(2018-08-21). In Detaining Peter Beinart, Israel Has Declared it No Longer Represents Millions of Jews Overseas. counterpunch.org 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 More
(2018-08-21). Israel To Build 650 New Units In Beit El Colony. imemc.org 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 […]…
(2018-08-21). Trump Says Benjamin Netanyahu 'Will Soon Be Called Mohammed'. mintpressnews.com 
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.
(2018-08-21). Miko Peled: The General's Son: Journal of an Israeli in Palestine. indybay.org First Congregational Church of Berkeley | 2345 Channing Way | Berkeley, CA 94704…
(2018-08-21). KPFA Management Abandoning The Station's Principles. indybay.org 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…
(2018-08-20). Detainee Receives An Administrative Detention Order For 6 Months After Serving A 16-Month Prison Term. imemc.org 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, […]…
(2018-08-20). De-Arabizing Jerusalem: Biblical "History" Underwrites Israel's Ethnic Cleansing. mintpressnews.com 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.
(2018-08-20). I'm One of the Young People Who Walked Off Birthright Israel This Summer. thenation.com I'm One of the Young People Who Walked Off Birthright Israel This Summer appeared first on The Nation.
(2018-08-20). PPS: "Israeli Soldiers Abduct 14 Palestinians In The West Bank" imemc.org 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 […]…
(2018-08-20). VIDEO: Palestinian Farmers Assaulted in East Jerusalem. imemc.org 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 […]…
(2018-08-20). Israeli Soldiers Remove A Tent, Assault A Palestinian, Near Hebron. imemc.org 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 […]…
(2018-08-20). UK Ethnic Groups Call Out Attempts to Silence Discourse on Palestine. imemc.org 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 […]…
(2018-08-20). Headlines for August 20, 2018. democracynow.org CNN: Bomb That Killed 40 Yemeni School Children Was Made by U.S. | , California: ICE Arrests Man Driving His Wife to the Hospital to Give Birth, ICE Agents Forcibly Reseparate Fathers from Sons at Karnes Detention Center | , Ex-CIA Director John Brennan May Sue Trump over Stripped Security Clearances | , NYT: White House Counsel Donald McGahn Cooperating with Mueller Probe | , Israeli Troops Kill 2 Palestinians and Injure Hundreds More During Friday's Protests, Longtime Israeli Peace Activist Uri Avnery Dies at 94 | , Afghan President Offers Conditional Ceasefire with Taliban | , U.N.: Brazil Can't Bar Lula from…
(2018-08-20). Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian In Northern Gaza. imemc.org 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 […]…
(2018-08-20). American Television Audiences Don't Care for Palestinian Lives — Just Ask the Networks. mintpressnews.com 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.
(2018-08-20). Israel Approves Dozens Of Units In Illegal Colony Near Bethlehem. imemc.org 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 […]…
(2018-08-20). Israeli Soldiers Abduct Seven Palestinians In The West Bank. imemc.org 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 […]…
(2018-08-20). A Mighty Voice for Peace Has Gone Silent: Uri Avnery, 1923-2018. counterpunch.org 
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 More
(2018-08-20). 'Yiddish Glory' CD records Jewish pain and resistance in World War II. peoplesworld.org 
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…
(2018-08-20). Israel steps up harassment of prominent critics of anti-Palestinian and racialist agenda. wsws.org 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."
(2018-08-19). Imprisoned Palestinian Journalist Reiterates Call for Solidarity. imemc.org 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. […]…
(2018-08-18). New Information Reveals How Israel Covered-Up the Killing of Four Boys in Gaza. therealnews.com 
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
(2018-08-17). Israel's Shin Bet Interrogate And Threaten Reza Aslan. iranian.com 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 […]
(2018-08-17). Iran And The Doomsday Machine. iranian.com 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 […]
(2018-08-16). The Story Behind Netanyahu's Video Messages To Iranians. iranian.com 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, […]
(2018-08-15). German Police Attack a Jewish Professor, and Blame it on "a Palestinian" therealnews.com 
Prof. Yitzhak Melamed was the victim of a hate crime in Bonn, perpetrated by those whose duty is to protect him
(2018-08-14). After Emerging From An Israeli Prison, Freedom Flotilla Captain Accuses Canada's Government Of Complicity In A "Slow Genocide" therealnews.com 
Human Rights Activist John Turnbull Describes How Israel's Navy Hijacked a Peaceful Vessel in International Waters and Kidnapped its Passengers and Crew
(2018-08-14). Consortium News Radio— Episode 2: Joe Meadors. consortiumnews.com Read more →>
(2018-08-13). Headlines for August 13, 2018. democracynow.org Korean Leaders to Meet Next Month in Pyongyang, On Anniversary of Charlottesville, White Supremacist Rally in D.C. Fizzles, Baltimore Police Officer Resigns After Videotaped Repeatedly Punching Man, Trump to Sign $716 Billion Military Spending Bill with Over $21 Billion for Nuclear Weapons, Afghanistan: Over 200 Killed After Taliban Attacks Critical City of Ghazni, Israeli Forces Shot Dead Gazan Medic Armed with "Bandages & Surgical Masks", U.N.: China Is Detaining Over 1 Million Uyghurs in Massive Internment Camp, Maduro Welcomes FBI to Come to Venezuela to Help Probe Assassination Plot, White House Looks to Sto…
(2018-08-10). Western Authors Take Stand in Israel/Palestine Conflict by Refusing to Be Published in Israel. bdsmovement.net 
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…
(2018-08-10). Oppression Education: Israeli Academic Institutions Throw Their Lot With the Israeli Security Elite. bdsmovement.net 
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
(2018-08-09). Headlines for August 9, 2018. democracynow.org Saudi-Led Airstrike in Yemen Hits Bus Carrying Children, Killing Dozens, U.S. Airstrike in Afghanistan Kills a Dozen Afghan Soldiers "By Mistake", Israeli Airstrikes Kill Three in Gaza, Including Mother and Her Toddler, In Colombia, Nikki Haley Escalates Anti-Venezuela Rhetoric, U.S. to Impose New Sanctions on Russia, Senate Committee Asks Julian Assange to Testify About Russian Meddling in Election, Virginia & Charlottesville Under States of Emergency Ahead of White Supremacist Rallies, Longtime DRC Leader Joseph Kabila Will Not Run for Re-election, Argentine Senate Rejects Legislation to Legalize Abortion, NY C…
(2018-08-08). Top 70 Moments of Solidarity & BDS for Palestine in 2018. bdsmovement.net 
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…
(2018-08-03). Palestinians Call for Boycott of Meteor Music Festival in Israel. bdsmovement.net 
Palestinians Call for Boycott of Meteor Music Festival in Israel: UpdatePalestinians urge participating artists to withdraw from the festival as a meaningful contribution to our struggle for freedom, justice and equality. | Cultural BoycottAugust 3, 2018 | By: | (2018-07-31). Team Justice Scores. Adidas No Longer Sponsoring Israel Football Association. bdsmovement.net 
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)
(2018-07-30). Dublin Lord Mayor calls for boycott of next year's Eurovision in Israel. bdsmovement.net 
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.
(2018-07-30). Celebrities and public figures launch Irish campaign to boycott Eurovision 2019 in Israel. bdsmovement.net 
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)
(2018-07-30). Over 18,000 people sign petition calling on Iceland to boycott Israel Eurovision. bdsmovement.net 
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…
(2018-07-30). Irish MEP calls for 2019 Eurovision Boycott in light of Israel's 'Nation State' vote. bdsmovement.net 
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…
(2018-07-27). Glasgow City Council Concedes to Supporters of Palestinian Rights, Vows to Refrain From Sponsoring Future Arms Fairs. bdsmovement.net 
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)