Israel To Build 650 New Units In Beit El Colony
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-08-21
The Israeli government and the "Construction and Planning Committee" of the Civil Administration office, have approved additional 650 new units in Beit El illegal colony, near Ramallah, in central West Bank. The new approval amends the earlier one of 296 units, and was made, last week, in coordination between Beit …
In Detaining Peter Beinart, Israel Has Declared it No Longer Represents Millions of Jews Overseas
Jonathan Cook | counterpunch.org | 2018-08-21
Nazareth There are few places in Israel where its apartheid character is more conspicuous than the imposing international airport just outside Tel Aviv, named after the country's founding father, David Ben Gurion. Most planes landing in Israel have to circle over the West Bank before making their descent. Below, more than two million Palestinians living…
counterpunch.org/2018/08/21/in-detaining-peter-beinart-israel-has-declared-it-no-longer-represents-millions-of-jews-overseas/
Trump Says Benjamin Netanyahu 'Will Soon Be Called Mohammed'
Middle East Monitor | mintpressnews.com | 2018-08-21
Trump allegedly made the comments to Jordan's King Abdullah while the latter visited the White House in late June though the comments have only emerged this weekend. | The post Trump Says Benjamin Netanyahu 'Will Soon Be Called Mohammed' appeared first on MintPress News.
mintpressnews.com/trump-says-will-soon-called-mohammed/248050/
KPFA Management Abandoning The Station's Principles
Steve Gilmartin | indybay.org | 2018-08-21
The KPFA of 2018, however, seems all-too aligned with national security state messaging, with its constant parroting of corporate media's evidence-free "Russia meddled" narrative and, with occasional exceptions, no recognition of the grotesque but almost completely unexamined and outsized influence of the state of Israel over US politics. | The unhealthy hierarchical structure of the station–well protected and benefited paid staff versus a majority of unprotected unpaid staff–also falls into the pattern of haves and have-nots in our society at large, and the negative consequence of such a structure is…
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Miko Peled: The General's Son: Journal of an Israeli in Palestine
KRF | indybay.org | 2018-08-21
First Congregational Church of Berkeley | 2345 Channing Way | Berkeley, CA 94704…
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A Mighty Voice for Peace Has Gone Silent: Uri Avnery, 1923-2018
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2018-08-20
We received word early this morning that Israeli human rights activist and long-time CounterPunch contributor Uri Avnery died in Tel Aviv, following a heart attack. Avnery, who was one of the first Israelis to call for the creation of a Palestinian state, was 94. He lived a sprawling life. He was born in Germany in…
counterpunch.org/2018/08/20/a-mighty-voice-for-peace-has-gone-silent-uri-avnery-1923-2018/
Detainee Receives An Administrative Detention Order For 6 Months After Serving A 16-Month Prison Term
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-08-20
On Sunday, the Israeli Authorities informed detainee Nasser Abu Khdeir, from Shu'fat town, in occupied East Jerusalem, that he will be held under Administrative Detention for six months, instead of being released this coming Thursday, after finishing a 16-month prison sentence. The detainee suffers from a number of chronic diseases, …
American Television Audiences Don't Care for Palestinian Lives — Just Ask the Networks
CJ Werleman | mintpressnews.com | 2018-08-20
Not a single mainstream television network in the United States carried any mention of Israel's barrage of 140 bombs and missiles directed at Gaza on Wednesday. | The post American Television Audiences Don't Care for Palestinian Lives — Just Ask the Networks appeared first on MintPress News.
mintpressnews.com/american-television-palestine/248036/
Israel Approves Dozens Of Units In Illegal Colony Near Bethlehem
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-08-20
The Israeli authorities approved the construction of 106 new units in the illegal Efrat colony, built on private Palestinian lands between Ertas village and the al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. Hasan Breijiyya, the coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall and colonies in …
Israel Approves Dozens Of Units In Illegal Colony Near Bethlehem
VIDEO: Palestinian Farmers Assaulted in East Jerusalem
INA | imemc.org | 2018-08-20
Israeli municipality staff have assaulted Palestinian farmers and vendors in the streets of occupied East Jerusalem on Monday, a day before the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. Locals said, according to Ma'an, that Israeli municipality staff, under armed security by Israeli forces, targeted Palestinian farmers in the streets of the …
De-Arabizing Jerusalem: Biblical "History" Underwrites Israel's Ethnic Cleansing
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2018-08-20
The reality is that for seven decades Israel has been engaged in the crime of ethnic cleansing. If this crime is not immediately brought to a stop, the City of Jerusalem will lose its heritage forever. | The post De-Arabizing Jerusalem: Biblical "History" Underwrites Israel's Ethnic Cleansing appeared first on MintPress News.
mintpressnews.com/israels-ethnic-cleansing/248030/
Israeli Soldiers Remove A Tent, Assault A Palestinian, Near Hebron
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-08-20
Israeli soldiers, accompanied by a number of illegal colonialist settlers, invaded a Palestinian land, Monday, removed a tent and assaulted a man, in Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Rateb Jabour, the coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall …
Israeli Soldiers Remove A Tent, Assault A Palestinian, Near Hebron
I'm One of the Young People Who Walked Off Birthright Israel This Summer
Bethany Zaiman | thenation.com | 2018-08-20
I'm One of the Young People Who Walked Off Birthright Israel This Summer appeared first on The Nation.
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Israeli Soldiers Abduct Seven Palestinians In The West Bank
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-08-20
Israeli Soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, at least seven Palestinians from their homes, in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported. The PPS said that the soldiers invaded the al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem, searched several homes, and abducted Ibrahim Hasan Salah, 22. The PPS …
PPS: "Israeli Soldiers Abduct 14 Palestinians In The West Bank"
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-08-20
The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, fourteen Palestinians, including a former political prisoner who was imprisoned for 15 years, in several parts of the occupied West Bank. The PPS office in Nablus, in northern West Bank, said the soldiers invaded the …
PPS: “Israeli Soldiers Abduct 14 Palestinians In The West Bank”
UK Ethnic Groups Call Out Attempts to Silence Discourse on Palestine
INA | imemc.org | 2018-08-20
A total of 84 British black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) organizations came out strong, last week, on attempts in the United Kingdom to silence discourse on Palestine, particularly those critical of Israel and its racist policies against Palestinians. The letter, published in the Independent, criticized recent attempts by the …
UK Ethnic Groups Call Out Attempts to Silence Discourse on Palestine
Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian In Northern Gaza
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-08-20
Israeli soldiers killed, on Monday morning, a young Palestinian man near the parameter fence, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army said its opened fire at a Palestinian, who reportedly opened fired at the soldiers in northern Gaza, and killed him. The army said no soldiers …
'Yiddish Glory' CD records Jewish pain and resistance in World War II
Eric A. Gordon | peoplesworld.org | 2018-08-20
A newly released CD, Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II, includes the wartime Soviet leader's name in at least five out of 17 tracks (there are 18, but one is a reprise), and each time he is heaped with thankful praise. The 1945 "Nitsokhn lid" (Victory Song) by Kh. Urintsov ends: "Drink yet another l'chaim [toast] for the Red Army | And give a toast to them all | That they should be healthy and well, | And toast the comrade Stalin, | May he have many years before him, | Because in the whole wide world | There is no other like him! | Americans generally have little appreciation for the fact that the Soviet Union bore the brunt of the Nazi behemoth. An estimated 25 million Soviet citizens lost their lives in what from their point of view…
peoplesworld.org/article/yiddish-glory-cd-records-jewish-pain-and-resistance-in-world-war-ii/
Israel steps up harassment of prominent critics of anti-Palestinian and racialist agenda
wsws.org | wsws.org | 2018-08-20
Israel's government is criminalising those protesting its policies on the basis that they represent "the de-legitimisation of Israel," a "threat to state security" or are "anti-Semitic."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/08/20/isra-a20.html
Imprisoned Palestinian Journalist Reiterates Call for Solidarity
INA | imemc.org | 2018-08-19
Imprisoned Palestinian journalist and director of Al-Quds TV Alaa Rimawi said on Sunday, 19 August that the arrests carried out by Israeli occupation forces against Palestinian media and journalists are part of a comprehensive attack on Palestinian media, preventing it from doing its work and minimizing its role in publicizing Palestinian realities. …
Imprisoned Palestinian Journalist Reiterates Call for Solidarity
New Information Reveals How Israel Covered-Up the Killing of Four Boys in Gaza
Hezvo Mpunga | therealnews.com | 2018-08-18
Shir Hever discusses the Intercept report, revealing that the Israeli military used an armed drone to kill four children playing football and injure four others. The Israeli investigation of the killing is exposed as a sham | The post New Information Reveals How Israel Covered-Up the Killing of Four Boys in Gaza appeared first on
therealnews.com/stories/new-information-reveals-how-israel-covered-up-the-killing-of-four-boys-in-gaza
Iran And The Doomsday Machine
Daryan Rezazad | iranian.com | 2018-08-17
In Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, "Dr. Strangelove", any mention of the Doomsday Machine was verboten. However, back in May 2018 the intrepid Pepe Escobar, who tends to ignore verboten warnings, presented some raw reality: It's also no secret among Persian Gulf traders that in the — hopefully unlikely — event of a US-Saudi-Israeli war in Southwest […] | The post Iran And The Doomsday Machine appeared first on The Iranian.
iranian.com/2018/08/17/iran-and-the-doomsday-machine/
Israel's Shin Bet Interrogate And Threaten Reza Aslan
TeleSur | iranian.com | 2018-08-17
According to Reza Aslan Israeli officers threatened him saying things like "we can make it so you don't see your kids for a long time," and asking "you think because you're a public person I can't do whatever I want with you?" [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Iranian-American scholar and writer said he was threatened by Israel's Shin Bet […] | The post Israel's Shin Bet Interrogate And Threaten Reza Aslan appeared first on The Iranian.
iranian.com/2018/08/16/israel-threaten-reza-aslan/
The Story Behind Netanyahu's Video Messages To Iranians
Middle East Monitor | iranian.com | 2018-08-16
It has been a few years since the Israeli prime minister chose to "speak directly" to Iranians. From speaking to BBC Persia in 2013 on how he wants the Iranian youth to wear jeans — which led to a mockery of his words on Twitter by Iranians — to his recent messages on how Iranians are manipulated by their government because, […] | The post The Story Behind Netanyahu's Video Messages To Iranians appeared first on The Iranian.
iranian.com/2018/08/16/netanyahus-video-messages-to-iranians/
German Police Attack a Jewish Professor, and Blame it on "a Palestinian"
Hezvo Mpunga | therealnews.com | 2018-08-15
Prof. Yitzhak Melamed was the victim of a hate crime in Bonn, perpetrated by those whose duty is to protect him | The post German Police Attack a Jewish Professor, and Blame it on "a Palestinian" appeared first on The Real News Network.
therealnews.com/stories/german-police-attack-a-jewish-professor-and-blame-it-on-a-palestinian
After Emerging From An Israeli Prison, Freedom Flotilla Captain Accuses Canada's Government Of Complicity In A "Slow Genocide"
Hezvo Mpunga | therealnews.com | 2018-08-14
Human Rights Activist John Turnbull Describes How Israel's Navy Hijacked a Peaceful Vessel in International Waters and Kidnapped its Passengers and Crew | The post After Emerging From An Israeli Prison, Freedom Flotilla Captain Accuses Canada's Government Of Complicity In A "Slow Genocide" appeared firs…
therealnews.com/stories/after-emerging-from-an-israeli-prison-freedom-flotilla-captain-accuses-canadas-government-of-complicity-in-a-slow-genocide
Western Authors Take Stand in Israel/Palestine Conflict by Refusing to Be Published in Israel
pacbi | bdsmovement.net | 2018-08-10
Western Authors Take Stand in Israel/Palestine Conflict by Refusing to Be Published in Israel: In the NewsRenowned authors have refused to have their works distributed by Israeli…
bdsmovement.net/news/western-authors-take-stand-israel-palestine-conflict-refusing-be-published-israel
Oppression Education: Israeli Academic Institutions Throw Their Lot With the Israeli Security Elite
pacbi | bdsmovement.net | 2018-08-10
Oppression Education: Israeli Academic Institutions Throw Their Lot With the Israeli Security Elite: AnalysisThree recent events in Israel's largest universities demonstrate academic and security institutions are actually increasing their cooperation. | Academic BoycottJuly 23, 2018 | By:
| | Shir Hever …
bdsmovement.net/news/oppression-education-israeli-academic-institutions-throw-their-lot-israeli-security-elite
Top 70 Moments of Solidarity & BDS for Palestine in 2018
leili | bdsmovement.net | 2018-08-08
Top 70 Moments of Solidarity & BDS for Palestine in 2018: UpdateHere's a short-list of moments in 2018 demonstrating growing recognition of Israel's crimes against the Palestinian people and inspiring efforts around the world to hold Israel accountable for its gross violations of human rights. Support for Palestinian rights has grown in parliaments, city c…
bdsmovement.net/news/top-70-moments-solidarity-bds-palestine-2018
Team Justice Scores. Adidas No Longer Sponsoring Israel Football Association
pacbi | bdsmovement.net | 2018-07-31
Team Justice Scores. Adidas No Longer Sponsoring Israel Football Association: UpdateFollowing a global campaign, Adidas is no longer sponsoring football teams in illegal Israeli settlements. Palestinians call on new sponsor Puma to end complicity with Israel's violations of international law. | Cultural Boycott Red Card IsraelJuly 31, 2018 | By:
| | Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) …
bdsmovement.net/news/team-justice-scores-adidas-no-longer-sponsoring-israel-football-association
Irish MEP calls for 2019 Eurovision Boycott in light of Israel's 'Nation State' vote
pacbi | bdsmovement.net | 2018-07-30
Irish MEP calls for 2019 Eurovision Boycott in light of Israel's 'Nation State' vote: In the NewsMember of European Parliament calls on Ireland's public br…
bdsmovement.net/news/irish-mep-calls-2019-eurovision-boycott-light-israels-nation-state-vote
Celebrities and public figures launch Irish campaign to boycott Eurovision 2019 in Israel
pacbi | bdsmovement.net | 2018-07-30
Celebrities and public figures launch Irish campaign to boycott Eurovision 2019 in Israel: In the NewsIn a stand for Palestinian rights, music legends, former Eurovision winner, commentator and presenters, performaning arts trade unions and well known LGBTQ+ and feminist campaigners and others endorse the call for Ireland to boycott Eurovision 2019. | Cultural Boycott Boycott Eurovision 2019June 27, 2018 | By:
| | Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) …
bdsmovement.net/news/celebrities-and-public-figures-launch-irish-campaign-boycott-eurovision-2019-israel
Dublin Lord Mayor calls for boycott of next year's Eurovision in Israel
pacbi | bdsmovement.net | 2018-07-30
Dublin Lord Mayor calls for boycott of next year's Eurovision in Israel: In the NewsThe Lord Mayor of Dublin has called for a boycott of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest following Israels's win in Lisbon on Saturday night.
bdsmovement.net/news/dublin-lord-mayor-calls-boycott-next-years-eurovision-israel
Over 18,000 people sign petition calling on Iceland to boycott Israel Eurovision
pacbi | bdsmovement.net | 2018-07-30
Over 18,000 people sign petition calling on Iceland to boycott Israel Eurovision: In the NewsThe petition cites Israel's human rights violations against Palestinian people and calls on national broadcaster RUV to withdraw Iceland from the contest. | Cultural Boyc…
bdsmovement.net/news/over-18000-people-sign-petition-calling-iceland-boycott-israel-eurovision
Glasgow City Council Concedes to Supporters of Palestinian Rights, Vows to Refrain From Sponsoring Future Arms Fairs
leili | bdsmovement.net | 2018-07-27
Glasgow City Council Concedes to Supporters of Palestinian Rights, Vows to Refrain From Sponsoring Future Arms Fairs: UpdateGlasgow City Council promises supporters of Palestinian rights that it will no longer sponsor arms fairs featuring Israeli weapons manufacturers and will ensure that the city's guidelines for hosting events reflect that "Glasgow is a human rights respecting city." | Military Embargo Boycott HP Apartheid Free Zones Local governments Sanctions and governmentsJuly 27, 2018 | By:
| | Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC) …
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