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30 handcuffed, blindfolded Gazans found in body bags – Day 116

contact@ifamericansknew.org January 31, 2024 assassination, checkpoint, Gaza, gaza devastation, genocide, Harvard, Israel, Jenin, knesset, mass execution, new york times, pregnancy, torture, unrwa

Apparent mass execution of Gazan men; triple assassination of Palestinians in Jenin hospital; NYTimes caught red-handed; Israel ignores ICJ ruling; the neglected residents of northern Gaza; Israel says No to early openings of aid checkpoints; pregnant Gazan women grossly underserved; disturbing uptick in detention, torture of Gazan men; drone footage confirms massive devastation; Israeli and US reactions to Jenin assassinations; Canada pledges humanitarian funding, but not to UNRWA; speaker of Knesset coming to Congress; Harvard sued for non-protection of Palestinian students

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Israel’s new radical government shows itself reckless and racist

contact@ifamericansknew.org January 12, 2023 benjamin netanyahu, itamar ben gvir, knesset, palestinian prisoners

Israel’s newly sworn-in government includes some shockingly extremist figures who have wasted no time implementing their agenda. Peruse a few excerpts from articles describing their recent escapades.

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In Tuesday’s election, Israelis made it clear: Netanyahu’s time is up

contact@ifamericansknew.org September 18, 2019 avigdor lieberman, ayman odeh, benny gantz, blue and white, knesset, likud, Netanyahu

Netanyahu conducted by far the ugliest – and most reckless – campaign in Israeli history (almost including a declaration of war on Gaza to delay the election), but it wasn’t enough. Coalition-building in the current environment will be tough.

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In Israel, religious extremism is pervasive, unchecked

contact@ifamericansknew.org September 6, 2019 ashkenazi, avichai rontzki, believers in the police, bentzi gopstein, Bezalel Smotrich, bnei david, chief rabbinate of israel, david batzri, david lau, eliezer kashtiel, giora radler, knesset, menachem schneerson, Naftali Bennett, orthodox judaism, rafi peretz, rami brachyahu, religious education, sephardic, settler extremism, Shmuel Eliyahu, temple movement, yeshiva, yisrael ariel, yitzchak ginsburg, yitzhak batzri, zionism

In Israel, religious extremism has gone unchecked in the educational establishment, in top levels of government, and among prominent religious leaders – radicalizing a growing number of Israeli youth and endangering Palestinians.

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Israel Still Holding Palestinian Lawmaker Indefinitely as Political Prisoner

contact@ifamericansknew.org February 19, 2019 administrative detention, khalida jarrar, knesset, occupation, political prisoner

Palestinian lawmaker Khalida Jarrar has been incarcerated in an Israeli jail without a trial for 20 months. Another period of ‘administrative detention’ will soon expire. One of the Israeli accusations is that she attended a book fair…

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Surveillance, Political Threats, Daily Discrimination: What It’s Like to Be a Palestinian Citizen in Israel

contact@ifamericansknew.org January 31, 2019 analysis, ayman odeh, knesset, land confiscation, nakba law, nation-state law, second class citizen, zionism

Palestinian citizens of Israel are constantly reminded of the fragility and conditionality of our (second-class) Israeli citizenship, and the illegitimacy of our Palestinian identity – and that’s amplified as elections approach.

The Palestinian identity of Israeli citizens is conceptualized as a perpetual threat precisely because it resists the constant revisionist efforts of the state. By virtue of existing, Palestinians contest the erasure of their own narratives and histories.

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Can you say “Israeli apartheid”? 200 Jewish-only communities approved

contact@ifamericansknew.org December 10, 2018 apartheid, Israeli settlements, knesset, zionism

Jewish-only communities, mostly in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. No Palestinians allowed.

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Jaw-dropping declaration: Knesset can make laws everywhere in the world, violate sovereignty of foreign states

contact@ifamericansknew.org August 24, 2018 adalah, area c, arnon harel, avichai mandelbilt, ayelet shaked, expropriation, international law, israel supreme court, judea and samaria, knesset, outpost, regularization law, settlement, settlement regulation law, zionism

Palestinian rights groups and local governments have challenged an Israeli law that seeks to the annex of parts of the West Bank. The Israeli government responded to the petition, stating that “the Knesset [is permitted] to legislate laws everywhere in the world” and that it is authorized “to violate the sovereignty of foreign countries via legislation that would be applied to events occurring in their territories.”

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Israel Passes Controversial Jewish Nation-state Bill After Stormy Debate

contact@ifamericansknew.org July 19, 2018 adalah, j streeet, Jerusalem, knesset, nation-state, Netanyahu, official language, peace now

Pro-Palestinian groups decry Israel’s new Jewish nation-state law as “racist” & “apartheid”; Jewish Knesset members claim “it doesn’t hurt the culture of minorities living in Israel.”

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Israeli Supreme Court hears petitions, “apartheid” accusations against Settlements Law

contact@ifamericansknew.org June 5, 2018 apartheid, avichai meandelbilt, harel arnon, knesset, settlement

The Settlement Law is under scrutiny in the Supreme Court, accused of “breach[ing] an international convention on Apartheid”. If it stands, it may put Israel on track to annex the West Bank.

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