VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 7 November 2013

7 November 2013 — VTJP

News

International Middle East Media Center

PCHR Calls for Investigation into Death Palestinian Prisoner in Israeli Hospital
IMEMC – The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) calls for an immediate and independent investigation into the circumstances of the death of a Palestinian prisoner, Hassan al-Turabi, in Affoula Hospital inside Israel on Tuesday, 05 November 2013. …

Continue reading

VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 4 November 2013

4 November 2013 — VTJP

News

International Middle East Media Center

Eight Palestinians Kidnapped, Two Injured, In West Bank
IMEMC – [Monday At Dawn November 4, 2013] Israeli soldiers invaded different parts of the occupied West Bank, and kidnapped at least eight Palestinians. Two Palestinians were shot and injured by army fire near Nablus. …

Continue reading

VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 18 August 2013: Being honest about the dominant Zionist narrative

18 August 2013 — VTJP

News

International Middle East Media Center

Army Invades Aida Refugee Camp In Bethlehem
IMEMC – [Sunday August 18, 2013] Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem, and clashes with dozens of local youths, local sources have reported. …

Continue reading

Audio: The NSA Comes Recruiting

2 July 2013 — Mob and Multitude

Some students and I had an exchange with NSA recruiters today. The audio and a rough transcript below.

The NSA came to recruit at a language program at the University of Wisconsin where I am spending my summer learning a language. Two recruiters, a redhead who looked more like a middle-aged mother (listed as “NSA_F” below) and a portly, balding man (“NSA_M”), began to go through slides explaining the NSA and its work.

2013 NSA flyer copy

Continue reading

VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 28 June 2013

28 June 2013 — VTJP

News

International Middle East Media Center

Kerry Holds Second Meeting With Netanyahu
IMEMC – [Friday June 28 2013] Reuters has reported that U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, held a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in Jerusalem for the second time in 24 hours. The second meeting was supposed to be held Sunday. …

Continue reading

VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 23 May 2013: Muhammad al-Dura and Israel’s obsession with the propaganda war

22 May 2013 — VTJP

News

International Middle East Media Center

AMNESTY: “Israel, Palestinian Fighters, Committed War Crimes”
IMEMC – AMNESTY International issued a report on the Israeli war on Gaza, in November of 2012, and statedthat its investigations conducted that both Israel and the Palestinian resistance in Gaza, violated international humanitarian law, and committed war crimes. …

Continue reading

Black Agenda Report for May 1, 2013: NY Times Slanders Black Farmers, Crushed By Capitalism, Death in Somalia

1 May 2013 — Black Agenda Report

This week in Black Agenda Report

Breitbart Lives? New York Times & Slate.com Do Sloppy Racist Hatchet Job on Black Farmers Lawsuit

By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

On Friday, April 26, the New York Times, with an assist from the Washington Post property Slate.com committed a journalistic atrocity with a false and misleading portrayal of the lawsuit launched by black farmers against the USDA. Continue reading

VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 16 April 2013: Israeli occupation: You have to see it to believe it

16 April 2013 — VTJP

News

Ma’an News

Official: 3 men attacked by settlers near Nablus
4/16/2013 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — Three men were injured late Monday after being attacked by settlers near Nablus, a PA official said. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities in the northern West Bank, told Ma’an that a group of settlers from Homesh attacked three men near the village of Burqa. Ala Yaish, 25, and….

Continue reading

How to Read Stories About Israel in the NY Times (Hint: Very Carefully) By Peter Hart

21 March 2013FAIR Blog

Some days the Newspaper of Record says a lot–not always in ways you might expect.

Today (3/21/13) a story by Mark Landlerand Rick Gladstone about allegations of chemical weapons in Syria includes something you see often–anonymous government sources. That can often be a bad thing; but today it’s pretty useful: Continue reading

VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 16 March 2013: One week before killing Palestinian dad, Israeli policeman stated wish on Facebook to slay Arabs

16 March 2013 — VTJP

News

Ma’an News

Palestinians, Israeli troops clash in Hebron; 6 minors detained
3/16/2013HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained six Palestinian minors in the southern West Bank city of Hebron and al-Tuwanivillage east of Yatta near Hebron on Friday. Locals told Ma’an that clashes erupted Friday in Hebron’s Bab al-Zawiya neighborhood between young Palestinian men and Israeli troops who detained three minors. On….

Continue reading

VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 15 February 2013: Robbery of Books and Ownership of Narrative

15 February 2013 — VTJP

News

International Middle East Media Center

Eight Injured After Army Invades Al-Eesawiyya
IMEMC – Friday Evening, February 15; Palestinian medical sources reported that eight Palestinians have been injured after Israeli soldiers invaded the Al-Eesawiyya area in occupied East Jerusalem, and attacked dozens of nonviolent protesters. …

Continue reading

VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 4 February 2013

4 February 2013 VTJP

News

International Middle East Media Center

“Arabic Not Allowed Here” Says Haifa University Employee
IMEMC – An Arab student studying at the Haifa University was prevented from speaking his mother tongue while at the Academic Counseling Center, and was explicitly told that “Arabic is not allowed in here”. …

Continue reading

VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 3 February 2013

3 February 2013 — VTJP

News

International Middle East Media Center

Gaza; Two Fighters Injured In Clashes Between Fighters And Security Forces
IMEMC – Two Palestinian fighters of the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, have been injured during clashes that took place, Saturday, with members of the Al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas, and members of the Hamas-run security forces of the Interior Ministry in Gaza. …

Continue reading

VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 2 February 2013

2 February 2013 — VTJP

News

International Middle East Media Center

Weekly Protest Against The Wall, Settlements, Held In Bil’in
IMEMC – Protests Were Also Held In Different Parts Of West Bank Friday February 1, 2013; Dozens of Palestinians, Israeli and International peace activists held their weekly nonviolent protest against the Israeli Annexation Wall and Israel’s illegal settlements in the village on Bil’in, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah; dozens were injured after being attacked by the army. …
Continue reading

VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 30 January 2013

30 January 2012 — VTJP

News

International Middle East Media Center

Israel Produces A Film Replacing Al-Aqsa Mosque With Temple
IMEMC – In a film that was produced by the Israeli Foreign Ministry, and was banned from being officially published, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, Danny Ayalon, is seen standing and speaking in various areas of Jerusalem, including in front of the Dome Of The Rock, where in the film, it disappears and is replaced by Jewish temple. …

Continue reading

VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 24 January 2013: A Vote against Common Sense

24 January 2012 — VTJP

News


International Middle East Media Center

Abbas To Invite Newly Elected Israeli MK’s To Ramallah
IMEMC – Israel daily, Yedioth Aharonoth, reported that Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, intends to officially invite newly elected Israeli members of Knesset (MK) from leftist and centrist parties to visit him in Ramallah. …

Continue reading

VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 12 January 2013: The hardest thing: Palestinian parents speak of their children killed by Israeli bombings

12 January 2012 — VTJP

News

International Middle East Media Center

Palestinian Killed By Israeli Fire In Hebron
IMEMC – Palestinian medical sources reported that a young Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli military fire in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank. …

Continue reading

VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 27 December 2012: How Israel’s supporters are attempting to shut down boycott debate in UK unions

27 December 2012VTJP

News

Ma’an News

Palestinian critically wounded in Yatta clashes
12/27/2012 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — A Palestinian man suffered a critical head injury on Wednesday in clashes with the Israeli army in Yatta in the southern West Bank. Mohammad Kamal Abu Qbaieta was hit in the head by a tear gas canister and taken to Al-Mezan Hospital, a Ma’an reporter said. Clashes broke out….

Continue reading

VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 22 December 2012: Israel’s colonial strangling of Bethlehem

22 December 2012 — VTJP

News

International Middle East Media Center

012
IMEMC – The Palestinian Ministry Of Detainees reported that this year witnessed a sharp increase in Israeli violations against Palestinian children, and said that Israeli soldiers kidnapped this year 900 Palestinian children comparing to 700 kidnapped last year. …

Continue reading