Palestine
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Iron Dome: Don’t be deceived – US aid to Israel is not about saving lives
Battles in the US Congress that erupted again this week, holding up an extra $1bn in military funding for Israel, underscored just how divorced from reality the conversation about US financial aid to Israel has become, even among many critics. Continue reading
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Professor David Miller fired after Israel lobby smear campaign
The University of Bristol has fired Professor David Miller, a leading UK critic of Israel and its lobby. After a years-long campaign of smears by that same lobby, the university said on Friday that, “Professor David Miller is no longer employed by the University of Bristol.” Continue reading
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Spectacular defeat for Israel lobby at Labour Party conference
In a spectacular defeat for the Israel lobby, delegates to Britain’s Labour Party conference overwhelmingly passed a resolution on Monday condemning the “ongoing Nakba in Palestine.” Continue reading
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What a travesty! Iron Dome Subsidy
For the United States to pay the bill for replenishing missiles in the Israel’s Iron Dome defense system used during the Gaza attack in May is a travesty of law and justice. And for such an initiative to gain support for such a measure by a vote of 420-9 in an otherwise hopelessly divided U.S.… Continue reading
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From Glorious Millennia to Death and Destruction: Zionists Rewrite Palestine’s Story
After three years of a fragile ceasefire and a campaign of assassinations of Syrian government ‘loyalists’ by embedded fundamentalist armed groups, the Syrian flag has once more been raised in Daraa Al Balad. Continue reading
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Israeli cities impose beach apartheid on Palestinians
Three Israeli coastal cities are being slammed by a civil rights group for effectively banning Palestinians from their beaches. Continue reading
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Not Forgetting Palestine
Once you have been active in politics for a few decades, you get used to the popular convulsions of support for Palestine every few years when Israel military action against Gaza becomes particularly intense. Then follows a ceasefire, the media move on and Israel resumes the daily routine of low level evictions, destruction of tree… Continue reading
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Legalized Apartheid: The Israeli Supreme Court Just Cemented Jewish Supremacy into Law
JERUSALEM — In November of last year, an Israeli judge invoked the controversial Jewish Nation-State Basic Law when striking down a lawsuit against the city of Karmiel over funding transportation for two Palestinian students. Continue reading
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International outrage at forced closure of office of Palestinian agricultural organization
Organizations across the globe have condemned the latest Israeli attack on Palestinian activists and movements. On Wednesday July 7, Israeli forces launched a series of violent raids across the West Bank. According to reports, heavily armed Israeli soldiers raided the headquarters of the Union of Agricultural Workers Committees (UAWC) in Al-Bireh, outside of Ramallah, breaking… Continue reading
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The Fight to Save Lifta, the Last Remaining Palestinian Village
Today, Lifta remains as a frozen time capsule. While the residents were expelled during Israel’s 1948 ethnic cleansing campaign (Nakba), the ruins of their homes still stand. These ruins carved into the lush hillside are perceived as a symbol of the Palestinians’ right of return. This is the only town Israel did not demolish after… Continue reading
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DECLARATION OF THE CRIME OF APARTHEID: ISRAEL
Over 700 scholars, artists and intellectuals from more than 45 countries have signed the following declaration calling for the dismantling of the apartheid regime set up on the territory of historic Palestine and the establishment of a democratic constitutional arrangement that grants all its inhabitants equal rights and duties. Continue reading
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Israel: Racist, violent policing is at the heart of apartheid
Police made sweeping arrests of Israel’s large minority of Palestinian citizens after protests rocked the country in May during Israel’s 11-day attack on Gaza. Officers were documented beating demonstrators, and in some cases torturing them while in detention. Police also failed to protect the Palestinian minority from planned, vigilante-style attacks by far-right Jewish extremists. Continue reading
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Palestanian Protesters Recount Harrowing Details of Torture at the Hands of Israeli Police
NAZARETH, ISRAEL — In May, the world watched Israel’s brutal occupation on full display: The forcible displacement of Sheikh Jarrah residents was underway; Israeli security forces attacked Muslim worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan; Israeli rocket fire rained down on Gaza; and Jewish extremists chanted “Death to Arabs!” in the streets. Continue reading
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Bennett’s Fragile Hookup with the Zionist Left Offers Little Promise for a Post-Apartheid Israel
On the racist reality of Israeli politics, the absurdity of calling any Zionist party “Left,” and why the so-called Zionist Left could join a coalition government headed by Naftali Bennett: their differences are inconsequential. Continue reading
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Israel’s night raids on Palestinian families aren’t over, whatever the courts say
Young children are forced awake. With a mix of bleary-eyed confusion and fear, they are made to answer questions posed to them in broken Arabic by these faceless, armed strangers. They are lined up in one room while the soldiers take photographs of them holding their identity cards. And then, just as suddenly as they… Continue reading
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If Bibi Was the Frying Pan, Is Bennett the Fire? What To Expect from Israel’s New PM
“It’s not like [Israel is] replacing Netanyahu with a person who believes in equality for all, who believes in freedom for all, who believes in human rights for all. They’re replacing Netanyahu with an ultra-nationalist who is going to put forward his ultra-nationalist agenda.” – Diana Buttu, former PLO spokesperson Continue reading
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Palestine: Smashed Houses, Crushed Orchards, A Trail of Unrestrained Malice
Residents of Sheikh Jarrah’s resistance to eviction by Israeli Jews evolved into a military confrontation so lopsided, the Israeli bombardments against Gaza so terrifying, it drew widespread condemnation (the US government excepted). Continue reading
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The Imperialists Intensify Colonial Genocide In Reaction To The Rise Of Liberation Movements
Israel’s siege on Gaza, where new airstrikes are being launched following last month’s unprecedentedly destructive bombing campaign and just two days into Israel’s new government, is the latest stage in a global intensification of colonial warfare. As much as CIA propagandists try to deflect from the pro-Washington bloc’s crimes within this war by fabricating accounts of a… Continue reading
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Thomas Friedman’s last gasp
10 June 2021 — Jonathan Cook New Left Review – 10 June 2021 Thomas Friedman’s recent column in the New York Times reflecting on Israel’s 11-day destruction of Gaza is a showcase for the delusions of liberal Zionism: a constellation of thought that has never looked so threadbare. It seems that every liberal newspaper needs… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 