Monthly Archives: June 2021

2021-06-28: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-06-29). Palestinians demand end of Abbas presidency after death of activist. wsws.org The protests highlight the growing anger on the part of the Palestinians towards the Palestinian Authority over terrible economic and social conditions amid the PA's systemic corruption.

_____ (2021-06-28). Curated Discourse, Narrative Artists and the Coming Conflicts. strategic-culture.org If sanctions are not lifted, Iran will hit back. And Israel will try to deter Iran from pursuing its nuclear programme. The two will clash. | Here we go again. The narrative is being set. President Assad's name cannot not be uttered in the West, save with a 'chemical weapons', and a 'killing his own people' gibe. It is just not permitted — even though this truth is

Staff (2021-06-28). 30 June, Montreal: Free Palestine — Justice for Nizar Banat! Down with PA collaboration with Israel! samidoun.net Wednesday, 30 June 5: 30 pm Israeli Consulate-Montreal 1 Westmount Square, Westmount, Quebec Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/238405081138094/ Justice for Nizar Banat! Freedom for Palestine — down with the PA coordination and collaboration with the Israeli occupation! Join us to demand an end to the Oslo regime of security coordination that works in the interests of the Israeli colonial occupation. Demand justice for Nizar Banat, brutally murdered by Palestinian Authority "security forces," trained by Canada, the U.S. and the European Union to serve Israeli interests. We struggle for a free Palestine…

Juan Cole (2021-06-28). A Litany of Failure: Nearly 20 Years Later, the US is Still Bombing Iraq, and Iraq is Still Condemning Israeli Occupation of Palestine. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — When the architects of the illegal 2003 Bush Administration war on Iraq imagined the country nearly twenty years later, they did not foresee that the US would still be bombing it in 2021 in revenge for Iraqi militia attacks on US troops. In fact, Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of …

Tamara Nassar (2021-06-28). Palestinian Authority forces are Israel's foot soldiers. electronicintifada.net Nizar Banat was a fierce critic of the collaborationist Palestinian Authority.

Maureen Clare Murphy (2021-06-28). Hollow justice of the settler state. electronicintifada.net Israel's high court rubber-stamps subjugation of Palestinians.

Asa Winstanley (2021-06-28). Palestinians need their own State and the 'Palestinian Authority' isn't it: The PA is actually Israel's auxiliary occupation force. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) — Palestinian activist and political candidate Nizar Banat, 44, was killed in the early hours of Thursday morning. But it was not Israeli soldiers that killed him. Banat was a critic of the Palestinian Authority, or PA, condemning its corruption and its central policy of "security coordination" with Israel. His …

Asa Winstanley (2021-06-28). Palestinians need their own State and the 'Palestinian Authority' isn't it: The PA is actually Israel's auxiliary occupation force. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) — Palestinian activist and political candidate Nizar Banat, 44, was killed in the early hours of Thursday morning. But it was not Israeli soldiers that killed him. Banat was a critic of the Palestinian Authority, or PA, condemning its corruption and its central policy of "security coordination" with Israel. His …

Pubdatemon, 28 Jun 2021 11:09:02 -0400 (2021-06-28). Netanyahu Is Out But Nothing Has Changed for Palestinians. commondreams.org "Our work is not yet done," said one ACLU attorney, who noted that the organization is "continuing to fight against anti-trans laws targeting trans youth in states around the country."

Editorial Team (2021-06-28). Communists join People's Assembly march in London to hold Tories accountable. challenge-magazine.org Both the Communist Party and Young Communist League were in London on Saturday to join the People's Assembly national demonstration against Boris Johnson's government. The protest in London was calling for the end of both Tory cuts and Tory rule. The march was also supported by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, trade unions and trades councils and other progressive organisations from across Britain.

Fight Back (2021-06-28). Minneapolis takes back Pride. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – Hundreds marched in the streets of downtown Minneapolis for Taking Back Pride, on June 27. Protesters demanded the conviction of all four officers involved in George Floyd's murder, justice for all victims of police crimes, the prevention of bathroom bills or medical gatekeeping, community control of the police, a stop to Line 3, freedom for all political prisoners and the wrongfully incarcerated, and freedom for Palestine. | These demands were made in keeping with the history of LGBTQI struggle for liberation and its often co-opted legacy of the heroic Stonewall Riot, a fight against the racist…

Angela (2021-06-28). Saturday 6/26: Stop the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. indybay.org Santana Row | Stevens Creek & Winchester…

Allan Fisher (2021-06-28). Saturday 6/26: Solidarity with Palestine weekly protest. indybay.org Corner of Ocean Street and Water Street; Santa Cruz…

Angela (2021-06-28). Sunday 6/27: #Demilitarize: Los Angeles to Palestine (Divest from Weapons Manufacturing). indybay.org Boeing | 1916 E Imperial Hwy, El Segundo, CA | (On the corner of PCH & Imperial Hwy)…

Editor2 (2021-06-28). Bennett's Fragile Hookup with the Zionist Left Offers Little Promise for a Post-Apartheid Israel. orinocotribune.com By Miko Peled — Jun 22, 2021 | On the racist reality of Israeli politics, the absurdity of calling any Zionist party "Left," and why the so-called Zionist Left could join a coalition government headed by Naftali Bennett: their differences are inconsequential. | BIR AL-SABA, PALESTINE — Jumaa Alzbarqa served as a member of the Israeli Knesset for two years. He heads the office of the National Democratic Alliance, or

Israel National News (2021-06-28). Israeli Researchers: 'Rare Autoimmune Disease' Linked to Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine. globalresearch.ca

Editorial Team (2021-06-27). Colombia: Jesus Santrich assassination straight out of the CIA playbook. challenge-magazine.org The Farc leader, killed by Colombian commandos in Venezuela, was a victim of the hybrid warfare techniques taught by the US and Israel, explains Oliver Dodd | ON May 17, Seuxis Pausias Hernandez Solarte, aka Jesus Santrich, one of the two most prominent leaders of the Farc, was ambushed and assassinated in Venezuela by commandos sent by the Colombian state. | Santrich had been a member of the Farc for three decades, having joined Colombia's Young Communist League when he was 13 years old. | Although crucial to negotiating the 2016 peace agreement, which led to the majority of the Farc becoming a legal politica…

Angela (2021-06-27). Sunday 6/27: #Demilitarize: Los Angeles to Palestine (Divest from Weapons Manufacturing). indybay.org Boeing | 1916 E Imperial Hwy, El Segundo, CA | (On the corner of PCH & Imperial Hwy)…

Angela (2021-06-27). Saturday 6/26: Stop the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. indybay.org Santana Row | Stevens Creek & Winchester…

Allan Fisher (2021-06-27). Saturday 6/26: Solidarity with Palestine weekly protest. indybay.org Corner of Ocean Street and Water Street; Santa Cruz…

Moderator (2021-06-27). The Seeds of the Next Nagorno-Karabakh War. scheerpost.com kaurmar / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0] By Maj. Danny Sjursen / Antiwar This past September, Turkey and Israel encouraged Azerbaijan's " mini-Stalin" of a strongman to forcefully seize the disputed mountainous patch of Armenian-inhabited Caucasus-earth known as Nagorno-Karabakh. These treaty or decisively de-facto allies, respectively, armed and backed Baku's decision to take what's been called a "frozen… |

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2021-06-27: News Headlines

Angela (2021-06-27). Sunday 6/27: #Demilitarize: Los Angeles to Palestine (Divest from Weapons Manufacturing). indybay.org Boeing | 1916 E Imperial Hwy, El Segundo, CA | (On the corner of PCH & Imperial Hwy)…

Angela (2021-06-27). Saturday 6/26: Stop the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. indybay.org Santana Row | Stevens Creek & Winchester…

Allan Fisher (2021-06-27). Saturday 6/26: Solidarity with Palestine weekly protest. indybay.org Corner of Ocean Street and Water Street; Santa Cruz…

Editorial Team (2021-06-27). Colombia: Jesus Santrich assassination straight out of the CIA playbook. challenge-magazine.org The Farc leader, killed by Colombian commandos in Venezuela, was a victim of the hybrid warfare techniques taught by the US and Israel, explains Oliver Dodd | ON May 17, Seuxis Pausias Hernandez Solarte, aka Jesus Santrich, one of the two most prominent leaders of the Farc, was ambushed and assassinated in Venezuela by commandos sent by the Colombian state. | Santrich had been a member of the Farc for three decades, having joined Colombia's Young Communist League when he was 13 years old. | Although crucial to negotiating the 2016 peace agreement, which led to the majority of the Farc becoming a legal politica…

Moderator (2021-06-27). The Seeds of the Next Nagorno-Karabakh War. scheerpost.com kaurmar / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0] By Maj. Danny Sjursen / Antiwar This past September, Turkey and Israel encouraged Azerbaijan's " mini-Stalin" of a strongman to forcefully seize the disputed mountainous patch of Armenian-inhabited Caucasus-earth known as Nagorno-Karabakh. These treaty or decisively de-facto allies, respectively, armed and backed Baku's decision to take what's been called a "frozen… |

Staff (2021-06-26). Join the Twitterstorm now! #IsraelApartheidNation stop sports-washing colonialism at #TDF2021. samidoun.net Read the original French call to action at Collectif Palestine Vaincra. From June 26 to July 18, the 2021 edition of the Tour de France welcomes an Israeli team called "Israel Start-Up Nation" . Supported by the pro-Israeli far right, the participation of this team in one of the biggest sports competitions in the world serves a clear objective: to promote and normalize Israeli apartheid. Faced with this blatant attempt to sports-wash Israeli crimes, many organizations are mobilizing and calling for a twitterstorm on Saturday June 26 at 12 p.m. using the hashtags #IsraelApartheidNation and #TDF2021! Dégageons Isra…

Staff (2021-06-26). Join the Twitterstorm now! #IsraelApartheidNation stop sports-washing colonialism at #TDF2021. samidoun.net Read the original French call to action at Collectif Palestine Vaincra. From June 26 to July 18, the 2021 edition of the Tour de France welcomes an Israeli team called "Israel Start-Up Nation" . Supported by the pro-Israeli far right, the participation of this team in one of the biggest sports competitions in the world serves a clear objective: to promote and normalize Israeli apartheid. Faced with this blatant attempt to sports-wash Israeli crimes, many organizations are mobilizing and calling for a twitterstorm on Saturday June 26 at 12 p.m. using the hashtags #IsraelApartheidNation and #TDF2021! twitte

Brett Wilkins (2021-06-26). US, Israel Vote 'No' as 184 Nations Condemn US Blockade of Cuba. zcomm.org "The U.N. vote… on Cuba was a chance for President Biden to show global leadership," said CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin. "He failed miserably."

Juan Cole (2021-06-26). 73 Dems in Congress demand Biden Brand Israeli Squatter-Settlements in Palestine "Illegal," Dump Trump's "Deal of the Century" juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — 73 Democratic Congressional representatives wrote a letter to President Biden on Friday urging him formally to withdraw from Trump's so-called "deal of the century," which actually authorized Israel unilaterally to steal large swathes of Palestinian land. And these representatives frankly say this. They want an outbreak of frank talk and …

Editor2 (2021-06-26). US 'Seizes' Iranian and Other Regional News Sites, Cites 'Disinformation' and 'National Security Threats'. orinocotribune.com By Peoples Dispatch — Jun 23, 2021 | The move has been criticized by activists as an attempt by the US government to censor unfavorable content, an attack on the freedom of the press, and a deliberate act of hostility. | On Tuesday, June 22, the US government "seized" several news websites, alleging their involvement in spreading "disinformation" and calling them a "threat to national security". The seized websites include Iranian state-owned Press TV and its Arabic version Al-Alam, the Houthi controlled Al-Masirah TV, and Palestine Today, among others. The move has created global outrage with activists call…

Editor2 (2021-06-26). US 'Seizes' Iranian and Other Regional News Sites, Cites 'Disinformation' and 'National Security Threats'. orinocotribune.com The move has been criticized by activists as an attempt by the US government to censor unfavorable content, an attack on the freedom of the press, and a deliberate act of hostility. | On Tuesday, June 22, the US government "seized" several news websites, alleging their involvement in spreading "disinformation" and calling them a "threat to national security". The seized websites include Iranian state-owned Press TV and its Arabic version Al-Alam, the Houthi controlled Al-Masirah TV, and Palestine Today, among others. The move has created global outrage with activists calling it an attempt to censor the press and…

Jonathan Cook (2021-06-26). Israel's night raids on Palestinian families aren't over, whatever the courts say. dissidentvoice.org The videos are all over YouTube. Masked Israeli soldiers storm a Palestinian family's home in the middle of the night. Parents, dressed in nightwear, are suddenly surrounded by heavily armed men in balaclavas. Young children are forced awake. With a mix of bleary-eyed confusion and fear, they are made to answer questions posed to them …

_____ (2021-06-26). British Activist Climbs 200m Crane In Solidarity With Palestinians. popularresistance.org A 69-year-old activist has scaled and spent the night atop a 200 metre high crane near the United States embassy in London, in solidarity with Palestinians. | Nick Georges, who is a grandfather, climbed up the crane in the Battersea area of south London at 4am on Tuesday, unfurling a Palestinian flag from the summit. | In a video address, he said he had climbed the tower frame "to tell the world about Palestine". | "For three months, I was sent to Palestine as a humanitarian witness," Georges said. "I witnessed the atrocities and the horrors of the illegal Israeli occupation of the Palestinian homeland." | A 69 y…

Geoff Watts (2021-06-26). [Obituary] Ayman Abu Al-Ouf. thelancet.com Leading physician in the Gaza Strip. Born in Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany, on Aug 19, 1971, he was killed by an air raid on Gaza City, the Gaza Strip, occupied Palestinian territory, on May 16, 2021, aged 49 years.

Geoff Watts (2021-06-26). [Obituary] Mouin Ahmad Al-Aloul. thelancet.com Psychiatrist with a special interest in addiction. Born in Gaza City, the Gaza Strip, occupied Palestinian territory, on June 20, 1954, he was killed by an air raid on Gaza City on May 16, 2021, aged 66 years.

Angela (2021-06-26). Saturday 6/26: Stop the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. indybay.org Santana Row | Stevens Creek & Winchester…

Angela (2021-06-26). Sunday 6/27: #Demilitarize: Los Angeles to Palestine (Divest from Weapons Manufacturing). indybay.org Boeing | 1916 E Imperial Hwy, El Segundo, CA | (On the corner of PCH & Imperial Hwy)…

Allan Fisher (2021-06-26). Saturday 6/26: Solidarity with Palestine weekly protest. indybay.org Corner of Ocean Street and Water Street; Santa Cruz…

Staff (2021-06-26). 26 June, Online Event: #Save_Israa event with sister and son of Palestinian prisoner Israa Jaabis (Arabic, Spanish). samidoun.net Saturday, 26 June Online Event (Live translation: Arabic and Spanish) 12 pm Pacific -3 pm Eastern — 9 pm central Europe — 10 pm Palestine Join on Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/81577264737 Many people may not know why so many Palestinians are imprisoned in Israeli jails. We must understand that, when living under occupation, any reason or no reason (for example, in the case of administrative detention) may be used to imprison those who fight for their natural, human and political rights. In the Zionist occupation prisons and interrogation rooms, systematic torture is considered routine and legal, espec…

Editor (2021-06-26). Five Palestinians have been killed protesting illegal settlement — but 'NYT' covers 'gentle stream' in nearby kibbutz. mronline.org The story is getting wide coverage in Palestine but not in the United States, though these lands are the supposed basis of a "Palestinian state"—and again, five Palestinians have been killed defending their rights. | June 26, 2021…

Anthony Fulton (2021-06-26). Curb your McCarthyism: an early test for Israel's new Minister of Education. dissidentvoice.org These are early days for the self-styled 'coalition of change' in Israel, but it has already been presented with significant challenges in the form of the Jerusalem Flag March, the Evyatar outpost, and the Citizenship and Entry law. There is another one just around the corner. This week, the High Court of Justice informed the …

sputniknews (2021-06-26). State Dept: US Has Not Changed Stance on Recognizing Israeli Sovereignty Over Golan Heights. sputniknews.com Earlier, unconfirmed reports surfaced detailing that the Biden administration was intending to reverse a Trump-era decision to recognize the Golan Heights as under Israeli sovereignty. The claims surfaced from a Washington Free Beacon article published on Thursday that was widely picked up by mainstream news outlets.

_____ (2021-06-26). The UN Fails Cuba, Again. strategic-culture.org The UN wants Cuba's freedom to occur only on U.S. terms — through foreign intervention and against the will of the Cuban people. | The UN proves itself more farcical with every passing year, particularly through its non-binding resolutions. For the 29th year, the international community has voted to lift the illegal U.S. blockade on Cuba, with 184 countries voting in favour while the two allies — the U.S. and Israel — voted against, as expected. |

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-06-26). Colombia's Nazistic Horrors Show How the U.S. Government Will React to Future Domestic Revolts. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea With the world-shocking acts of state violence that have been carried out by Israel and Colombia during the last two months, we've gotten a clearer picture of what it will look like when the "imperial boomerang" effect‚Ää—‚Ääwhere an empire's evils abroad manifest within the empire's own borders‚Ää—‚Ääfully comes to define events within the…

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