Favorite Palestinian activists urged the world not to look away from their struggle for freedom and equality following the ceasefire in Gaza, as Israeli police began rounding up Palestinian citizens of Israel who took part in demonstrations described as riots by the authorities. At least 74 Palestinians were detained by Monday afternoon, in the first…
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Trump Administration Ousts U.N. Official to Protect Israel From Criticism
Favorite On Wednesday, a U.N. agency published a report noting that “Israel has established an apartheid regime that dominates the Palestinian people as a whole.” Yesterday, the author of that report, who has served as executive secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA) since 2010, Rima Khalef, resigned after the…
EUA admitem que Israel está construindo um apartheid permanente: semanas após envio de $ 38 bi
Favorite O então Ministro da Defesa de Israel, Ehud Barak, alertou explicitamente em 2010 que Israel se tornaria um “apartheid” permanente, caso um acordo de paz não fosse fechado com palestinos e criasse uma nação soberana, oferecendo direitos políticos completos a eles. “Enquanto este território a leste do Rio Jordão tiver apenas uma entidade política…
U.S. Admits Israel is Building Permanent Apartheid Regime: Weeks After Giving it $38 Billion
Favorite Israel’s then-Defense Minister Ehud Barak explicitly warned in 2010 that Israel would become a permanent “apartheid” state if it failed to reach a peace agreement with Palestinians that creates their own sovereign nation and vests them with full political rights. “As long as in this territory west of the Jordan river there is only…
Facebook Is Collaborating With the Israeli Government to Determine What Should Be Censored
Favorite Last week, a major censorship controversy erupted when Facebook began deleting all posts containing the iconic photograph of the Vietnamese “Napalm Girl” on the ground that it violated the company’s ban on “child nudity.” Facebook even deleted a post from the prime minister of Norway, who posted the photograph in protest of the censorship. As outrage spread, Facebook ultimately reversed itself…
George W. Bush v. Clinton-Led Democrats on Palestinians’ Equality and the Israeli Occupation
Favorite The Guardian, January 10, 2008: The Guardian, January 9, 2008: CNN, July 10, 2016: Haaretz, June 25, 2016: There are countless ways to see that the rhetorical monuments of magnanimity, humanitarianism and equality which Democratic Party leaders and their loyal followers love to erect in honor of themselves are nothing more than manipulative, self-glorifying dreck. But few pathologies…
After a Deadly Attack in Tel Aviv, Jarring Images Spread on Social Networks
Favorite Updated | June 9, 2:48 pm Two Palestinian gunmen opened fire on Israeli civilians at a busy restaurant complex in central Tel Aviv on Wednesday night, killing at least four and wounding six, according to a police spokesman. The suspected attackers were both arrested close to the Sarona Market, where the shootings took place.…
Israeli Soldiers Executed Two Palestinians in Hebron, Not One, Witnesses Say
Favorite The on-camera execution of a wounded Palestinian suspect by an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron in March — which led to an indictment of the soldier for manslaughter and exposed a rift between Israel’s military leaders and many civilians — was preceded by another extrajudicial killing not captured on…
The New York Times’s (and Clinton Campaign’s) Abject Cowardice on Israel
Favorite (updated below) In January, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon delivered a speech to the Security Council about, as he put it, violence “in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory,” noting that “Palestinian frustration is growing under the weight of a half century of occupation” and that “it is human nature to react to occupation.” His…
Interview With BDS Co-Founder Omar Barghouti: Banned by Israel From Traveling, Threatened With Worse
Favorite Despite having lived in Israel for 22 years with no criminal record of any kind, Omar Barghouti (above) was this week denied the right to travel outside the country. As one of the pioneers of the increasingly powerful movement to impose boycotts, sanctions and divestment measures (BDS) on Israel, Barghouti, an articulate, English-speaking activist, has frequently traveled…