Israel’s attack on Gaza should never have started – and now it won’t end because Israel clings to its desire to violate international law indefinitely.
Category: Israeli governmental policies
Khader Adnan’s death & Israel’s decades of despotic military orders
The death of hunger striker Khader Adnan underscores Israel’s cruel, often illegal treatment of Palestinian prisoners, the overuse of administrative detention, & the decades of tyrannical military orders that keep Palestinians subjugated and miserable.
Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan dies in prison
Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan, who’s been arrested 14 times and spent over 8 years in Israeli prisons, died today after an 87-day hunger strike – his 5th – in protest of his illegal administrative detention by Israel. Israel refused to allow his family to visit him even as his condition deteriorated. He was one of ~600 Palestinians held without charge or trial. The NYT didn’t report on the strike until he died.
Palestinians Still Pay a Heavy Price for Israel’s Independence
For 75 years, Israel has denied its dispossession and expulsion of the Palestinians. Now, belatedly, the international community must recognize the Nakba
New poll: 44% of Dems say Israel is a ‘similar to apartheid,’ 41% support BDS
Poll: American Democrats who follow the news are growing more and more aware of Israel’s apartheid policies, and supportive of the use of boycott to secure justice for Palestinians.
American senior citizen from Ohio held by Israel since 2021
Most Americans are unaware that the over 5 million inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza are living in virtual prisons, prohibited from leaving until & unless Israel gives them permission. Israel often refuses. Jamal Niser, a US senior citizen from Ohio, is one example. Even his Congressman Tim Ryan couldn’t get him out…
Labs of Oppression, Part Two: “settler violence = state violence”
In Part Two of the in-depth article from the Intercept on Israel’s decades-long campaign against Palestinians, read about how the Israeli military partners with settlers, using harassment, violence, and clandestine moves, to control Palestinian land. Palestinians are left with noncontiguous “Bantustans,” where they are still unable to live in peace.
Labs of Oppression, Part One: Masafer Yatta
The Intercept recently featured an in-depth article describing Israel’s decades-long campaign of discrimination and violence against Palestinians – in a way that begins to capture the magnitude of the injustice. The many forms of mistreatment require a lengthy article. IAK has broken it into four manageable parts which we will release over the next several days.
In Part One, read about the case of the hamlets of Masafer Yatta, where Israeli policy is trying to force Palestinians to leave – either by discriminatory legislation or intimidation and violence.
Netanyahu’s covert operation to manipulate 2016 US election
US government & media covered up an elaborate covert operation directed by Netanyahu that aimed to use secret intelligence to clandestinely intervene at the highest levels in the presidential election on behalf of Trump
‘Angry’ Netanyahu Instructs Israeli Ministers, Do Not Visit Washington
As Netanyahu’s ministers are calling for ethnic cleansing, he wonders why the Biden administration hasn’t invited him to visit.