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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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Florida’s anti-Semitism bill would go even further in blocking free speech

[email protected] March 16, 2019 anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, first amendment, florida, freedom of speech, hate crime, michael caruso, randy fine, zionism

A Florida ‘hate crime’ bill with an expanded, Israel-centric definition of anti-Semitism and no mention of other religions, is working its way through House committees. Critics say that it violates free speech. This is the latest step in an international campaign to rewrite the definition of anti-Semitism to prevent many criticisms of Israel.

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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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Israel bans Arab parties, okays Jewish racist candidate

[email protected] March 9, 2019 balad, jewish power, kahane, kahanist, michael ben ari, ofer cassif, Otzma Yehudit, zionism

In Israel, two Palestinian political parties and one Jewish member of a mostly Palestinian party have been banned from running in the April 9th election; meanwhile a radical Jewish candidate stays in, despite the Attorney General’s recommendation to remove him from the ballot.

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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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Two Palestinian children killed in home fire after Israel blocks fire trucks

[email protected] March 6, 2019 al khalil, checkpoint, fourth geneva convention, Hebron, occupation, zionism

Israeli soldiers prevented a Palestinian fire truck from reaching a home fire, resulting in the deaths of two small children. This is just one example of a longtime trend: Israelis detain or damage ambulances and attack medics on a regular basis.

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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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