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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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Tennessee “fights anti-Semitism” by passing resolution supporting Israel

[email protected] February 27, 2019 anti-Semitism, BDS, boycott, Ilhan Omar, mark pody, tennessee, zionism

Tennessee has just passed a resolution reaffirming Tennessee’s “unequivocal support” for Israel. State Senator Mark Pody pushed for its passage for “biblical” and other reasons..

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Israel says “No” to clean running water for Palestinian villages

[email protected] February 25, 2019 israeli civil administration, israeli high court of justice, Marco Ben-Shabbat, masafer yatta, occupation, regavim, south hebron hills, water, West Bank, zionism

On February 13, 2019, Israeli forces arrived near the village of a-Tuwani in the South Hebron Hills. The forces used excavating equipment to unearth and destroy a five kilometer stretch of pipe, which was laid just months ago and supplied water to over 1,000 Palestinians. Residents say that without the system, “water has become every family’s largest expense.”

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