is going to be a request made by the Israelis to the Pentagon on Thursday for $1 billion in aid to replenish Iron Dome batteries," Graham told Fox and Friends on Tuesday.
popularresistance.org/after-gaza-slaughter-israel-wants-another-1-billion-out-of-the-us/
Podcast Ep 38: The coming COVID-19 explosion in Gaza
Nora Barrows-Friedman | electronicintifada.net | 2021-06-02
Emergency doctor Tarek Loubani says health system destroyed by war and virus.
electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-38-coming-covid-19-explosion-gaza
Thursday 6/3: We All Live in Gaza – Special Documentary Screening – Fundraiser
Maurice Jacobsen | indybay.org | 2021-06-02
Screening will be at the Grand Lake Theater, Oakland, 3200 Grand Ave. Seating will be limited to a social distanced safe 200…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/31/18842876.php
71 Years and Nothing Has Changed
Philip Farruggio | nationofchange.org | 2021-06-02
If one studies the rank and file of most of today's white supremacist groups, one sees the merging of Anti Black and Anti Jewish sentiment.
nationofchange.org/2021/06/01/71-years-and-nothing-has-changed/