Daily Archives: October 7, 2021

2021-10-07: News Headlines

Jonathan Cook (2021-10-07). Iron Dome: Don't be deceived, US aid to Israel is not about saving lives. dissidentvoice.org Battles in the US Congress that erupted again this week, holding up an extra $1bn in military funding for Israel, underscored just how divorced from reality the conversation about US financial aid to Israel has become, even among many critics. For 48 hours last month, a small group of progressive Democrats in the US House of Representatives succeeded …

MEE correspondent (2021-10-07). Iranian press review: Tehran fury over Israel-Azerbaijan military pact. middleeasteye.net Iranian press review: Tehran fury over Israel-Azerbaijan military pact | Meanwhile, conservative MP claims Iranian property investors have 'saved' Turkey's economy, and corruption heavily linked to suicide cases | Thu, 10/07/2021 – 12: 00 | A handout picture made available by the Iranian army official website on October 1, 2021, shows an Iranian army helicopter during a military exercis…

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-07). Tensions mount between Iran, Azerbaijan in Caucasus. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Tensions mount between Iran, Azerbaijan in Caucasus region Tensions mount between Iran and Azerbaijan as Tehran heckles Baku over its ties with Israel and Baku criticizes Tehran's "provocative" military actions near its borders. Most recently, Iran said Wednesday that it has "serious concerns" about Israel's presence in the Caucasus. The comments came a day after …

Ramzy Baroud (2021-10-07). Racial Justice Vs. The Israel Lobby: When Being Pro-Palestine Becomes the New Normal. dissidentvoice.org There is an unmistakable shift in American politics regarding Palestine and Israel, a change that is inspired by the way in which many Americans, especially the youth, view the Palestinian struggle and the Israeli occupation. While this shift is yet to translate into tangibly diminishing Israel's stronghold over the US Congress, it promises to be …

Ali Abunimah (2021-10-07). UN "expert" can't defend his attacks on Palestine solidarity. electronicintifada.net Ahmed Shaheed helps Israel lobby smear critics of its abuses and crimes.

Anonymous007 (2021-10-07). Hamas And Islamic Jihad Hold Conference To Say What Will Happen After "Israel's Collapse" But Not How It Will Happen. southfront.org On September 30th, a conference titled "Promise of the Hereafter — Post-Liberation Palestine" funded by Hamas and sponsored by Hamas…

Middle East Monitor (2021-10-07). Israel has a 'hands-off' approach with illegal Israeli squatters, but not with the Palestinians. juancole.com By Osama Othman | — Settler violence against Palestinians has escalated during Israel's "hands-off" approach in the occupied West Bank, according to Haaretz. The Israeli newspaper has reported that violence by Jews against Palestinians has risen dramatically in the past two years, with officials referring to a "permissive atmosphere" for extremists in the area. Data …

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-07). Report: Azerbaijan mulls buying Israeli Arrow-3 interceptor missiles amid tensions with Iran. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Azerbaijan weighs buying Israeli Arrow-3 missile amid Iran tensions Azerbaijan is considering buying Israel's Arrow-3 missile defense system amid tensions with Iran, according to Israel Hayom newspaper. The move would be a major step in typically quiet Israel-Azerbaijan defense ties. Azerbaijan's government began stopping, fining and in at least two cases detaining Iranian vehicles transiting …

Labor Video Project (2021-10-07). Zionism, Israel & The Firing Of UK University of Bristol Sociologist David Miller. indybay.org David Miller a sociologist at the University of Bristol in the UK raised issues about the role of Israel and the Zionists and he was targeted by Zionists for removal. Under their new policy criticism of Israel and Zionism is "anti-semitic". He was fired on October 1, 2021 by the university for supposed anti-semitism.

Ali Abunimah (2021-10-06). Join us to support journalists in Gaza. electronicintifada.net This partnership will offer training and replace media equipment destroyed by Israel.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-10-06). US conditional aid to UN agency violates Palestinian right of return and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org Today we look at protests in Gaza against a funding agreement between the U.S. and the UNRWA, a U.S. court ordering Indigenous people in Ecuador to pay the Chevron corporation's legal fees, and more…

MEE staff (2021-10-06). Israel: Security officials in Cairo for Hamas prisoner exchange talks. middleeasteye.net Israel: Security officials in Cairo for Hamas prisoner exchange talks | Following a visit by high-ranking Hamas officials to Cairo, Israeli security team discuss a possible truce, the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip and a prisoner swap | Wed, 10/06/2021 – 12: 20 | A Hamas security guard on duty as the Egyptian intelligence chief and Hamas officials meet in Gaza City, 31 May 2021 (AFP) | An Israeli security de…

David Cronin (2021-10-06). EU unveils blueprint for muzzling Israel's critics. electronicintifada.net Margaritis Schinas smears campaigners against Zionism.

Omar Karmi (2021-10-06). Sheikh Jarrah families asked to choose pragmatism over principle. electronicintifada.net Israeli court "compromise" aimed at defusing tensions but not delivering justice.

Ted Kelly (2021-10-06). Khalida Jarrar freed from Israeli prison, visits daughter's grave. workers.org Hours after her Sept. 26 release, Khalida Jarrar visits the grave of her daughter, whose funeral she had not been permitted to attend. Khalida Jarrar, a major leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was released Sept. 26 from Israeli prison after two years incarceration. Jarrar, a . . . |

Anthony Fulton (2021-10-06). Patriots Remember to Forget: Omri Boehm and the Collapse of Liberal Zionism. dissidentvoice.org Summer is over in Israel and so too the holiday season that includes Yom Kippur and Sukkot with their accompanying prayers of remembrance. Memory is integral to most Jewish holidays. The readings at Passover and the lighting of candles at Hanukkah are collective acts of remembrance. The importance of remembering has always been central to …

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2021-10-06). Video: Why anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. electronicintifada.net Mini-documentary on how Israel's critics are being falsely accused of anti-Jewish bigotry.

Ramzy Baroud (2021-10-06). Despite Israel Lobbies' Power in Congress, for a New Generation Sympathy with Oppressed Palestinians is becoming New Normal. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) — There is an unmistakable shift in American politics regarding Palestine and Israel, one that is inspired by the way in which many Americans, especially young people, view the Palestinian struggle and the Israeli occupation. While this shift is yet to translate into reducing Israel's stranglehold over the US Congress …

Staff (2021-10-06). Boycott Duty Free Americas: Don't Buy Airport Goods That Fund Israeli Settlers. truthout.org Palestinian lawyer Mohammed Khatib once dreamed of bringing his own children back to ride the swing in the roman olive tree where he used to play as a child, but that vision was shattered by the ongoing illegal expansion of Israeli settlements. | "I always dreamed that this olive tree and this place that I used to play when I was a child, that my children will play there," Khatib said. "Unfortunately, this has been demolished, this has been uprooted, and in its place, they have built a huge s…

MEE, agencies (2021-10-06). Israel court allows Jewish silent prayer at al-Aqsa mosque compound. middleeasteye.net Israel court allows Jewish silent prayer at al-Aqsa mosque compound | Landmark ruling comes after repeated incursions into the compound by Jewish activists at a time of heightened tensions at the holy site | Wed, 10/06/2021 – 20: 06 | Jewish worshippers, with police protection, visit Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound, the third-holiest site of Islam which is also revered by Jews as the T…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-10-06). Water as Weapon of War: Israel is Drying Out the West Bank to Drive Out Palestinians. libya360.wordpress.com Jessica Buxbaum MASAFER YATTA, OCCUPIED WEST BANK — Last weekend, around 600 Israeli, Palestinian and international activists marched across Masafer Yatta in the Occupied West Bank to deliver a water tanker to Palestinian villagers. Their message was clear: Water is a human right, and Israel is depriving Palestine of this basic necessity. Amid a sea…

MEE staff (2021-10-06). Occupied East Jerusalem: Bahraini group tours Western Wall Plaza with Israelis. middleeasteye.net Occupied East Jerusalem: Bahraini group tours Western Wall Plaza with Israelis | Footage circulated on Palestinian social media shows the tourists wearing the traditional Khaliji thobe and ghutra and accompanied by Israelis | Wed, 10/06/2021 – 16: 01 | The group pose for a photo in the Western Wall Plaza, a sacred site in Judaism, and known to Muslims as Ha'it al-Buraq (Twitter\@shfanews_net) | A Bahraini dele…

Editor (2021-10-06). Professor David Miller fired after Israel lobby smear campaign. mronline.org The University of Bristol has fired Professor David Miller, a leading UK critic of Israel and its lobby.

WSWS (2021-10-06). Ahed's Knee from Israel, made "with a sense of urgency," The Gravedigger's Wife and other films from the Middle East, Africa. wsws.org With certain honorable exceptions, passion and urgency in a good cause have been in short supply in the global film world in recent decades.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-10-06). Palestinian prisoner recaptured by Israel after Gilboa prison break goes on hunger strike. peoplesdispatch.org Israeli prison authorities have conducted an internal hearing and sentenced Mohammed Ardah to two weeks in solitary confinement and imposed various kinds of restrictions and punitive limits on him…

_____ (2021-10-06). Massachusetts Activists Are Changing The Conversation On Israel. popularresistance.org Rep. Betty McCollum's (D-MN) historic Palestinian Children & Families Act still lacks a companion bill in the Senate. At a recent event local JVP Action leader named Jill urged Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to introduce the legislation. Here's her question: | I am Jewish and, like you, I am passionate about justice for all. You probably know that the U.S. government sends about $3.8 billion a year in military funding to the Israeli government. Massachusetts sends $1.3 million a year and Massachusetts taxpayers send Israel $352,000 a day. Some of these tax dollars are used to support Israeli oppression of P…

Anonymous669 (2021-10-06). Mossad Abducted Iranian General From Syria To Uncover Fate Of Missing Israeli Air Force Navigator. southfront.org Ron Arad, by the Israeli Air Force, via The Times of Israel. | The Mossad, Israel's national intelligence agency, abducted an Iranian general from Syria in September to uncover new information about missing Israel Air Force navigator Ron Arad, the London-based Arabic newspaper Rai al-Youm reported on October 4. | According to the report, the Iranian general was taken to an African country where he was interrogated by Israeli agents then released. | Ron Arad's warplane crashed in South Lebanon while carrying…

Omar Zahzah (2021-10-06). SFSU and Zoom undermine Palestinians and academic freedom. electronicintifada.net Grievance hearing underway exposes university missteps.

Staff (2021-10-06). "Certain Days" calendar for political prisoners now available for purchase, includes Shukri Abu Baker. samidoun.net The new "Certain Days" calendar to support political prisoners is now released! Among the contributors of writing and art to this year's edition is Shukri Abu Baker, one of the Holy Land Foundation 5 — Palestinian political prisoners in U.S. jails. Proceeds go to support a number of political prisoner organizations, including Addameer in occupied […] | The article

Peoples Dispatch (2021-10-06). Palestinians continue to oppose UNRWA's deal with the US. peoplesdispatch.org Palestinian refugees claim that the conditions imposed in the deal cancel their right to return and effectively change the UNRWA from being an agency for their assistance to a US security agency…

Umar A Farooq (2021-10-06). Guantanamo Bay: CIA 'torture programme' in spotlight at US Supreme Court. middleeasteye.net Guantanamo Bay: CIA 'torture programme' in spotlight at US Supreme Court | Palestinian Guantanamo detainee Abu Zubaydah is seeking access to information regarding his treatment while in US custody | Wed, 10/06/2021 – 15: 40 | At the time of his capture, the CIA claimed Abu Zubaydah was a top-level al-Qaeda leader, but later conceded he was never a member of the armed group (AFP/File photo) | The

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