Mainstream media under-report Israeli aggression, which will make the Palestinians’ eventual response appear to be unprovoked violence.
Media selectively report on Jerusalem unrest; the clock keeps ticking…
ADL, Nat’l Assoc of Jewish Legislators call for Special Envoy who monitors criticism of Israel
The National Association of Jewish Legislators and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) are demanding that President Donald Trump appoint a special envoy in the State Department “to monitor and combat” antisemitism that actually often focuses on activism supportive of Palestinian human rights.
The Intercept: U.S. Lawmakers Seek to Criminalize Support for BDS
AIPAC helped craft a bill making BDS a felony, subject to a minimum civil penalty of $250K and a maximum criminal penalty of $1 million and 20 years in prison; many of its cosponsors have no idea what the bill contains.
FAIR: Attacks in Israel make headlines while Gaza’s humanitarian crisis ignored
Israeli officials have cut off electricity to almost 2 million Gazans for all but three or four hours a day, and the U.N. issued a report warning of a “looming humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza, but you wouldn’t know it from reading U.S. news.
Israel’s newest tourist attraction: family fantasy camps teach how to kill (coming soon to the US)
Israeli companies offer tourist training camps in which families, even with small children, practice shooting live ammunition at targets resembling Palestinians. Such courses are also being offered in the US.
Tikun Olam: IDF Reveals (Partially) Existence of Secret Nuclear Base Exposed Here Six Years Ago
Richard Silverstein reports that an ordinary Israeli wouldn’t have learned the name of the base until today. Even then, they wouldn’t know that Sdot Micha was Israel’s nuclear base, since that information was censored from the Haaretz report…
Netanyahu Pushes Trump Toward Wider Wars
Robert Parry reports: “Russia-gate is empowering Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to strong-arm President Trump into escalating the Syrian war by abandoning a recent cease-fire and challenging Iran and Russia,”
Schumer, ‘guardian of Israel,’ calls anti-Zionism a form of antisemitism [videos]
![Schumer, ‘guardian of Israel,’ calls anti-Zionism a form of antisemitism [videos]](https://israelpalestinenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/SchumerIsraelParade-617x410.jpg "Schumer, ‘guardian of Israel,’ calls anti-Zionism a form of antisemitism [videos]")
Minority leader Chuck Schumer, who earlier told an AIPAC audience that God had made him ‘guardian of Israel,’ claimed in a recent Senate speech that anti-Zionism is antisemitism – see videos…
Israel imprisons UN official, again – UN’s Guterres says nothing
Israel is imprisoning a UN official from Gaza, yet again; UN Director-General Guterres says nothing. Earlier Guterres condemned the killing of two Israeli policemen, while saying nothing about the Israeli killing of two young Palestinians two days earlier when Israeli forces invaded the West Bank…
U.N. says Gaza is ‘de-developing’ even faster than expected, but omits main cause
Five years ago, the U.N. warned that Gaza is expected to be unlivable by 2020. A new report now says conditions are deteriorating there even faster than it forecast. But the U.N. report is somewhat lacking in its portrayal of who is at fault for the crisis.