Daily Archives: July 20, 2021

2021-07-20: News Headlines

Peoples Dispatch (2021-07-20). Israeli software Pegasus may have been used to spy on activists, politicians, journalists globally. peoplesdispatch.org The revelation was made in a report published by The Guardian and 16 other media organizations on Sunday which is based on the findings of Amnesty International and Paris based Forbidden Stories.

Staff (2021-07-20). 25 July, New Jersey/NYC: #BlockTheBoat — Mass Picket to Stop Apartheid Israel Zim Ship. samidoun.net Sunday, 25 July 6 am (updates TBA — subscribe for text alerts!) Maher Terminal 1210 Corbin St Elizabeth, NJ Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/500776417869221/ Alert: Ship schedules can change at the last minute. Please sign up for text updates. To sign up for SMS updates, text your name to 833-320-1973 The #BlockTheBoat NY-NJ Coalition is returning to Maher Terminal after leading the first ever Palestine protest at the Port of New York and New Jersey last month. Join us as we mobilize for another community picket line to let ZIM — apartheid Israel's largest shipping company — know that they…

_____ (2021-07-20). Ben & Jerry's Vows To Stop Sales In Israeli West Bank Settlements. popularresistance.org On Monday Ben & Jerry's announced that it would stop selling ice cream in Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory. The move comes after years of pressure from activists in the company's home state of Vermont.

Juan Cole (2021-07-20). "No ice cream for you" — Ben & Jerry's ceases distribution to Israeli Squatter-Settlements in Palestinian West Bank. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The civil society movement to boycott, divest from and sanction (BDS) Israel racked up another victory on Monday when it was announced that Ben & Jerry's ice cream would cease being sold in the Israeli-only squatter-settlements built on usurped Palestinian-owned farmland. Ben & Jerry's was founded by Ben Cohen and …

The Socialist Program (2021-07-20). Cuba: How the CIA Manipulates Social Media and All Media. liberationnews.org Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss how the people of Cuba demonstrated in support of their revolution and government over the weekend, new environmental disasters brought about by climate change, efforts to prohibit the teaching of the history of racism in America, a new global spying scandal involving an Israeli company, and more.

Staff (2021-07-20). 27 July, NYC: Protest to defund Zionist settler groups. samidoun.net Tuesday, 27 July 4: 30 pm 55 Hanson Place — NYC Attorney General's Office Brooklyn, NY Info: www.facebook.com/events/531616891374603/ Demand New York Attorney General Tish James revoke the charitable status of Zionist settler organizations abusing nonprofit law to fund Israel's war crimes of ethnic cleansing and illegal settlement. | The article

Abdallah al-Naami (2021-07-20). Israel forces food to rot in Gaza. electronicintifada.net Nursery run by 60-year-old woman bombed repeatedly in May.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-07-20). Israeli launches airstrikes on Syria, fires artillery shots into southern Lebanon. peoplesdispatch.org Abiding by its long-term policy, Israel did not acknowledge its airstrikes in Syria. Its forces claimed that they carried out artillery shelling inside Lebanon following firing of two rockets from across the border into northern Israel…

Staff (2021-07-20). Headlines for July 20, 2021. democracynow.org Report: COVID Death Toll in India May Be Over 4 Million, As COVID Cases Rise in All 50 States, Biden Urges Unvaccinated to Get the Shot, Pediatricians Recommend Universal Masking in Schools, Ariel Henry to Become Haitian PM After Getting Support from U.S. & Core Group, Socialist Teacher & Union Leader Pedro Castillo Wins Peruvian Presidential Election, 35 Killed in Market Blast in Baghdad on Eve of Eid al-Adha, Rockets Land Near Afghan Presidential Palace During Outdoor Eid Prayers, In Victory for BDS Movement, Ben & Jerry's to Stop Selling Ice Cream in Israeli Settlements, Morocco Sentences Journalist Omar Radi…

Staff (2021-07-20). Calls Grow for Moratorium on Private Spyware After Pegasus Revelations. truthout.org Calls are growing for stricter regulations on the use of surveillance technology after revelations that countries have used the powerful Pegasus spyware against politicians, journalists and activists around the world. The Pegasus software, sold by the Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group, can secretly infect a mobile phone and harvest its information. While the company touts Pegasus as intended for criminals and terrorists, leaked data suggests the tool is widely abused by governments to go after p…

Staff (2021-07-20). Amnesty Int'l Calls for Moratorium on Private Spyware After Israeli NSO Group Pegasus Revelations. democracynow.org Calls are growing for stricter regulations on the use of surveillance technology after revelations that countries have used the powerful Pegasus spyware against politicians, journalists and activists around the world. The Pegasus software, sold by the Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group, can secretly infect a mobile phone and harvest its information. While the company touts Pegasus as intended for criminals and terrorists, leaked data suggests the tool is widely abused by governments to go after political opponents and dissidents, according to reporting from The Pegasus Project, an international consortium of…

Staff (2021-07-20). Mexico Used Private Israeli Spyware Pegasus to Surveil President's Family & a Murdered Journalist. democracynow.org Mexico appears to have submitted more phone numbers for potential surveillance to the Israeli cybersurveillance company NSO Group than any other client country, according to an investigation of the company by an international collaboration of media outlets called The Pegasus Project. The Guardian found the mobile phone number of Mexican journalist Cecilio Pineda Birto was selected as a possible target for surveillance by a Mexican NSO Group client just weeks before Pineda's assassination in Guerrero in 2017. Nina Lakhani, senior reporter at The Guardian, says Mexico was NSO Group's first client and authorities th…

_____ (2021-07-20). Biden Supports Many Protestors but Not Palestinians. strategic-culture.org It is a fair assumption that Israel's Biden's Washington is reacting as might be expected over the Cuba riots. There was automatic endorsement of the rioters, with Biden

The Conversation (2021-07-20). As a new Generation Emerges, Evangelical support for Israel is neither permanent nor inevitable. juancole.com By Walker Robins | — Israel's former ambassador to the U.S., Ron Dermer, made waves in May 2021 when he publicly suggested that Israel should prioritize its relationship with American evangelicals over American Jews. Dermer described evangelicals as the "backbone of Israel's support in the United States." By contrast, he described American Jews as "disproportionately …

Anonymous007 (2021-07-20). Military Situation In Syria On July 20, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On July 20, Russia reported that Idlib militants violated the ceasefire regime in Greater Idlib 34 times: 16 — in Idlib province, 13 — in Latakia province, 3 — in Hama province, 2 — in Aleppo province | On July 19, Russian warplanes attacked positions of Turkish-backed forces in the Kabani area | On July 19, Israeli warplanes attacked Syrian Army positions in the Al-Safirah area. No casualties were reported | On July 19, Russian military police and…

teleSUR, MER (2021-07-20). Defensas aéreas de Siria repelen ataque israelí contra Alepo. telesurtv.net Las defensas aéreas del Ejército Árabe Sirio lograron repeler la mayoría de los misiles hostiles lanzados contra su territorio.

Jason Ditz (2021-07-20). Israeli Airstrikes Pound Military Posts in Syria's Aleppo. news.antiwar.com A new round of airstrikes from Israel hit military posts in and around the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. Syrian state media claimed to have shot down most of the missiles before they hit, and casualties are still unclear. | The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights T…

Titleafghanistan: Graveyard of Empires (2021-07-20). Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires. commondreams.org Netanyahu's objective is not really to impede Citizenship and Entry Law, but to create a wedge within the coalition.

_____ (2021-07-20). Why Did Netanyahu Vote Against a Racist Law He Wholly Embraces? commondreams.org "Normally the weather predicts what the fire will do," said an Oregon official. "In this case, the fire is predicting what the weather will do."

Amnesty International (2021-07-19). Forensic Methodology Report: How to Catch Israel's NSO Group's Pegasus. globalresearch.ca The [Israel …

teleSUR (2021-07-19). Pegasus Investigation Sparks Global Outrage. telesurenglish.net Several journalists, activists, and human rights organizations rejected on Monday global espionage by the Israeli software Pegasus from the company NSO Group. | RELATED: | The software allows the recovery of text messages, photos, contacts and also listens to conversations of the phone's owners. The reactions follow a journalist investigation published on Sunday about a list of activists and journalists from France Forbidden Stories and the NGO Amnesty In…

Ali Abunimah (2021-07-19). Why isn't Israel held accountable for spying on journalists? electronicintifada.net NSO Group's Pegasus spyware used more extensively than previously known, investigation finds.

Juan Cole (2021-07-19). Palestinian-Israeli Party in Gov't Warns of "Religious War" over Violent Squatter Invasion of al-Aqsa Mosque Complex. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that early on Sunday morning, hundreds of Israeli squatter-settlers stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque from the direction of the Moors Gate, with heavy guard by the Israeli security forces. An attempt was made to exclude Palestinians from the Mosque and its environs. In …

Staff (2021-07-19). Vancouver "Boycott Tour" protest marches for justice and liberation in Palestine. samidoun.net Demonstrators gathered in Vancouver, on the unceded lands of the S·∏µwxñwú7mesh (Squamish), S…ôlÃìiÃÅlw…ôta î/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and x ∑m…ôŒ∏k ∑…ôyÃì…ôm (Musqueam) peoples, on Sunday, 18 July for a "Boycott Tour" march for Palestine throughout the city's downtown. The protest began outside the offices of ZIM Shipping, the oldest and largest Israeli shipping company that transports weapons to and from occupied Palestine while profiteering from colonized Palestinian la…

Maureen Clare Murphy (2021-07-19). Why Israel isn't different from "the settlements" electronicintifada.net Judges approve the forcible transfer of Palestinians, settlers give the final push.

Fight Back (2021-07-19). Memphis rallies in support of Palestine. fightbacknews.org Memphis, TN – On July 17, over 40 people gathered at the intersection of South Cooper Street and Young Avenue here for a rally called by the Memphis chapter of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, in coalition with Memphis Voices for Palestine. Representatives from Never Again TN and Jewish Memphians for Social Justice, two Jewish-led organizations, were also present. | The rally was called in response to a small Christian Zionist protest in East Memphis, a neighborhood that most of Memphis' Jewish population calls home, one week earlier. That rally brought traffic to a screeching halt, forcing the residents…

Middle East Monitor (2021-07-19). Israel's Family Separation Law Failed, but the War on Palestinian Love Continues. juancole.com Jamal Zahalka | — ( Middle East Monitor) — Three weeks after its formation, the new Israeli government has failed in its first real test. It has not been able to pass the annual extension of the law that denies the unification of Palestinian families across the Green Line. There was a tie: 59 Knesset …

Anonymous007 (2021-07-19). Israeli Software Company's Spyware Used To Target Hundreds Of Journalists, Activists. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | An Israeli company's spyware was used in attempted and successful hacks of 37 smartphones belonging to journalists, government officials and human rights activists around the world, according to an investigation by 17 media organizations, published on July 18th. | One of the organizations, The Washington Post, said the Pegasus spyware licensed by Israel-based NSO Group also was used to target phones belonging to two women close to Jamal Khashoggi, a Post columnist murdered at a Sa…

sputniknews (2021-07-19). Private Israeli Spyware Used Against Activists, Journalists Worldwide, Reports Suggest. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The software Pegasus, developed by Israel's NSO Group and used by government agencies to track criminals and terrorists, was deployed by state services to hack private phones of activists, journalists, and opposition figures around the world, according to an investigation by The Washington Post and 16 other media outlets.

WSWS (2021-07-19). Data breach reveals extensive government spying on journalists and political activists. wsws.org A breach of Israeli spy company NSO Group revealed 50,000 phone numbers, including those belonging to journalists, slated for infection with spyware capable of viewing a target's personal messages and information.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-07-19). Data leak shows activists, journalists targeted using Israeli spyware and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org Today we look at the initial findings of Project Pegasus and the targeting of journalists, the results of Chile's presidential primary elections, and more…

Anonymous007 (2021-07-19). Israeli Police Clears Palestinian Worshippers So Israeli Tourists Can Visit Mosque. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On July 18th, Israeli policed stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and launched tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets at worshippers at Islam's third holiest site in occupied East Jerusalem, according to Palestinian media. | Israeli police forcefully evacuated Muslim worshippers to clear the way for the Jewish visitors in one of the most sensitive venues in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, said Palestinian officials. | The Palestinian Authority (PA), which governs parts of the Israeli…

A Guest Author (2021-07-19). After the First Intifada: 'Prisoners build their own weapons of defense and strength'. workers.org Dr. Amal Wahdan is the founder and editor of the Arab Gazette, as well as an organizer with One Democratic State of Palestine (odspal.net). She was a member of the International Delegation to the 2021 Syrian Presidential Election, as was Ted Kelly, who interviewed Dr. Wahdan July 14. Dr. Amal . . . |

sputniknews (2021-07-19). As Hunger in Gaza is Rising, a Local Embarks on an Initiative to Feed the Poor. sputniknews.com Half of the Gaza Strip's population lives below the poverty line, which is why purchasing meat for the Eid al-Adha holiday that commences on Tuesday is beyond the means of many of the Palestinian enclave's residents.

Saqib Sheikh — Elise Arya Chen (2021-07-19). Challenging Supremacy: BLM, Palestine and the Struggle for Equal Rights in Burma. counterpunch.org The recent outbreak of violence between Israel and Gaza in May, which resulted in 248 Palestinian and 12 Israeli lives lost, may just seem like the latest in a series of tragedies in that region. Yet this clash may actually mark a turning point in the long-running conflict. What set it apart is not the

teleSUR, drl, JCM (2021-07-19). Policía y colonos israelíes atacan a palestinos en Jerusalén. telesurtv.net El enfrentamiento tuvo lugar en las afueras de la mezquita Al-Asqa, lugar sagrado de las religiones musulmana y judía.

Abdul Rahman (2021-07-19). Silwan and Israel's Judaization project in East Jerusalem. peoplesdispatch.org From prompting illegal settlers in the area since 1991 to denying permits to build new houses in East Jerusalem, Israel has used every trick in the book to force the Palestinian residents of the locality to leave their homes…

Steve Sweeney (2021-07-19). Chile can 'bury neoliberalism' with the election of Daniel Jadue. zcomm.org Daniel Jadue, an architect who is of Palestinian origin, has promised deep changes in the country if he is elected president in what could be an epoch-defining poll…

Anonymous669 (2021-07-19). Israeli Strikes Hit Key Syrian Military Complex In Southern Aleppo (Videos, Photos). southfront.org The "Adir" jets first flight in Israel. Pictured: "Adir" jet and F-16I "Sufa". Photo by: Maj. Ofer | Late on July 19, a series of Israeli strikes hit the northern Syrian governorate of Aleppo, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency. | The airstrikes targeted the al-Safirah defense factories, 21 km to the south of Aleppo city. The complex, where Syria stored some of its chemical weapons before the 2013 deal, is now developing and producing conventional weapons and ammunition for the Syrian Arab Army. | According to…

Staff (2021-07-19). Compañía israelí utilizó software espía contra periodistas, políticos y activistas de todo el mundo. cubadebate.cu Una empresa israelí acusada de suministrar software espía a gobiernos fue vinculada a la divulgación de una lista de 50.000 números de teléfonos inteligentes de activistas, periodistas, ejecutivos de empresas y políticos de todo el mundo, según informes difundidos este domingo.

Staff (2021-07-19). Headlines for July 19, 2021. democracynow.org COVID Cases on the Rise Among Olympic Athletes Days Ahead of Tokyo Opening Ceremony, Boris Johnson Self-Isolates as U.K. Reopens; Mass Protests in France over COVID Measures, Delta Variant Spreads Across Africa, Latin America, Where Vaccines Are Sorely Lacking, Young Children at Risk as U.S. Cases Surge in Areas with Low Vaccination Rates, DOJ Set to Challenge U.S. Judge Ruling Declaring DACA Unlawful, Israeli Spyware Company's Software Targeted Phones of Journalists and Politicians Around the World, Death Toll in Western Europe Flash Floods Nears 200; 70 Major Wildfires Rage in Western U.S., Colombian Police Say…

Rainer Shea (2021-07-19). Gaza: a Vision of What Capital & Empire Intend for the Rest of the Globe. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Jul 17, 2021 | In this era of decline for U.S. imperialist hegemony and contraction in capital, colonialism increasingly asserts itself through crude and haphazard exercises in profit-driven brutality. Like how the Roman empire during its era of decay

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