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The Jewish community excommunicates Jews who support Palestinian freedom

[email protected] April 6, 2021 Alissa Wise, anti-Zionism, BDS, If Not Now, Jeffrey Goldberg, Jewish Currents, jewish voice for peace

For supporting Palestinian human rights, Rabbi Alissa Wise received ‘vitriolic hatred’ from the Jewish community: ‘death threats, sexually threatening emails, voicemails and even letters delivered to my home.’ After 20 years, she’s decided to stop her humanitarian work ‘for the sake of my children being Jewish.’ She’s now ‘decided to dedicate my life to the Jewish people.’ A leading Zionist writer says 97 percent of Jews worldwide support Zionism…

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Trump pardons brokered by groups tied to Jared Kushner

[email protected] March 23, 2021 alan dershowitz, Aleph Institute, Brett Tolman, Chabad-Lubavitch, Charles Kushner, Jared Kushner, Nick Muzin, Philip Esformes, Rabbi Moshe Margaretten, Sheldon Silver, Sholam Weiss, sholom rubashkin, Tzedek Association

Trump relied heavily on a pro-Israel network that revolved around two influential Jewish organizations connected to Jared Kushner to determine who would get pardons, according to an investigation by the New York Times… The Aleph Institute and Tzedek Association are tied to influential lawyers including Israel partisan Alan Dershowitz… The Aleph Institute is a non-profit organization that was founded at the express direction of the Chabad-Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, an extremist pro-Israel religious leader…

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WATCH: Palestinian Rockets – The Hidden Facts

[email protected] March 15, 2021 Gaza, rockets, sderot

US media reports focus on Palestinian rockets fired into Israel from Gaza, but the reports leave out essential facts and reverse the reality…

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Palestinian activist victorious in landmark defamation lawsuit

Kathryn Shihadah March 13, 2021 anti-slapp law, BDS, Censorship, first amendment, IDF, razan al najjar, Rebecca Rumshiskaya, social media, Suhair Nafal

Pictured left is a photo of Rumshiskaya taken for an IDF promotional campaign, and right, a photo of Nafal provided to MintPress. “What this judge brilliantly uncovered is that Israeli law is inherently inconsistent with American values.” — Attorney Haytham Faraj by Alan MacLeod, reposted from MintPress News, March 10, 2021 SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA — A…

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New Congress entertains its first anti-BDS legislation

[email protected] March 6, 2021 andy barr, BDS, boycott, covid relief, fmep, IHRA definition

New Congress, same Israel partisanship. One congressperson proposed an amendment to the COVID relief bill that would refuse funding to supporters of the Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights – during a *pandemic.*

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Meet Sami Huraini, leader of a rising youth protest movement in the West Bank

[email protected] March 4, 2021 annexation, area c, at-tuwani, harun abu aram, israeli settlement, nonviolent protest, occupation, sami huraini, settler violence, sumud, youth of sumud

Activist Sami Huraini, 23, is one of the coordinators of a West Bank youth group engaged in weekly demonstrations. His family history of nonviolent protest has yielded some unlikely victories.

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Daily assault on Palestinian childhood – attacks, bombings, abductions, shootings

[email protected] March 1, 2021 child detention, childhood cancer, home invasion, israeli airstrike, Israeli military, medical apartheid, settler violence

Being a child while Palestinian is full of risks. Airstrikes, home (and school) invasions, home (and school) demolitions, inability to access medical care – these are just some of the dangers of being not-Jewish in a land under Israeli control.

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WATCH: Giving Congress member Manning the facts on rockets & Sderot

[email protected] February 19, 2021 Congress, Gaza, Manning, Palestinian rockets, rockets, sderot, trip to Israel

Kathy Manning (D-NC) wrote of her fear of Gazan rockets when she went on an Israeli tour to the city of Sderot (a town that numerous American politicians are taken to visit). But it’s clear that Manning knows little about the history and current context of Gaza and Sderot, and is missing essential facts. This video gives her the information that Israeli tour guides and US media leave out.

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Send some love to Palestine by tweeting to your legislators (tweets included)!

[email protected] February 14, 2021 andrew yang, BDS, boycott, grassroots, Twitter, Valentine's Day

Americans and their representatives in government need to learn more about the Palestinian cause. Help us spread the word on Valentine’s Day and Valentine’s Monday!

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The Two-State Solution is dead. It’s time for One Democratic State.

[email protected] February 5, 2021 apartheid, awad abdelfattah, israel democracy, one democratic state, one state solution, settler colonialism, two-state solution, zionism

“The “two-state solution” is no longer a viable option – if it ever was. Meet the campaign for a more just, long lasting solution: One Democratic State for Palestine and Israel.

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