Daily Archives: August 11, 2021

2021-08-11: News Headlines

Editor (2021-08-11). Feminist protests in Palestine. mronline.org Mapping the fight for women's liberation in Gaza and the West Bank.

Abdul Rahman (2021-08-11). Israel uses the Gaza fishing zone as a tool for collective punishment against Palestinians. peoplesdispatch.org Israel often blocks the fishing zone, driving thousands of Palestinians dependent on it for their livelihood and food using the pretexts of rocket attacks…

_____ (2021-08-11). Palestinians Are Calling For International Support For Those Arrested In May. popularresistance.org The fund's aims are to provide legal representation for defendants and to support the detainees' families, "many of whom already live in dire socio-economic conditions, by ensuring that they do not have to bear the financial burden of these legal costs alone". The fund has already raised over $67k of its $307k goal. Palestinians who joined the May uprising were struggling against Israel's ongoing colonisation and ethnic cleansing of Palestinian land. They were fighting against racism and state brutality, and for freedom and autonomy. They deserve our support.

Joris Leverink (2021-08-11). Smiling as an act of resistance in Occupied Palestine. roarmag.org Muna El Kurd, activist and Sheikh Jarrah resident smiles as she is arrested in front of her home by Israeli occupation forces. Photo by This essay was produced in collaboration with the Palestinians living in occupied Palestine have been facing ethnic cleansing…

_____ (2021-08-11). Palestine Action Is Hitting Drone Maker Elbit Hard. popularresistance.org A new short film by Real Media follows the group Palestine Action over the past year. Activists have carried out sit-ins and sabotage against Elbit premises, shutting factories down, smashing windows, damaging equipment, graffiting and splashing walls with red paint to symbolize Palestinian blood. According to the film, Palestine Action have carried out more than 70 actions against Elbit in their first year, including 20 high-profile occupations of sites and factories.

Mel Gurtov (2021-08-11). Pegasus and the Global Surveillance Business. counterpunch.org We have just learned about a powerful spyware known as Pegasus, manufactured and leased by the Israeli company NSO Group and capable of extracting just about every kind of data stored in a smart phone. The Pegasus Project, a consortium of 17 organizations and individuals, mostly journalists, has acquired a leaked list of 50,000 individuals

Rick Rozoff (2021-08-11). After three weeks in the Black Sea, NATO naval group visited Israel. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group Two Visited Israel Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group Two (SNMCMG-2) visited Haifa (Israel) from 2nd of August to 5th of August 2021 and conducted a Passing Exercise (PASSEX) with Israeli Navy units in the vicinity of Haifa, Israel following a successful deployment in the Black Sea. **** Prior to the …

Middle East Monitor (2021-08-11). 77% of the residents of the Israeli-Occupied Old City in Jerusalem are Muslims, But for How Long as Israelis demolish Silwan Homes? juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor) — An Israeli writer has said that "the statistical reality in the city of Jerusalem shows that 77% of the Old City's residents are Muslim while only 10% are Jewish." The writer observed that 24 per cent of the Old City's territories in Jerusalem are owned by the Islamic Waqf (Endowment), …

Amira Mattar (2021-08-11). At Risk in Israel's Backlash Against Ben and Jerry's? The Right to Protest. thenation.com At Risk in Israel's Backlash Against Ben and Jerry's? The Right to Protest…

Anonymous103 (2021-08-10). Israel Sends Warning Message To Iran After Bombing Hezbollah Last Week. southfront.org Illustrative ImageIsrael blames Hezbollah for attack despite allegedly being carried out by Palestinian groups. | Written by Paul Antonopoulos, independent geopolitical analyst | The Israeli air force admitted for the first time since 2014 that it carried out several strikes in southern Lebanon against Hezbollah military installations. Air raids in the early hours of August 5 targeted the Lebanese villages of Mahmoudieh and Aaichiyeh, and the Lebanese army also recorded artillery fire from Israel. | Accord…

Tamara Nassar (2021-08-10). Israel uses fake photo to justify shooting woman. electronicintifada.net Father of five latest Palestinian to be killed in Beita.

James North (2021-08-10). Sports Apartheid: Israel's Olympic Team Did Not Include a Single Palestinian Citizen of Israel. globalresearch.ca

Editor2 (2021-08-10). A Shocking List of 52 Zionist- & Apartheid Israeli-Nazi Germany Comparisons. orinocotribune.com By Dr Gideon Polya — Aug 7, 2021 | The cruel and genocidal oppression of the Indigenous Palestinians by nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run and genocidally racist Apartheid Israel invites comparison with the cruelties of Nazi Germany. However such comparisons made by anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish humanitarians invite false and defamatory Zionist assertions of racism and anti-Semitism. To counter this, provided below is a shocking and detailed list of 52 Zionist- and Apartheid Israeli-Nazi Germany comparisons. | The following 52-item list of appalling abuses and human rights violations by genocidally ra…

Angela (2021-08-10). Sunday 8/15: Q&A Discussion of film "Stitching Palestine" indybay.org

Marzieh Rahmani (2021-08-10). 'We reserve right to respond to Israeli attacks'. en.mehrnews.com The secretary-general of the Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq movement stressed that Iraqi Resistance reserves the right to respond to Israeli attacks which killed a number of Iraqi Resistance youths.

Philip Giraldi (2021-08-10). Was the Tanker Attack an Israeli False Flag? An Incident that Could Lead to a Much Bigger War. globalresearch.ca

Rick Rozoff (2021-08-10). Azerbaijan, Israel are strategic partners in international arena: Knesset deputy. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Relations between Israel, Azerbaijan continue to develop dynamically — Knesset MP According to MP Elina] Bardach-Yalov, the Jewish state attaches great importance to relations with Azerbaijan, which, without exaggeration, can be called one of the most reliable strategic partners of Israel in the international arena. "Finance Minister, leader of the Israel Our Home Party Avigdor …

_____ (2021-08-10). Why Has Israel Got an Arsenal of Nuclear Weapons? strategic-culture.org It is far from inconceivable that Israel would employ its nuclear arsenal. After all, for what other reason does it have ninety nuclear weapons? | The main result of the meeting between Presidents Putin and Biden in Geneva on June 16 was the joint

Marjorie Cohn (2021-08-10). Israel Lashes Out at Ben & Jerry's. zcomm.org "As Jewish supporters of the State of Israel, we fundamentally reject the notion that it is anti-Semitic to question the policies of the State of Israel." – Ben and Jerry…

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