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FLORIDIANS: your freedom of speech is at risk – take action!

[email protected] March 20, 2019 anti-Semitism, florida hb741, florida house of representatives, florida legislature, florida sb1272, florida senate

The Bill of Rights gives Americans the right to free speech, including the right to criticize any country on earth, including our own. But a Florida ‘hate crime’ bill working its way through the Florida legislature would interfere with Floridians’ constitutional right to make statements critical of one foreign country: Israel. Contact these Florida lawmakers now and tell them to vote no on this attempt to violate our freedom of speech!

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B’tselem: Israeli “investigations” whitewash, perpetuate killing in Gaza

[email protected] March 19, 2019 analysis, btselem, Gaza, Great March of Return, open fire, sniper, unhrc

Israeli human rights organization B’tselem discusses Israel’s “investigations” into killings of Palestinians, which have served no authentic purpose, but only created an illusion of inquiry. B’tselem calls on the international community to demand real accountability.

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Alison Weir: advocating for Palestine 18 years and counting

[email protected] March 16, 2019 against our better judgment, AIPAC, Alison Weir, eyewitness, Gaza, history, intifada, Nakba

Eighteen years ago this month, Alison Weir returned from her eye-opening, independent trip to Palestine. Many people feel that she may be the Palestinians’ most enduring and relentless advocate.

Her tireless work includes meticulous media analysis, writing, speaking, and educating Americans (and justice-lovers around the world) about the little-known facts of the Nakba (“Catastrophe”), the oppression that Israel has been perpetrating on Palestinians for over seventy years, and how the United States, pressured by the Israel lobby, is complicit.

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Tell Kamala Harris: Reject AIPAC

[email protected] March 8, 2019 AIPAC, apartheid, jewish kkk, jewish power, kamala harris, Otzma Yehudit, zionism

IF AMERICANS KNEW joins CODEPINK in outrage against Candidate Kamala Harris’ co-opting of the Selma to Montgomery march. Let’s tell her this is offensive and unacceptable. See CODEPINK’s action alert….

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Israel’s ‘Rule of the Rabbis’ Who Preach Genocide Fuels Holy War

Kathryn Shihadah March 6, 2019 al aqsa, analysis, ayelet shaked, david ben-gurion, gender discrimination, genocide, Haredim, holy war, Mordechai Eliyahu, Naftali Bennett, orthodox jew, price tag, separation of church and state, Shmuel Eliyahu, uri avrney, zionism

Largely ignored by critics have been Israel’s increasing theocratic tendencies – the growth of Israel’s extremist religious population and the emergence of a class of influential rabbis who endorse the killing of non-Jews and preach genocide…

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Israel sets Gaza up for superbug epidemic

[email protected] March 4, 2019 analysis, Bureau of Investigative Journalism, epidemic, Gaza, gaza blockade, superbug, water shortage, zionism

A recent report exposes the serious threat of a superbug epidemic in Gaza, due to Israeli-blockade shortages of sanitation supplies in hospitals, targeting of medical personnel and facilities, and water shortage and contamination. The epidemic would certainly spread beyond Gaza.

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Jacobin: Israel Is an Extremist Enterprise

[email protected] March 4, 2019 ADL, AIPAC, analysis, apartheid, BDS, benny gantz, fascism, jewish home, jewish power, kahanist, Otzma Yehudit, racism, zionism

Belen Fernandez writes in the Jacobin that Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent pact with a far-right, anti-Arab party ahead of April’s elections is in keeping with a state that has racism and exclusion baked into its foundation.

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Without Saying a Word, Israeli Troops Beat Up a Blind Man in His Bed

[email protected] March 2, 2019 IDF, israeli defense force, occupation, police brutality, zionism

Israeli soldiers break into a home in the middle of the night, severely beat a blind, diabetic man on dialysis as his wife begs them to stop. Later, an Israeli military spokesman’s explanation does not remotely resemble the family’s description of the incident.

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Israeli prof: Israel tests weapons on Palestinian kids, tests drugs on prisoners

[email protected] March 1, 2019 drug testing, hebrew university, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, organ harvesting, palestinian prisoners, Robrecht Vanderbeeken, weapon testing

An Israeli professor speaking at Columbia Univ. reported that Israeli authorities have permitted large pharmaceutical firms to experiment on Palestinian prisoners, and have been testing weapons on Palestinian children. Her study was published in a Canadian academic journal.

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UN: Israel should face justice for crimes against humanity in Gaza

[email protected] March 1, 2019 Gaza, UN

Israeli forces “have intentionally shot children. They have intentionally shot people with disabilities, they have intentionally shot journalists… We found that one person, a double amputee, was shot and killed as he sat in his wheelchair (see video). On two separate days, two people visibly walking on crutches, were shot in the head…”

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