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Detailed U.N. Report on Israeli Occupation of Golan Heights

[email protected] March 22, 2019

Israel “destroyed 244 villages and built-up areas in the Golan and expelled their population, sparing only five villages (Majdal Shams, Buq’ata, Ain Qunya, Mas’ada and al-Ghajar). Not even places of worship, schools and health centres escaped destruction. The underlying aim of the occupation authorities was to eliminate Arab landmarks and obliterate the Arab identity of the Golan, as a result of which anyone who visits the Golan today is able to identify the locations of the former Arab villages only from their ruins…”

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Goodbye to the Internet: Interference by Governments Is Already Here

[email protected] March 21, 2019 ADL, analysis, Anti-Defamation League, Censorship, cyberhate, hasbara, new zealand massacre, social media, transparency

In the wake of the New Zealand massacre and other serious incidents, some are calling for more policing of the internet. Philip Giraldi argues that US media is already over-regulated, and the bodies that oversee the regulating (for example Congress and ADL) can not be trusted to have our interests at heart.

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Without explanation, Israel tears down new Palestinian school in Jerusalem

[email protected] March 20, 2019 al razi school, demolition, occupation, shuafat refugee camp

On March 19th, with no advance warning, Israel evacuated a Palestinian school in Shaufat, Occupied East Jerusalem, then demolished it. The school’s principal reports that no official reason has been given.

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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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