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Israel kills Palestinian kids, then kills funeral attendee, then ransacks Defense of Children office

[email protected] July 29, 2021 dcip, defense for children international palestine, Mohammad Abu Sara, Mohammed al-Alami, occupation, police brutality, Shadi Omar Lutfi Salim, Shaukat Khalid Awad, Shawkat Khalid Awad

On Wednesday, Israeli forces killed Mohammad, the 11th Palestinian child victim of Israel in the West Bank in 2021. A few days before they had killed a 17-year-old. Today, they shot dead a 20-year-old participating in Mohammad’s funeral march. Also today, Israeli soldiers broke into and ransacked the local Defense for Children International office. Tuesday, Israeli forces killed a 41-year-old Palestinian man. In the middle of all this, the House advanced a bill to give Israel billions of Americans’ tax dollars.

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The Olympics: Do Only Israeli Victims Matter?

Alison Weir July 27, 2021 football, Israeli athletes, Munich Olympics, Palestinian athletes, soccer

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…

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New poll: 25% of Jewish Americans think Israel is an apartheid state

[email protected] July 16, 2021 apartheid, israel support, jewish american

A quarter of Jewish voters polled by the Jewish Electorate Institute said they believed Israel is an apartheid state. This number rises to 38% for voters under 40.

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The Stolen Childhood of Palestinian Kids

[email protected] July 15, 2021 al tuwani, child abuse, occupation, south hebron hills

Sujoud’s story is unique in its details, but many Palestinian children in the West Bank have had similar haunting experiences with Israeli settlers, soldiers, or another form of the inescapable presence of the occupation.

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House committees pass $20 mill per day on behalf of Israel

Alison Weir July 12, 2021 $20 million, $7 billion, aid to Egypt, aid to Israel, aid to Jordan, AIPAC, appropriations committee, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Appropriations, House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, State

House committees pass mill per day on behalf of Israel

Two House committees just advanced bills that will disburse a total of approximately $7 billion on behalf of Israel if both houses of Congress pass them, and if they’re then signed into law by President Biden…

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WATCH: Deconstructing Trevor Noah’s commentary on Israel-Palestine

[email protected] July 8, 2021 Daily Show, Gaza, progressive except palestine, Trevor Noah

A 5-min video that deconstructs & corrects statements by Trevor Noah on his popular TV show “Daily Show with Trevor Noah” about Israel’s recent attacks on Gazans.

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Israel’s years-long recruitment of African American Christians: A case study

[email protected] June 30, 2021 bishop of israel, Christian TV, Christians and Jews, Church of God in Christ, COGIC, evangelicals, Glenn plummer, Israel-Palestine, pauline plummer

How Israel and its partisans recruited Christian TV entrepreneur Glenn Plummer, a prominent evangelical pastor, to embrace Israel – and raise money for it from Black Christians – despite Israel’s deep ethnic and religious discrimination against Christians and others…

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Israeli troops shoot dead young Palestinian mother

Alison Weir June 18, 2021 IDF, Mai Afanah, Mai Afaneh, Palestinian shot

Mai Afaneh had earned her doctorate in psychology in Jordan, was happily teaching at a local university, and had a good family life with her husband and 5-year-old daughter… ‘She was not politically affiliated. All she cared about was her studies and helping her family and husband…’ She was killed by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank; this is Palestinian territory, not Israel.

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NY Times & Israeli paper feature photos of all 67 Palestinian children killed in Gaza

[email protected] May 31, 2021 Gaza, Haaretz, IDF, Israeli airstrikes, new york times, price of war

In unprecedented actions, the front pages of the New York Times and the Israeli daily newspaper Ha’aretz featured photos of the 67 children in Gaza who were killed by Israeli airstrikes this month. Some Israel partisans called this a ‘blood libel.’

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Could Biden Be Impeached for Aiding and Abetting Israeli War Crimes?

[email protected] May 25, 2021 arms sales, bernie sanders, francis boyle, impeachment, israeli war crimes, joe biden, Paul Findley, Pete McCloskey

One expert is calling for President Biden to face impeachment over his support for Israel. The Biden administration has green-lighted Israel’s bombing of Gaza, blocked the UN Security Council from addressing Israel’s assault on Gaza, and is now sending more weapons to Israel in violation of international law.

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