Zionism
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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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The Quenelle: Blame Dr Strangelove and the Bomb By Stuart Littlewood
The Quenelle is a gesture, some claim, made famous by the French comic Dieudonné M’bala M’bala. As explained by the BBC it involves touching or gripping your shoulder with one hand while holding the palm of your other hand outstretched and pointing to the ground. “Some describe it as a combination of the bras d’honneur… 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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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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Email your leader, tell him to protest the cruel removal of Palestinians from their lands in Hebron Hills By David Shulman
Perhaps one or two of you will do something with this little quixotic story. Perhaps you’ll tell a friend, or call your congressman, or write an op-ed, or email the President or the Prime Minister of whatever country you live in, or go on the radio with a simple message: Stop the crimes of Israel… Continue reading
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Sharon and a Nobel prize for nonsense By Alan Hart
Until recently I thought Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu had no rivals in the business of talking propaganda nonsense (Israel’s Jews in danger of annihilation etcetera, etcetera, etcetera). But if there was a Nobel Prize for talking nonsense it does now seem that there would be a number of contenders. At the top of my list… Continue reading
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In ‘intractable conflict,’ Israel must periodically and forcefully ‘mow the grass’ By Philip Weiss
Yet another sign of the lack of vision of the Israeli security state and the crisis that it is plunging into given the failure to resolve the conflict with Palestinians. A study by leading national security experts calls for “mowing the grass” in the West Bank and Gaza for the forseeable future. Continue reading
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Kerry’s “Framework Agreement”: The West Bank Modelled on Gaza, The Fiction of a Palestinian State By Jonathan Cook
A sense of urgency looms because Washington is supposed to unveil next month its so-called “framework proposal” for the creation of a Palestinian state, in a last desperate effort to break the logjam in negotiations. For this reason, the outlines of the US vision of an agreement are finally coming into focus. And, as many… Continue reading
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O Little Town of Bethlehem By Francis A. Boyle
Those of us on the Palestinian Team who were Christian were wondering if we were going to be able to get home for Christmas–many Palestinians are Christian, the original Christians, going back to Jesus Christ and the Apostles themselves. I would periodically check in with my wife and 2 sons at the time–little boys. My… Continue reading
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Bedouin Expulsion Law is Well and Drinking Tea By Roi Tov
Former Member of the Knesset Benny Begin, who was behind the law expelling the Bedouins had announced that he retired his support from it. MK Regev said that his words didn’t matter, she will continue to advance the law through the two last stages of legislation. The law had passed the first stage in June. Continue reading
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Palestine: Lessons in desert blooming By Jimmy Johnson
Palestinian Member of Knesset (MK) Hana Sweid lifted his voice against the Prawer Plan during a 9 December Knesset Interior Committee meeting. In response to Israel’s planned removal of up to forty-thousand Bedouin from their Naqab lands he protested that, “You want to transfer an entire population.” Likud MK and former IDFA spokesperson Miri Regev… Continue reading
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White House tightens enforcement of Iran sanctions amid meetings with Israelis By Philip Weiss
What is the role of Israel in shaping US foreign policy? The White House has now tightened its enforcement of sanctions on Iran, potentially threatening the breakthrough deal with Iran, in the midst of high-level meetings between White House security officials and Israeli officials, at the White House. Continue reading
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Apartheid lives on in Israel, rampant, disguised, and despised — says ‘Le Monde’ correspondent Philip Weiss
After saluting the demise of a “moral leader of the first order ,” Netanyahu decided not to attend the funeral of Nelson Mandela because of the cost of the trip. The reason given is surprising to say the least when the world is paying tribute to the heroes of the anti-apartheid struggle. The Israeli Prime… Continue reading
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Settler siren Arfa channels Miley Cyrus in soft-core bulldozer vid By Philip Weiss
A few words of explanation. +972 and Heeb magazine say the video, by settler siren Orit Arfa, is the worst video ever made. Called “Jews Can’t Stop,” Arfa riffs off Miley Cyrus’s song, We Can’t Stop. Continue reading
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Video: Michel Warschawski on Israel’s Non-Existent Left
At most, there are moments in which a part or even a majority of the public’s opinion, what’s called the “peace camp”, feels that the government, which is right-wing, is taking the country in the direction of international isolation to a disastrous war; and then it is recruited, but not around its own values, but… Continue reading
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Video: Michel Warschawski on Israel's Non-Existent Left
At most, there are moments in which a part or even a majority of the public’s opinion, what’s called the “peace camp”, feels that the government, which is right-wing, is taking the country in the direction of international isolation to a disastrous war; and then it is recruited, but not around its own values, but… Continue reading
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Israeli government kills plan to uproot Bedouin By Alex Kane
The “Day of Rage” protests held last month by Bedouin Arabs and their allies to protest the Prawer Plan were met with defiant rhetoric from Israeli officials. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to move forward with the Israeli government’s initiative to demolish Bedouin villages, uproot their inhabitants and build Jewish towns on top of them. Continue reading
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Where is Palestine’s Mandela? By Alan Hart
11 December 2013 — Alan Hart The answer to my headline question is that he, Marwan Barghouti, is in an Israeli jail where he has been since his arrest in Ramallah by an IDF unit in 2002, after which, in 2004, he was sentenced to five life terms in prison. Some months before his arrest one Continue reading
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‘The Israeli sniper shot my son as if he hunted a bird’: Wajih Wajdi Al-Ramahi, 14, killed while standing outside of West Bank school
An Israeli sniper killed a child yesterday. Wajih Wajdi Al-Ramahi, 14 was shot in the back by while walking in front of a school in Jalazoun refugee camp near Ramallah. Thousands of mourners turned out for his funeral is today. Continue reading
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Shimon Peres on Mandela and Apartheid: Now & Then By Adam Horowitz
Now: The world lost a great leader who changed the course of history. On behalf of the citizens of Israel we mourn alongside the nations of the world and the people of South Africa, who lost an exceptional leader. Then: In November 1974, Shimon Peres came to Pretoria to meet secretly with South African leaders.… Continue reading
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