10 December 2019 — Jonathan Cook
Proposed destruction of the West Bank city’s market to make way for a new settlement is the Israeli government’s route to refashion its apartheid system as the rule of law
The National – 10 December 2019
Category: Palestine
Finally charged and lacking a mandate to govern, Netanyahu’s days are numbered
24 November 2019 — Jonathan Cook
As the deadlock over forming a government continues, charges against the caretaker prime minister have tipped the country into an uncharted constitutional crisis
The National – 24 November 2019
The decision to indict Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on three separate criminal counts pushes the country’s already unprecedented electoral stalemate into the entirely uncharted territory of a constitutional crisis.
Israel Is Killing Children Asleep In Their Homes. Humans. Not Numbers.
14 November, 2019 — Source: Common Dreams
by Abby Zimet, Further columnist
The Sawarka family’s dead. Photo by Fatima Shbair/MEE. On front, an Israeli drone-fired missile killed 7-year-old Amir Rafat Ayyad as he rode on a motorbike with his father Rafat Muhammad Ayyad, 54, and older brother Islam Rafat Ayyad, 24, as they were trying to get to al-Shifa Hospital
The reign of terror, which we help fund, goes on. In the last two days of airstrikes over the open-air prison that is Gaza, where two million beleaguered people, almost half of them children, are packed and trapped, Israel has killed at least 34 Palestinians and injured more than 111. Many of the victims were children. The dead included eight members of the Sawarka family – three adults, five kids – killed around midnight as they slept in their house. The only survivor of the slaughter of the Sawarkas was a month-old girl named Marah; her mother, father, aunt and siblings were all buried in the rubble. A relative, Taleb Mesmeh, said that when people heard the explosions, “We never expected (they’d target) a civilian home that looked like any normal house.” The retrieved bodies “were torn into pieces, and there was blood everywhere,” he said. “This is Israel targeting children inside their homes.” Then he began picking some children’s school uniforms from the rubble. “This is Mariam’s school uniform,” he wailed. “She was still in first grade. What did she do to be killed?”
A small victory for free speech on Israel
11 November 2019 — The Electronic Intifada
Noam Chomsky has described attempts to limit what may be said at a London book launch as an “utter outrage.” Ashraf Amra APA images
When we first began organizing a launch event for a Noam Chomsky book, we suspected it might be targeted by pro-Israel activists.
After all the book, The Responsibility Of Intellectuals: Reflections by Noam Chomsky and Others after 50 Years, was based on a 2017 conference at University College London (UCL) that had been targeted by such activists.
How the hand of Israeli spy tech reaches deep into our lives
11 November 2019 — Jonathan Cook
Israeli software used on Palestinians is producing new cyber weapons that are rapidly being incorporated into global digital platforms
Middle East Eye – 11 November 2019
Digital age weapons developed by Israel to oppress Palestinians are rapidly being repurposed for much wider applications – against Western populations who have long taken their freedoms for granted.
Leading Israel lobby MP quits Labour By Asa Winstanley
17 October 2019 — Electronic Intifada
Louise Ellman is the chairperson of Labour Friends of Israel. Joel Goodman ZUMA Press
Labour Friends of Israel’s chairperson Louise Ellman quit as a member of Labour on Wednesday evening, demanding a “different leadership” in the UK’s main opposition party.
Uninhabitable: Gaza faces the moment of truth
13 October 2019 — Jonathan Cook – Americans for Middle East Understanding
Israel has ignored warnings by the United Nations that Gaza is about to become uninhabitable, acting as if Palestinians there can be caged, starved and abused indefinitely. Now crises are unfolding on all fronts – social, economic, political and humanitarian – and Israel is running out of time to find solutions
Israeli police ‘turning a blind eye to killing spree’
10 October 2019 — Jonathan Cook
Palestinian citizens of Israel take to streets to accuse police and politicians of exploiting crime wave in their communities
Middle East Eye – 10 October 2019
Palestinian citizens of Israel escalated their protests against the police and government on Thursday by bringing sections of the country’s busiest highway to a crawl as they drove in a slow convoy towards Jerusalem for a major demonstration.
In Media Newspeak, a ‘Peace Plan’ for Israel/Palestine Is Anything US Proposes
30 September 2019 — FAIR
by Joshua Cho
Prior to the elections in Israel/Palestine in September—marred by blatant racism posturing as the “democratic process,” with millions of Palestinians living under varying degrees of Israeli rule unable to vote due to their ethnicity—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu generated headlines for repeatedly pledging to annex nearly a third of the illegally occupied West Bank, in violation of international law, to gain support for his and the Likud party’s reelection (New York Times, 9/10/19).
How Israel lobby set EU anti-Semitism agenda
30 September 2019 — Electronic Intifada
Katherina von Schnurbein, the EU’s coordinator against anti-Semitism, regularly smears the Palestine solidarity movement. Credit: Lukasz Kobus European Union
For nearly four years, Katharina von Schnurbein has been posing as a champion of Europe’s Jews.
If taken at face value, her speeches at numerous conferences suggest she is a conscientious civil servant motivated by a desire to halt persecution. A more detailed examination reveals she has been following an agenda set by Israel and its supporters.
Israelis have made their verdict clear: Benjamin Netanyahu’s time is up
18 September 2019 — Jonathan Cook
There looms the possibility of weeks of horse-trading and the Joint List of Arab legislators becoming the official opposition
The National – 18 September 2019
For most Israelis, the general election on Tuesday was about one thing and one thing only. Not the economy, nor the occupation, nor even corruption scandals. It was about Benjamin Netanyahu. Should he head yet another far-right government, or should his 10-year divisive rule come to an end?
“There is a need to revive the spirit of liberation” By Adri Nieuwhof
10 September 2019 — The Electronic Intifada
Ameer Makhoul, right, seen with Raed Salah, a community leader among Palestinians in Israel, at a court in Haifa in August. (via Facebook)
Almost a decade ago Israeli forces raided Palestinian community leader Ameer Makhoul’s home in Haifa and arrested him.
After corresponding with Makhoul during his nine years in prison, I spoke with him recently via Skype, for his first interview since his release.
