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Opinion: Birthrighters can handle the truth. Show them the occupation.

[email protected] December 20, 2018 alternative tourism, birthright, hasbara, occupation, zionism

A former Birthright trip coordinator and leader’s bold opinion: young Jews on Birthright trips are aware of world events, and shouldn’t have to feel like they’re engaging with a sanitized and whitewashed version of Israel. When tour organizers don’t show them realities like the occupation, they are painting an incomplete and dishonest picture of what’s happening on the ground. Showing and telling the truth will make birthrighters more likely to engage and take action.

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WATCH: Leaked report based on 20 years of monitoring: Israel regularly violates international law

[email protected] December 18, 2018

An international group created 20 years ago to monitor the situation in the West Bank city of Hebron has issued a confidential report based on over 40,000 incident reports that shows a consistent pattern of Israel violating human rights and international law… see videos

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Texas: she didn’t sign the “Israel Oath,” so she got fired

[email protected] December 17, 2018 anti-bds bill, BDS, boycott divest sanction, Censorship, first amendment, free speech, israel oath, zionism

A children’s speech pathologist refuses to sign a will-not-boycott-Israel oath: she loses her job, an unknown number of children lose her advocacy. She notes how outlandish it is that she is not required to uphold the interests of the United States, or Texas, or children, but a foreign country.
As The Intercept has repeatedly documented, the most frequent victims of official campus censorship are not conservative polemicists but pro-Palestinian activists, and the greatest and most severe threat posed to free speech throughout the west is aimed at Israel critics.

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Truth is stranger than fiction: 3 days in the West Bank

[email protected] December 17, 2018 collective punishment, fourth geneva convention, humanitarian law, IDF, international law, occupation, zionism

Elderly women, families, children, and of course young men in the occupied Palestinian territories are regularly treated with brutality by Israeli forces. International laws are in place to protect vulnerable populations, but Israel ignores such laws – and gets away with it. Simple, common decency ought to elicit restraint on the part of the occupier, but does not.

These very brief stories are snapshots of Israeli cruelty between December 15 and 17, 3 days out of the 50+ years of violent occupation which the United States endorses and supports to the tune of over $10 million a day.

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A cruel, yet very usual Israeli incident that almost nobody knows about

[email protected] December 15, 2018 abu hmeid, collective punishment, home demolition, icrc, occupation, punitive home demolition, resistance, zionism

The illegal Israeli occupation continues its illegal collective punishment by demolishing the home of an alleged terrorist’s family and terrorizing the entire neighborhood.

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AIPAC takes newly elected Congress members, CNN’s Setmayer on propaganda trips to Israel

[email protected] December 13, 2018 AIEF, AIPAC, Alexandria Ocasio-Corte, Dan Crenshaw, David Trone, Denver Riggleman., Elaine Luria, israel lobby, Rashida Tlaib, Susie Lee, Tara Setmayer, Tim Burchett

The Israel lobby is taking newly elected Congressional representatives, CNN-ABC commentator Tara Setmayer, & California “progressive leaders” on propaganda trips to Israel. AIPAC IS using a loophole that violates the spirit of the law… and seems to be functioning as a foreign agent…

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Israeli press review: New poll shows rampant racism in Israel

[email protected] December 11, 2018 arab israeli, prejudice, racism, zionism

Israeli television channel conducted a poll which found that Israeli Jews have a high level of anti-Palestinian prejudice.

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Attending school while Palestinian: brief (horror) stories from the last 6 weeks

[email protected] December 10, 2018 Bethlehem, demolition, Hebron, occupation, school, zionism

Israeli forces prepare to demolish a school in Hebron, West Bank on 11 July 2018 [DonnaBaranski-Walker/Twitter] Children in occupied West Bank schools are attacked and traumatized on a regular basis, as a matter of official policy. These are stories from just November and ten days in December (subsidized by American tax dollars). compiled by If…

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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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Israeli Army Denied Soldiers Threw Gas Canister Into Hebron School. Then a Video Surfaced

[email protected] December 6, 2018 breaking the silence, Hebron, IDF, occupation, tear gas, zionism

The Israel Defense Forces said their army doesn’t launch stun grenades or tear gas into Palestinian schools, but after a video surfaced it altered its response, blaming “the wind.”

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