In Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Palestinians are presumed guilty; settler violence is invisible. The Washington Post perpetuates the myths.
Israel, Washington Post teach Americans: Palestinian lives don’t matter
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Palestinians launch national football team for amputees
Gaza has such a large population of young male amputees – courtesy of Israeli snipers – that they have formed a world-class Palestinian soccer team and joined the World Amputee Football Association.
Israeli troops shoot at, beat 2 Palestinian boys, detain them for 29 hours
15-yr-old Mohammed & 13-yr-old Mustafa were arrested for playing games boys play; their parents weren’t informed. The next 29 hours were traumatizing.
Shackled, Beaten, Strung Up on a Tree: Palestinian Teen Brutally Attacked by Settlers
Fifteen-year-old Tareq Zubeidi, a victim of settler violence this week. The settlers kicked him, he says, as he lay on the ground, then placed him on the hood of the car, lashing him to it with a chain. At the supposedly evacuated settlement of Homesh last week, a Palestinian teen was seized by settlers and…
‘They Choose One Person to Kill, and Then the Protest Is Over’
Imad Duikat was the sixth Palestinian to be shot dead by Israeli troops during recent protests against the settler outpost of Evyatar, and the 40th to be killed in the West Bank since May.
The Olympics: Do Only Israeli Victims Matter?
The Olympics opening ceremony featured a moving commemoration for Israeli athletes who tragically and needlessly died half a century ago (when the Israeli prime minister refused a prisoner exchange), but failed to highlight a tragedy going on now that the world could stop: the desperate plight of Palestinian athletes who have been shot, maimed, & sometimes killed by Israeli forces… The ceremony also ignored the hundreds of men, women, and children killed by Israeli forces in the lead up to the tragic 1972 event, and the hundreds more killed by Israeli forces the following day…
Messi, Barcelona boycott occupied Jerusalem in solidarity with Palestine
The Spanish club refuses to play in Jerusalem, following calls by Palestinian leaders to boycott the match against Beitar – a team known for its openly racist fan base.
To distract from Gaza slaughter, Israel lobby manufactures antisemitism freakout
The Israel lobby needs to turn our attention away from the slaughter in Gaza. Its strategy: deceptively edited videos and dubious allegations of “antisemitism” against Palestine solidarity activists. Thanks to dubious ADL claims and unquestioning media coverage, Jewish Americans supplant Gazan children as victims.
Liberal rabbi calls on US Jews to stand up for Israeli ‘siblings’ against a hostile press
Rabbi Rick Jacobs of the Union for Reform Judaism said the moral issues here are simple, & it’s time for American Jews to show “solidarity and love” with Israel by countering that bad press from its bombardment of Gaza…
Israel Approves Annexation of Palestinian Lands Near Bethlehem
In yet another land grab, Israel has approved the annexation of prime Palestinian land near Bethlehem. Palestinians have no say in the matter.