Daily Archives: September 17, 2021

2021-09-17: News Headlines

Staff (2021-09-17). Federal Court of Australia Exposes the Deep Racism of the Israeli Lobby. orinocotribune.com By Tim Anderson — Sep 14, 2021 | The Federal Court implicitly recognized the deceptive technique of the Israeli lobby: the use of contrived and trivial pretexts to suppress critical discussion of apartheid crimes in Palestine. | While the Federal Court of Australia (FCA) decision in NTEU v University of Sydney (2021) is an important affirmation of principles of academic freedom at the University of Sydney, it also implicitly exposed the deep racism of the Israeli lobby. | The FCA recognized that my Gaza graphic—almost universally called a "swastika graphic" by university managers and the corporate medi…

Ramzy Baroud (2021-09-17). From the 'Iron Wall' to the 'Villa in the Jungle': Palestinians Demolish Israel's Security Myths. counterpunch.org 25 years before Israel was established on the ruins of historic Palestine, a Russian Jewish Zionist leader, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, argued that a Jewish state in Palestine could only survive if it exists "behind an iron wall" of defense. Jabotinsky was speaking figuratively. However, future Zionist leaders, who embraced Jabotinsky's teachings, eventually turned the principle of

Peoples Dispatch (2021-09-17). Lawyers, activists file petition seeking revocation of Israel's observer status at African Union. peoplesdispatch.org Israel was admitted to the African Union (AU) as an observer state in July this year, a decision that came as a shock to several member countries, given Israel's sustained and ongoing repression of the Palestinian people…

Staff (2021-09-17). Israeli study claims Covid vaccine boosters reduce infection risk TENFOLD… day before FDA to decide on 3rd jab. rt.com A third dose of Pfizer's vaccine could cut the risk of Covid infection by more than 10 times in elderly patients, according to an Israeli study, which was peer-reviewed just ahead of a key FDA meeting on boosters for Americans. | Published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday night, the newly peer-reviewed "The…

Juan Cole (2021-09-17). In Turning Point for US Media, Time Recognizes Palestinians Mohammed and Muna El-Kurd as among 100 "Most Influential" juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — In what may be a turning point for American media, Time magazine has chosen twin Palestinian activists from the endangered East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, Mohammed and Muna el-Kurd, as among the 100 most influential people in 2021. "Through online‚ÄØposts and media appearances, sibling activists Mohammed (@m7mdkurd) and Muna …

Angela (2021-09-17). Saturday 9/18: Free virtual screening of the documentary film Lost Cities of Palestine. indybay.org

Ola Mousa (2021-09-16). Israel denies treatment to Palestinians with brain tumors. electronicintifada.net Gaza patients are still being blocked from medical care in the West Bank.

Middle East Monitor (2021-09-16). Does Israel want to end its forever wars in Gaza? juancole.com Daud Abdullah | — ( Middle East Monitor) — Israel is finally waking up to the stark reality that it can no longer continue with its forever wars in Gaza. This was the critical message from Foreign Minister Yair Lapid when he spoke at a conference at Reichman University in Herzliya last weekend: "The State …

_____ (2021-09-16). Urgent Appeal To Safeguard Palestinian Prisoners' Rights. popularresistance.org On Saturday 11 September, Al-Haq and partners submitted an urgent appeal to the UN special procedures calling for their urgent intervention to protect the lives of Palestinian prisoner escapees. On the evening of Friday 10 September, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) captured two of the six Palestinian prisoners' escapees from Gilboa Prison on Monday 6 September, Yacoub Qadri, 49 years old, and Mahmoud Abdullah Al-Aridah, 46 years old, in Al-Qafzeh Mountain, Nazareth city, and earlier this morning, Zakaria Zubeidi, 46 years old, and Mohammad Qasem Al-Aridah, 39 years old, were also captured near Al-Tur Mountain…

Ramzy Baroud (2021-09-16). From the "Iron Wall" to the "Villa in the Jungle": Palestinians Demolish Israel's Security Myths. dissidentvoice.org Twenty-five years before Israel was established on the ruins of historic Palestine, a Russian Jewish Zionist leader, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, argued that a Jewish state in Palestine could only survive if it exists "behind an iron wall" of defense. Jabotinsky was speaking figuratively. However, future Zionist leaders, who embraced Jabotinsky's teachings, eventually turned the principle of …

_____ (2021-09-16). Another Look at 9/11: Ask Not 'What Happened?' but 'Who Did It?'. strategic-culture.org The evidence of Israeli involvement is substantial, based on the level of the Jewish state's espionage operations in the U.S., Phil Giraldi writes. | The twentieth anniversary of 9/11 last Saturday has raised many of the usual issues about what actually happened on that day. Were hijacked airliners actually crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon or was the damage in New York City attributable to explosives or even some kind of nuclear device? These are fundamental questions and the so-called "Truthers" who raise them have been inspired by their reading of the 585 page 9/11 Report,…

Jason Ditz (2021-09-16). Syria: Israel Kills Three Shi'ite Fighters in Airstrikes; ISIS Kills Eight in Ground Ambush. news.antiwar.com

Higinio Polo (2021-09-16). Viejos terroristas del Mossad. globalizacion.ca Los viejos pistoleros del Mossad israelí, que jamás se han conmovido por el sufrimiento palestino, tienen un alto concepto de sí mismos y creen que sus acciones terroristas son legítimas y justas porque defienden al Estado de Israel, aplicado alumno…

Raouf Halaby (2021-09-16). Israel and Yom Kippur: Time for a Day of National Atonement? counterpunch.org Yom Kippur—the Day of Atonement—is considered the most important holiday in the Jewish faith. Falling in the month of Tishrei, it marks the culmination of the 10 Days of Awe, a period of introspection and repentance that follows Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. According to tradition, it is on Yom Kippur that God decides

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2021-09-16). Podcast Ep 44: Musicians make noise for Palestinian rights. electronicintifada.net Author Mona Hajjar Halaby retraces her mother's footsteps in Jerusalem.

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