Speaking before an adoring AIPAC audience, US Ambassador to the UN Haley says she pressured the UN head not to appoint Palestinian diplomat Salam Fayyad as a UN envoy, and to take down a report documenting Israeli apartheid. Observers say Haley may be angling to be the first woman president…
Israel tries to discredit Palestinian hunger strike by releasing undated video of leader eating
The Israeli Prison Service has attempted to discredit the Palestinian mass hunger strike by releasing undated video footage that shows Marwan Barghouti, the movement’s leader, eating a cookie. American media have jumped on the story, even though they’ve reported little else on the hunger strike since it began on April 17.
Israeli army shows fake amputated limbs, paints wounds on children for Independence Day
An IDF display for Independence Day featured a booth where kids could have their limbs painted to resemble shrapnel and stab wounds, with children as young as five joining in.
This week in Palestine: Palestinian hunger striker dies, IDF attacks journalists and protesters
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights documents crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territories in weekly reports. We will summarize their reports and stories from other news agencies with the goal of informing Americans of the ongoing violence that Palestinian families face each day under Israel’s occupation of their ancestral lands. The Israeli government receives $3 billion per year in direct military aid from U.S. taxpayers.
Chas Freeman on “Greater Israel” and the prospects for peace in the Middle East
Israel’s foreign supporters have every reason to ask that it govern all people in its charge with the justice and humanity that constitute the core values of both Judaism and Western civilization.
Texas is the seventeenth state to pass law against Israel boycotts (BDS)
The governor of Texas just signed a law that forbids state agencies from contracting with companies participating in boycotts of Israel. Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina already passed similar laws.
Ha’aretz: This is how Israel inflates its Jewish majority
Ha’aretz editorial says: “The stats bureau’s annual population report is a ludicrous piece of propaganda that includes settlers but not all Palestinians under Israeli control”… maps show the entire area as “Israel”…
All 100 senators sign letter against U.N. actions to bring Israel to account
Every single U.S. Senator signed a letter demanding the UN end its “anti-Israel bias.” The letter’s authors are Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Christopher A. Coons (D-Del.)…
NY Times: Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner’s real estate empire had help from one of Israel’s wealthiest families
Raz Steinmetz, 53, was behind Kushner deals; his uncle, billionaire diamond dealer Beny Steinmetz, is under scrutiny by law enforcement in four countries – his lawyer is Alan Dershowitz; Kushner has traveled repeatedly to Israel, where Kushner Companies have taken out at least four loans from Israel’s largest bank…
Falk & Tilley: Open Letter to UN Ambassador Nikki Haley on Our Report on Apartheid in Israel
Falk and Tilley write in The Nation that Haley maligned the messengers instead of providing any information on alleged flaws in the report. “Ad hominem attacks are usually the tactics of those so seized with political fervor as to abhor rational discussion”… Also excerpts from Haley’s AIPAC speech…