Yazan Samer Jabari’s death brings the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli army fire in the first fourteen days of 2023, to ten, including three minors.
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I once ran Human Rights Watch. Harvard blocked my fellowship over Israel
Kenneth Roth: “I was told that my fellowship at the Kennedy School was vetoed over my and Human Rights Watch’s criticism of Israel. How can an institution that purports to address foreign policy – that even hosts a human rights policy center – avoid criticism of Israel?”
Invading Israeli forces kill 5 Palestinians in West Bank
On Wednesday and Thursday Israeli troops invading Palestinian towns killed three teens, a 25-year-old, and a father trying to defend his son, bringing Palestinian deaths in the first 12 days of 2023 to 9.
2022: 12 months of Israeli violence against Palestinians
2022 was a deadly year for Palestinians under Israeli occupation. If Americans Knew brought you crucial information – and will continue in 2023.
Israel has killed three Palestinians already in 2023
Following a deadly 2022, the new year has already seen Israeli forces kill three Palestinians – a 15-year-old from Bethlehem, a 17-year-old, and a young man of 22. Two other Palestinians in their twenties were also killed in the last days of December.
Israeli guards called him “the Christian” to insult him, then beat him some more
Israeli police burst into his home, broke his nose and a tooth, then dragged him by force, bound and blindfolded, to their van. After 41 days of beatings in an Israeli prison, 16-year-old Shadi Khoury is finally released to house arrest
His family had to break their usual tradition of visiting his grandmother on Christmas in Bethlehem and attending Christmas mass because of Shadi’s house arrest…
His mother is concerned that his adolescence has been lost forever…
As usual, defense bill gives millions of dollars to Israel, but no one tells Americans
Israeli media report that the 2023 defense spending bill just signed into law contains over $500 million for Israel (just the tip of the iceberg of spending for Israel)… AIPAC commended Congress…
Two Palestinian cancer patients die of Israeli medical neglect
Israel notoriously blocks Palestinian patients, especially in Gaza and in Israeli prisons, from obtaining permission to travel for medical care. Ten have died in 2022.
WATCH: O Little Town of Bethlehem, Palestine
Video by If Americans Knew. All the clips in this video took place in Bethlehem. Read more…
As Twitter censorship is revealed, will Palestine remain canceled?
Twitter’s secret blacklists are being revealed in the new Twitter Files releases. Will the project also investigate Twitter’s suppression of Palestinian content? Twitter’s former chief censor Yoel Roth has tweeted against criticism of Israel. And one of the journalists investigating Twitter’s censorship, Bari Weiss, has been called a “Zionist fanatic of near-unhinged proportions,” – and says she “happily plead[s] guilty as charged.” Weiss has a history of working to cancel people and suppress negative facts about Israel…