Mohammed El-Halabi’s experience as a Palestinian prisoner in Israel is unique only in its magnitude of injustice – its essence is common to thousands of Palestinians, including numerous practices that contravene international law.
Category: Israeli governmental policies
This is apartheid: Jewish supremacy from the River to the Sea
B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories – believes that “apartheid” is the only word to describe the accumulation of policies and laws in Israel devised to entrench control over Palestinians.
Illegal settlement expansion: Israel approves 800 new units in final days of Trump admin
Just days before US President-elect Joe Biden (who disapproves of settlements) is set to take office, the Israeli government approved a settlement expansion plan: the construction of 800 new units in the occupied West Bank.
Critics deem the move as an effort to take advantage of the final days of the pro-settlement Trump administration, and likely leading to a confrontation with the new Biden administration.
The COVID-19 vaccine: another ugly face of Israeli apartheid
The apartheid system under which Israel operates inside the occupied territory could not be better displayed than in the case of the COVID-19 vaccine — who gets the vaccine, and who doesn’t, is a simple matter of nationality.
In fact, Israel could vaccinate its entire population before Palestinians receive a single dose.
Israeli Settlers Severely Beat 78-Year-Old Palestinian Man
During a weekend of settler violence in the land of caves, Israeli settlers beat a 78-year-old Palestinian farmer with clubs. Then they came back to attack his family.
BREAKING: “Palestinian Gandhi” Issa Amro convicted in Israel
The Israeli military court announced today its guilty verdict against Palestinian Issa Amro, in what human rights advocates have called a “campaign of persecution” against a nonviolent community organizer.
Action Alert! Tell Congress Issa Amro is a man of peace, not a criminal!
Issa Amro has been resisting Israel’s efforts to take over the Palestinian city of Hebron since 2003. A verdict is imminent in the sham trial against him, and he needs to know he’s not alone. Use this form to contact Congress – they voted to give Israel over $10 million per day; they must now tell Israel to cease its wrongdoing and drop all charges against Amro…
‘Israel worst counter-intelligence threat to US in the Middle East’ – US Security Establishment
US security establishment: Israel 2nd most aggressive nation spying on the US… number one counter-intelligence threat in the Mideast… Israel sold US war plans to USSR… Mossad is a ‘second rate’ operation… ‘often gives the US faulty, misleading intelligence…’’
Israel’s propaganda on Iran’s nuclear program led to death of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
The Mossad has spent years on a propaganda campaign aimed at convincing the world Iran possessed a nuclear weapons program – and ‘legitimizing’ its assassinations of Iranian academics, Gareth Porter reports.
A very scary Christmas – Israeli airstrikes bring destruction and death
Israel had a busy Christmas, with airstrikes over Gaza and Syria, as well as an invasion of the Palestinian town of Kufur Qaddoum as it peacefully protested.