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The Olympics: Do Only Israeli Victims Matter?

Alison Weir July 27, 2021 football, Israeli athletes, Munich Olympics, Palestinian athletes, soccer

The Olympics opening ceremony featured a moving commemoration for Israeli athletes who tragically and needlessly died half a century ago (when the Israeli prime minister refused a prisoner exchange), but failed to highlight a tragedy going on now that the world could stop: the desperate plight of Palestinian athletes who have been shot, maimed, & sometimes killed by Israeli forces… The ceremony also ignored the hundreds of men, women, and children killed by Israeli forces in the lead up to the tragic 1972 event, and the hundreds more killed by Israeli forces the following day…

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The Stolen Childhood of Palestinian Kids

[email protected] July 15, 2021 al tuwani, child abuse, occupation, south hebron hills

Sujoud’s story is unique in its details, but many Palestinian children in the West Bank have had similar haunting experiences with Israeli settlers, soldiers, or another form of the inescapable presence of the occupation.

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Israel makes childhood in Gaza a living hell

[email protected] July 15, 2021 child poverty, childhood trauma, childrens rights, Gaza, gaza blockade, Israeli military, whitewashing

Childhood in the Gaza Strip is unlike anywhere else in the world. Here, thanks to Israel, a ten-year-old has already experienced the violence of three wars and has spent his entire life under brutal blockade.

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Israeli war planes vs Palestinian balloons, kites & rockets

Alison Weir June 28, 2021 Apache helicopter, arson balloon, explosive kite, F-15, f-16, f-35, Gaza, gaza rockets, Grad rocket, hamas, incendiary balloon, incendiary kite, Merkava, Qassam rocket

Much essential information is frequently omitted from US news coverage, including the vast difference in weaponry used in the “Israel-Hamas wars” – see this detailed report and videos of the weapons used by Israeli military forces and Palestinian resistance groups.

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What happened in the Israeli police ‘torture room’ in Nazareth?

[email protected] June 8, 2021 adalah, nazareth, police brutality, torture, torture room

Multiple sworn affidavits from the past few weeks testify to rampant, systemic Israeli police attacks and brutal beatings of Palestinian citizens of Israel – protesters, minors, innocent bystanders, and even attorneys – inside the city’s police station; floor of ‘torture room’ was covered in blood from violent police beatings.

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Biking while Palestinian: Israeli police run over child for flying Palestinian flag on his bicycle

[email protected] June 1, 2021 bicycle, east jerusalem, palestinian flag, police brutality, silwan, unnecessary force

The Israeli police ran over him, beat him, and instead of calling an ambulance, they arrested him – because he had a Palestinian flag on his bicycle.

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NY Times & Israeli paper feature photos of all 67 Palestinian children killed in Gaza

[email protected] May 31, 2021 Gaza, Haaretz, IDF, Israeli airstrikes, new york times, price of war

In unprecedented actions, the front pages of the New York Times and the Israeli daily newspaper Ha’aretz featured photos of the 67 children in Gaza who were killed by Israeli airstrikes this month. Some Israel partisans called this a ‘blood libel.’

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