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Three Palestinians and three Israelis killed in spate of deadly incidents

[email protected] December 13, 2018 drive-by, extrajudicial killing, IDF, manhunt, occupation, ofra, settlement, zionism

The Israeli military has recently been conducting aggressive operations inside the occupied Palestinian West Bank, including in Area A, where the Palestinian Authority is supposed to be in full control.
Israel continues to prolong and entrench the now 50+-year occupation, citing the need for security; in reality the occupation and its injustice are the cause of Palestinian resistance, not the result of Palestinian violence.

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Israel propaganda trips target ‘Pacific Progressive Leaders’ – no one will say who’s going

[email protected] December 8, 2018 AIEF, AIPAC, American Israel Education Foundation, American Jewish Committee, Andrea Beth Damsky, John Gioia, Joseph Simitian, JPAC, Passages Israel, Paul Singer

An $85 million Israel advocacy organization is taking local American officials identified as “progressive” on propaganda trips to Israel. While no one will divulge the rosters, we have a few names of California participants in these extravagant, influence peddling affairs… and ideas about what to do about them

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Marc Lamont Hill’s “anti-Semitism” is a distraction

[email protected] December 6, 2018 analysis, anti-Semitism, apology, BDS, dareen tatour, ethnic cleansing, home demolition, khan al ahmar, Marc Lamont Hill, nation-state law, occupation, open air prison, palestine exception, settlement, solidarity, torture, United Nations, zionism

Marc Lamont Hill, in Nazareth 2014. screenshot from Vimeo video. As is often the case with proponents of justice for Palestinians, Marc Lamont Hill was watched closely by Israel partisans as he spoke before the UN last week. They took a phrase – one phrase – from the speech and threw the rest aside, hoping…

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Is Israel turning a blind eye as Israeli scammers swindle victims in France, US, elsewhere?

[email protected] November 14, 2018 Antoine Ilan Frau, Avi Ayache, binary options, bitcoin, cryptocurrency, diamonds, Dov Engel, Gery Shalon, Gilbert Chikli, Michael Nedjar, Nigerian scam, Noam Lenzini, Yaron Bar

Investigations reveal a pattern of Israeli officials stone-walling efforts to stop the perpetrators of massive financial swindles in various countries, from Europe to the US to the Philippines. While some Israeli reporters work to expose the scams, a new one is already underway…

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Playground or battleground? 2 stories in 1 weekend

[email protected] November 12, 2018 Bethlehem, combatants for peace, IDF, illegal construction, playground

On Saturday, Israeli soldiers tried to seize playground equipment from a Palestinian park, but were chased off.

On Sunday, 45 Americans along with 20 Israelis and Palestinians were detained and had their passports photographed after helping repair a playground near Bethlehem; Israel claims the group were rioting and engaging in illegal construction.

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Intensifying injustice: capital punishment in Israel

[email protected] November 10, 2018 Addameer, administrative detention, ahed tamimi, avigdor lieberman, capital punishment, death sentence, Elor Azaria, IDF, injustice, military court, military order 101, secret evidence, zionism

As Israel considers adopting the death sentence for Palestinians, it is worth recalling that under occupation, Palestinians already face harsh injustice and that such a law would be illegal according to international law. The examples of Elor Azaria’s 9-month prison term for killing an unarmed, injured Palestinian at point-blank range, and Ahed Tamimi’s 8-month sentence for slapping an IDF soldier, indicate that the Israeli “justice” system is already severely lopsided.

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Untold stories of everyday Israeli brutality

[email protected] November 5, 2018 abduction, Gaza, Hebron, IDF, IMEMC, settler, settler violence, West Bank, zionism

Israeli soldiers and settlers terrorize Palestinians every day. Stories from November 4-5 (that won’t appear in mainstream media) include 2 Palestinian deaths, at least 14 abductions – some of them children, a settler free-for-all in Hebron, and an injured infant.

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FLASHBACK: Making America as ‘secure’ as Israel – Israelis train U.S. police

[email protected] November 5, 2018 ADL, Israeli security experts, police, police training

Every few months local police officers travel to Israel for training in “how to make America more secure.” At the same time, Israeli “experts” are hired in the U.S. to make us “more secure.” The problem is that Israeli “security experts” have perpetrated policies of such cruelty that they’ve made Israelis so insecure that many are leaving Israel…

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Tutorial on Congressional Scoreboards for the technologically challenged

[email protected] November 2, 2018 capitol hill, Congress, election, house of representatives, legislation, midterm elections, PAC, Senate, voting

If IAK’s new Congressional Scoreboards piqued your interest, but you shied away due to less-than-remarkable computer skills, this is just for you. In a few minutes, you’ll be ready to take on Capitol Hill…

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Israeli embassy official describes using false identities on Facebook, deception on campus

[email protected] November 1, 2018 Aggies for Israel, Al Jazeera, hoover institution, Jay Bernard, Julia Reifkind, Ministry of Strategic Affairs, Stanford

A leaked clip from a censored documentary shows an Israeli Embassy official describing how she used fake identities on Facebook. It also reveals that the official, an American citizen named Julia Reifkind, led a pro-Israel group that worked to stir up anti-Muslim, anti-Arab resentment at UC Davis with unfounded allegations of “antisemitism.”

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