Daily Archives: November 27, 2021

2021-11-27: News Headlines

Jason Ditz (2021-11-27). Captured by Israel, Palestinian Children Held Outdoors in the Cold. news.antiwar.com Israeli media outlet Haaretz offered a troubling look at the treatment of Palestinian civilians, children no less, by the Israeli military in the occupied West Bank. | Troops warned 12-year-old Yasser that if he didn't confess they would "take" him. He confessed, they took him anyway. They went to his friend Yazen's house and took him too, along with his father. | They were all taken, without a warran…

Fight Back (2021-11-27). People's Thanksgiving celebrates advances for labor, Black liberation movements. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – The 30th Annual People's Thanksgiving was held in Chicago on November 21, a fundraiser for Fight Back! and Freedom Road Socialist Organization in Chicago. More than 100 people attended, and the event raised over $4000. | The room in Teamsters City featured some of the most prominent leaders in the movements for Black liberation, Palestinian liberation, and the labor movement. | An historic event was marked when Juan Campos, a newly elected vice president of the Teamsters United slate, was given the Pete Camarata Award for class struggle unionism. Campos joins General President Sean O'Brien and Gener…

Michael Jansen (2021-11-27). Is Big Brother Israel a 'stalker state'? juancole.com ( Jordan Times) — In an interview with The Washington Post, Israel's Breaking the Silence, an ex-soldiers rights organisation, has highlighted Israel's comprehensive surveillance of Palestinians living under occupation. Breaking the Silence, which collects testimonies of abuses reported by soldiers, points out that Israel's employment of advanced techniques amount to "massive escalation in Israel's pursuit …

MEE, agencies (2021-11-26). New Covid variant: Israel detects case of strain first discovered in South Africa. middleeasteye.net New Covid variant: Israel detects case of strain first discovered in South Africa | The new variant found in South Africa has at least ten mutations, compared to two for Delta and three for Beta variants | Fri, 11/26/2021 – 10: 00 | Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett held an emergency meeting with public health officials to discuss the Covid-19 situation (AFP) | Israel has detected a c…

Staff (2021-11-26). 27 November, Gothenburg: Manifestation! # StandWithThe6. samidoun.net Saturday, 27 November 2 pm Gustaf Adolfs Torg Gothenburg, Sweden Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/297400355580535 On November 27 at 2 pm, we will demonstrate together with the Palestinian Coordination Group — Gothenburg and many others against the state of Israel's "terror" desgination of Palestinian civil society organizations! We demand that the Swedish government immediately condemn the "terror" designation […] | The article

Maureen Clare Murphy (2021-11-26). Israel begs world to keep paying its occupation bills. electronicintifada.net Aid to Palestinian Authority helps fuel building in settlements.

Ramzy Baroud (2021-11-26). We Do Exist: Why the Palestinian Voice Should Take Center Stage. dissidentvoice.org At a recent New York event, the President of the Foreign Press Association Ian Williams declared, before an approving audience, that it is time "to reclaim the narrative on Palestine". This phrase — 'reclaiming the narrative' — is relatively new to the Palestinian discourse. Years ago, the concept, let alone its implementation, were quite alien: …

Ramona Wadi (2021-11-26). Belgium has decided to Label Squatter-Settler goods from Occupied Palestine as Not from Israel — Will it start a Wave? juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) — Labelling Israeli settlement products "strengthens extremists, does not help promote peace in the region, and shows Belgium as not contributing to regional stability," according to Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Idan Roll. He lashed out at Belgium's announcement that it would start applying more restrictive measures on goods produced by …

Peoples Dispatch (2021-11-26). Israel approves illegal settlement plan for over 9,000 housing units in Jerusalem. peoplesdispatch.org The new settlement plan approved by the Israeli Jerusalem municipality will permanently cut off Palestinians in the occupied West Bank from Jerusalem, and makes way for the annexation and Israelization of all of Jerusalem in the future…

Hadas Thier (2021-11-26). No, DSA Shouldn't Expel Rep. Jamaal Bowman. zcomm.org New York congressperson Jamaal Bowman has made a number of wrong decisions on Israel-Palestine. But socialists should criticize those errors without driving him away from the Palestine liberation movement and the Left…

Dana Sanchez (2021-11-26). New Covid Variant Spooks Global Stock And Crypto Markets, Flights Banned Out Of South Africa. moguldom.com The discovery of a new, fast-spreading coronavirus variant from Botswana caused flights to be banned with just hours of warning to the U.K., Israel, and a growing number of European countries from South Africa and five other Southern African countries. Stock and crypto markets were hit hard on news of the travel restrictions, with Bitcoin's …

Fedaa al-Qedra (2021-11-26). Killed by Israel's negligence. electronicintifada.net Sami al-Amour was denied medical treatment by his jailers.

Dave DeCamp (2021-11-26). Report: Israel Warns US Not to Settle for 'Partial' Nuclear Deal With Iran. news.antiwar.com The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Israel is warning Last week, reports said National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan

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