Daily Archives: June 13, 2023

2023-06-13: News Headlines

Editor (2023-06-13). China and Palestine: No To 'Piecemeal Crisis Management'. scheerpost.com By Ramzy Baroud / CounterPunch Remarks by China's United Nations Ambassador, Geng Shuang, on the situation in Occupied Palestine on May 24 were impeccable, in terms of their consistency with international law. Compared to the United States' position, which perceives the UN, and particularly the Security Council, as a battleground to defend Israeli interests, the Chinese political …

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-06-13). Canada's Scotiabank Is Funding Israeli War Crimes. orinocotribune.com By Marion Kawas — Jun 10, 2023 | Activists in Canada are launching a national campaign to demand that Scotiabank immediately divest from Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems. | On June 3 in Vancouver Canada, Palestine solidarity activists held a Canadian BDS Coal…

teleSUR, lvm, YSM (2023-06-13). Palestina condena plan de asentamientos ilegales de Israel. telesurtv.net El Ministerio palestino puntualizó que "ve claramente las medidas unilaterales ilegales de Israel para perpetuar el colonialismo".

Philip Giraldi (2023-06-13). Israeli Soldiers Shoot Dead Two-Year-Old Palestinian. globalresearch.ca

Editor (2023-06-13). Legal Brief Filed to Bar Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett from Canada. socialistproject.ca Lawyers have filed a complaint on behalf of a Palestinian-Canadian and four Canadian organizations seeking to have the government declare former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett inadmissible to Canada before he is set to speak in Toronto on June 14. As lawyers Shane Martinez and Nicholas Pope have laid out in the complaint, Bennett should be denied entry to Canada pursuant to sections 35(1)(a) and (b) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. | As put forth in the complaint filed on Tuesday, May 29th, 2023, The federal government has "domestic and international legal obligations to excl…


Staff (2023-06-13). Did Drake go on a Birthright Israel trip?! youtube.com Did Drake go on a Birthright Israel trip to occupied Palestine and Syria? Footage from a Saturday Night Live performance by the rapper Drake in 2014 has emerged in which he states that he took part in the controversial Birthright Israel programme. Support independent watchdog journalism! www.patreon.com/MintPressNews

Brett Wilkins (2023-06-13). Human Rights Defenders Slam Israel's Planned West Bank Settlement Expansion. truthout.org Human rights defenders on Monday blasted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right apartheid government after it reportedly informed the Biden administration of plans to build thousands of new Jewish-only settler homes in the illegally occupied West Bank of Palestine. Three Israeli and U.S. officials told Axios that Israel will announce later this month its intention to build at least… |

Alan MacLeod (2023-06-12). Shadowy, Israel-Linked Group Attempts To Censor Pro-Palestine Spotify Artists. orinocotribune.com By Alan Macleod — Jun 12, 2023 | A shadowy, Israel-linked pressure group is attempting to remove artists supporting Palestinian liberation from Spotify. We Believe in Israel, an outgrowth of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Center (BICOM), is lobbying both the U.K. government and the popular music streaming platform in their efforts to censor a range of artists — including MintPress News' Lowkey. Studying these organizations' key figures, MintPress can reveal that the lobby group may have sympathetic ears in key positions in both. | Coordinated attack | Earlier this year, following a long…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-06-12). Palestinians warn against Israeli proposal to divide Al-Aqsa compound. peoplesdispatch.org A draft bill proposed by one of the legislators of the ruling Likud party calls for the al-Aqsa mosque compound to be divided into two parts, with illegal settlers having exclusive access to the majority of the compound…

Staff (2023-06-12). Charleroi, Belgium, solidarity action calls for freedom for Georges Abdallah and Walid Daqqah. samidoun.net On a sunny, hot day in Charleroi, Belgium, approximately a dozen members of the Plate-forme Charleroi-Palestine, an affiliate organization of the Samidoun Network, organized a public action on Saturday, 10 June, calling for the release of Walid Daqqah, Georges Abdallah and the nearly 5,000 Palestinian prisoners in occupation prisons. The Plate-Forme set up a large …




Staff (2023-06-12). Paris rally demands liberation for Georges Abdallah, Walid Daqqah and all Palestinian prisoners. samidoun.net On the afternoon of Saturday June 10, CAPJPO-EuroPalestine organized a rally at the Fontaine des Innocents in downtown Paris to demand the release of Walid Daqqah and the 5,000 Palestinian political prisoners. At the beginning of this mobilization, Olivia Zémor, the president of EuroPalestine, intervened, highlighting the various forms of colonial violence escalating against the Palestinian people. …

Staff (2023-06-12). Solidarity with Georges Abdallah and Walid Daqqah at Toulouse mobilization against French pension reforms. samidoun.net During a new broad labour union demonstration against the French pension reform in Toulouse which brought together nearly 50,000 people, the Collectif Palestine Vaincra was present alongside all the people mobilized, reaffirming that defending the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea is inseparable from the global struggle for social justice! Underlining this …

WSWS (2023-06-12). UK Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer slanders Roger Waters, demands censorship. wsws.org Waters' steadfast criticism of NATO's war in Ukraine, defence of the Palestinians from Israeli state repression and support for the imprisoned anti-war journalist Julian Assange has earned him the ire of imperialist governments everywhere.

Monica Moorehead (2023-06-12). Workers World commentary: growing condemnation of Israel. workers.org There used to be a time when to publicly raise the name Palestine and the Palestinians' right to their homeland was considered almost taboo. It was all but forbidden in imperialist centers like the United States. But after the various heroic Intifadas (mass uprisings) that the Palestinians began in the . . . |

Staff (2023-06-12). Palestinian flag held high during Roger Waters concert. youtube.com A member of the crowd in Manchester holds a Palestinian flag high during a recent Roger Waters concert. During his show, he added his voice to the Palestine Action campaign to close Israel's largest arms company Elbit Systems in the UK. Support independent watchdog journalism! www.patreon.com/MintPressNews

Staff (2023-06-12). Paris rally demands liberation for Georges Abdallah, Walid Daqqah and all Palestinian prisoners. samidoun.net On the afternoon of Saturday June 10, CAPJPO-EuroPalestine organized a rally at the Fontaine des Innocents in downtown Paris to demand the release of Walid Daqqah and the 5,000 Palestinian political prisoners. At the beginning of this mobilization, Olivia Zémor, the president of EuroPalestine, intervened, highlighting the various forms of colonial violence escalating against the Palestinian people. …

Staff (2023-06-12). Solidarity with Georges Abdallah and Walid Daqqah at Toulouse mobilization against French pension reforms. samidoun.net During a new broad labour union demonstration against the French pension reform in Toulouse which brought together nearly 50,000 people, the Collectif Palestine Vaincra was present alongside all the people mobilized, reaffirming that defending the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea is inseparable from the global struggle for social justice! Underlining this …

WSWS (2023-06-12). UK Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer slanders Roger Waters, demands censorship. wsws.org Waters' steadfast criticism of NATO's war in Ukraine, defence of the Palestinians from Israeli state repression and support for the imprisoned anti-war journalist Julian Assange has earned him the ire of imperialist governments everywhere.

Monica Moorehead (2023-06-12). Workers World commentary: growing condemnation of Israel. workers.org There used to be a time when to publicly raise the name Palestine and the Palestinians' right to their homeland was considered almost taboo. It was all but forbidden in imperialist centers like the United States. But after the various heroic Intifadas (mass uprisings) that the Palestinians began in the . . . |

Staff (2023-06-12). Palestinian flag held high during Roger Waters concert. youtube.com A member of the crowd in Manchester holds a Palestinian flag high during a recent Roger Waters concert. During his show, he added his voice to the Palestine Action campaign to close Israel's largest arms company Elbit Systems in the UK. Support independent watchdog journalism! www.patreon.com/MintPressNews

Editor (2023-06-13). Labour's new bankroller is Israel lobbyist, South African apartheid profiteer. mronline.org The UK Labour Party's latest corporate mega-donor is a pro-Israel businessperson whose firm profiteered from South African apartheid.

Jeremy Kuzmarov, CovertAction Magazine. (2023-06-13). Israeli State And Lyndon B Johnson Deliberately Murdered 34 US Sailors. popularresistance.org On June 8, 1967, Israeli air and naval forces—with covered over insignia—fired rockets, torpedoes and napalm on a U.S. spy ship, the USS Liberty, in the Mediterranean Sea, killing 34 Americans and injuring 174 more. A secret congressional hearing revealed that two of the pilots were Americans—ex-Navy fliers.[1] | A survivor stated that the ship's deck afterwards looked "like the floor of a slaughterhouse, with pieces of flesh, bone, hair, various organs and everything else…held in place by dried blood." | In 2021, the CIA released three one-page information reports from June and October 1967,…

Jessica Buxbaum, MintPress News. (2023-06-13). Exporting Occupation: Israeli Business Is Booming In Occupied Western Sahara. popularresistance.org On December 22, 2020, Israel and Morocco officially normalized relations after former President Donald Trump's administration declared occupied Western Sahara as Moroccan. In the years following, Israeli companies have boosted their business involvement in Western Sahara, suggesting the pair's cooperation is fueling each other's land theft. | In 1975, Morocco annexed part of Western Sahara — a region indigenous to the Sahrawi people — and its entirety in 1979. Few have accepted these actions: today, 82 countries recognize Western Sahara's independence, while only the United States recognizes Moroccan…

krish-rad_ind (2023-06-13). State of Israel and Lyndon B Johnson Deliberately Murdered 34 American Sailors in 1967, Fabricated Massive Cover-Up Still in Effect After 55 Years. covertactionmagazine.com

Peoples Dispatch (2023-06-13). Israeli authorities demolish five Bedouin homes in Al-Naqab desert. peoplesdispatch.org According to locals, the demolition efforts have been going on since February. Israeli authorities had served the home owners with eviction notices and had been pressuring them to vacate their homes and relocate in order to illegally take over the land…

Staff (2023-06-13). Israeli military used young women to sell their apartheid project. youtube.com The Israeli military has used young women to sell their apartheid project and hypersexualize life in the military to recruit for longer than the Pentagon. Alan MacLeod's latest investigation explores that history to find the roots of the Pentagon's newest recruitment strategies as it seeks to attract Gen Z. Watch the full interview via our …

Dave DeCamp (2023-06-12). Israel Creates New Military Intelligence Unit to Prepare for War With Iran. news.antiwar.com Israel's military has created a new intelligence unit to prepare for war with Iran amid simmering tensions between the two nations, Ynet reported on Sunday. Israel has been conducting a covert war against Iran for some time, but in recent years, Israeli officials have been speaking more openly about the fact that they're preparing for …

David Cronin (2023-06-12). How an EU lawmaker tried to whitewash Israel's role in spyware scandal. electronicintifada.net European Parliament's findings on Pegasus aren't as strong as they should be.

Brandon Soderberg, Vida Fye, Megan Kenny, Andrew Friedman (2023-06-13). Baltimore's Crime Numbers Game. therealnews.com by Data Analysis by Additional research and analysis by Illustrations by At a January "Take Back Our Streets Town Hall," Ba…

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