Palestine
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State Department buries Israeli occupation in word salad
Last year, presidential candidate Joe Biden personally intervened to keep the word “occupation” out of the Democratic Party’s platform regarding Israel. Continue reading
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Faced with ICC Investigation, Apartheid Israel Asserts Moral Superiority Over The Victims of Its Terror
Having created enemies by its own criminal behavior, Israel then claims the right to protect itself from the very people it alienated through these criminal acts. Continue reading
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Israel election: The far-right is triumphant. The only obstacle left is Netanyahu
As 13 parties struggle with Israel’s complex post-election maths, seeking alliances that can assure them power, the most significant outcome of the vote is easily missed. The religious fundamentalists and settler parties – Israel’s far right – won an unprecedented and clear-cut victory last week. Continue reading
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Five lessons from Israel’s election
The final result from Israel’s general election may not be known for another day or two until all the votes have been tallied. But with 90 percent counted already, a clear picture has emerged. Here are The Electronic Intifada’s five main takeaways from the election Continue reading
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Israel censored this film. Watch it here
Every act of censorship inadvertently achieves its opposite by drawing attention to its subject. Last week, an Israeli court ordered the 2002 film Jenin, Jenin to be banned in Israel and all copies of it confiscated. The film – which was directed by Mohammed Bakri, a Palestinian citizen of Israel – has been the subject… Continue reading
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Occupation By COVID: Palestine As a Viral Export, 2020
As the year 2020 expires in an embattled welter of politicized suffering, I feel I need to address my fellow advocates for Palestinian rights, too many of whom seem not to notice – or actively deny – that, under cover of coronavirus hysteria, the unhealed wounds of Palestine are steadily infecting us all. Continue reading
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Will the World Community Condemn the Murder of Iran’s Nuclear Scientist?
Israel used all four years of Trump’s presidency to entrench its systems of occupation and apartheid. Now that Joe Biden has won the U.S. election, the assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist, likely by Israel with the go-ahead from the US administration, is a desperate attempt to use Trump’s last days in office to sabotage… Continue reading
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Pompeo’s Diabolical Diplomacy
The following interview devoted to Pompeo’s three day visit to Israel and Occupied Palestine conducted by Eshrat Mardi, was published in the Tehran Times Interview Nov. 28, 2020.] Continue reading
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Revealed: the Israel lobby’s Labour hit list
The UK’s Labour Party has been purging members using a hit list by a leading Israel lobby group, The Electronic Intifada has learned. Continue reading
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France defies European court ruling upholding right to boycott Israel
The government of President Emmanuel Macron is defying a landmark judgment from the European Court of Human Rights that protects the right of people to call for a boycott of Israeli products. Continue reading
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Zoom censors events about Zoom censorship
Facilitating the agendas of Israel lobby groups, videoconferencing platform Zoom once again censored events in the US and UK featuring the Palestinian resistance icon Leila Khaled. Continue reading
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It is the equalities commission, not Labour, carrying out political interference
I recently published in Middle East Eye a long analysis of last week’s report by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission into the question of whether the UK Labour party had an especial antisemitism problem. (You can read a slightly fuller version of that article on my website.) In the piece, I reached two main conclusions. Continue reading
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Israel razes village, leaves 41 children homeless
While all eyes were on the United States elections this week, Israel carried out the largest demolition in occupied territory in years. Israeli forces arrived in the occupied West Bank community of Khirbet Humsa on Tuesday and demolished 76 structures. Continue reading
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Israeli politician boasts about role in Corbyn’s downfall
An Israeli politician has claimed responsibility for her part in the political downfall of former UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Continue reading
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Time to Stand Up and Be Counted
Today, nothing is more important than to say that we will not be silent on the dreadful oppression of the Palestinian people; the daily beatings, killings, humiliations, demolitions, expropriations and destruction of groves that are the concomitant of Israeli illegal occupation. Continue reading
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The Lancet censors Gaza health letter after pro-Israel pressure
The letter – “Structural violence in the era of a new pandemic: the case of the Gaza Strip” – was duly published in the The Lancet online on 27 March. Just three days later, however, in a move unusual if not unprecedented for The Lancet, the letter was taken down without comment. Continue reading
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Racist to deny us right to oppose Zionism, British Palestinians tell Labour
In an open letter to the party on Friday, the group rejected Labour’s recent attempts to conflate anti-Zionism with anti-Jewish hate, insisting on “the right of Palestinians to accurately describe our experiences of dispossession and oppression.” Continue reading
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The truth behind Netanyahu’s admission that police killing was a cover-up
Apology over portrayal of Bedouin citizen as a terrorist in 2017 incident does not just expose police crimes, it deepens the deception Continue reading
The New Dark Age 