Monthly Archives: January 2022

2022-01-29: News Headlines

_____ (2022-01-28). Palestinians Continue Boycott Of Israeli Military Courts. popularresistance.org Around 500 Palestinians currently incarcerated in Israel under the illegal policy of administrative detention have been boycotting Israeli military courts to protest their detention since January 1. The detainees have since refused to appear for court hearings and sessions regarding the approval or renewal of their administrative detention orders. They are also boycotting appeal hearings, including those in higher courts. According to Palestinian prisoners' rights groups, among those participating in the boycott are three minors and one woman. All of them are being detained without charge or trial by the Israeli…

Asa Winstanley (2022-01-28). Palestine Action is legalizing the smashing of Israeli arms factories. electronicintifada.net UK campaign against Elbit chalks up another victory.

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2022-01-28). Palestinian teacher reinstated after UK Israel lobby attacks. electronicintifada.net Sheffield Hallam University must drop their investigation against Shahd Abusalama, students and supporters say.

Tamara Nassar (2022-01-28). For EU, "a child is a child" except when Palestinian. electronicintifada.net Medically vulnerable teen Amal Nakhleh has been jailed by Israel without charge for a year.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-01-28). South Africa: Unions, Palestine solidarity groups escalate demand to nationalize Clover. peoplesdispatch.org On January 27, pickets and rallies were held in several cities of South Africa in support of the workers' demand to nationalize the dairy company Clover…

Staff (2022-01-28). Home Demolition in Sheikh Jarrah Seen as Part of Broader Israeli Effort to Dispossess Palestinians. democracynow.org Israeli forces continue to expel Palestinians from their homes in occupied East Jerusalem, a move that the United Nations has described as a possible war crime. We speak to Palestinian poet and activist Mohammed El-Kurd, whose own family is among those facing eviction in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. Sheikh Jarrah is also where the Salhiyeh family recently gained attention for threatening self-immolation while protesting their eviction and the demolition of their home. The dispossession of Palestinians has left families facing homelessness in the cold of winter. "This is not a unique situation for our neighborh…

Pavan Kulkarni (2022-01-28). Global mobilizations mark two months of the strike at South Africa's dairy giant. peoplesdispatch.org Unions and Palestinian solidarity organizations have escalated actions calling for the South African government to divest from Clover the Milco consortium, which is majority-owned by an Israeli company operating in occupied territories of Palestine.

Ann Brown (2022-01-28). Nina Turner Likely To Challenge Israel Lobby And Establishment-Backed Rep. Shontel Brown. moguldom.com Activist and former Ohio Senator Nina Turner is mounting a rematch against Ohio Rep. Shontel Brown in a 2022 bid for Congress after Turner lost a special primary election for Ohio's 11th District in 2021. Turner, the former co-chair of Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign, is relaunching her candidacy just days before the Feb. 2 …

WSWS (2022-01-28). Israel's labour court bans teachers from striking in opposition to soaring Omicron infections. wsws.org Teachers and educators at all public kindergartens and schools, excluding special education schools, had been set to hold a protest strike yesterday.

Ramzy Baroud (2022-01-28). What former PM Netanyahu's Corruption Trial says about the State of Israeli Democracy. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) — Former Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his prosecutors are reportedly finalising the details of a plea deal that would practically water down, shelve, or drop altogether all three major corruption cases that have led to his high-profile trial in May 2020. If such news actualises, Israel would officially …

_____ (2022-01-28). From Rikers To Santa Rita: Close The Death Camps! popularresistance.org January 27, 2022/25th Sh'vat 5782, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, is the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps, where so many of our ancestors were incarcerated and enslaved, raped and robbed, maimed and murdered. | We are an anonymous collective of Jewish New Yorkers who are striking this day, across the five boroughs of NYC/across occupied Lenapehoking, in solidarity with the hunger strikers at Rikers Island and with all who are resisting this genocidal regime. This is a regime which took the lives of 15 fellow New Yorkers last year alone — a number which has c…

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2022-01-28: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-01-28). Israel's labour court bans teachers from striking in opposition to soaring Omicron infections. wsws.org Teachers and educators at all public kindergartens and schools, excluding special education schools, had been set to hold a protest strike yesterday.

Pavan Kulkarni (2022-01-28). Global mobilizations mark two months of the strike at South Africa's dairy giant. peoplesdispatch.org Unions and Palestinian solidarity organizations have escalated actions calling for the South African government to divest from Clover the Milco consortium, which is majority-owned by an Israeli company operating in occupied territories of Palestine.

Ramzy Baroud (2022-01-28). What former PM Netanyahu's Corruption Trial says about the State of Israeli Democracy. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) — Former Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his prosecutors are reportedly finalising the details of a plea deal that would practically water down, shelve, or drop altogether all three major corruption cases that have led to his high-profile trial in May 2020. If such news actualises, Israel would officially …

Middle East Monitor (2022-01-27). Equal Opportunity Terrorism: Israeli Squatter Settlers attack Rabbis for Human Rights alongside Palestinians. juancole.com By Ashraf Al-Ajrami | — ( Middle East Monitor) — Illegal settlers from the Givat Ronen settlement carried out a terrorist attack against Palestinian citizens and activists from Israel's Rabbis for Human Rights. This resulted in ten of the Israeli activists being injured, one of their cars being set on fire and another one being …

Editor2 (2022-01-27). Palestinian Academic Suspended by UK University Following Israeli Lobby Pressure. orinocotribune.com By Palestine Chronicle Staff — Jan 24, 2022 | British University Sheffield Hallam has suspended a Palestinian Ph.D. student from teaching, following a smear campaign by the Israeli lobby, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. | Shahd Abusalama, a Palestinian activist, writer and artist from Gaza, announced on her social media that she was suspended from a teaching position at her department following an intense online campaign by pro-Israel supporters who accused her of 'antisemitism'. | I cannot describe what I feel in words, receiving this proactive support and solidarity from people I know o…

_____ (2022-01-27). Relations between Palestine and Israel — Is There Light at the End of the Tunnel? journal-neo.org In the final days of 2021 Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian National Authority visited Benny Gantz, Israel's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense at his home in Rosh Ha'ayin. The previous meeting between the two men had taken place in August, in Ramallah, following which Israel announced a series of "confidence-building measures". The …

Ramzy Baroud (2022-01-27). Morality Cannot Be Divided: How Netanyahu's Corruption has Exposed Israel's 'Democracy'. dissidentvoice.org Former Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his prosecutors are reportedly finalizing the details of a plea deal that would practically water down, shelve, or drop altogether all three major corruption cases that have led to his high-profile trial in May 2020. If such news actualizes, Israel would officially sink to a new low in terms …

Human Rights Watch (2022-01-27). Israeli Pegasus Spyware was used against Human Rights Watch Workers. juancole.com Human Rights Watch — (New York) — The targeting of a Human Rights Watch staff member with Pegasus spyware underscores the urgent need to regulate the global trade in surveillance technology, Human Rights Watch said today. Governments should ban the sale, export, transfer, and use of surveillance technology until human rights safeguards are in place. …

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