Monthly Archives: September 2023

2023-09-29: News Headlines

Al Mayadeen, Orinoco Tribune. (2023-09-29). Palestine Has No Choice But To Escalate Resistance In West Bank. popularresistance.org Deputy Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Jamil Mezher, said in an interview with Al Mayadeen that the Palestinian factions have no choice but to escalate Resistance in the West Bank. | Mezher made this comment after delegations of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the PFLP met in Beirut. Mezher said that the meeting was held in Beirut because "the Lebanese capital is an incubator of resistance." | "We are facing a grave danger threatening the Palestinian national cause," he stressed, and added that "we must escalate the resistance to confront the occupation."

Jennifer Bing (2023-09-29). Be bold, Bernie. electronicintifada.net Vermonters are urging their senator to be more forceful on Palestinian rights.

Miko Peled (2023-09-29). Mahmoud Abbas at the UN: A Global Betrayal of Palestine's Struggle for Justice. mintpressnews.com Mahmoud Abbas has not only betrayed the Palestinian cause for his own gain, he has paved the way for Israel's legitimacy in the Arab world, argues Israeli human rights activist Miko Peled.

Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada. (2023-09-29). Federal Complaint Alleges University Conspired Against Palestinians. popularresistance.org Students at the University of Illinois Chicago have filed a federal complaint against the school, alleging that staff discriminated against them because of their ethnicity and national origin. | The seven students, six Palestinian Americans and one Jewish American, attempted to join an informational session over the videoconferencing platform Zoom in January about a study abroad summer program in Israel. | During and after the video call, students say they were racially profiled, harassed and silenced by university staff and, later, by campus police. | In the Zoom call, UIC staff denied the students with Arab and…

Peoples Health Dispatch (2023-09-29). Critical public health experts face rising maltreatment and corporate intrusion. peoplesdispatch.org Critical public health is under attack by both corporate sector and authoritarian regimes, warned panelists at International Association of Health Policy Europe conference, citing examples of Palestine, Turkey, and Australia…

Peter Bolton (2023-09-29). The Jerusalem Post Is Now Enlisting Washed-up ANC Apparatchiks to Whitewash Israel's Practice of Ethnic Apartheid. dissidentvoice.org Photo credit: Wall in Palestine/Flickr (CC, image edited) On September 24, the Jerusalem Post published an article titled, "Israel is not an apartheid state, former South African defense minister says." The article notes that the former African National Congress (ANC) minister in question, Mosiuoa Lekota, served time in prison with Nelson Mandela during South Africa's …

teleSUR, dcdc, JDO (2023-09-29). ONU: asentamientos israelíes socavan viabilidad de Estado palestino. telesurtv.net El enviado de Naciones Unidas para el proceso de paz en Oriente Próximo indicó que estas acciones "alimentan la violencia e impiden el acceso de los palestinos a sus tierras y recursos".

MEE staff (2023-09-28). Israel: Police to use Pegasus spyware to probe mass shooting of Palestinian citizens. middleeasteye.net

MEE staff (2023-09-28). Saudi-Israel normalisation impossible if Palestinian state is on the table, says Pompeo. middleeasteye.net

Michael F. Brown (2023-09-28). The New York Times, a cheerleader for Israel and its crimes. electronicintifada.net Newspaper of record helps launder the theft of Palestinian land and rights.

Michael Jansen (2023-09-28). "Palestine is Entirely Wiped Out": Netanyahu's Skewed Map of Israel Includes the West Bank and Gaza. globalresearch.ca

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-09-28). Breaking the Siege Campaign Launched in Gaza — Photo Gallery. orinocotribune.com 17 years of a hermetic Israeli siege left Gaza with little food and medicine. The determination to break the siege, however, remains as strong as ever. Palestine Chronicle reports from the besieged Strip. | Palestinians in Gaza took their cause to the sea, to protest the Israeli siege and to take part in the International Campaign to Break the Siege on Gaza. | The campaign aims to launch several initiatives to raise awareness of the hermetic Israeli blockade on the Strip. | A march of boats was meant as the starting point of the international campaign. Various events are scheduled in Arab and European countries.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-28). Rights groups denounce Israel's entry into US visa waiver program. peoplesdispatch.org Many have pointed to the continuing Israeli discrimination against Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims with regard to travel and called the US decision tantamount to an endorsement of Israeli policies…

Ramzy Baroud (2023-09-28). Ghosts of the Past: For Israel, War on UNESCO is an Existential Battle. mintpressnews.com For Israel, recognition by UNESCO of Jericho as a World Heritage Site in Palestine complicates its mission of erasing Palestine, physically and figuratively, from existence.

scorinoco (2023-09-28). PFLP Leader: Palestine Has No Choice But to Escalate Resistance in West Bank. orinocotribune.com Deputy Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Jamil Mezher, said in an interview with Al Mayadeen that the Palestinian factions have no choice but to escalate Resistance in the West Bank. | Mezher made this comment after delegations of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the PFLP met in Beirut. Mezher said that the meeting was held in Beirut because "the Lebanese capital is an incubator of resistance." | "We are facing a grave danger threatening the Palestinian national cause," he stressed, and added that "we must escalate the resistance to confront the occupation." | Mezher pointed…

Staff (2023-09-28). Headlines for September 28, 2023. democracynow.org GOP Presidential Candidates Attack an Absent Trump, Each Other at Chaotic Debate, Trump Calls on Unions to Support Him in 2024 as He Addresses Nonunion Auto Plant, Las Vegas Hotel and Casino Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Authorize Strike, U.S. Gov't on Cusp of Shutdown Amid Republican House Dysfunction, Nagorno-Karabakh's Gov't to Self-Dissolve by Jan. 1 as 50,000 People Flee, Burkina Faso Military Coup Leaders Say They Thwarted Another Coup Attempt, North Korea Expels Soldier Travis King Back to the U.S., Palestinian Rights Advocates Condemn U.S. Visa Waiver for Israeli Travelers, Ethiopian Re…

Staff (2023-09-28). Why Is Washington Arming the Palestinian Authority with Israeli Approval? orinocotribune.com By al-Carmel News — Sep 18, 2023 | Why did the Israeli government agree to supply the Palestinian Authority with weapons and armored vehicles? | Hussein al-Sheikh, the secretary-general of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the official responsible for security coordination with the Israeli occupation, confirmed that the Palestinian Authority (PA), like the Israeli army, is unable to confront the "diffuse resistance cells" in Jenin, Nablus, and Tulkarm. This prompted the US side to "recognize the needs of the Authority for use [of weaponry] in incursions and clashes."

Editor (2023-09-29). Humiliation vs. Self-Respect: The Untold Story of the Abuse of Palestinian Women in Hebron. scheerpost.com By Ramzy Baroud / CounterCurrents The humiliation of Palestinian women by Israeli soldiers in the occupied city of Al-Khalil (Hebron) on July 10 was not the first such episode. Sadly, it will not be the last. Indeed, the stripping of five women in front of their children, parading them naked around their family home and …

teleSUR, jaa, YSM (2023-09-28). Refugiados palestinos exigen sus derechos ante sede de ONU en Siria. telesurtv.net Los manifestantes pidieron mayor acción de comunidad internacional para poner fin a las prácticas criminales del régimen sionista.

A Guest Author (2023-09-30). Zionists will always call us antisemitic. workers.org By Nicki Kattoura The author is a Palestinian editor, writer, and organizer based in Philadelphia. Ask any Palestinian or accomplice to the movement, and it is almost a guarantee that they were called antisemitic for expressing their anti-Zionist politics. The Zionist accusation has become so commonplace that it is to . . . |

Ramzy Baroud (2023-09-29). Ghosts of the Past: For Israel, War on UNESCO is an Existential Battle. counterpunch.org Jericho does not belong to the Palestinians alone. It belongs to the whole of humanity. For Israel, however, the recognition by UNESCO of Jericho as a "World Heritage Site in Palestine" complicates its mission of erasing Palestine, physically and figuratively, from existence. The decision was described by Israel's foreign ministry as a "cynical" ploy by

Alex Majumdar (2023-09-28). PDF of September 28 issue. workers.org Download the PDF. Auto strike spreads: 'No deal, no wheels!' Historic Palestine Writes Festival triumphs over opposition Download the PDF. More PDF back-issues here. |

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-09-28). Hamas calls for resistance, Israel threatens invasion. plenglish.com Ramallah, Sep 28 (Prensa Latina) The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) called Thursday for the intensification of the armed struggle against the Israeli occupation, shortly after that country threatened to launch a major military operation against the Gaza Strip.

WSWS (2023-09-28). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Teachers protest across Europe against lack of resources and poor conditions; daily protests at the border after Israeli authorities close the only pedestrian crossing from Gaza into Israel; Nigerian union bodies call for further action against removal of fuel subsidies, as other sectors pledge to join strike…

Editor (2023-09-29). Sep 29, 2023. sitrepworld.info ‚ô´ LoLa & Hauser — Moonlight Sonata Europa Raped Again, by an American Bull, by Pepe Escobar The News Has Nothing To Do With Newsworthiness, by Caitlin Johnstone The Information War: The Deadly War Hardly Anyone Realizes We're Fighting, by Dr. Joseph Mercola (Video) 'Sixty Minutes' holds up the mirror to the West: and the picture in the frame is ugly, by Gilbert Doctorow America, the Not So Beautiful, Has No Business Lecturing Other Countries, by Larry Johnson America Needs Regime Change… RFK Jr. Dices With Death by Running for the Presidency, by Finian Cunningham Kennedy: An Israeli Per…

The Jerusalem Post (2023-09-29). Israel Threatened to Launch Nuclear War on Iran — UN Envoy. globalresearch.ca

Andrea Mazzarino (2023-09-28). We Must Contemplate the Unimaginable Costs of a Nuclear War to Prevent It. truthout.org Despite Russian hints about the use of nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine, consider it strange — amid other world-endangering possibilities — how little attention nuclear destruction gets anymore. And that's despite the fact that there are now nine (yes, nine!) nuclear powers on this planet, ranging from the United States, Russia, and China to Israel and North Korea. Still, at some point in… |

Andy Kroll (2023-09-28). At the Brink? tomdispatch.com Despite Russian hints about the use of nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine, consider it strange — amid other world-endangering possibilities — how little attention nuclear destruction gets anymore. And that's despite the fact that there are now nine (yes, nine!) nuclear powers on this planet, ranging from the United States, Russia, and China to Israel and North Korea. Still, at some point in your life, you've probably heard about the theory of "nuclear deterrence" embraced by so many in our military and those of other major powers globally. The idea is that nuclear weapons actually keep us all "safe…

Jonathan Cook (2023-09-28). UK and Israel: Has the Fightback Against Weaponised Antisemitism Begun? globalresearch.ca

Lily Galili (2023-09-28). Israel's religious far right has a new settler target: Tel Aviv. middleeasteye.net Israel's religious far right has a new settler target: Tel Aviv | Violent confrontations over gender-segregated prayers have exposed an uncomfortable truth for liberal Israelis – the religious Zionist community is here to stay | Thu, 09/28/2023 – 14: 41 | A man and woman on the shore of the Mediterranean as religious Jews gather to perform the Tashlich ritual in Tel Aviv on 17 September ahead of Y…

MEE staff (2023-09-28). Former President Donald Trump wanted to leverage Israel aid, upcoming book reveals. middleeasteye.net Former President Donald Trump wanted to leverage Israel aid, upcoming book reveals | According to the book, Trump asked whether US aid could be leveraged for a peace deal, and displayed frustration when told it couldn't be done | Thu, 09/28/2023 – 20: 55 | Donald Trump speaks at Drake Enterprises, an automotive parts manufacturer and supplier in Clinton, Michigan, on 27 September 2023 (AFP) | Former Pre…

Staff (2023-09-29). Nazi Veteran Honored in Canada Was Part of Wave of Collaborators Harbored in West: Lev Golinkin. democracynow.org Poland says it's preparing to seek the extradition of a 98-year-old Ukrainian Nazi after he received a standing ovation in the Canadian House of Commons last week following a speech by visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Yaroslav Hunka was invited by the speaker of the House, who has since resigned his post, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally apologized for the episode on Wednesday. Hunka fought during World War II with a Nazi unit composed of Ukrainian volunteers who were involved in numerous atrocities, including massacres of Jewish civilians. But Hunka is not an outlier, acc…

Harvey Wasserman (2023-09-29). 80 Years Ago Denmark Miraculously Saved 8,000 Jews From Nazi Murder. counterpunch.org Human history is all-too-full of ghastly acts of cruelty and torment. They are our ultimate downfall. But 80 years ago, the people of Denmark—-often a great personal risk—-saved some 8,000 Jewish Danes from occupying Nazi murderers. On October 1— 1943's Jewish New Year— Denmark's King and its underground resistance helped mobilize the nation to ferry

Andrew Murray (2023-09-29). Canada's SS veteran Yaroslav Hunka originally sheltered by Britain after WWII. peoplesworld.org LONDON—Former SS soldier Yaroslav Hunka, whose standing ovation in the Canadian parliament scandalized the world this week, was given refuge in Britain after World War II, the Morning Star can reveal. Despite having served in the Galicia Division of the Waffen-SS, a unit associated with massacres of Jews, Poles, and other civilians during the war, …

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2023-09-25: News Headlines

Ramzy Baroud, Mintpress News. (2023-09-25). The Israeli 'Coup' And The Death Of False Democracy. popularresistance.org From its very onset, Israel has constructed a brand for itself, a powerful gimmick that was predicated on two main pillars: democracy and stability. | The main target audience for this brand has been powerful Western states that wielded disproportionate political, economic and military powers. | These Western governments, along with their influential mainstream corporate media, did their part, by polishing Israel's image — as most democratic and most stable — while tarnishing that of their Arab and Palestinian enemies — or anyone else who dared criticize Israel. | It mattered little whether Isra…

Brant Rosen (2023-09-24). On Yom Kippur, Solidarity With Palestinians Is a Sacred Act. truthout.org Today, as Jewish communities across the world gather together for Yom Kippur's collective rituals of atonement, I am thinking about how, in Jewish tradition, words are said to have a sacred power. In the first chapter of the Torah, God creates the world itself through the power of speech. In the book of Exodus, the Israelites speak as one people at Sinai, thereby entering into a covenant with God. |

Editor (2023-09-24). Progressive NY State Lawmakers Join 250+ Jews Protesting Netanyahu's UN Speech. scheerpost.com

JANET (2023-09-24). Writing Palestine: An interview with Susan Abulhawa. iacenter.org By Susie Day September 13, 2023 Susan Abulhawa Note: This is a slight edit of an interview that first appeared in Counterpunch, Aug. 27. 2023. In Palestine — a country whose existence goes unrecognized by most of the West — Palestinians are arrested, humiliated, beaten, killed by Israeli military or settlers every day, if not every hour. What began in 1948 as the Nakba has taken on force, ramped up control, occupied every aspect of Palestinian life. And, given Israel's "most right-wing government in history," what had shown no signs of stopping is now getting worse. Here, in the United States, we bare…

Jonathan Graubart (2023-09-24). Oslo Accords Were Signed 30 Years Ago. They Killed the Two-State Solution. truthout.org Much of the world celebrated the signing of the Oslo Accords 30 years ago this month, when Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Chair Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin engaged in perhaps the most famous diplomatic handshake of…

Juan M. Garcia (2023-09-24). Palestinian Government denounces escalation of Israel's violence. plenglish.com Ramallah, Sep 24 (Prensa Latina) The Palestinian Government on Sunday denounced the escalation of violence by Israel's security forces on the occupied territories, and accused that country of unleashing a war against the civilian population.


teleSUR, nbb, JGN (2023-09-24). Ejército israelí asesina a dos palestinos en Cisjordania ocupada. telesurtv.net El Ministerio de Sanidad palestino identificó a los fallecidos como Asid Abu Ali, de 21 años, y Abed al Rahman Abu Daghash (32), ambos muertos tras recibir disparos en la cabeza.

Timothy Alexander Guzman (2023-09-24). Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi Meets Members of Neturei Karat, a Pro-palestinian Jewish Anti-Zionist Organization. globalresearch.ca

Angela (2023-09-25). Sunday 10/15: Q&A Discussion of the film "Israelism" indybay.org Zoom (Registration link is below)…

Angela (2023-09-24). Sunday 10/15: Q&A Discussion of the film "Israelism" indybay.org Zoom (Registration link is below)…

Robert Inlakesh (2023-09-24). An Israeli Civil-War Brewing Over Judicial Overhaul, Or A New War? thelastamericanvagabond.com In July, the Israeli Knesset ratified the first of a wave of bills that seek to curtail the powers of Tel Aviv's supreme court, dividing Israel's Jewish population between supporters of the current "liberal western democracy" model and those seeking a more radical system. While hundreds of thousands of Israeli protesters packed the streets, Israeli

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-09-24). Video: A Jewish-Russian Proxy President: Zelensky Transformed into a Nazi. globalresearch.ca




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