Daily Archives: September 8, 2023

2023-09-08: News Headlines

Staff (2023-09-07). Palestinian prisoners prepare for mass hunger strike; 3 prisoners continue strikes against administrative detention. samidoun.net On Thursday, 7 September, Palestinian detainee Abdel-Rahman Baraqa suspended his hunger strike against administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial, after 26 days. Baraqa, 24, from Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, has been detained without charge or trial since 30 April 2023. In his hunger strike, he has experienced severe deterioration of his health while fighting …

Staff (2023-09-07). Palestinian-Italian researcher Khaled al-Qaisi seized by occupation forces; family urges support and attention. samidoun.net Palestinian-Italian researcher Khaled al-Qaisi, a translator, researcher and student in the Department of Oriental Languages and Civilizations at Sapienza University of Rome, has been detained by Israeli occupation forces since 31 August. Al-Qaisi, a Palestinian and Italian citizen, was visiting Palestine with his wife and four-year-old son. While leaving Palestine at the bridge to Jordan, …

Staff (2023-09-07). Collectif Palestine Vaincra on Al Mayadeen: Free all Palestinian prisoners, free Georges Abdallah. samidoun.net On Wednesday 6 September 2023, the Lebanese channel Al Mayadeen organized a special program on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Freedom Tunnel operation, when six Palestinian prisoners escaped from the maximum security prison of Gilboa. This program took place with the participation of a member of the Collectif Palestine Vaincra, alongside Sahar Francis, …

Staff (2023-09-07). Four Palestinian prisoners continue hunger strikes for liberation. samidoun.net Four Palestinian prisoners are continuing their hunger strikes for freedom against administrative detention and arbitrary imprisonment: Kayed Fasfous, Sultan Khallouf, Abdel-Rahman Baraqa and Maher al-Akhras. Fasfous and Khallouf have now been on hunger strike for 35 days, while Baraqa has been on strike for 28 days and al-Akhras for 15 days. Fasfous, Khallouf and Baraqa …

Palestine Action. (2023-09-07). Palestine Action Crash International Weapons Dealers Summit. popularresistance.org While senior representatives of the world's largest arms firms convened at the 'International Composites Summit 2023' to discuss "cost-effective" weaponry components [1], Palestine Action snuck their way in and crashed the event. | Once inside the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes, four activists took over the stage to disrupt the marketing of 'genocide' as a tool to be bought-and-sold to annihilate the Palestinian people. | Activists over-spoke the corporate speeches and raised the Palestinian flag, stating: "You are all war criminals. We're making a stand against you and your weapons of death.

Angela (2023-09-08). Sunday 9/10: Art of the Palestinian Thobe – An Exhibit featuring Palestinian textiles, embroidery. indybay.org Zoom (Registration link is below)…

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-08). Labor needs to step up support for Palestine, meeting hears. greenleft.org.au

teleSUR, lvm, MER (2023-09-08). Fuerzas israelíes hieren a joven palestino en Cisjordania. telesurtv.net Los soldados israelíes irrumpieron en el campamento, agredieron a los palestinos y abrieron el fuego contra los palestinos.

Elis Gjevori (2023-09-07). Ex-Mossad chief's 'apartheid' criticism makes justifying occupation even harder. middleeasteye.net

Michael F. Brown (2023-09-07). Blinken indulges Republican senator toying with Palestinian hunger. electronicintifada.net Democrats push back for "economic peace" but ignore underlying issues of apartheid, dispossession and occupation.

WSWS (2023-09-07). Israel: Netanyahu threatens Eritrean migrants with mass deportations after violent police crackdown. wsws.org A regime of mass deportations and administrative detentions, long used against the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, will inevitably be used against Israeli workers as well.

Angela (2023-09-08). Saturday 9/9: Free virtual screening of the documentary film "Stitching Palestine" indybay.org Zoom (Registration link is below)…

Roger McKenzie (2023-09-08). Former Israeli spy chief admits government enforcing apartheid against Palestinians. peoplesworld.org The former head of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency said Wednesday that Israel is enforcing an apartheid system in the occupied West Bank. Tamir Pardo joins a growing list of retired officials to have concluded that Israel's treatment of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank amounts to apartheid, a reference to the system of racial separation …

Staff (2023-09-08). Palestine Death Log: August, 2023. youtube.com Israel killed at least 19 Palestinians, including 6 children, in August 2023. MintPress will continue to record Palestinian deaths at the hands of the Israeli occupation each month. Support independent watchdog journalism! www.patreon.com/MintPressNews

Elis Gjevori (2023-09-07). Ex-Mossad chief's 'apartheid' criticism undermines occupation. middleeasteye.net

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-09-07). PM Shtayyeh opens 13th Palestinian International Book Fair. plenglish.com Ramallah, Sep 7 (Prensa Latina) Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh opened on Thursday the 13th Palestinian International Book Fair, in which about 390 publishers and agencies from various countries will be attending.

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-07). Labor needs to step up support for Palestine, meeting hears. greenleft.org.au

Staff (2023-09-07). Four Palestinian prisoners continue hunger strikes for liberation. samidoun.net Four Palestinian prisoners are continuing their hunger strikes for freedom against administrative detention and arbitrary imprisonment: Kayed Fasfous, Sultan Khallouf, Abdel-Rahman Baraqa and Maher al-Akhras. Fasfous and Khallouf have now been on hunger strike for 35 days, while Baraqa has been on strike for 28 days and al-Akhras for 15 days. Fasfous, Khallouf and Baraqa …

teleSUR, DRL (2023-09-07). Israel asesina a un niño palestino de 17 años en Jericó. telesurtv.net Israel se hizo con el control de Cisjordania ocupada en 1967, durante la Guerra de los Seis Días, y desde entonces mantiene una larga ocupación militar y colonización sobre este territorio.

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-07). Labor needs to step up support for Palestine, meeting hears. greenleft.org.au

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-08). Gazan fishermen in dire straits amid attacks from Israeli forces and border closing. peoplesdispatch.org Gaza has been under a comprehensive land, sea and air blockade imposed by Israel since 2006, which has destroyed its economy and forced its over 2.3 million people to live in miserable conditions…

Eva Bartlett (2023-09-08). "Media on Trial: Vanessa Beeley, Eva Bartlett and Fiorella Isabel" ingaza.wordpress.com —LISTEN HERE Mike Robinson speaks to Vanessa Beeley, Eva Bartlett and Fiorella Isabel about what it's like to report from the front lines of conflict zones, what they have experienced in their interactions with legacy media journalists and what it's like to live and work in Russia and with RT. Vanessa Beeley is an independent journalist,…

Ola Mousa (2023-09-08). Gaza's surplus of nurses works for free. electronicintifada.net The number of nursing graduates far outpaces available jobs.

Maureen Clare Murphy (2023-09-07). Israel halts exit of goods from Gaza. electronicintifada.net Tens of thousands of jobs threatened amid 46 percent unemployment rate.

Zane McNeill (2023-09-06). Nation's Oldest, Largest Latino Civil Rights Group Issues FL Emergency Plan. truthout.org The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) has issued an emergency preparedness plan to confront the threat posed by Florida's SB 1718, an anti-immigrant law which no longer recognizes driver's licenses issued to undocumented immigrants from other states and criminalizes the transportation of undocumented workers across state lines into Florida. "LULAC is ready to help our immigrant… |

Eva Bartlett (2023-09-08). "Media on Trial: Vanessa Beeley, Eva Bartlett and Fiorella Isabel" ingaza.wordpress.com —LISTEN HERE Mike Robinson speaks to Vanessa Beeley, Eva Bartlett and Fiorella Isabel about what it's like to report from the front lines of conflict zones, what they have experienced in their interactions with legacy media journalists and what it's like to live and work in Russia and with RT. Vanessa Beeley is an independent journalist,…

MEE staff (2023-09-08). Israel authorises three settler outposts in West Bank. middleeasteye.net Israel authorises three settler outposts in West Bank | The process turns the outposts into settlements recognised by the state of Israel, not the international community | Fri, 09/08/2023 – 19: 52 | Israeli soldiers and settlers in Halhoul village north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, on 1 August 2023 (AFP) | The US has condemned Israel's decision to "legalise" three settler outposts in the occupi…

Kyle Anzalone (2023-09-07). Zelensky Speaks With Netanyahu, Requests More Support from Israel. news.antiwar.com Ukrainian President Zelensky spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu by phone on Thursday. The leaders discussed how Tel Aviv could support Kyiv's fight against Russia and the potential deployment of Israeli police to Ukraine to support Jewish pilgrims. According to a press release from Zelensky's office, the Ukrainian leader requested more assistance from Netanyahu. "The …

Oren Ziv (2023-09-07). Israel: New movement sees young people refusing military service over judicial reforms. middleeasteye.net

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-09-07). From Golda Meir to Ben-Gvir: Examining Israel's Supremacist Apartheid Legacy. orinocotribune.com By Miko Peled — Sep 5, 2023 | Remarks by Israel's minister of national security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, saying his rights are superior to those of Arabs. He received the precise reaction he wanted — his comments were posted and repeated everywhere. His face was shown, and the | Israel has a seventy-five-year history of d…

Simon Hooper (2023-09-07). Boycott bill: Labelling critics of Israel antisemitic a 'dangerous road', MPs told. middleeasteye.net Boycott bill: Labelling critics of Israel antisemitic a 'dangerous road', MPs told | Campaign groups warn legislation could block divestments from arms trade and fossil fuels and undermine human rights commitments | Thu, 09/07/2023 – 15: 50 | Melanie Phillips was praised by one MP for her 'excellent articles' (Parliament TV) | The

sputnikglobe (2023-09-07). Netanyahu Implies He Will Not Accept Israeli Supreme Court's Repeal of Judicial Reform. sputnikglobe.com TEL AVIV (Sputnik) – Benjamin Netanyahu gave a tacit support to parliamentary speaker Amir Ohana's warning to the country's Supreme Court against interfering with Israel's fundamental laws, in an indication that he would not accept a possible court ruling to repeal one of the clauses of the controversial judicial reform during a hearing next week.

channelnewsasia (2023-09-08). Singapore's upgraded F-16 fighter jets now armed with Python-5 missiles. channelnewsasia.com The Israeli-made short-range air-to-air missiles have an "exceptional kill probability and excellent resistance to countermeasures".

Lawrence Davidson (2023-09-08). The Downward Trajectory of Women's Rights. counterpunch.org The New York Times recently published an article on the status of women's rights in Israel. It is not a happy story. Despite Israel's feigned reputation as a "liberal democracy," the reality is that within its privileged Jewish population is a large number of religious zealots—the Ultra-Orthodox or Haredi Jews—seeking to reshape the state's culture

MEE staff (2023-09-08). Israel: Mossad reveals its Egyptian spy warned of Yom Kippur war 'tomorrow'. middleeasteye.net

MEE staff (2023-09-08). Israel not in compliance with visa waiver programme, Senate Democrats say. middleeasteye.net

Richard Sanders (2023-09-08). UK Labour Party accused of discrimination over expulsion of Jewish members. middleeasteye.net UK Labour Party accused of discrimination over expulsion of Jewish members | Jewish members of the Labour Party are almost 13 times more likely to be expelled for supporting proscribed left-wing organisations than non-Jewish members, JVL claims | Fri, 09/08/2023 – 12: 12 | Demonstrators hold placards as they protest outside the headquarters of Britain's opposition Labour party in centr…

Sam Friedman, Suzie Kay (2023-09-08). Marxism and the U.S. Response to the HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 Pandemics. internationalviewpoint.org Over the last fifty years, few public health professionals have considered Marxism relevant, and few Marxists have treated pandemics as an imminent concern. We offer this paper to help both public health professionals and socialists view pandemics through a Marxist lens. Although our theory is global in scope, we focus on the U.S. because of its scientific prominence, its outsized global role in the AIDS pandemic, and its poor performance in the COVID-19 pandemic. Our hope is that this piece will strengthen efforts to protect public health and, better yet, help usher capitalism off the Earth before it makes the p…

Sam Friedman, Suzie Kay (2023-09-07). Marxism and the U.S. Response to the HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 Pandemics. internationalviewpoint.org Over the last fifty years, few public health professionals have considered Marxism relevant, and few Marxists have treated pandemics as an imminent concern. We offer this paper to help both public health professionals and socialists view pandemics through a Marxist lens. Although our theory is global in scope, we focus on the U.S. because of its scientific prominence, its outsized global role in the AIDS pandemic, and its poor performance in the COVID-19 pandemic. Our hope is that this piece will strengthen efforts to protect public health and, better yet, help usher capitalism off the Earth before it makes the p…

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