2022-03-08: News Headlines

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-08). Women Take on the Empire: The Revolutionary Women of Palestine. libya360.wordpress.com Sumedha Chatterjee This women's day let us remember the contribution of women who have been fighting the settler colonial Israeli regime. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free! Seldom has a gun wielding female soldier not been sexualized in pop culture or otherwise. Instagram is filled with accounts dedicated to conventionally attractive…

Jonathan Kuttab (2022-03-08). Canada's contradictions on Palestine. electronicintifada.net Preparing Ottawa's diplomats for change emerging from untenable status quo.

Tamara Nassar (2022-03-08). Israel kills three Palestinian youths in Jerusalem. electronicintifada.net Tear gas fired at ambulance trying to reach child.

Adri Nieuwhof (2022-03-07). Dutch universities boycott Russia, but bow to Israel lobby. electronicintifada.net Smear campaign derails effort to shed light on ties with anti-Palestinian groups.

Lowkey (2022-03-07). The Latest Target in the Israel Lobby's War on Academia: Shahd Abusalama. mintpressnews.com Pro-Israeli government campaigners were left bitterly disappointed when, earlier this month, their campaign to remove Palestinian activist and academic Shahd Abusalama from her position at Sheffield Hallam University failed.

_____ (2022-03-07). Worthy And Unworthy Victims. popularresistance.org Rulers divide the world into worthy and unworthy victims, those we are allowed to pity, such as Ukrainians enduring the hell of modern warfare, and those whose suffering is minimized, dismissed, or ignored. The terror we and our allies carry out against Iraqi, Palestinian, Syrian, Libyan, Somali and Yemeni civilians is part of the regrettable cost of war. We, echoing the empty promises from Moscow, claim we do not target civilians. Rulers always paint their militaries as humane, there to serve and protect. Collateral damage happens, but it is regrettable. | This lie can only be sustained among those who are unfam…

rqorinoco (2022-03-07). Palestinian Administrative Detainees Boycott of Israeli Military Courts Reaches 60 Days. orinocotribune.com Occupied Palestine (QNN)- 500 Palestinian administrative detainees in Israeli prisons have been boycotting Israeli Military Courts for 60 consecutive days in protest against their indefinite detention without charges or trials. | The Palestinian commission of detainees and ex-detainees affairs said today that in protest against their administrative detention without charges or trials by the Israeli occupation authorities, 500 Palestinian administrative detainees have been boycotting the Israeli Military Courts since Jan 1, 2022. | Among the 500 administrative detainees are four minors and a female. | The boyco…

Editor (2022-03-07). Chris Hedges: Worthy and Unworthy Victims. scheerpost.com "Suicide Kings." [Illustration by Mr. Fish] | By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost | Rulers divide the world into worthy and unworthy victims, those we are allowed to pity, such as Ukrainians enduring the hell of modern warfare, and those whose suffering is minimized, dismissed, or ignored. The terror we and our allies carry out against Iraqi, Palestinian, Syrian, Libyan, Somali and Yemeni civilians is part of the regrettable cost of war. We, echoing the empty promises from Moscow, claim we do not target civilians. Rulers always paint their militaries as humane, there to serve and protect. Collateral damag…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-03-07). Israeli forces kill two Palestinian teenagers in occupied East Jerusalem. peoplesdispatch.org Israeli security forces respond with lethal force to Palestinians resisting the daily harassment they face under Israeli occupation. The Israeli forces routinely call this resistance "terrorism" in order to justify the killings…

Editor (2022-03-07). Navigating our humanity: Ilan Pappé on the four lessons from Ukraine. mronline.org Israel's assaults on Gaza should, indeed, be mentioned and considered when evaluating the present crisis in the Ukraine.

WSWS (2022-03-07). Head of Manchester's Whitworth Art Gallery Alistair Hudson sacked after Zionist witch-hunt. wsws.org Hudson's sacking follows controversy around last year's exhibition "Cloud Studies" by Turner Prize-nominated investigative agency Forensic Architecture (FA), which came under attack from supporters of the Israeli state.

SF015 (2022-03-07). Evacuation Of Ukrainian Elite From The Country. How It Happens. southfront.org The bulk of the Ukrainian oligarchs and economic elite fled the country immediately prior to the outbreak of war in Ukraine using private planes and regular flights. | During the rule of the oligarchate there was a critical stratification of Ukrainian society. In fact, Ukraine has entered a new Middle Ages with its aristocracy serving the magnates and the disenfranchised underprivileged population. A mass of international financial swindlers arrived in Ukraine, mainly from Israel and Anglo-Saxon countries. | In the fir…

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