Monthly Archives: October 2021

2021-10-23: News Headlines

Juan Cole (2021-10-23). Becoming Typical Mideast Dictatorship, Apartheid Israel Declares Palestinian Human Rights Groups "Terrorists" juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Al Jazeera English reports that on Friday, the Israeli government declared six human rights organizations active in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank to be terrorist organizations. The government of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Benny Gantz thus brought Israel into the grand tradition of modern Middle East dictatorships. …

Jonathan Cook (2021-10-23). Amazon and Google: Partners in Israeli Apartheid. dissidentvoice.org The best-selling Irish novelist Sally Rooney is openly shunning Israel after recent reports from human rights groups warned that Israel practices apartheid, systematically oppressing Palestinians under its rule. But while Israel risks becoming a pariah among some cultural producers, it is being aggressively embraced by globe-spanning corporations like Amazon and Google — among the wealthiest …

Yves Engler (2021-10-23). Enabling the "Cancel Culture" of Israeli Nationalists. dissidentvoice.org The Israel lobby regularly torments people and seeks to undermine their ability to make a living. While increasing numbers of Canadians are wise to their slander campaigns, some progressives still end up aligning with the bullies who have misused the term anti-Semitism to intimidate and silence. The list of good people who have been put …

Jason Ditz (2021-10-23). Russia Will Allow Israel to Attack Syria With Impunity. news.antiwar.com Israel likes to attack Syria, and while officials will mostly claim it's about Iran, such strikes continue with alarming regularity, the only pause being when Israel is unsure if Russia is still comfortable with them. | This summer Russia suggested they wanted to slow down Israel's attacks, but today Details are not…

_____ (2021-10-22). Palestinians Protest In Support Of Prisoners On Hunger Strike. popularresistance.org On Wednesday, October 20, Palestinians staged a protest at the al-Manara square in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank in solidarity with six prisoners who are on hunger strike against their illegal administrative detention in Israeli jails, reported Al Jazeera. Several Palestinian civil society groups and prisoner rights groups participated in the protest, along with the families of those who are on hunger strike. They called for immediate and unconditional release of the six prisoners and expressed fear about their health. | The six prisoners are Kayed Fasfous, on hunger strike for the last 100 days, Miqdad al-Q…

_____ (2021-10-22). Palestinians Protest In Support Of Prisoners On Hunger Strike, Demand Their Immediate Release. popularresistance.org On Wednesday, October 20, Palestinians staged a protest at the al-Manara square in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank in solidarity with six prisoners who are on hunger strike against their illegal administrative detention in Israeli jails, reported Al Jazeera. Several Palestinian civil society groups and prisoner rights groups participated in the protest, along with the families of those who are on hunger strike. They called for immediate and unconditional release of the six prisoners and expressed fear about their health.

Ali Abunimah, Maureen Clare Murphy (2021-10-22). Israel declares war on Palestinian rights groups. electronicintifada.net Extreme move aimed at shutting down organizations working with ICC.

Nadda Osman (2021-10-22). Mandla Mandela calls for boycott of Miss Universe competition in Israel. middleeasteye.net Mandla Mandela calls for boycott of Miss Universe competition in Israel | 'Apartheid Israel's occupation is no less despicable than apartheid South Africa,' says Nelson Mandela's grandson | Fri, 10/22/2021 – 13: 55 | Lalela Mswane, the winner of Miss South Africa 2021, has been urged to boycott the event (Screengrab/Instagram) | Mandla Mandela, the grandson of the former President of South Africa, has ur…

Isra Saleh el-Namey (2021-10-22). Children with CF shortchanged by Gaza siege. electronicintifada.net Hospitals have just one of three tests needed for cystic fibrosis diagnosis.

Noam Perry (2021-10-22). It's time for General Mills to quit the settlements. electronicintifada.net CEO refers to its facility in "the West Bank of Israel."

Sara Brooks (2021-10-22). BDS Vermont: historic resolution introduced after Ben & Jerry's divestment. liberationnews.org Over 100 activists and protesters rallied in Burlington on September 13 in support of a resolution in favor of boycotting apartheid Israel.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-10-22). New Israeli bill proposes to let police enter homes of Arab citizens without warrant. peoplesdispatch.org Critics argue that in the name of fighting rising crime rates within the Arab community, Israel is legalizing discrimination against Arab citizens. Recently, the policy of indefinite detention. so far followed only in the occupied territories, was extended to Arab citizens of Israel…

Editor (2021-10-22). The 'Democratic Majority for Israel' is a hate organization. mronline.org I argued in my last article that the hatred coming from the Jewish community is not confronted because it comes in the guise of fighting antisemitism. Ten days ago we saw another example of this hatred that has no name.

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2021-10-22: News Headlines

_____ (2021-10-22). Palestinians Protest In Support Of Prisoners On Hunger Strike, Demand Their Immediate Release. popularresistance.org On Wednesday, October 20, Palestinians staged a protest at the al-Manara square in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank in solidarity with six prisoners who are on hunger strike against their illegal administrative detention in Israeli jails, reported Al Jazeera. Several Palestinian civil society groups and prisoner rights groups participated in the protest, along with the families of those who are on hunger strike. They called for immediate and unconditional release of the six prisoners and expressed fear about their health.

Nadda Osman (2021-10-22). Mandla Mandela calls for boycott of Miss Universe competition in Israel. middleeasteye.net Mandla Mandela calls for boycott of Miss Universe competition in Israel | 'Apartheid Israel's occupation is no less despicable than apartheid South Africa,' says Nelson Mandela's grandson | Fri, 10/22/2021 – 13: 55 | Lalela Mswane, the winner of Miss South Africa 2021, has been urged to boycott the event (Screengrab/Instagram) | Mandla Mandela, the grandson of the former President of South Africa, has ur…

Isra Saleh el-Namey (2021-10-22). Children with CF shortchanged by Gaza siege. electronicintifada.net Hospitals have just one of three tests needed for cystic fibrosis diagnosis.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-10-22). New Israeli bill proposes to let police enter homes of Arab citizens without warrant. peoplesdispatch.org Critics argue that in the name of fighting rising crime rates within the Arab community, Israel is legalizing discrimination against Arab citizens. Recently, the policy of indefinite detention. so far followed only in the occupied territories, was extended to Arab citizens of Israel…

Editor (2021-10-22). The 'Democratic Majority for Israel' is a hate organization. mronline.org I argued in my last article that the hatred coming from the Jewish community is not confronted because it comes in the guise of fighting antisemitism. Ten days ago we saw another example of this hatred that has no name.

Staff (2021-10-21). Uprising continues inside Israeli occupation prisons as more Palestinian prisoners join collective strike. samidoun.net Mahmoud al-Ardah, the leader of the Freedom Tunnel operation in which six Palestinian prisoners liberated themselves from Gilboa prison, launched an open hunger strike on 21 October in the Ayalon prison in Ramleh where he is held. He launched his strike to reject the arbitrary penalties and deprivation of rights imposed upon him and his […] | The article

Mustafa Abu Sneineh (2021-10-21). West Bank: Israeli settlers uproot hundreds of Palestinian village's olive trees. middleeasteye.net West Bank: Israeli settlers uproot hundreds of Palestinian village's olive trees | Olive harvest season, a lifeline for thousands of Palestinian families, is under threat by climate change, Israeli attacks and restrictions | Thu, 10/21/2021 – 14: 03 | A Palestinian woman waits for permission from Israeli authorities to reach her olive field on the other side of the illegal Israeli…

Dania Akkad (2021-10-21). UN: Palestinians detained in Saudi Arabia are held arbitrarily and should be released. middleeasteye.net UN: Palestinians detained in Saudi Arabia are held arbitrarily and should be released | UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention says Hamas leader and his son are 'deprived of their liberty' in Riyadh because they are Palestinians | Thu, 10/21/2021 – 13: 57 | Mohammed al-Khoudary, 83, was being treated for prostate cancer at the time of his arrest in April 2019 and has been denied medical treatment while…

Ramzy Baroud (2021-10-21). The Cultural Genocide in Palestine: On Sally Rooney's Decision to Boycott Israel. counterpunch.org The pro-Israel crowd on social media was quick to pounce on award-winning Irish novelist, Sally Rooney, as soon as she declared that she had "chosen not to sell … translation rights of her best-selling novel, 'Beautiful World, Where Are You' to an Israeli-based publishing house". Expectedly, the accusations centered on the standard smearing used by

Tamara Nassar (2021-10-21). Israel kills child and steals his body. electronicintifada.net Amjad Abu Sultan is the 14th child killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank this year.

Adri Nieuwhof (2021-10-21). How Dutch Israel lobby attacks free speech. electronicintifada.net Dozens of incidents include smear campaigns and threats of violence.

_____ (2021-10-21). The Latest Spy Story: Was It Involving Israel Yet Again? strategic-culture.org The strongest indicator that Israel was the planned recipient of what the Toebbe's stole is the silence over who the target might have been. | An intriguing though fragmentary

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