2022-02-02: News Headlines

Juan Cole (2022-02-02). Apartheid 2.0: Amnesty International Joins Chorus condemning Israeli rule over stateless Palestinians. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Israeli state has won the trifecta of condemnation by major human rights organizations, as, on Tuesday, Amnesty International joined with Human Rights Watch and B'Tselem in calling Israeli rule over the 5 million Palestinians of the Occupied Palestinian Territories a form of Apartheid. Amnesty carried out its investigation and …

Dave DeCamp (2022-02-02). Israel Reportedly Planning to Sell Iron Dome to UAE. news.antiwar.com Israel is planning to advance the sale of the Iron Dome missile defense system to the UAE in the wake of recent Houthi attacks on the country, Early Monday morning, the US

Staff (2022-02-01). Headlines for February 1, 2022. democracynow.org U.S. and Russia Clash over Ukraine at U.N. Security Council, China Struggles to Stamp Out COVID Outbreaks Ahead of Beijing Winter Olympics, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Tests Positive for Coronavirus, Pfizer Vaccine Could Be Made Available to U.S. Children Under 5 by March, Trump Sought to Seize Voting Machines in Swing States He Lost to Biden, Atlanta-Area Prosecutor Asks FBI for Protection After Trump Urges Followers to Protest, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Accuses Democrats of "Smears" over Nazi Rallies, Amnesty Report Finds Israel Guilty of "The Crime of Apartheid Against Palestinians", Three Israeli O…

Michael F. Brown (2022-02-01). Why the Israel lobby denouncing settler violence isn't nearly enough. electronicintifada.net Yesha Council falsely terms violence against Palestinians "aberrant."

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-02-01). US' Blinken, Zionist's Lapid discuss Iran. en.mehrnews.com US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Foreign Minister of the Zionist Regime Yair Lapid discussed a wide range of issues including Iran and Palestine.

Global Voices (2022-02-01). Jerusalem Christians: 'We shrunk from 20% to 2% of population due to Israeli violence'. juancole.com By by Raseef22 | — ( Globalvoices.org) — As tensions escalate in Jerusalem in the wake of Israel's latest wave of evicting Palestinians from the city, it is important to note that Israel's targeting of Arab civilians has not been limited to Muslims alone. It has also reached the Palestinian Christians of Jerusalem, which prompted …

Staff (2022-02-01). Beirut hosts event to honor anti-Zionism sportspeople. en.mehrnews.com The Global Campaign to Return to Palestine has held an event in Beirut to honor dozens of athletes and sporting clubs who boycotted competitions against Israeli opponents.

Editor (2022-02-01). New Amnesty Report Outlines 'True Extent of Israeli Apartheid Regime'. scheerpost.com The separation wall in the West Bank. [ By Palestine advocates on Tuesday welcomed a new report in which Amnesty International became the latest on a growing list of human rights organizations to explicitly call Israeli policies and actions against Palestinians "apartheid." | "There is no possible just…

Staff (2022-02-01). Zionist forces arrest dozens of Palestinians in WB. en.mehrnews.com Palestinian sources reported that the Zionist forces arrested dozens of Palestinians in various parts of the West Bank.

David Cronin (2022-02-01). Fresh claims of mismanagement by EU police "mission" in West Bank. electronicintifada.net Audit firm complains that details aren't adequate.

Jason Ditz (2022-02-01). Israeli Attack on Damascus Targeted Hezbollah. news.antiwar.com Details are emerging on Sunday night's Israeli missile attack on Damascus, and as is so often the case, reports are that the attack wasn't specifically after Syria, Israel attacks Syria virtually weekly, but each time the strike is reported as going after some other faction that is Iran-aligned. Israel has long claimed to be neutral on the Syrian War. | Syria reported

Ann Brown (2022-02-01). Israel To Amnesty International: Please Don't Release Report Calling Us An Apartheid State. moguldom.com Israel doesn't want Amnesty International to publish a report accusing it of apartheid, and the government said in a statement that the conclusions reached by the London-based human rights group are "false, biased and antisemitic." Despite Israel's objections, Amnesty is expected to join the New York-based Human Rights Watch and the Israeli rights group B'Tselem …

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-01). Pegasus was not just a cyberweapon but a diplomatic tool. peoplesdispatch.org Senior journalist and author Paranjoy Guha Thakurta talks to Peoples Dispatch about how the Israeli state used the Pegasus spyware to advance the country's diplomatic interests.

Jonathan Cook (2022-02-01). Pegasus Spyware Row is Really About Who Controls Cyber Weapons. dissidentvoice.org The Israeli spy software firm NSO Group has rarely been out of the headlines over the past year. Its spyware tool Pegasus worms its way into phones, accessing data and turning on the microphone and camera to act as round-the-clock surveillance equipment. Authoritarian states have reportedly bought the cyber weapon from NSO and put it …

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