The killing of a Palestinian-American boy on Friday was neither a random occurrence nor a simple act of Islamophobia. It happened because many media reports misinformed Americans, and politicians, including the President, repeated Israeli spin and disinformation
When bombs are dropping all around you, do you embrace your wretched life, or pray for death? From Gaza, Horea shared her heart.
New info and stats about the ongoing situation – updated regularly – also provides background & history. (This is pinned to the top – see additional new posts below.)
Two Palestinian young men were killed, nine Palestinian children were detained; the pope is disgusted by Israelis who spit on Christians.
The ADL wants to see the continuation of Israeli abuse of Palestinian human rights – and the repression of free speech on American campuses – rather than cause discomfort among Jewish students.
Media showed the same 30-second clip over and over… The obvious agenda was to rally viewers around the very crudest response to the news: violence needed to be met with more violence & a political clampdown… Probably no single film clip in recent history had as much of an impact as the Palestine clip. Summing it up was an Israeli expert on terrorism quoted in Reuters: “It is the most important public relations act ever committed in our favor.”
Is this water apartheid? Recent viral videos show Israeli Civil Administration overseeing as Israeli soldiers and workers fill Palestinian water wells with cement – in the middle of a sweltering summer. Was this a fluke, or part of a massive, discriminative strategy on Israel’s part? The answer will become clear as we sift through the evidence.
During a Hebron raid by Israeli forces, five female family members were forced to undress while threatened by the soldiers’ rifles and a dog from the canine unit.
Gideon Levy: Israel’s Supreme Court is just as cruel as its military court when dealing with Palestinians: it is a rubber stamp of injustice and apartheid. (Also see recent interview with Levy.)
Longtime journalist Chris Hedges offers a partial inventory of Israel’s documented human rights abuses of Palestinians – massive abuses that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. chooses to ignore: the crimes of apartheid, and the targeting and torturing of civilians, to name a few. As Hedges reminds us, to support this Israel is to “justify the unjustifiable”; and to protest Israeli policy is “a political death wish.” (part 3)