(2021-07-15). Protest confronts Israeli apartheid cycling "ambassadors" at the Tour de France 2021. samidoun.net 
On Wednesday, 14 July, in Boussan, on the 17th stage of the Tour de France international cycling race, approximately 20 people from Collectif Palestine Vaincra — a member organization of the Samidoun Network — the Campaign BDS Toulouse, and the Friends of Le Monde Diplomatique rallied along the route of the race to denounce the participation of the "Israel Start-Up Nation" team, a cycling team designed to whitewash the image of Israeli apartheid internationally, serving as "ambassadors" of Zionist colonialism. Making themselves widely seen and heard by the participants and organizers, the demonstrators…
(2021-07-15). Family Separation Law: Israel's Demographic War on Palestine Intensifies. dissidentvoice.org 
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 favor of the law and 59 against it gave the erroneous impression that Israeli lawmakers are equally divided over the right …
(2021-07-15). Imprisoned Palestinian leader Khalida Jarrar writes new letter: Write to Khalida and call for her freedom. samidoun.net 
Khalida Jarrar, the imprisoned Palestinian political leader, feminist and parliamentarian, jailed by the Israeli occupation for her political activity, issued a new letter to her daughter Suha, who died on Sunday, 11 July of a heart attack at the age of 30. Despite worldwide outrage and condemnation and considering that Jarrar has only two months remaining in her sentence imposed by an Israeli military court for her public political work to advance Palestinian rights and liberation, her lawyers' appeals for early release were denied by the Israeli occupation. She was not even allowed a furlough or to see her daug…
(2021-07-15). Imprisoned Palestinian lawmaker forbidden from attending daughter's funeral by Israel. liberationnews.org 
Khalida Jarrar, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council currently imprisoned in Israel, was cruelly denied a temporary release to attend the funeral of her daughter.
(2021-07-15). Dozens of Palestinian students mass arrested after visiting home demolished by Israel #FreePalestinianStudents. samidoun.net 
On Wednesday, 14 July, 45 Palestinian Bir Zeit University students were subjected to a mass arrest after they went to meet with the family of Palestinian prisoner Montasser Shalabi and express their solidarity following the Israeli occupation military's demolition of the Shalabi home in the village of Turmus'Ayya. As the students left Turmus'Ayya in a chartered bus, undercover occupation forces in two vehicles blocked the bus at the entrance to the town, forcing the students to leave the bus, tying their hands, blindfolding them, making them sit or lay on the ground and then seized them, taking them to the Binyam…
(2021-07-15). Palestinian-American children's book writer responds: 'Our stories matter'. liberationnews.org 
"This experience of being systematically silenced as a Palestinian and an aspiring children's book author has only made me more determined to share our stories with the world."
(2021-07-15). 18 July, Vancouver: BOYCOTT TOUR: Come out for Palestine — Boycott ZIM Shipping, Israeli Wine, HP and more! samidoun.net 
Sunday, 18 July 2: 00 pm Gather at ZIM Shipping Office Vancouver 1130 W Pender St (near Pender and Thurlow) Vancouver, BC Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/4765266150154912 Come out on Sunday, July 18 for a BOYCOTT TOUR for Palestine in downtown Vancouver! We will gather first at the ZIM Shipping offices in Vancouver to protest ZIM, apartheid Israel's oldest and largest shipping company. ZIM is the target of the global #BlockTheBoat campaign and this protest is in solidarity with workers around the world (and in Prince Rupert) who have respected community pickets and/or themselves refused to handle ZIM's c…
(2021-07-15). 100 Israeli Troops who Served in Occupied West Bank call on Defense Minister Gantz to Halt Settler Violence against Palestinians and against Israeli Police. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Al-Quds al-'Arabi reports that some 100 Israeli troops who served in the Palestinian West Bank have called on Defense Minister Benny Gantz and on Minister of Public Security Omer Bar-Lev to intervene to halt the violence of Israeli squatter-settlers toward indigenous Palestinians, which they say they saw with their own …
(2021-07-15). Palestinian Feminists Are Resisting Colonization by Fighting Sexual Violence. truthout.org 
Earlier this summer, several news outlets reported that the Palestinian American Community Center (PACC) in New Jersey, where Palestinian Americans gather for community organizing, civic engagement and humanitarian relief efforts was "
(2021-07-15). Israel's killer robots go on display at Greek weapons fair. electronicintifada.net New technology tested during May attack on Gaza…
(2021-07-15). 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…
(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…
(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…
(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.
(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 …
(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 . . . |
(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.
(2021-07-14). Wooing Democrats, Yair Lapid embraces racism. electronicintifada.net Congressman Gregory Meeks looks the other way as Israel debates bigoted citizenship law.
(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…
