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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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Israeli forces kill 4 Palestinians in a day as tensions heighten

[email protected] February 6, 2020 Governor Akram Rajoub, Harry Fawcett, Israeli military, Israeli settlements, mahmoud abbas, Middle East, occupied Palestine terroritories, peace plan, ramallah, Tareq Badwan, Trump, West Bank

The escalation comes days after US President Donald Trump released his controversial Middle East plan.

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“Progressive Except Palestine” groups gang up on Bernie Sanders

[email protected] February 4, 2020 AIPAC, bernie sanders, DMFI, Mark Mellman, Michael Bloomberg, progressive except palestine

Mike Bloomberg is courting pro-Israel, Jewish voters with conservative-type promises to keep Israel great, and progressive positions on everything else. The Democratic Majority for Israel PAC (DMFI) supports similarly PEP (Progressive Except Palestine) candidates. Both have it out for Bernie Sanders.

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Jan 31: Israeli forces invade, shell, injure, abduct; boy dies of injuries

[email protected] January 31, 2020

Another typical day in the Palestinian Occupied Territories: Israeli forces invade villages, injure and abduct people of all ages, shell Gaza, and a 15-year-old boy dies from injuries from an Israeli attack in October…

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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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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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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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Jewish Congress launches campaign against ‘antisemitism’ (aka support for Palestinian rights)

Alison Weir January 22, 2020 deir yassin, European Jewish Congress, Moshe Kantor, nancy pelosi, reuven rivlin, Tony Blair, Viatcheslav Kantor, Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor, World Holocaust Forum

By Alison Weir. The European Jewish Congress has launched a worldwide social media campaign against “antisemitism” (which, in EJC eyes, includes opposition to Israeli human rights abuses). The man behind the campaign, EJC President Moshe Kantor, is a Russian-Israeli oligarch known for “unscrupulous business dealings” who says BDS is antisemitic, calls for severe punishment of “intolerance,” and is the founder of numerous international entities.

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