Daily Archives: July 14, 2021

2021-07-14: News Headlines

Staff (2021-07-14). Headlines for July 14, 2021. democracynow.org Biden Condemns Republican "Election Subversion" But Does Not Call for End to Filibuster, U.S. Starts Vaccinating ICE Prisoners; Calls Mount for Germany to Support Vaccine IP Waivers, More Suspects Sought in MoàØse Assassination as Groups Call on U.S. to Welcome Haitian Asylum Seekers, 72 Killed Amid Growing Unrest in South Africa, Mourners Gather in Ramallah for Funeral of Human Rights Activist Suha Jarrar, U.N. Rapporteur Says Israeli Settlements Constitute War Crimes, Calls for International Action, More Unmarked Graves Found at Another Canadian School for First Nations Children, Reproductive Rights Grou…

Fight Back (2021-07-14). Protesting U.S. Rep. Schakowsky – No tax dollars for jailing Palestinian kids. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – Pro-Palestinian protesters gathered July 8 at the office of U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky to demand she sign onto HR2590. The bill would ensure taxpayer funds are not used by Israel to support the military detention of Palestinian children, the unlawful seizure and destruction of Palestinian property and forcible transfer of civilians in the West Bank, or annexation of Palestinian land. | The protest was a part of a week of action called for by the U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN). The bill would be a very important step in limiting U.S. aid to the Israeli apartheid state, which uses…

Abdaljawad Omar (2021-07-14). How the Palestinian Authority manages dissent. electronicintifada.net The PA's grip on power grows increasingly tenuous even as it wields the politics of fitna.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-07-14). Palestinian Peoples Party withdraws from Palestinian Authority government. peoplesdispatch.org The central committee of the Palestinian Peoples Party (PPP) confirmed on Tuesday, July 13 that it has expelled Palestinian Authority's (PA) labor minister, Nasri Abu Jaish, from its primary membership and that it is no longer a part of the PA government headed by prime minister Mohammad Shtayyeh. The PPP central committee issued a statement saying that it is "no longer represented in any form or by anyone in the government." | The expulsion of Jaish followed his refusal to resign from ministership in the PA government despite the PPP asking him to do so in its June 27 decision to withdraw from the PA government.

Ramzy Baroud (2021-07-14). Family Separation Law: Israel's demographic war on the Palestinians intensifies. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) — When the Israeli Knesset (parliament) failed to renew what is commonly referred to as the Family Reunification Law, news reports and analyses misrepresented the story altogether. The even split of 59 MKs voting in favour of the law and 59 against it gave the erroneous impression that Israeli lawmakers …

Betsey Piette (2021-07-14). Philadelphia: March against Israeli apartheid. workers.org Hundreds of people carrying Palestinian flags, protest signs and banners gathered at City Hall for a March Against Israeli Apartheid July 10. A spirited march up the Benjamin Franklin Parkway to the Art Museum followed, with speakers on a sound truck leading chants the entire route. One popular chant was . . . |

Michael F. Brown (2021-07-14). Wooing Democrats, Yair Lapid embraces racism. electronicintifada.net Congressman Gregory Meeks looks the other way as Israel debates bigoted citizenship law.

Amira Hass (2021-07-14). The Problem With Talking About Israeli Apartheid. zcomm.org The problem is that in all the heat of the talk about apartheid, a dynamic, active and dangerous dimension of it — the Jewish settler colonialism — has become dulled and blunted…

Jewish Film Institute (2021-07-14). Saturday 7/24: A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff – Live Screening with Q&A. indybay.org The Castro Theatre – 429 Castro St, San Francisco, CA 94114…

Maureen Clare Murphy (2021-07-13). UN, EU and World Bank back siege on Gaza. electronicintifada.net Regime change is the aim of Israel and its international supporters.

Black Alliance for Peace (2021-07-13). Why Human Rights in China and Tigray, but Not in Haiti, Palestine or Colombia? globalresearch.ca

Gideon Polya (2021-07-13). Ongoing Israeli Genocide of Palestinians. dissidentvoice.org The world needs to know the horrendous dimensions of the ongoing Palestinian Genocide, and of the gross Apartheid Israeli maltreatment of 5.2 million Occupied Palestinians and in particular of the 2 million inmates of the blockaded and bombed Gaza Concentration Camp. A numbers-based summary of these ongoing atrocities will strengthen global Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions …

Staff (2021-07-13). Action for Canada — Write a letter to Canadian government: Unconditional release of Khalida Jarrar to attend the funeral of her daughter, Suha Jarrar. samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is joining with Just Peace Advocates and Al-Haq to call on Canadian government officials to pressure Israeli occupation officials to release Khalida Jarrar immediately: Write to Minister Garneau, Prime Minister Trudeau and UN Ambassador Bob Rae, calling them to work expeditiously to ensure from the Israeli authorities the immediate and unconditional release of Khalida Jarrar, so that she can attend the funeral of and mourn in dignity, her late daughter, Suha Jarrar. Write: actionnetwork.org/letters/write-letter-to-canadian-government-unconditional-release-o

Staff (2021-07-13). Khalida Jarrar's letter from Damon Prison on the tragic death of her daughter Suha. samidoun.net Khalida Jarrar, the imprisoned Palestinian feminist, leftist and parliamentarian, a Palestinian national leader and prominent representative of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, issued the statement below from her prison cell in Damon Prison on Tuesday, 13 July, mourning her daughter Suha. Khalida Jarrar was denied early release or even furlough to attend her daughter's funeral by the Israeli occupation. Suha, 30, died tragically of a heart attack on Sunday, 11 July. Hundreds of Palestinians joined in her funeral procession in Ramallah. Letter of Khalida Jarrar from Damon Prison, Haifa, occupied…

Yves Engler (2021-07-13). More Attacks on Palestine Solidarity from Green Party Leadership. dissidentvoice.org Annamie Paul's team have once again smeared Green MPs and party members as anti-Semitic for opposing the dispossessing of Palestinians. These ongoing attacks are part of the Green leader's broader commitment to Canadian imperialism. Last week Paul appointed Richard Zurawski to her shadow cabinet. Three weeks earlier the new party critic for Green Recovery publicly denounced …

Juan Cole (2021-07-13). Palestinians appeal to the UN Security Council over further Israeli Land Theft, Squatter Settlement at Palestinian Beita. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that the government of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has agreed with Israeli squatter organizations on the Palestinian West bank to clear roughly 25 acres of land in the Palestinian-owned Jabal Sbeih hilltop area of the town of Beita between Ramallah and Nablus. The government …

Anonymous007 (2021-07-13). Israel Blocks Aid Delivery, Demolishes Palestinian Structures. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On July 13th, the Palestinian Information Center According to

Ruwaida Amer (2021-07-13). Older people "escape death" at Israel's hands. electronicintifada.net Residents of al-Wafa nursing home were especially vulnerable during the May attack.

Ali Abunimah (2021-07-13). Israel denies Khalida Jarrar a final farewell to daughter. electronicintifada.net Suha Jarrar, who died unexpectedly, praised as innovative human rights defender.

Rick Rozoff (2021-07-13). NATO Chief Meets with Egyptian, Israeli Foreign Ministers at Alliance Headquarters. globalresearch.ca

Hans Stehling (2021-07-13). Bill to Stop UK Arms Trade with Israel: Britain Risks Charge of Accessory to War Crimes. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2021-07-13). Unearthing the horror of Native American boarding schools. therealnews.com Calls for deeper investigations rise after hundreds of unmarked graves were recently discovered at Canadian boarding schools used to assimilate Native children; Jews against Israeli apartheid say "Not in our name."

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