Palestine
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UN investigators call for arrests over Gaza war crimes By Maureen Clare Murphy
Israeli forces may have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity by using lethal military force against unarmed protesters in Gaza, a United Nations independent commission of inquiry has found. Continue reading
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France’s Macron leads the way as western leaders malevolently confuse anti-Zionism with antisemitism
In 1975 much of the world broke ranks with the United States and Europe at the United Nations general assembly to declare that Zionism, Israel’s founding ideology, “is a form of racism and racial discrimination”. Continue reading
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The denial of taxes to the PA is an ominous sign of Netanyahu’s grand plan By Jonathan Cook
Israel’s decision to withhold part of the taxes it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority and plunge it deeper into crisis starkly illustrates the hypocrisies and deceptions at the core of the two governments’ relationship. Continue reading
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Settlers, soldiers seize Jerusalem home from Palestinian family
Israeli forces expelled a Palestinian family from their home in the Muslim Quarter of occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday and handed it to Jewish settlers. The Abu Asab family lived in the house for the past 67 years. Continue reading
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Anti-semitism vigilantes are feeding the far-right By Jonathan Cook
Has anyone else noticed how almost anything you say nowadays – if it’s leftwing – can suddenly be cited as proof of your anti-semitism? That is, if you haven’t already been denounced as a Kremlin stooge. Continue reading
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Ilhan Omar takes on the establishment By Nora Barrows-Friedman
In recent days, not only has she been scorned, attacked and smeared as an anti-Semite by Republicans and top members of her own Democratic Party, but elected leaders have remained conspicuously silent about AIPAC, thus vindicating her comments. Continue reading
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How the rule of the rabbis is fuelling a holy war in Israel
In which country did a senior, state-salaried cleric urge his followers last month to become “warriors”, emulating a group of young men who had murdered a woman of another faith? Continue reading
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The observer mission in Hebron acted as a restraint on the settlers’ worst excesses. Now that has come to an end
You might imagine that a report by a multinational observer force documenting a 20-year reign of terror by Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers against Palestinians, in a city under occupation, would provoke condemnation from European and US politicians. But you would be wrong. The leaking in December of the report on conditions in the city… Continue reading
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Time for a reality check Omar Karmi
The resignation of a government and dismissal of parliament – all to bolster the position of a president – doesn’t inspire confidence. Continue reading
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Nora Barrows-Friedman The Electronic Intifada Podcast 1 February 2019
This week we take a deeper look at Asa’s latest investigative article, “Fake Labour accounts fueling ‘anti-Semitism crisis’,” which went viral soon after publication. Continue reading
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Gaza: Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide Ola Mousa
30 January 2019 — The Electronic Intifada Where can you hide when you can’t run? This is the question Gaza’s two million inhabitants ask themselves after every Israeli assault. Continue reading
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Palestinian killed during attack by West Bank settlers By Ali Abunimah
A Palestinian father of four was fatally shot on Saturday as Israeli settlers, protected by soldiers, stormed the village of al-Mughayyir, near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. Continue reading
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Palestinians in Israel face uncertain political future amid Joint List split By Jonathan Cook
A political coalition representing Israel’s Palestinian minority – currently the third biggest faction in the Israeli parliament, the Knesset – has been plunged into crisis by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to call for a surprise general election for April. Continue reading
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100 Palestinian prisoners injured in Israeli attacks
Israeli forces injured more than 100 Palestinian prisoners at Israel’s Ofer military prison near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah in a series of raids since Sunday. Several Israeli military units raided two other prisons since then, Nafha prison in the Naqab region in southern Israel and Gilboa prison in the north, after allegedly… Continue reading
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‘Strategic Threat’ To Israel – Progressives Lose Fear Of Speaking Out On Palestine By Moon of Alabama
Two weeks ago the Zionist lobby targeted civil rights activist Angela Davis for her support of the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions movement (BDS). Following lobby pressure the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Alabama canceled its annual gala at which Davis was to receive a prestigious human rights award. This created a huge backlash. The city council of Birmingham… Continue reading
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Israel intends to persecute Palestinians, rights groups say By Maureen Clare Murphy
Israel is persecuting Palestinians – a crime against humanity – a Palestinian human rights group and an American law center state in a report submitted to UN investigators earlier this month. Continue reading
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Israeli election ad boasts Gaza bombed back to “stone ages” By Ali Abunimah
Benny Gantz, the former Israeli army chief, is bragging about how much killing and slaughter he committed in Gaza in a series of campaign videos for his new political party posted on YouTube and social media over the weekend. Continue reading
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Israeli forces continue systematic crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) (10-16 January 2019)
Israeli forces continued to use excessive force against the peaceful protestors in the Gaza Strip Continue reading
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A village under occupation By Seth Herald
For the residents of Issawiyeh, a Palestinian village of some 20,000, surveillance, military raids and building demolitions are a daily reality. The village has seen its lands gradually disappear. Before Israel occupied the area in 1967, the village included some 12,500 dunams (1 dunam = 1,000 square meters) of land. Continue reading
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Massive campaign to defend Israeli religious students accused of killing Palestinian mother of nine By Jean Shaoul
Far-right and ultra-Orthodox groups have created a media storm over the arrest of five Jewish youths on suspicion of carrying out “serious terror offenses,” including the killing of a Palestinian woman last October. The five boys, students at the Pri Ha’aretz yeshiva (religious seminary) in the Rehelim settlement in the occupied West Bank, are accused… Continue reading
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