Israeli handed 3 life sentences for killing Palestinian family
All hail the peacemakers 22
Mon, 2020-09-14 21:04
#202
Tue, 2020-09-15 15:52
#203
Israel Hayom, the pro-Benjamin Netanyahu daily run by American casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, has repeatedly been accused of publishing propaganda to bolster the Israeli prime minister and his Likud party — and has even been taken to court several times based on these claims. But for the first time, a new study has quantified the paper’s political influence, finding that the daily helped to add at least two Knesset seats to the right-wing bloc during three of Israel’s elections since it began circulation.
https://www.972mag.com/israel-hayom-voters-netanyahu/?fbclid=IwAR3ea3sio...
Wed, 2020-09-16 13:13
#204
Life as Jewish settler in the West Bank | DW Documentary
Thu, 2020-09-17 20:50
#205
Gaza lockdown eased as economy crumbles amid pandemic
Sat, 2020-09-19 12:00
#206
More than a quarter of a century after Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat shook hands on the White House lawn, Israel has managed to turn its occupation of Palestinian territory from a burden into an asset. What was for so long a liability – the flagrant violation of international law – has now become a valued commodity. Understanding this development is key to explaining why the Israelis are making peace with two distant Gulf states but not their closest neighbours, the Palestinians – without whom there can be no real peace.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/17/occupying-palestin...
Sat, 2020-09-19 12:04
#207
The Israeli police and the so-called Negev Development Authority, the Yoav unit, on Thursday demolished the Bedouin Al-Araqib village for the 178th time. This village is deprived of recognition in the Negev and is under constant threat of displacement and eviction.
Local official Aziz al-Turi said that “Israeli authorities are increasing the village inhabitants’ suffering, and continue to demolish their tents and this time as several times before; they left them homeless and will suffer from the hot weather conditions and the Corona pandemic.”
https://english.palinfo.com/news/2020/9/17/israel-demolishes-al-araqib-v...
Sat, 2020-09-26 11:26
#208
The main title of Nora Lester Murad’s edited collection of personal reflections on being a foreigner in Palestine, “I Found Myself in Palestine,” is the perfect articulation of the two kinds of narratives found in the book. Pronouncing it without any particular word accentuated, almost without thinking, the phrase conjures up an image of someone arriving in this beloved and besieged land as if by accident – perhaps an unexpected side trip or a wrong turn? Yet accentuating the title’s second word alludes to another type of story – that of the foreigner who sojourns to Palestine and manages to fill an emptiness inside herself, a void she wasn’t aware existed. In a few instances, both meanings exist simultaneously. The charm and poignancy of the book lies in understanding that whatever the impetus for travel, the writers contributing these reflections are sharing profound human experiences that indelibly shaped their lives.
https://mondoweiss.net/2020/09/when-foreigners-move-to-palestine/?fbclid...
Sat, 2020-09-26 11:28
#209
For my family, and for the people of Gaza, August has been horrific. Israel bombed the Strip on an almost daily basis, making us feel like we were stuck at the epicentre of a never-ending earthquake. The explosions, at times barely a kilometre from our home, were so loud, my two-year-old niece could not sleep at night. Every time she heard a loud bang she quickly gathered her toys around her, as if to protect them from Israel’s bombs.
Last month was indeed horrific, but it was not extraordinary in any way. Israel’s soldiers, warplanes, drones and gunships have been harassing, intimidating, and killing the people of Gaza regularly, and with impunity, for decades. Israel’s attacks are part of the daily routine in Gaza. To be able to survive, and to lead something that resembles a normal life, us Gazans have no choice but to accept as normal the violence being inflicted on us.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/9/13/when-will-the-world-stop-ig...
Sat, 2020-09-26 11:32
#210
Online discussion with Peter Beinart, 26.8.2020
Sat, 2020-09-26 11:37
#211
"Imagining Together a Shared, One-State Reality" w/ Peter Beinart & Yousef Munayyer
Sat, 2020-09-26 11:41
#212
Should Progressives Support the Joe Biden & Kamala Harris Ticket? A webinar hosted by Miko Peled
Sat, 2020-09-26 11:43
#213
Fatah, Hamas say deal reached on Palestinian elections
Sat, 2020-09-26 11:47
#214
Israel imposes new COVID-19 restrictions after surge in cases
Sun, 2020-09-27 21:29
#215
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was right to cancel her participation in an event honoring Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. After news broke that the Congresswoman was scheduled to speak at a memorial organized by Americans for Peace Now in late October, Palestinians and their allies shared historical archives and family stories on social media to explain why Rabin, who was assassinated by an Israeli right-wing extremist 25 years ago, was no man of peace.
https://www.972mag.com/yitzhak-rabin-oslo-accords-aoc/?fbclid=IwAR2O3gnj...
Sun, 2020-09-27 23:52
#216
The Tawla with Amer Zahr - US Presidential Elections
Sun, 2020-09-27 23:58
#217
"The Tawla" Discussion with Professor Rabab Abdulhadi
Mon, 2020-09-28 11:38
#218
Webinar: Perspectives on the One State with Yousef Munayyer and Peter Beinart
Tue, 2020-09-29 22:58
#219
WEBINAR: Legislating Against Criticism of Israel – the Ongoing Assault on Americans’ Free Speech
Wed, 2020-09-30 14:23
#220
Israeli military continues to escort settlers invading Khirbet Susiya to harass residents
Thu, 2020-10-01 13:24
#221
Tuesday saw a sight unimaginable for many Jewish Israelis: armed soldiers were stationed at checkpoints to assist the police in enforcing coronavirus regulations at an anti-government protest outside the Knesset. The demonstration took place less than a week into Israel’s total lockdown, as the Knesset’s Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee approved a new law that would severely curtail protests.
https://www.972mag.com/israeli-army-knesset-militarism/?fbclid=IwAR1ciym...
Sun, 2020-10-04 14:09
#222
The decision of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to withdraw from a memorial honoring Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin has rightly been seen by observers as evidence that Palestinian voices and perspectives are finally being taken seriously in progressive Democratic circles. But while some of AOC’s critics in the United States are using the incident to score political points, others seem genuinely confused by her decision.
https://www.972mag.com/us-media-palestinians/?fbclid=IwAR147qfHRJlaO-z9h...
Sun, 2020-10-04 14:12
#223
The Proud Boys, a club of self-identified “western chauvinists” who have been energized by President Donald Trump’s request during Tuesday night’s debate that they “stand by,” have a chapter in Israel, despite the group’s association with antisemites and white nationalists.
https://forward.com/news/455608/theres-a-proud-boys-chapter-in-israel-st...
Sun, 2020-10-04 14:16
#224
As lawyers and academics, we are deeply troubled and exasperated by the pervasive repression of speech and scholarship on Palestine. This includes recent reports that the University of Toronto’s Faculty of law rescinded an employment offer to noted international human rights scholar Valentina Azarova, following a complaint by a sitting judge regarding her research on Israel’s occupation policies*.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/10/1/repression-of-speech-and-sc...
Sun, 2020-10-04 14:19
#225
Lebanon, Israel agree framework for talks to end border dispute
Sun, 2020-10-04 21:23
#226
UN refugee agency uses Gaza schools to distribute food
Mon, 2020-10-05 16:45
#227
Israel went into a second lockdown in mid-September after a major spike in new coronavirus infections that is, per capita, the highest in the world and a mortality rate that just surpassed that of the United States. The lockdown requires all nonessential workers to stay within about half a mile of their homes and limits gatherings to 20 people outdoors.
Despite the order, thousands of Israelis have continued to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as they have for months, because the right to protest is still enshrined in Israeli law. But late Tuesday night, Israel’s parliament voted to approve an amendment to its emergency Coronavirus Law that authorizes the government to bar how many people can assemble and where they can protest — in this case, limiting their right to protest to within a half-mile of their homes for a week, with the option to keep the limit in place for longer, even though there is no evidence that outdoor protests have contributed to the rising infection rate in Israel and health officials have questioned the efficacy of such a sweeping lockdown.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/10/03/netanyahu-israel-prote...
Wed, 2020-10-07 16:06
#228
On September 15th, the Annual Congress of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) representing nearly 6 million members in the UK adopted a motion which reaffirmed its solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people for the right to self-determination, condemning the occupation and expansionist policies of the Israeli government.
The resolution expressed outright opposition to the annexationist ambitions of the Netanyahu government, backed by the United States Administration and called for an end to British government complicity. Demanding a cessation of the blockade of Gaza and support for “the right of Palestinian refugees to return”, it committed the TUC to “communicate its position to all other national trade union centres in the International and European Trade Union Confederations and urge them to join the international campaign to stop annexation and end apartheid”.
https://mondoweiss.net/2020/10/in-a-first-british-trade-unions-commit-to...
Sat, 2020-10-10 15:04
#229
Israel is moving ahead with thousands of new settlement units in the occupied West Bank.
This represents a dramatic expansion of Israel’s settler-colonial efforts: The vast majority of the housing units are planned in “isolated” settlements outside the large blocs already eyed for Israeli annexation under President Donald Trump’s so-called “Peace to Prosperity” plan.
About 350 units will be added to each of the Beit El settlement, north of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, the Geva Binyamin settlement, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem, and the Nili settlement, in the central West Bank.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/israel-massively-expa...
Sat, 2020-10-10 15:10
#230
The normalization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates is, according to Israeli arms industry leaders, a “win-win” situation. Speaking in late August at an online business conference on the potential of the UAE deal, Israel Aerospace Industries’ deputy CEO, Eyal Younian, waxed lyrical about Israel’s regional know-how and the UAE’s deep pockets and “great appetite for advanced technologies.” IAI is Israel’s largest state-owned arms manufacturer, and Younian’s remarks were part of a clear focus on potential arms deals at the conference. From this perspective, the normalization was indeed a win for both Israel and the UAE, and perhaps for the United States, too — a win-win-win.
https://www.972mag.com/israel-uae-deal-arms-industry/?fbclid=IwAR0iFrxN5...
Sat, 2020-10-10 15:13
#231
Let's talk about Joe Biden and Palestine
Sat, 2020-10-10 15:17
#232
A day before a scheduled San Francisco State University lecture on “gender, justice and resistance” with Black, Palestinian, Jewish, and South African activists, the online meeting company Zoom announced it would not permit the event to take place on its platform. A spokesperson for Zoom cited concerns that hosting the event could violate “applicable U.S. export control, sanctions and anti-terrorism laws,” and the company ultimately threatened to cancel the Zoom account for the entire California State University system if the event went through.
Zoom’s decision to de-platform the event followed a staunch pressure campaign from right-wing Zionist organizations, who took credit online for its cancellation. Tech giants Facebook and YouTube followed suit, cutting the event stream and removing promotional materials from their platforms.
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/06/boycott-divestment-sanctions-movement-isr...
Sat, 2020-10-10 19:05
#233
During the days of the Second Intifada, I was working at Yedioth Ahronoth, then Israel’s most popular and influential newspaper. With over 400,000 copies circulating daily, both the writers and editors of Yedioth walked around with a sense that they were “the country’s newspaper,” shaping the Israeli consensus on the most pressing matters.
As the head of reporters and later on as head desk editor, I witnessed from up close just how Yedioth’s consensus-building machine worked. It was during those days that I also saw how it was changing direction by excluding or completely distorting the voices of Palestinians in the media. After the Oslo years, Israelis were beginning to learn that there was only one side to this conflict — their side.
https://www.972mag.com/israeli-media-second-intifada/?fbclid=IwAR1FPVxwx...
Sun, 2020-10-11 13:31
#234
Israel continues forcing East Jerusalem residents to demolish their own homes, September 2020
Sun, 2020-10-11 13:40
#235
This week marks 20 years since Israeli security forces gunned down 13 Palestinian protesters, 12 of them Israeli citizens, at the start of the Second Intifada — what came to be known as the October 2000 killings. Despite massive public outcry, not a single police officer was held responsible.
Two decades on, it appears that one of the most defining moments for Palestinian citizens of Israel is still widely perceived by the Jewish public as merely an institutional failure. But to understand why Israel “failed” to put those responsible on trial, these killings — and the lack of accountability for them — must be interpreted in their full political context.
https://www.972mag.com/israel-colonial-police-palestinian-citizens/?fbcl...
Tue, 2020-10-13 14:03
#236
Israel demolishes homes of six families in Musafer Yatta in the hills south of Hebron, 30.9.20
Tue, 2020-10-13 15:45
#237
Every time Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech to the Israeli public about the struggle against COVID-19, he reminds his listeners with great excitement about the so-called peace accords with Arab countries that have never fired a single bullet at Israel.
It seems the normalization agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain are the solution to the multiple political crises Netanyahu is facing: his failure to manage the pandemic, rising death rates, a crumbling economy, a protest movement that refuses to fade in the face of a nationwide lockdown, and his ongoing corruption trial. This is the rabbit he is pulling out of his hat.
https://www.972mag.com/normalization-dictators-arab-resistance/?fbclid=I...
Tue, 2020-10-13 15:49
#238
Sitting before a half-empty hall on Monday morning, the Israeli High Court of Justice heard an emergency petition to release Maher al-Akhras, a Palestinian administrative detainee who has been on a hunger strike for the past 78 days.
At the end of the hearing, the three-justice panel — made up of Yael Willner, Noam Solberg, and Menachem Mazuz — doubled down on their previous proposal that al-Akhras cease his hunger strike and be released from administrative detention on Nov. 26, the day his administrative order expires. Al-Akhras rejected the proposal.
https://www.972mag.com/hunger-strike-al-akhras-high-court/?fbclid=IwAR0n...
Tue, 2020-10-13 15:51
#239
In a brazen attempt to exploit concerns over growing antisemitism in the United States for political gain, right-wing politicians, journalists, and organizations are using an obscure parliamentary maneuver to paint Democrats as insufficiently concerned over anti-Jewish bigotry.
It is another instance of Republicans and their supporters using antisemitism as a wedge issue, as the party tries to peel away Jewish voters from the Democrats ahead of next month’s elections, and appeal to right-wing Jewish donors that help fund their party.
https://www.972mag.com/republicans-antisemitism-jewish-voters/?fbclid=Iw...
Tue, 2020-10-13 15:53
#240
Standing at the Allenby Bridge crossing between Jordan and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Haya Shabaro had two options. She could either make her way back to the Palestinian city of Nablus, which she had just left with her two children; or she could leave her newborn daughter behind to reunite with her husband in the United Arab Emirates, where they currently reside.
https://www.972mag.com/palestinian-newborns-unrecognized/?fbclid=IwAR2Jy...
Tue, 2020-10-13 21:13
#241
Episode 18: Awad Abdelfattah from Kaukab Abu Al-Hija, Palestine
Thu, 2020-10-15 11:45
#242
Rim Banna: The voice of Palestine | Al Jazeera World
Sat, 2020-10-17 22:57
#243
Israel's Never-Ending Occupation and Palestinian Resistance
Mon, 2020-10-19 16:34
#244
Palestinian state television has denied news reports of the death of Saeb Erekat, the secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Speaking to family members at the Hadassah Medical Center in Israel, Erekat's health condition is currently critical.
Hours earlier, Asharq television channel tweeted a breaking news alert of Erekat dying but had later deleted the tweet from their verified account on Twitter.
https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2020/10/19/Coronavirus...
Mon, 2020-10-19 18:26
#245
The Sumarin family has long been a symbol for the struggle between Palestinians and Israeli settlers over the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan. Located next to Al-Aqsa Mosque and sharing a fence with the City of David, an archaeological site and Jewish tourist attraction, the Sumarin home has been the target of an eviction legal battle since the early 1990s, led by the Jewish National Fund (JNF).
Recently, however, the struggle over the Sumarin home has exposed an even deeper story. In August, it was unveiled that Elad, an organization that promotes Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem, has been advancing the case in the Israeli courts from behind the scenes. As international public pressure has mounted on the JNF over the slated eviction, the relationship between Elad and the JNF appears to have soured. It was even reported last week that some inside the organization are trying to pull the plug on the cooperation with Elad around the Sumarin home, with a decision likely to be made on Monday.
https://www.972mag.com/exclusive-jnf-elad-jerusalem/?fbclid=IwAR3mwYszOI...
Wed, 2020-10-21 12:20
#246
Cycling Under Siege in Gaza | Al Jazeera Close Up
Wed, 2020-10-21 22:54
#247
The Zionist Attacks on Palestinian Women
Fri, 2020-10-23 11:30
#248
In Jerusalem - Rafeef Ziadah
Fri, 2020-10-23 11:39
#249
Rafeef Ziadah - Three Generations
Tue, 2020-10-27 14:44
#250
Three months into Maher al-Akhras’ hunger strike, a United Nations human rights expert is demanding his immediate release.
Al-Akhras remains gravely ill. He has been protesting his imprisonment without charge by Israel by refusing all food for more than 90 days.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/israelis-mock-abuse-f...
Tue, 2020-10-27 14:51
#251
On March 25, 2019, Republican Representative Mo Brooks took to the floor of Congress and read aloud a passage from “Mein Kampf.” Brooks, who represents Alabama’s 5th District, claimed that by initiating impeachment proceedings against Trump, the Democrats were perpetrating the “Big Lie” — a propaganda technique Hitler accused German Jews of using, which involves creating a fiction so massive no one could believe it was an invention. Throughout his speech, Brooks repeatedly referred to Hitler and the Nazi party as “socialists” in an effort to imply political proximity to the Democrats.
A few days later, Donald Trump, Jr. gave an interview to TruNews, a far-right racist website that most recently drew attention for referring to Trump’s impeachment as a “Jew Coup.” Just over a week later, on April 6, President Trump told an audience at a Republican Jewish event that Benjamin Netanyahu was their prime minister, invoking the antisemitic “dual loyalty” trope, which holds that Jews are more loyal to the Jewish community worldwide (or, more recently, to Israel) than they are to their own countries.
https://www.972mag.com/gop-antisemitism-white-nationalism/?fbclid=IwAR32...