Daily Archives: May 16, 2021

2021-05-16: News Headlines

James L. Gelvin (2021-05-16). As the Palestinian minority takes to the streets, Israel is having its own Black Lives Matter moment. juancole.com ( The Conversation) — The images and reports coming from Israel, Jerusalem and Gaza in recent days are shocking. They are also surprising to those who thought the 2020 Abraham Accords and subsequent agreements to normalize relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan would place the conflict between Israelis and …

Staff (2021-05-16). How El Nacional Building was Found After Executive Embargo — Meanwhile Al Jazeera and AP Offices in Gaza Bombed to the Ground. orinocotribune.com Diosdado Cabello, Venezuelan National Assembly deputy, posted two images on his Twitter account, showing the completely empty building of the newspaper El Nacional, in Caracas, "without workers or equipment," and there were even some offices given on rent to other companies. | This came just a few hours after the notice by poster delivered to the owners of the newspaper this Friday afternoon, informing of the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) to proceed with an executive embargo of the main headquarters of the national daily, resulting from a defamation trial initiated by Cabello against the news out…

Juan Cole (2021-05-16). "Making the enemy blind": Did Israeli AF destroy Highrise housing AP and Al-Jazeera to Hide War Crimes? juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Associated Press is flatly denying the Israeli military's cover story for why it bombarded the al-Jala tower in Gaza, which housed media offices of AP and al-Jazeera, and where dozens of journalists were based. Israel maintains that there was a Hamas intelligence unit in the building that was targeting …

_____ (2021-05-16). Prominent Muslim Group To Boycott White House Eid Celebration. popularresistance.org The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a prominent American Muslim organization, announced Saturday it will boycott the White House's annual Eid celebration over the Biden administration's stance on Israel amid spiking violence in the Gaza Strip. | CAIR said it was joining with other groups in the boycott over the White House's "incredibly disappointing and deeply disturbing" response to the violence. | "We cannot in good conscience celebrate Eid with the Biden Administration while it literally aids, abets and justifies the Israeli apartheid government's indiscriminate bombing of innocent men, women an…

Maureen Clare Murphy (2021-05-16). Israel kills Gaza families in their homes on Nakba Day. electronicintifada.net Media tower bombed to "disrupt coverage of the human suffering in Gaza."

Phyllis Bennis (2021-05-16). Understanding Israel's Latest Attack on Gaza — And Who Benefits. juancole.com ( Foreign Policy in Focus) — "Both sides need to de-escalate." "No one benefits from this. " You'll hear a lot of statements like that from pundits, elected officials, government spokespeople, and mainstream media anytime there's violence in Israel-Palestine. In the last few days, Israeli war planes, armed drones, and artillery mounted on tanks have …

_____ (2021-05-16). Palestine Supporters Rally In Cities Across The United States And Europe. popularresistance.org On May 15th, the sixth straight day of Israeli bombardment of Gaza, Palestinians and their supporters gathered in cities across the US to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) and to call for an end to the Israeli bombardment, land theft and military occupation of Palestine. | Large protests of thousands of people took place in Madrid, Paris, London, Istanbul, New York, Washington DC, Sydney, Auckland (New Zealand), Portland, Austin, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Houston, Toronto,San Francisco, Atlanta, Dallas, and San Diego, among others. | Protesters across the US demanded an end to US…

_____ (2021-05-16). On Contact: Palestinian And Israeli Hostilities. popularresistance.org Chris Hedges discusses the disputes between the Palestinians and Israelis with Palestinian political activist Dr. Sami Al-Arian. | Hedges argues that nearly all the words and phrases used by the Democrats, Republicans, and the talking heads in the media to describe the unrest inside Israel and the heaviest Israeli assault against the Palestinians since the 2014 attacks on Gaza, which lasted 51 days and killed more than 2,200 Palestinians, including 551 children, are a lie. | Israel, by employing its military machine against an occupied population that does not have mechanized units, an air force, navy, drones, mi…

Caitlin Johnstone (2021-05-16). The Israel Narrative is Crumbling Because of Phone Cameras and the Internet. orinocotribune.com By Caitlin Johnstone — May 11, 2021 | "Twenty-four people, including nine children, were killed in Gaza overnight, most of them in Israeli strikes," reads a Nine children, killed with Remember kids,

Jonathan Cook (2021-05-16). Palestinians in Israel now face far-right mob violence backed by the state. dissidentvoice.org With Jerusalem ablaze and Gaza on the brink of another major Israeli onslaught, it has been easy to overlook the rapidly escalating ethnic violence inside Israel, where one in five of the population is Palestinian. These 1.8 million Palestinians — Israeli citizens in little more than name — have spent the past week venting their …

Hanan Ashrawi (2021-05-16). U.S. Backing Has Given Israel License to Kill & Maim Palestinians. zcomm.org Israel's latest assault on Gaza is turning life in the besieged territory into "sheer hell," aided by U.S. military and diplomatic support…

Marjorie Cohn (2021-05-16). Israel Isn't Entitled to "Self-Defense" Against the People Under Its Occupation. zcomm.org "This is the worst I witnessed in my life. No safe haven in Gaza, so bloody and brutal."

Peninsula Peace, Justice Center (2021-05-16). Monday 5/17: Gaza: Palestinians Under Siege Webinar w/ Joel Beinin, Middle East Scholar Stanford. indybay.org Online event via Zoom…

_____ (2021-05-16). Roger Waters On Israel's Crimes And Palestine's Resistance. popularresistance.org Roger Waters and Vijay Prashad talk about the brutal Israeli apartheid and violence on Palestinians, the defiant resistance of the Palestinian people and the global struggle against imperialism and settler colonialism.

Peter Maiden (2021-05-16). Protest in Solidarity with Palestine in Fresno. indybay.org 73rd year of the Nakba marked by Palestinians in Fresno May 15. Hundreds turned out.

_____ (2021-05-16). The Zionism Discourse On Palestine Is Crumbling. popularresistance.org On April 27, one of the world's largest and most credible rights groups, Human Rights Watch (HRW), concluded, in a comprehensive 213-pages report, that Israel is an apartheid state. | "Across these areas and in most aspects of life, Israeli authorities methodically privilege Jewish Israelis and discriminate against Palestinians. Laws, policies, and statements by leading Israeli officials make plain that the objective of maintaining Jewish Israeli control over demographics, political power and land has long guided government policy," the report entitled "A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of A…

Ramzy Baroud (2021-05-16). "Much Worse than Apartheid": Israel's Discourse on Palestine is Crumbling. juancole.com On April 27, one of the world's largest and most credible rights groups, Human Rights Watch (HRW), concluded, in a comprehensive 213-pages report, that Israel is an apartheid state. "Across these areas and in most aspects of life, Israeli authorities methodically privilege Jewish Israelis and discriminate against Palestinians. Laws, policies, and statements by leading Israeli …

Anonymous103 (2021-05-16). Hezbollah: The Liberation Of Palestine Entered Its Last Stage. southfront.org Illustrative image | Interview of Sayed Hashem Safi al-Din, Head of the Executive Office of Hezbollah, on May 11, 2021. Originally published on

Stop US Aid to Israel (2021-05-16). Rep. Rashida Tlaib Speaks Truth to Power on Palestine. indybay.org On the floor of the US Congress on 5/13/21, Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan stated in her moving 10 minute speech below, that "If there's one thing Detroit instilled in this Palestinian girl from Southwest, it's you always speak truth to power, even if your voice shakes. The freedom of Palestinians is connected to the fight against oppression all over the world." We will be there for her and Palestine on 5/15/21 at 16th & Valencia, SF in opposition to the 75% of US Congress who, as Tlaib stated: "signed a letter pledging that Israel shall never be made to comply with basic human rights laws that other countries th…

Islamic Society of Monterey County (2021-05-16). Sunday 5/16: Monterey: Stand in Solidarity with Palestine. indybay.org Window on the Bay, 717 Del Monte Ave., Monterey, CA…

Networker (2021-05-16). Tomorrow morning! (Saturday, 5/15): Two online events about Palestine! indybay.org Here are 2 online events about Palestine taking place tomorrow morning, Saturday, May 15. These events are hosted in Canada and the UK, however, the listed times are for our "Pacific time zone". Of course, feel free to share this info with others who might be interested in it.

Allan Fisher (2021-05-16). Sunday 5/16: Protest Israel's USA funded human rights abuses of Palestinians. indybay.org Corner of Ocean and Water Streets, Santa Cruz. Sponsored by Palestine Justice Coalition.

Stop US Aid to Israel (2021-05-16). 5/15/21 From SF to DC for Palestine: Thousands on the March. indybay.org Perhaps 2,000 marched in San Francisco for Palestine with dozens of Palestinian flags on Mission Street from 16th to 24th Street and beyond and among other places, right under the noses of Congress and the White House, Washington DC had thousands of supporters of Palestine on the March on 5/15/21. See the livestream of DC at www.pscp.tv/w/1eaJbnAMYlZJX

Michael F. Brown (2021-05-16). Democratic leadership stands with Israel. electronicintifada.net QAnon Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene attacks "JihadSquad."

Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal (2021-05-16). Israel Charged with War Crimes and Genocide. Complete 2013 Judgment of the Kuala Lumpur Tribunal. globalresearch.ca The Tribunal deplores the failure of international institutions to punish the State of Israel for its crimes and its total lack of respect of International Law and the institutions of the United Nations.

Alessandro Pagani (2021-05-16). øNakba? Ahora basta: Queremos Marwun Barghuti. globalizacion.ca En la Palestina israelizada, después de que la ONU, en 1948, sancionara una división injusta del territorio entre presencia histórica y presencia entrante, estaba la Nakba, la "catástrofe". Sólo el primer paso hacia la erradicación casi total de los palestinos,…

Thalif Deen (2021-05-16). Estados Unidos protege a Israel con veto tras veto en el Consejo Seguridad. globalizacion.ca El Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas (CSNU), su órgano político más poderoso, ha permanecido en gran medida silencioso o ineficaz en la resolución del conflicto armado de más larga data en Medio Oriente, que involucra a israelíes y…

Bernie Sanders (2021-05-16). The U.S. Must Stop Being an Apologist for the Netanyahu Government. zcomm.org Over more than a decade of his right-wing rule in Israel, Mr. Netanyahu has cultivated an increasingly intolerant and authoritarian type of racist nationalism…

UERMWA (2021-05-16). United Electrical Condemns Attacks on Palestinian People. zcomm.org Working people need and deserve, instead, a foreign policy based on diplomacy, peace, and international solidarity…

Juan Cole (2021-05-15). Gaza and Israel's Kidnapper's Dilemma: Keeping a Million Children Brutalized in its dark Basement. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — A war is when two antagonists fight one another all-out, until in fairly short order one wins and the other loses. On December 11, 1941, Mussolini declared war on the United States. Then later on the US invaded Italy from Tunisia under Gen. Patton. On July 25, 1943, Mussolini lost …

Ali Abunimah (2021-05-15). Blowing apart a monstrous Israeli lie. electronicintifada.net It's a dehumanizing libel that Palestinians sacrifice their kids to make Israel look bad.

WSWS (2021-05-15). Israel wages war on Gaza and its own cities. wsws.org According to the United Nations, Israeli air strikes have destroyed or severely damaged more than 200 homes and 24 schools in Gaza in the past five days, while damage to pipe networks and power cuts threaten the already limited access to fresh water and electricity.

Antonio García (2021-05-15). Polvo llena de sangre en las calles de Gaza. peoplesworld.org &nbsp…

Fight Back (2021-05-15). Lebanese protesters cross borders to occupied Palestine, face Israeli gunfire. fightbacknews.org According to a report from Lebanon's authoritative news outlet Al-Manar, a demonstration supporting the resistance in Palestine crossed the border between Lebanon and the territory under Israeli occupation on May 13. | "A number of Lebanese protesters demonstrated spontaneously near the barbed-wire fence off the Israeli settlement of Al-Metula, storming the border an crossing shortly into the occupied Palestinian territories," reports Al-Manar, which had a reporter on the scene. | "The protesters held Lebanon's, Hezbollah's and Palestine's flags and chanted slogans in support of Gaza against the Israeli agg…

_____ (2021-05-15). Israel Is Killing Women And Children In Gaza. popularresistance.org Women and children account for nearly half of the more than 120 Palestinians killed in Gaza since Monday, according to Al-Mezan, a human rights group in the territory. | This contradicts Israel's claims that it is targeting Hamas infrastructure and making great efforts to avoid harming civilians. | The death toll will likely climb higher as bodies are recovered from the rubble of the buildings that were "destroyed over their residents' heads," the rights group stated on Friday. Al-Mezan and the London-based Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights said on Friday that like it did in 2014, Israel was targeting family h…

Fra Hughes (2021-05-15). Sheikh Jarrah, Al Quds and the Right of Resistance. orinocotribune.com By Fra Hughes, Belfast — May 13, 2021 | Al Quds the red line | Al Quds or Jerusalem, is the red line for the Palestinian people, the diaspora, and the Arab collective. | It is the capital of Palestine and home to the third holiest shrine in Islam, the Al Aqsa Mosque. | Muslims believe that Prophet Muhammad was transported from the Great Mosque in Mecca to Al Aqsa during the Night Journey. Islamic tradition holds that Muhammad led prayers towards this site for 16-17 months after his migration to Mecca. | So how did we get to this current impasse? | Jerusalem is in flames, Gaza is being bombed back to the ston…

Tamara Nassar (2021-05-15). Israel kills Palestinians in West Bank as it bombs Gaza. electronicintifada.net Child fatally shot and PA officer killed by "mistake."

_____ (2021-05-15). Israel Doesn't Have A 'Right To Exist'. popularresistance.org In 1991, Israeli and Palestinian representatives gathered in Madrid, Spain to restart a "peace process" they hoped, at least ostensibly, would lay the groundwork for a future "two-state solution." Three decades later, as Israeli bombs rain down on Gaza, the creation of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza seems further from realization than ever. | The idea of a two-state solution never made much sense. The West Bank and Gaza are geographically disconnected, and the Gaza Strip takes up all of 140.9 square miles. Under the terms of a future two-state deal, the residents of this tiny strip of…

Anonymous103 (2021-05-15). Hidden Causes And Apparent Results Of Gaza Crisis. southfront.org Illustrative imageDEAR FRIENDS. IF YOU LIKE THIS TYPE OF CONTENT, SUPPORT SOUTHFRONT WORK : | BTC: bc1qw4cxpe6sxa5dg6sdwxjph959cw6yztrzl4r54s BITCOINCASH: qq3vlashthktqpeppuv7trmw070e3mydgq63zq348v | OR CONTACT US : info@southfront.org | The whole world keenly follows the "sudden "conflict between Israelis and Arabs. The shell…

Anonymous669 (2021-05-15). Hamas Suicide Drone, Mortars Targeted Israeli Kissufim Military Base Near Gaza (Videos, Photos). southfront.org The Shehab suicide drone. Illustrative image. | On May 15, the military wing of the Hamas Movement, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, attacked a base of the Israeli military near the settlement of Kissufim to the east of the Gaza Strip. | In a statement, the faction said that it had targeted a gathering of Israeli troops inside the base with a Shehab suicide drone and mortar rounds. | The Israeli military claimed that the drone was intercepted by the Iron Dome system. Yet, local sources confirmed that several mortar rounds landed near Ki…

Anonymous669 (2021-05-15). Israeli Army Knocks Down Another Tower In Gaza After Deadly Rocket Attack On Tel Aviv (Videos, Photos). southfront.org On May 15, the Israeli military knocked down another tower in the Gaza Strip after a deadly rocket attack on…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-05-15). On the Sixth Day of Israeli Offensive, Casualties and Numbers of IDPs Rise. libya360.wordpress.com On Sixth Day of Israeli Offensive on Gaza: Houses Destroyed over Its Residents and More Civilians Displaced In Excessive Use of Force during Suppression of Protests in Solidarity with Gaza and Jerusalem, IOF and Settlers Kill 11 Civilians and Wound 109 Others with Bullets in West Bank…

John Gilmore (2021-05-15). The Heat: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. america.cgtn.com The Israeli military continued a major offensive Friday in Gaza while more rockets were fired into Israel by Hamas militants. There were also confrontations between Israeli troops and Palestinians spreading across parts of the West Bank Meanwhile, in Colombia, a wave of anti-government protests …

Common Dreams staff (2021-05-15). Israeli Bombs Destroy Gaza Media Center; AP, Al-Jazeera, Others Taken Out. commondreams.org Israel destroyed a high-rise building in Gaza City that housed offices of The Associated Press, Al-Jazeera and other media outlets on Saturday, the latest step by Israel to silence reporting | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gaza-ap-al-jazeera-bombed-by-israel_0.jpg

WSWS (2021-05-15). Anger mounts in Turkey at Israel's onslaught against Gaza. wsws.org The Turkish government and other venal bourgeois regimes in the Middle East are all complicit in the Israeli government's assault on the Palestinians.

WSWS (2021-05-15). EU powers back Israeli war on Gaza, banning anti-war protests. wsws.org The EU is unambiguously supporting the one-sided Israeli onslaught against Gaza, banning demonstrations in Paris and Frankfurt against this ongoing massacre.

Richard Becker (2021-05-15). 73 years after 'al-Nakba' in Palestine. liberationnews.org May 14 marks the 60th anniversary of what is billed in the U.S. and Israeli mainstream media as Israel's "independence," and what the Palestinian and Arab peoples as a whole know as al-Nakba—the Catastrophe.

_____ (2021-05-15). Israel's Pogroms In Jerusalem Could Spark The Destruction Of al-Aqsa. popularresistance.org As the holy month of Ramadan comes to a close, it is becoming clear that the violence against Palestinians in Jerusalem has been ramped up in a coordinated effort by the Israeli government, the Jerusalem municipality, the Israeli police, and violent Zionist gangs. | These latest events must be seen in the larger context of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in general, and of Jerusalem in particular. They should also be seen in the context of internal Israeli politics. Jerusalem is burning and Israeli politicians go on about their business of mud-slinging as if this was not their problem and not a single one think…

Staff (2021-05-15). Battleground Baltimore: From Baltimore to Palestine. therealnews.com In this week's roundup of Baltimore news we talk about Baltimoreans responding to what's happening to Palestinians, renters' rights advocates organizing against a hedge fund, and a likely new trial for Keith Davis Jr.

Palestine Action Network (2021-05-15). Saturday 5/15: San Francisco Protest for Palestine. indybay.org 16th and Valencia BART Station…

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2021-05-16: Social Media Postees

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Watch "Killing Gaza"
Ali Abunimah | electronicintifada.net | 2021-05-16
Unflinching film on Israel's 2014 massacre in Gaza now available free online.
electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/watch-killing-gaza

Israel kills Gaza families in their homes on Nakba Day
Maureen Clare Murphy | electronicintifada.net | 2021-05-16
Media tower bombed to "disrupt coverage of the human suffering in Gaza."
electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israel-kills-gaza-families-their-homes-nakba-day

How El Nacional Building was Found After Executive Embargo — Meanwhile Al Jazeera and AP Offices in Gaza Bombed to the Ground
Staff | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-16
Diosdado Cabello, Venezuelan National Assembly deputy, posted two images on his Twitter account, showing the completely empty building of the newspaper El Nacional, in Caracas, "without workers or equipment," and there were even some offices given on rent to other companies. | This came just a few hours after the notice by poster delivered to the owners of the newspaper this Friday afternoon, informing of the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) to proceed with an executive embargo of the main headquarters of the national daily, resulting from a defamation trial initiated by Cabello against the news out…
orinocotribune.com/how-el-nacional-building-was-found-after-executive-embargo-meanwhile-al-jazeera-and-ap-offices-in-gaza-bombed-to-the-ground/

The Israel Narrative is Crumbling Because of Phone Cameras and the Internet
Caitlin Johnstone | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-16
By Caitlin Johnstone — May 11, 2021 | "Twenty-four people, including nine children, were killed in Gaza overnight, most of them in Israeli strikes," reads a new report from AP. | Nine children, killed with the help of United States funding to the tune of $3.8 billion a year. | Remember kids, the US loves Muslims a…
orinocotribune.com/the-israel-narrative-is-crumbling-because-of-phone-cameras-and-the-internet/

On Contact: Palestinian And Israeli Hostilities
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-16
Chris Hedges discusses the disputes between the Palestinians and Israelis with Palestinian political activist Dr. Sami Al-Arian. | Hedges argues that nearly all the words and phrases used by the Democrats, Republicans, and the talking heads in the media to describe the unrest inside Israel and the heaviest Israeli assault against the Palestinians since the 2014 attacks on Gaza, which lasted 51 days and killed more than 2,200 Palestinians, including 551 children, are a lie. | Israel, by employing its military machine against an occupied population that does not have mechanized units, an air force, navy, drones, mi…
popularresistance.org/on-contact-palestinian-and-israeli-hostilities/

How El Nacional Building was Found After Executive Embargo — Meanwhile Al Jazeera and AP Offices in Gaza Bombed to the Ground
Staff | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-16
Diosdado Cabello, Venezuelan National Assembly deputy, posted two images on his Twitter account, showing the completely empty building of the newspaper El Nacional, in Caracas, "without workers or equipment," and there were even some offices given on rent to other companies. | This came just a few hours after the notice by poster delivered to the owners of the newspaper this Friday afternoon, informing of the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) to proceed with an executive embargo of the main headquarters of the national daily, resulting from a defamation trial initiated by Cabello against the news out…
orinocotribune.com/how-el-nacional-building-was-found-after-executive-embargo-meanwhile-al-jazeera-and-ap-offices-in-gaza-bombed-to-the-ground/

Prominent Muslim Group To Boycott White House Eid Celebration
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-16
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a prominent American Muslim organization, announced Saturday it will boycott the White House's annual Eid celebration over the Biden administration's stance on Israel amid spiking violence in the Gaza Strip. | CAIR said it was joining with other groups in the boycott over the White House's "incredibly disappointing and deeply disturbing" response to the violence. | "We cannot in good conscience celebrate Eid with the Biden Administration while it literally aids, abets and justifies the Israeli apartheid government's indiscriminate bombing of innocent men, women an…
popularresistance.org/prominent-muslim-group-to-boycott-white-house-eid-celebration/

Palestine Supporters Rally In Cities Across The United States And Europe
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-16
On May 15th, the sixth straight day of Israeli bombardment of Gaza, Palestinians and their supporters gathered in cities across the US to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) and to call for an end to the Israeli bombardment, land theft and military occupation of Palestine. | Large protests of thousands of people took place in Madrid, Paris, London, Istanbul, New York, Washington DC, Sydney, Auckland (New Zealand), Portland, Austin, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Houston, Toronto,San Francisco, Atlanta, Dallas, and San Diego, among others. | Protesters across the US demanded an end to US…
popularresistance.org/palestine-supporters-rally-in-cities-across-the-united-states-and-europe/

Understanding Israel's Latest Attack on Gaza — And Who Benefits
Phyllis Bennis | juancole.com | 2021-05-16
( Foreign Policy in Focus) — "Both sides need to de-escalate." "No one benefits from this. " You'll hear a lot of statements like that from pundits, elected officials, government spokespeople, and mainstream media anytime there's violence in Israel-Palestine. In the last few days, Israeli war planes, armed drones, and artillery mounted on tanks have …
juancole.com/2021/05/understanding-israels-benefits.html

As the Palestinian minority takes to the streets, Israel is having its own Black Lives Matter moment
James L. Gelvin | juancole.com | 2021-05-16
( The Conversation) — The images and reports coming from Israel, Jerusalem and Gaza in recent days are shocking. They are also surprising to those who thought the 2020 Abraham Accords and subsequent agreements to normalize relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan would place the conflict between Israelis and …
juancole.com/2021/05/palestinian-minority-streets.html

"Making the enemy blind": Did Israeli AF destroy Highrise housing AP and Al-Jazeera to Hide War Crimes?
Juan Cole | juancole.com | 2021-05-16
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Associated Press is flatly denying the Israeli military's cover story for why it bombarded the al-Jala tower in Gaza, which housed media offices of AP and al-Jazeera, and where dozens of journalists were based. Israel maintains that there was a Hamas intelligence unit in the building that was targeting …
juancole.com/2021/05/israeli-highrise-housing.html

U.S. Backing Has Given Israel License to Kill & Maim Palestinians
Hanan Ashrawi | zcomm.org | 2021-05-16
Israel's latest assault on Gaza is turning life in the besieged territory into "sheer hell," aided by U.S. military and diplomatic support…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/u-s-backing-has-given-israel-license-to-kill-maim-palestinians/

This Must End
Yasser Abu Jamei | zcomm.org | 2021-05-16
Open letter from the director of Gaza Community Mental Health Program…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/this-must-end/

Israel Isn't Entitled to "Self-Defense" Against the People Under Its Occupation
Marjorie Cohn | zcomm.org | 2021-05-16
"This is the worst I witnessed in my life. No safe haven in Gaza, so bloody and brutal."
zcomm.org/znetarticle/israel-isnt-entitled-to-self-defense-against-the-people-under-its-occupation/

Understanding Israel's Latest Attack on Gaza — And Who Benefits
Phyllis Bennis | zcomm.org | 2021-05-16
Netanyahu's political troubles — and an arms industry eager to battle test new wares on Gazans — may help explain the latest escalation of violence…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/understanding-israels-latest-attack-on-gaza-and-who-benefits/

Palestinians in Israel now face far-right mob violence backed by the state
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-05-16
With Jerusalem ablaze and Gaza on the brink of another major Israeli onslaught, it has been easy to overlook the rapidly escalating ethnic violence inside Israel, where one in five of the population is Palestinian. These 1.8 million Palestinians — Israeli citizens in little more than name — have spent the past week venting their …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/05/palestinians-in-israel-now-face-far-right-mob-violence-backed-by-the-state/

Palestinians in Israel now face far-right mob violence backed by the state
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-05-16
With Jerusalem ablaze and Gaza on the brink of another major Israeli onslaught, it has been easy to overlook the rapidly escalating ethnic violence inside Israel, where one in five of the population is Palestinian. These 1.8 million Palestinians — Israeli citizens in little more than name — have spent the past week venting their …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/05/palestinians-in-israel-now-face-far-right-mob-violence-backed-by-the-state/

Hezbollah: The Liberation Of Palestine Entered Its Last Stage
Anonymous103 | southfront.org | 2021-05-16
Illustrative image | Interview of Sayed Hashem Safi al-Din, Head of the Executive Office of Hezbollah, on May 11, 2021. Originally published on almanar.com, translated by resistancenews.org.This interview was to be devoted exclusively to martyr Sayed Mustafa Badr al-Din "Zulfiqar", Hezbollah commander killed in Syria on May 13, 2016, but the developments in Gaza were evoked at the beginning and end of the interview…
southfront.org/hezbollah-the-liberation-of-palestine-entered-its-last-stage/

Monday 5/17: Gaza: Palestinians Under Siege Webinar w/ Joel Beinin, Middle East Scholar Stanford
Peninsula Peace, Justice Center | indybay.org | 2021-05-16
Online event via Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/14/18842500.php

Roger Waters On Israel's Crimes And Palestine's Resistance
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-16
Roger Waters and Vijay Prashad talk about the brutal Israeli apartheid and violence on Palestinians, the defiant resistance of the Palestinian people and the global struggle against imperialism and settler colonialism.
popularresistance.org/roger-waters-on-israels-crimes-and-palestines-resistance/

"Much Worse than Apartheid": Israel's Discourse on Palestine is Crumbling
Ramzy Baroud | juancole.com | 2021-05-16
On April 27, one of the world's largest and most credible rights groups, Human Rights Watch (HRW), concluded, in a comprehensive 213-pages report, that Israel is an apartheid state. "Across these areas and in most aspects of life, Israeli authorities methodically privilege Jewish Israelis and discriminate against Palestinians. Laws, policies, and statements by leading Israeli …
juancole.com/2021/05/apartheid-discourse-palestine.html

The Zionism Discourse On Palestine Is Crumbling
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-16
On April 27, one of the world's largest and most credible rights groups, Human Rights Watch (HRW), concluded, in a comprehensive 213-pages report, that Israel is an apartheid state. | "Across these areas and in most aspects of life, Israeli authorities methodically privilege Jewish Israelis and discriminate against Palestinians. Laws, policies, and statements by leading Israeli officials make plain that the objective of maintaining Jewish Israeli control over demographics, political power and land has long guided government policy," the report entitled "A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of A…
popularresistance.org/the-zionism-discourse-on-palestine-crumbling/

Protest in Solidarity with Palestine in Fresno
Peter Maiden | indybay.org | 2021-05-16
73rd year of the Nakba marked by Palestinians in Fresno May 15. Hundreds turned out.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/16/18842529.php

Rep. Rashida Tlaib Speaks Truth to Power on Palestine
Stop US Aid to Israel | indybay.org | 2021-05-16
On the floor of the US Congress on 5/13/21, Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan stated in her moving 10 minute speech below, that "If there's one thing Detroit instilled in this Palestinian girl from Southwest, it's you always speak truth to power, even if your voice shakes. The freedom of Palestinians is connected to the fight against oppression all over the world." We will be there for her and Palestine on 5/15/21 at 16th & Valencia, SF in opposition to the 75% of US Congress who, as Tlaib stated: "signed a letter pledging that Israel shall never be made to comply with basic human rights laws that other countries th…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/14/18842496.php

Tomorrow morning! (Saturday, 5/15): Two online events about Palestine!
Networker | indybay.org | 2021-05-16
Here are 2 online events about Palestine taking place tomorrow morning, Saturday, May 15. These events are hosted in Canada and the UK, however, the listed times are for our "Pacific time zone". Of course, feel free to share this info with others who might be interested in it.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/14/18842499.php

Sunday 5/16: Monterey: Stand in Solidarity with Palestine
Islamic Society of Monterey County | indybay.org | 2021-05-16
Window on the Bay, 717 Del Monte Ave., Monterey, CA…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/14/18842494.php

5/15/21 From SF to DC for Palestine: Thousands on the March
Stop US Aid to Israel | indybay.org | 2021-05-16
Perhaps 2,000 marched in San Francisco for Palestine with dozens of Palestinian flags on Mission Street from 16th to 24th Street and beyond and among other places, right under the noses of Congress and the White House, Washington DC had thousands of supporters of Palestine on the March on 5/15/21. See the livestream of DC at www.pscp.tv/w/1eaJbnAMYlZJX
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/15/18842522.php

Sunday 5/16: Protest Israel's USA funded human rights abuses of Palestinians
Allan Fisher | indybay.org | 2021-05-16
Corner of Ocean and Water Streets, Santa Cruz. Sponsored by Palestine Justice Coalition.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/15/18842515.php

Democratic leadership stands with Israel
Michael F. Brown | electronicintifada.net | 2021-05-16
QAnon Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene attacks "JihadSquad."
electronicintifada.net/blogs/michael-f-brown/democratic-leadership-stands-israel

Israel Charged with War Crimes and Genocide. Complete 2013 Judgment of the Kuala Lumpur Tribunal
Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-16
The Tribunal deplores the failure of international institutions to punish the State of Israel for its crimes and its total lack of respect of International Law and the institutions of the United Nations.
globalresearch.ca/israel-charged-with-war-crimes-and-genocide-complete-judgment-of-kl-tribunal/5359433

øNakba? Ahora basta: Queremos Marwun Barghuti
Alessandro Pagani | globalizacion.ca | 2021-05-16
En la Palestina israelizada, después de que la ONU, en 1948, sancionara una división injusta del territorio entre presencia histórica y presencia entrante, estaba la Nakba, la "catástrofe". Sólo el primer paso hacia la erradicación casi total de los palestinos,…
globalizacion.ca/nakba-ahora-basta-queremos-marwun-barghuti/

Estados Unidos protege a Israel con veto tras veto en el Consejo Seguridad
Thalif Deen | globalizacion.ca | 2021-05-16
El Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas (CSNU), su órgano político más poderoso, ha permanecido en gran medida silencioso o ineficaz en la resolución del conflicto armado de más larga data en Medio Oriente, que involucra a israelíes y…
globalizacion.ca/estados-unidos-protege-israel-con-veto-tras-veto-en-el-consejo-seguridad/

The U.S. Must Stop Being an Apologist for the Netanyahu Government
Bernie Sanders | zcomm.org | 2021-05-16
Over more than a decade of his right-wing rule in Israel, Mr. Netanyahu has cultivated an increasingly intolerant and authoritarian type of racist nationalism…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-u-s-must-stop-being-an-apologist-for-the-netanyahu-government/

United Electrical Condemns Attacks on Palestinian People
UERMWA | zcomm.org | 2021-05-16
Working people need and deserve, instead, a foreign policy based on diplomacy, peace, and international solidarity…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/united-electrical-condemns-attacks-on-palestinian-people/

Gaza and Israel's Kidnapper's Dilemma: Keeping a Million Children Brutalized in its dark Basement
Juan Cole | juancole.com | 2021-05-15
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — A war is when two antagonists fight one another all-out, until in fairly short order one wins and the other loses. On December 11, 1941, Mussolini declared war on the United States. Then later on the US invaded Italy from Tunisia under Gen. Patton. On July 25, 1943, Mussolini lost …
juancole.com/2021/05/kidnappers-children-brutalized.html

Blowing apart a monstrous Israeli lie
Ali Abunimah | electronicintifada.net | 2021-05-15
It's a dehumanizing libel that Palestinians sacrifice their kids to make Israel look bad.
electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/blowing-apart-monstrous-israeli-lie

Israel wages war on Gaza and its own cities
wsws.org | 2021-05-15
According to the United Nations, Israeli air strikes have destroyed or severely damaged more than 200 homes and 24 schools in Gaza in the past five days, while damage to pipe networks and power cuts threaten the already limited access to fresh water and electricity.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/15/isra-m15.html

Israel Is Killing Women And Children In Gaza
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-15
Women and children account for nearly half of the more than 120 Palestinians killed in Gaza since Monday, according to Al-Mezan, a human rights group in the territory. | This contradicts Israel's claims that it is targeting Hamas infrastructure and making great efforts to avoid harming civilians. | The death toll will likely climb higher as bodies are recovered from the rubble of the buildings that were "destroyed over their residents' heads," the rights group stated on Friday. Al-Mezan and the London-based Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights said on Friday that like it did in 2014, Israel was targeting family h…
popularresistance.org/israel-is-killing-women-and-children-in-gaza/

Polvo llena de sangre en las calles de Gaza
Antonio García | peoplesworld.org | 2021-05-15
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peoplesworld.org/article/polvo-llena-de-sangre-en-las-calles-de-gaza/

Israel kills Palestinians in West Bank as it bombs Gaza
Tamara Nassar | electronicintifada.net | 2021-05-15
Child fatally shot and PA officer killed by "mistake."
electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/israel-kills-palestinians-west-bank-it-bombs-gaza

Lebanese protesters cross borders to occupied Palestine, face Israeli gunfire
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-05-15
According to a report from Lebanon's authoritative news outlet Al-Manar, a demonstration supporting the resistance in Palestine crossed the border between Lebanon and the territory under Israeli occupation on May 13. | "A number of Lebanese protesters demonstrated spontaneously near the barbed-wire fence off the Israeli settlement of Al-Metula, storming the border an crossing shortly into the occupied Palestinian territories," reports Al-Manar, which had a reporter on the scene. | "The protesters held Lebanon's, Hezbollah's and Palestine's flags and chanted slogans in support of Gaza against the Israeli agg…
www.fightbacknews.org/2021/5/15/lebanese-protesters-cross-borders-occupied-palestine-face-israeli-gunfire

Lebanese protesters cross borders to occupied Palestine, face Israeli gunfire
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-05-15
According to a report from Lebanon's authoritative news outlet Al-Manar, a demonstration supporting the resistance in Palestine crossed the border between Lebanon and the territory under Israeli occupation on May 13. | "A number of Lebanese protesters demonstrated spontaneously near the barbed-wire fence off the Israeli settlement of Al-Metula, storming the border an crossing shortly into the occupied Palestinian territories," reports Al-Manar, which had a reporter on the scene. | "The protesters held Lebanon's, Hezbollah's and Palestine's flags and chanted slogans in support of Gaza against the Israeli agg…
fightbacknews.org/2021/5/15/lebanese-protesters-cross-borders-occupied-palestine-face-israeli-gunfire

Sheikh Jarrah, Al Quds and the Right of Resistance
Fra Hughes | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-15
By Fra Hughes, Belfast — May 13, 2021 | Al Quds the red line | Al Quds or Jerusalem, is the red line for the Palestinian people, the diaspora, and the Arab collective. | It is the capital of Palestine and home to the third holiest shrine in Islam, the Al Aqsa Mosque. | Muslims believe that Prophet Muhammad was transported from the Great Mosque in Mecca to Al Aqsa during the Night Journey. Islamic tradition holds that Muhammad led prayers towards this site for 16-17 months after his migration to Mecca. | So how did we get to this current impasse? | Jerusalem is in flames, Gaza is being bombed back to the ston…
orinocotribune.com/sheikh-jarrah-al-quds-and-the-right-of-resistance/

Israel Doesn't Have A 'Right To Exist'
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-15
In 1991, Israeli and Palestinian representatives gathered in Madrid, Spain to restart a "peace process" they hoped, at least ostensibly, would lay the groundwork for a future "two-state solution." Three decades later, as Israeli bombs rain down on Gaza, the creation of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza seems further from realization than ever. | The idea of a two-state solution never made much sense. The West Bank and Gaza are geographically disconnected, and the Gaza Strip takes up all of 140.9 square miles. Under the terms of a future two-state deal, the residents of this tiny strip of…
popularresistance.org/israel-doesnt-have-a-right-to-exist/

Israeli Army Knocks Down Another Tower In Gaza After Deadly Rocket Attack On Tel Aviv (Videos, Photos)
Anonymous669 | southfront.org | 2021-05-15
On May 15, the Israeli military knocked down another tower in the Gaza Strip after a deadly rocket attack on…
southfront.org/israeli-army-knocks-down-another-tower-in-gaza-after-deadly-rocket-attack-on-tel-aviv-videos-photos/

Hidden Causes And Apparent Results Of Gaza Crisis
Anonymous103 | southfront.org | 2021-05-15
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Hamas Suicide Drone, Mortars Targeted Israeli Kissufim Military Base Near Gaza (Videos, Photos)
Anonymous669 | southfront.org | 2021-05-15
The Shehab suicide drone. Illustrative image. | On May 15, the military wing of the Hamas Movement, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, attacked a base of the Israeli military near the settlement of Kissufim to the east of the Gaza Strip. | In a statement, the faction said that it had targeted a gathering of Israeli troops inside the base with a Shehab suicide drone and mortar rounds. | The Israeli military claimed that the drone was intercepted by the Iron Dome system. Yet, local sources confirmed that several mortar rounds landed near Ki…
southfront.org/hamas-suicide-drone-mortars-targeted-israeli-kissufim-military-base-near-gaza-videos-photos/

On the Sixth Day of Israeli Offensive, Casualties and Numbers of IDPs Rise
Internationalist 360 ∞ | libya360.wordpress.com | 2021-05-15
On Sixth Day of Israeli Offensive on Gaza: Houses Destroyed over Its Residents and More Civilians Displaced In Excessive Use of Force during Suppression of Protests in Solidarity with Gaza and Jerusalem, IOF and Settlers Kill 11 Civilians and Wound 109 Others with Bullets in West Bank…
libya360.wordpress.com/2021/05/15/on-the-sixth-day-of-israeli-offensive-casualties-and-numbers-of-idps-rise/

Israeli Bombs Destroy Gaza Media Center; AP, Al-Jazeera, Others Taken Out
Common Dreams staff | commondreams.org | 2021-05-15
Israel destroyed a high-rise building in Gaza City that housed offices of The Associated Press, Al-Jazeera and other media outlets on Saturday, the latest step by Israel to silence reporting | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gaza-ap-al-jazeera-bombed-by-israel_0.jpg
commondreams.org/news/2021/05/15/israeli-bombs-destroy-gaza-media-center-ap-al-jazeera-others-taken-out?cd-origin=rss

Anger mounts in Turkey at Israel's onslaught against Gaza
wsws.org | 2021-05-15
The Turkish government and other venal bourgeois regimes in the Middle East are all complicit in the Israeli government's assault on the Palestinians.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/15/turk-m15.html

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