(2021-06-15). Whither Palestine? Whither Israel? zcomm.org After the Violence Spike, After the Abraham Accords, After Netanyahu…
(2021-06-15). McCarthyite Meltdown Shows how Russiagate, Syria Propaganda Captured 'Left' Media. orinocotribune.com 
By Aaron Maté — Jun 8, 2021 | In slandering me, The Young Turks demonstrated how Western chauvinism and careerism have been normalized in progressive media spaces. | On a recent episode of The Young Turks, the self-described "Home of Progressives", hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian disparaged me in a McCarthyite rant. The apparent trigger was a mocking comment that I had tweeted at Uygur, in which I described a recent post of his about Israel-Palestine as "the worst tweet of all time." ( Israelis & Palestin…
(2021-06-15). Large Mural Painted on Closed Off Montgomery Street. indybay.org Demonstrations for Palestine Continue as Supporters Paint a | Street Mural in Front of the Israeli and Colombian Consulates…
(2021-06-15). 15 June, Vancouver: Day of Rage protest — Defend Jerusalem. samidoun.net 
Tuesday, 15 June 5: 30 pm Vancouver Art Gallery Georgia and Hornby, Pacific Centre Side Vancouver Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/3082398258710847/ VANCOUVER: EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION Tomorrow hundreds of Israeli settlers will participate in the Zionist March of Flags to taunt and attack Palestinian neighbourhoods. Historically, this march has seen settlers chant "Death to Arabs" and swarmed Occupied Jerusalem, attacking Palestinians. In response, Palestinians are calling on us to mobilize to protect the Occupied Jerusalem community. We are calling for a day of rage tomorrow in Vancouver to defend Al-Aqs…
(2021-06-15). 15 June, NYC: Emergency Protest to Defend Palestine. samidoun.net 
Tuesday, 15 June 5: 30 pm Zionist Mission to the UN 800 2nd Ave NYC Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/1159667421200689/ Join a day of rage by Palestinians in Jerusalem/Al-Quds, across occupied Palestine, in the refugee camps, and throughout the diaspora to resist a massive 'flag march' against Al-Aqsa Mosque by Zionist settlers | The article
(2021-06-15). New Israeli government, same Israeli apartheid. nationofchange.org 2021 marks 54 years of occupation, including 14 years of the siege of Gaza, and 28 years since the signing of the Oslo Accords that were supposed to create a Palestinian state.
(2021-06-15). When Academics Take the Side of State Power. counterpunch.org The growing divide in the United States between Zionists and supporters of Palestinian rights has led to pronounced tensions in academia. Much has been said about increasing pro-Palestinian student protests as well as the activities of pro-Israel boards of governors, presidents, deans, etc. The latter try to guard their campuses from pro-Palestinian faculty, student clubs,
(2021-06-15). Israel kills Palestinian child as settlers steal land. electronicintifada.net Woman who was imprisoned by Israel fatally shot at checkpoint.
(2021-06-15). Iron Dome batteries deployed near Quds ahead of march. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 15 (MNA) — Palestinian local media have reported that the Israeli regime has deployed its air defense system near holy Quds ahead of Zionist settlers parade known as "Flag March" through Holy Quds.
(2021-06-15). Flag March 'Provocations' risk reigniting Israel-Hamas war. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 15 (MNA) — UN Middle East envoy Tor Wennesland has warned that the Zionist settlers march through Holy Quds could re-ignite another round of confrontation between Palestinian resistance groups and the Israeli regime.
(2021-06-15). Resist. groups urge Palestinians to stand against flag march. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 15 (MNA) — The Palestinian resistance groups said in a statement that all Palestinians must be ready to stand against the so-called flag march, which is scheduled to take place on Tuesday by the Zionist settlers in occupied lands.
(2021-06-15). Atlanta: Palestinian Youth Movement rallies. workers.org 
Atlanta June 12 — The Atlanta chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement, along with other members of the Demilitarize Atlanta 2 Palestine Coalition, held a spirited rally on the steps of City Hall to present a series of demands. Atlanta, June 12. Credit: Demilitarize Atlanta 2 Palestine The demand to . . . |
(2021-06-15). On "Conflict", "Peace" and "Genocide": Time for New Language on Palestine and Israel. dissidentvoice.org 
On May 25, famous American actor, Mark Ruffalo, tweeted an apology for suggesting that Israel is committing 'genocide' in Gaza. "I have reflected and wanted to apologize for posts during the recent Israel/Hamas fighting that suggested Israel is committing 'genocide'," Ruffalo wrote, adding, "It's not accurate, it's inflammatory, disrespectful and is being used to justify …
(2021-06-15). Israel's New Secular Government: Lieberman Crows that he Sidelined Fundamentalist Ultra-Orthodox and, read his lips: "No new taxes" juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — A lot of attention is focused on Naftali Bennett, the new prime minister of Israel. But it should be remembered that he had been a bit player, and his 7 coalition allies are often headed by much more prominent and powerful figures who are in the coalition precisely in order …
(2021-06-15). What NPR's "All Things Considered" won't Tell you about the Iran Nuclear Issue (Like that Iran is Weak and has no Nukes while Israel is advanced and Does). juancole.com Mt. Berry, Ga. (Special to Informed Comment) — What news audiences of National Public Radio (NPR)'s All Things Considered have and have not heard about the Iranian nuclear program since the election of Joe Biden offers a neat boundary delineation of the Hallin spheres of mainstream reporting on the topic. Daniel Hallin's classic study of …
(2021-06-15). Gaza's children narrate how they survived the Israeli assault. juancole.com Wafa Aludaini | (Gaza) | — ( Middle East Monitor ) — Israel bombardment of Gaza has ended, but the pain and destruction remain. The stories of children who survived the latest onslaught have caused me anguish, and I hope they are never forgotten by the international community as it continues its dealing with the …
(2021-06-15). Monday 6/14: Israel's War on the Media. indybay.org Zoom Webinar…
(2021-06-15). Israel's Netanyahu may be ousted but his hard-line foreign policies remain. juancole.com 
By David Mednicoff | (The Conversation) — After two years of repeated and inconclusive Israeli elections, the advent of a new coalition government has ended the long era of Benjamin Netanyahu's prime ministership. Yet he leaves a legacy of hawkish policies that will likely remain intact. As a scholar of Middle Eastern politics, I think …
(2021-06-15). The fraud of Israel's new "government of change" wsws.org Lapid was tasked with forming a government after Netanyahu, who despite heading the largest party—Likud—in the March 23 elections, the fourth in two years, failed to do so.
(2021-06-15). New Israeli Government, Same Israeli Apartheid. dissidentvoice.org After 12 years, Israel finally inaugurated a new prime minister. While being hailed by many as the opportunity for a fresh start, Naftali Bennett is at best a continuer of Netanyahu's policies and at worst an ideologue whose positions are to the right of Netanyahu's. In 2013, as Middle East peace talks were set to …
(2021-06-15). Israel Deploys Iron Dome To Hold Nationalist March In Jerusalem, Hamas Warns Of Consequences. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On June 15th, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has deployed Iron Dome air defense batteries and raised its level of alert ahead of the Jerusalem Flag March. | Hamas warned it would respond to the right-wing march if it goes through as planned, potentially with rocket fire from the Gaza Strip. | Omer Bar-Lev, the newly sworn-in public security minister after a meeting with Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai and representatives of several Israeli defense agencies allowed the march to go on as plann…
(2021-06-14). On 'Conflict' 'Peace' and 'Genocide': Time for New Language on Palestine and Israel. mintpressnews.com It will not be easy to deconstruct the seemingly endless edifice of lies, half-truths and intentional misrepresentations of Zionist Israeli colonialism in Palestine. Yet, there can be no alternative to this feat.
(2021-06-14). Grand Rapids, MI rallies for Palestine. fightbacknews.org Grand Rapids, MI – 60 people rallied in solidarity for a Free Palestine in Grand Rapids on June 13. On the sidewalk at Veterans Memorial Park, dozens waved Palestinian flags and held signs demanding, "Free Palestine." Young Palestinian Americans led chants, "Viva! Viva! Palestina!" and "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!" The crowd then moved nearby to the Union soldier statue for several speeches imploring people to organize and fight back. | "The so-called state of Israel has continued to provoke Palestinians. In the West Bank city of Jenin, Israelis invaded and killed several Palestinians a few…
(2021-06-14). Stop punishing Palestinians for resisting oppression. electronicintifada.net Israel's siege and wars have many accomplices.
(2021-06-14). Chicago Palestinian community holds sit-in at U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – About 25 Palestinian community organizers, members and allies, led by the U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN), filled Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky's office, June 10 to demand she support HR 2590, the Palestinian Children and Families Act. If passed, the bill would end U.S. military aid to Israel used for the imprisonment of children, the demolition of homes or annexation of Palestinian land. | When the protesters asked to speak with Representative Schakowsky they were told she was too busy to answer the phone. The protesters began to sit and started to chant "Hey Jan, what do you say? Su…
(2021-06-14). Grand Rapids, MI rallies for Palestine. fightbacknews.org Grand Rapids, MI – 60 people rallied in solidarity for a Free Palestine in Grand Rapids on June 13. On the sidewalk at Veterans Memorial Park, dozens waved Palestinian flags and held signs demanding, "Free Palestine." Young Palestinian Americans led chants, "Viva! Viva! Palestina!" and "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!" The crowd then moved nearby to the Union soldier statue for several speeches imploring people to organize and fight back. | "The so-called state of Israel has continued to provoke Palestinians. In the West Bank city of Jenin, Israelis invaded and killed several Palestinians a few…
(2021-06-14). Amnesty Raises Alarm as Israel Shuts Palestinian Health Provider. globalresearch.ca Israel's move to …
(2021-06-14). The Media Is an Accomplice in Erasing Palestinian Life. globalresearch.ca The late Palestinian …
(2021-06-14). Thursday 6/17: Specter of Colonial Violence during Military Escalations & Its Health Impact in Palestine. indybay.org Zoom…
(2021-06-14). Tuesday 6/15: Palestinian Narrative: Censorship and Creativity in Time of Crisis. indybay.org Zoom Webinar…
(2021-06-14). "Ten degrees more right-wing than" Netanyahu: Palestinians expect more expulsions from fragile 8-party coalition. juancole.com Editor's Update: The Naftali Bennett government was voted in on the afternoon of Sunday, June 13 by the Israeli parliament or Knesset. — JRIC By Jalal Abukhater | — ( OpenDemocracy.net) — A new government is expected to be formed in Israel this week, finally ending the 12-year reign of Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister. …
(2021-06-14). Over 3,100 Palestinians detained by Israeli occupation in May 2021: Prisoners' associations report. samidoun.net 
Palestinian prisoners' rights and human rights institutions, the Prisoners' Affairs Commission, Palestinian Prisoners' Society, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, and the Wadi Hilweh Information Center — Jerusalem, issued their monthly report on Sunday, 13 June, detailing the latest statistics and reports on Israeli repression targeting Palestinian detainees. The report covers key issues in the current uprising in Palestine, including ongoing violations and abuses by occupation forces, and documents specific cases followed by the institutions that prepared the report. The report is trans…
(2021-06-14). Where Infrastructure Means Prisons: A Drive into the Naqab and the Illusion of Israeli Democracy. mintpressnews.com 
Out of close to 250,000 Palestinian Beduin in the Naqab, about half live in "unrecognized villages." This means they get no roads, no electricity or running water, no schools or medical facilities — no services at all.
(2021-06-14). Canada action alert: Remove NDP defence critic, out of step with grassroots membership. samidoun.net 
Canada action alert: Take one minute to write to Jagmeet Singh and Canadian New Democratic Party officials calling for Randall Garrison, the NDP's defence critic, to be removed from his position for his militarism and anti-Palestinian stance. Send a letter here or take action below: actionnetwork.org/letters/write-letter-ndp-needs-a-new-defence-critic/ Dear Jagmeet Singh and NDP officials, Randall Garrison needs to be removed as NDP Defence critic. He promotes militarism and is anti-Palestinian. Garrison has repeatedly demanded more resources for the military, which has more than 10 times the budget of En…
(2021-06-14). 17 June, Online Event: Palestine between the path of Liquidation and the path of Liberation and Return. samidoun.net 
Palestine: between the path of liquidation and the path of liberation and return. The alternative path conference preparatory Committee in Greece invites you to participate in a political meeting and discussion with Palestinian writer Khaled Barakat on the current political development in Palestine and the region, and on the efforts to convene the alternative path conference. Thursday 17/06/2021 at 8 pm occupied Jerusalem and Athens time The meeting will be held through Zoom platform. Zoom meeting: 825 2249 0486 us02web.zoom.us/j/82522490486 This event will take place in Arabic with translation available…
(2021-06-14). Launching "Souli", a new Palestinian song. samidoun.net 
Samidoun thanks this group of dedicated and revolutionary Palestinian artists in occupied Palestine and the diaspora who cooperated together to complete the song ÿµŸàŸÑŸä — Souli (leaping advance), which we dedicate in turn to the Palestinian people and their supporters everywhere, and to the Palestinian prisoners' liberation movement imprisoned in Zionist and imperialist jails. This song is part of the Palestinian heritage and reality of cultural struggle and resistance until liberation and return, for all of Palestine, from the river to the sea. Lyrics: Khaled B…
(2021-06-14). Chicago Palestinian community holds sit-in at U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – About 25 Palestinian community organizers, members and allies, led by the U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN), filled Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky's office, June 10 to demand she support HR 2590, the Palestinian Children and Families Act. If passed, the bill would end U.S. military aid to Israel used for the imprisonment of children, the demolition of homes or annexation of Palestinian land. | When the protesters asked to speak with Representative Schakowsky they were told she was too busy to answer the phone. The protesters began to sit and started to chant "Hey Jan, what do you say? Su…
(2021-06-14). Iran FM's reaction after Netanyahu ousted from power. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — The Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has reacted to the end of the 12-year rule of "Benjamin Netanyahu" over occupied Palestinian lands with a post on Twitter, describing it as the fall of an oppressor.
(2021-06-14). Germany Gave My Family Reparations. Palestinians Deserve the Same From Israel. truthout.org 
I am a first-generation American. My Jewish parents fled Germany as the horrors of the Holocaust were unfolding. They left behind family who perished in camps and were killed as they fled from their homes while being chased and shot at by Nazis. | My great-grandfather, grandfather and father had a thriving butcher business in Frankfurt. They lived in the apartment building next to the butcher shop. My father always said he barely realized he was Jewish until Hitler arrived. It was always Deut…
(2021-06-14). Islamic Jihad Movement warns flag march 'dangerous' move. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — Issuing a statement, Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine warned that the so-called flag march, which is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, is provocative and dangerous move.
(2021-06-14). Don't forget Palestine. greenleft.org.au Supporters of justice for Palestine are continuing to protest Israel's ongoing attacks on Palestinians, report Rachel Evans and Alex Salmon.
(2021-06-14). Por todos los medios necesarios: °Defender la resistencia palestina! workers.org 
En la víspera de su 96 ∫ cumpleaños, el 19 de mayo, el gran revolucionario negro, Malcolm X, será siempre recordado por la cita: "Por cualquier medio necesario". Utilizó esta frase para justificar que los negros tienen derecho a defenderse de todas las formas de violencia de los supremacistas blancos, incluso . . . |
(2021-06-14). Infamous Israeli home thief is federally charged Long Island, NY financial fraudster. mronline.org 
Over the past few weeks, a video has gone viral of a man named Yaakov Fauci, in a New York accent, asserting to a Palestinian woman whose house that he has forcibly taken, "If I don't steal it, someone else is going to steal it." | June 14, 2021…
(2021-06-14). Where Infrastructure Means Prisons: A Drive into the Naqab and the Illusion of Israeli Democracy. libya360.wordpress.com Miko Peled THE NAQAB, PALESTINE — As I was preparing to leave Palestine, I found it harder to fall asleep. I spent the last few days in Jerusalem, mostly walking between the neighborhoods of Sheikh Jarrah in the north and Silwan in the south, crossing through the alleys of the Old City on the way….
(2021-06-14). Friedman's Last Gasp. zcomm.org Thomas Friedman's recent column in the New York Times reflecting on Israel's 11-day destruction of Gaza is a showcase for the delusions of liberal Zionism…
(2021-06-14). Monday 6/14: Israel's War on the Media. indybay.org Zoom Webinar…
(2021-06-14). Political System Unites to Condemn Ilhan Omar for Telling the Truth. zcomm.org The frenzied attacks by Republicans and Democrats on the Minnesota representative are about maintaining absolute impunity for the U.S. and Israel…
(2021-06-14). Bye bye, Bibi: Netanyahu's 12-year reign in Israel is over. peoplesworld.org 
Israel swore in a new government over the weekend, ending Benjamin Netanyahu's 12-year stint as the country's prime minister. Naftali Bennett, the head of a small ultra-nationalist party, has taken over as PM, but if he wants to keep the job, he will have to maintain an unwieldy coalition of parties from the political right, …
(2021-06-14). Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu ousted in Knesset vote. challenge-magazine.org 
Japhy Barrera is a member of the YCL's Birmingham branch | Long-standing Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu lost power in a vote by the Israeli Knesset (parliament) to establish a new coalition government. The vote was won narrowly at 60 votes to 59 with 1 abstention, ending Netanyahu's 12 consecutive years as PM. The coalition has won the vote by forming a coalition of far-right and liberal parties uniting on the objective of ousting Netanyahu. Commenting on his loss the former Prime Minister vowed to overthrow the coalition government stating that "it will come sooner than you think." | Although Net…
(2021-06-14). Israel's government: Same ax, new executioner. electronicintifada.net New Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spent years attacking Netanyahu from the right.