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Rima Najjar: Rebecca Vilkomerson of JVP, can we talk?

[email protected] February 7, 2020 Alissa Wise, analysis, Check Point Software, jewish voice for peace, jvp, Phyllis Bennis, Rebecca Vilkomerson, Rima Najjar, Stefanie Fox, US Campaign

Upon learning that Vilkomerson’s spouse works for an Israeli company (‘Check Point’ that has close ties to the IDF), Najjar writes: ‘I was deeply shocked because, despite everything, I trusted Rebecca and JVP to do the right thing. To me, the matter is one of personal integrity…”When I say I trusted JVP ‘despite everything’, I am referring to the agonizingly long wait we Palestinians have had to endure before JVP officially rejected Zionism, condemned Israel’s Zionist settler-colonial regime and embraced BDS”… Vilkomerson headed JVP for 10 years.

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WATCH: IAK video on Peace Plan “Deal of the Century” – history & context

Alison Weir January 30, 2020 analysis, deal of the century, history, Jared Kushner, Netanyahu, peace plan, Trump

A 5-minute video on what the new Israel-Palestine “peace plan” is all about… the history, current context, and who was behind the Trump administration’s proposed “deal of the century”…

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Ten ordinary days under occupation in Palestine

[email protected] January 29, 2020 abduction, eviction, freedom of movement, home demolition, occupation, war crime

The Trump so-called peace plan prioritizes security for Israel – but the real at-risk population is the Palestinians. Below are some of the (clickable) headlines from Palestine that the mainstream media missed over the past ten days: settler violence against Palestinians, home demolitions, evictions, abductions, land confiscation, shootings with injuries…the list goes on…

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Analyses of Trump’s Peace Plan for Israel-Palestine, “Deal of the Century” (Updated)

[email protected] January 28, 2020 apartheid, bantustan, deal of the century, Jerusalem, Netanyahu, settlement, south africa, zionism

US President Donald Trump’s “Deal of the Century” violates international law in a number of ways. It gravely violates the rights and dignity of the Palestinian people. It gives Israelis the illusion of security while in reality trapping them within an unstable regime based on racial oppression. Read analyses from the New Yorker, UK Guardian, Mondoweiss, Informed comment, and American Conservative. Also gives link to the 181-page document of the plan…

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Democratic leader stacks committee against Bernie (with Israel partisans)

[email protected] January 28, 2020 Democratic National Committee, democratic party, Hillary Clinton, israel lobby, Tom Perez

Consortium News reports that Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez is nominating Israel partisans and Bernie Sanders opponents to key positions. Perez was put in place by Israel partisans. It appears that just like in 2016, the DNC is trying to sabotage a Sanders nomination…

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Pro-Israel Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin censors Iranian news website

[email protected] January 27, 2020 Censorship, Fars News, Iran, Press TV, steve mnuchin

The US Treasury Department, under Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, has worked to take down an Iranian news website, Fars News. Mnuchin is an Israel partisan and former hedge fund owner who is close to Sheldon Adelson…

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American Zionists choose lies over children

Kathryn Shihadah January 23, 2020 analysis, Betty McCollum, blame the victim, child imprisonment, child soldier, child torture, defense of children international, dehumanization, Elor Azaria, Gadna, h.r.2407, human rights violation, human shield, IDF, israel defense forces, israel lobby, Mark Mellman, military camp, nation-state law, Netanyahu, NGO Monitor, no way to treat a child, nurit peled-elhanan, racism, StandWithUs, yaakov fadida, zionism, Zionist Organization of America, ZOA

A bill before Congress seeks merely to stop US aid dollars from subsidizing the incarceration and torture of Palestinian children. Pro-Israel organizations would rather believe outrageous fallacies than stand up for these kids’ rights.

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Voting for World Zionist Congress heats up

[email protected] January 23, 2020 analysis, World Zionist Congress, zionism

Voting has begun for the World Zionist Congress, as Israel partisans on the left and the right vie for influence… among other things, the WZC decides how $5 billion will be spent… (Palestinians need not apply)

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The oligarch behind today’s World Holocaust Forum attended by presidents and kings

Alison Weir January 23, 2020 Mike Pence, Moshe Kantor, nancy pelosi, Remembering the Holocaust, Russian oligarch, Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor, World Holocaust Forum

By Alison Weir: At least 45 world leaders have responded to a summons to attend the World Holocaust Forum in Israel to “fight antisemitism.” The event is organized by a Russian-Israeli oligarch who considers support for Palestinian human rights “antisemitic.” He is promoting an Orwellian program that would criminalize “intolerance” and require re-education programs for anyone who strays beyond accepted views…

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Ilhan Omar: “Anti-Semite of the Year,” or deliberately distorted?

[email protected] January 22, 2020 AIPAC, analysis, anti-Semitism, BDS, boycott divest sanction, canard, david duke, dual loyalty, hypnotize, nazi, new anti semitism, omar barghouti, stopantisemitism, trope

By Kathryn Shihadah: StopAntisemitism accuses Rep. Ilhan Omar of “anti-Semitic” words and actions. It’s not hard to detect the falsity of these accusations – or the Israel partisanship that drives them.

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