Palestine
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How Israel’s war industry profits from violent US immigration “reform” By Gabriel Schivone
Bill approved by Senate and stalled in the House guarantees more deaths along the US-Mexico border and huge payouts to Israeli contractors whose military technology has been “battle-proven” on Palestinians living under occupation Continue reading
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Over 1,500 Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces since 2000 – PA minister
More than 1,500 Palestinian children have died at the hands of Israeli forces since 2000, the Palestinian Authority’s minister of social affairs, Kamal Sharafi, said Saturday, on Palestinian Children’s Day. Continue reading
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Gaza Friends: Israel Put on Notice Throughout the World
Internationals from 20 countries came to Istanbul to hear testimony on March 27, 2014 against Israeli officials and to offer their support to the victims on board the Mavi Marmara. Many of these supporters had also been attacked on other flotilla boats; suffering wounds, unlawful detention, torture and theft of money, credit cards and possessions… Continue reading
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Video: Netanyahu Attacks Boycott As Campaign Enters New Phase
Warschawski: Benjamin Netanyahu’s gov’t attacks on Boycott Israel campaign help strengthen it as it grows from activists to big business. Continue reading
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Israeli embassy pressured Amnesty to cancel launch of ‘apartheid’ book By Phil Weiss and Alex Kane
Ben White recently published a new edition of the book, Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner’s Guide. The title was launched in the UK last night. But the Israeli embassy tried to scuttle the event. Continue reading
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‘Colonialism, apartheid and ethnic cleansing’: UN rapporteur on Palestine blasts Israel
The UN Special Rapporteur on occupied Palestine accused Israeli authorities of conducting colonialist policies that constitute forms of apartheid and ethnic cleansing in the occupied territories in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Continue reading
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Israeli Forces Kill a Judge in Cold Blood at al-Karamah Border Crossing with Jordan
In a cold-blooded murder, on Monday morning 10 March 2014, Israeli forces stationed at the al-Karamah checkpoint with Jordan killed a judge working in Amman Magistrate’s Court while he was on his way back to the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). Israeli forces claimed that the judge attempted to seize the weapon of an Israeli soldier… Continue reading
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After Latest Incident, Israel’s Future in FIFA Is Uncertain By David Zirin
Their names are Jawhar Nasser Jawhar, 19, and Adam Abd al-Raouf Halabiya, 17. They were once soccer players in the West Bank. Now they are never going to play sports again. Jawhar and Adam were on their way home from a training session in the Faisal al-Husseini Stadium on January 31 when Israeli forces fired… Continue reading
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Video bolsters BDS battle on US campuses
It’s great to see the recent burst of creativity among Palestinians in telling their story where it is needed most: in the United States. Here’s a video that promotes BDS while pummelling all that hypocrisy we keep hearing about “singling out” Israel, not just from Israeli leaders but from US campus administrators. The video is… Continue reading
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Ariel Sharon, Another War Crime Surfaces: Expulsion and Massacre of the Bedouins By Jonathan Cook
In January 1972, Ariel Sharon decided that 3,000 Bedouin were in the way of a massive military exercise he wanted to conduct in the southern Negev and northern Sinai. So he summarily expelled two tribes in the el-Arish area of the Sinai from their homes, during a deep winter spell. At least 40 people died,… Continue reading
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Why I Wrote the Song “Checkpoint” and Exposed the Apartheid I Witnessed in Palestine
I spent much of the trip trying to get my head around how one group of human beings could be so inhumane to another group of human beings. I still can’t understand. By day 4 of our 7 day trip I wanted to come home. The mental intensity of what I saw that the brutality… Continue reading
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“This is apartheid”: rapper Jasiri X on visit to Palestine By Amira Asad
Jasiri X says being in Hebron was “reminiscent of being a young black man in the inner city” in the US. Continue reading
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Palestine: The killing of Odeh Hamad By Annie Robbins
“Odeh is dying, they didn’t let [the ambulance] enter”. Those are the crushing words of Radaad Hamad as he recalls the day six weeks ago that Israeli soldiers sat in jeeps meters away and did nothing as his brother lay dying. Continue reading
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Tony Blair whitewashes imperialism’s role in the Middle East By Jordan Shilton
Between 1997 and 2007, Blair led a government that oversaw a policy of imperialist militarism abroad and attacks on democratic rights domestically. Under his premiership, Britain took part in wars in Kosovo (1999), Sierra Leone (2000), Afghanistan (2001) and, most infamously, Iraq (2003). His claim that the roots of conflict today lie in extremist religion… Continue reading
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Movie Review: A confused and contradictory film on how foreigners “help” Palestine By Sarah Irving
Ruthven’s naivete is a major aspect of her narrative device, but as she is the film’s main voice, it also means that the conclusions are frustratingly simplistic. “I’d had no idea how dependent the Palestinian economy was on aid,” she states. The obvious question is why, when making a documentary on aid in Palestine, she… Continue reading
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Video: Checkpoint By Jasiri X
Up-and-coming Pittsburgh Emcee Jasiri X releases “Checkpoint,” a chilling music video documenting his experience visiting Palestine in 2014. The video features footage Jasiri himself captured of Israeli soldiers, as well as newsreel clips of IDF brutality against Palestinians and internationals. Watch closely, Ferrari Sheppard of Stop Being Famous has cameo in this powerful video. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Ariel Sharon – War Is Peace By David Edwards
The ‘mainstream media’ – that curious collection of elite-run, profit-maximising business interests sometimes known as ‘the free press’ – performs a similar perceptual trick. In reviewing comparable crimes by the West and its official enemies, it is able to flick between perceiving virtue in ‘our’ criminality where only wickedness is found in ‘theirs’. Indeed, though… Continue reading
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Is Netanyahu Certifiable? By Alan Hart
NetanyahuThe expanded and most explicit form of my headline question is this. Is Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu of sound mind and knowingly talking propaganda nonsense about threats to Israel’s security in order to fool the world including most of its Jews, or, is he unbalanced, mentally disturbed, even clinically insane? Continue reading
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Colonial Partners in Israel’s Crimes By Vacy Vlazna
Is it just me, or do you also see a thread of colonial superiority and racism binding US, Australia, Canada to Israel? Think about it. All are ex-British colonies and like Israel, have a shameful history of genocide committed against their respective Indigenous Peoples and all continue to treat their First Peoples as third class… Continue reading
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