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Testimonies from some of the 8,000 Palestinian children Israel has imprisoned

[email protected] March 21, 2019 child arrest, child detention, israel defense forces, torture

Addameer reports that since the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory in 1967, more than 800,000 Palestinians have been detained under Israeli military orders–approximately 20 percent of the total Palestinian population in the oPt and as much as 40 percent of the total male Palestinian population… 8,000 Palestinian children have been arrested since 2000. Boys and young men are seized in the dead of night, blindfolded and cuffed, abused and manipulated to confess to crimes they didn’t commit. Every year Israel arrests almost 1,000 Palestinian youngsters, some of them not yet 13.

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FLORIDIANS: your freedom of speech is at risk – take action!

[email protected] March 20, 2019 anti-Semitism, florida hb741, florida house of representatives, florida legislature, florida sb1272, florida senate

The Bill of Rights gives Americans the right to free speech, including the right to criticize any country on earth, including our own. But a Florida ‘hate crime’ bill working its way through the Florida legislature would interfere with Floridians’ constitutional right to make statements critical of one foreign country: Israel. Contact these Florida lawmakers now and tell them to vote no on this attempt to violate our freedom of speech!

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Israel’s ‘Rule of the Rabbis’ Who Preach Genocide Fuels Holy War

Kathryn Shihadah March 6, 2019 al aqsa, analysis, ayelet shaked, david ben-gurion, gender discrimination, genocide, Haredim, holy war, Mordechai Eliyahu, Naftali Bennett, orthodox jew, price tag, separation of church and state, Shmuel Eliyahu, uri avrney, zionism

Largely ignored by critics have been Israel’s increasing theocratic tendencies – the growth of Israel’s extremist religious population and the emergence of a class of influential rabbis who endorse the killing of non-Jews and preach genocide…

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Israeli prof: Israel tests weapons on Palestinian kids, tests drugs on prisoners

[email protected] March 1, 2019 drug testing, hebrew university, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, organ harvesting, palestinian prisoners, Robrecht Vanderbeeken, weapon testing

An Israeli professor speaking at Columbia Univ. reported that Israeli authorities have permitted large pharmaceutical firms to experiment on Palestinian prisoners, and have been testing weapons on Palestinian children. Her study was published in a Canadian academic journal.

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25 years after an Israeli massacred 29 Palestinians, victims are still being punished

[email protected] February 26, 2019 al khalil, baruch goldstein, collective punishment, Hebron, history, ibrahimi mosque, israeli settlement, nonviolent protest, occupation, settler violence, shuhada street, temporary international presence in hebron, tiph, tomb of the patriarchs, youth against settlements, zionism

Today marks the 25th anniversary of Israeli settler Baruch Goldstein’s massacre of 29 Palestinians as they prayed. Israeli soldiers blocked Palestinians who tried to flee and who wanted to enter to help the victims. The repercussions of the attack are still felt by Palestinians in Hebron, who have seen their rights eroded and their formerly bustling city centre turn into a ghost town.

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Israel says “No” to clean running water for Palestinian villages

[email protected] February 25, 2019 israeli civil administration, israeli high court of justice, Marco Ben-Shabbat, masafer yatta, occupation, regavim, south hebron hills, water, West Bank, zionism

On February 13, 2019, Israeli forces arrived near the village of a-Tuwani in the South Hebron Hills. The forces used excavating equipment to unearth and destroy a five kilometer stretch of pipe, which was laid just months ago and supplied water to over 1,000 Palestinians. Residents say that without the system, “water has become every family’s largest expense.”

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Neocons tell Democrats how to get rid of Ilhan Omar

[email protected] February 24, 2019

Philip Giraldi reports that neocons (Israel partisans who switched from the left to the right) have come and gone and then come again. Some are part of the “Trump resistance”… their new media incarnation “The Bulwark” advises Democrats how to get rid of the freshman Congressional rep who blew the whistle on AIPAC…

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ACLU: the difference between anti-discrimination and anti-BDS

[email protected] February 24, 2019 aclu, BDS, boycott, political expression

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) attorney Brian Hauss dissects the accusation from the anti-BDS camp that it is “hypocritical” to support anti-discrimination laws (think: wedding cake), but oppose anti-BDS laws. Bottom line: businesses do not have the right to refuse service to consumers because of who they are. On the other hand, consumers have a First Amendment right to withhold their patronage from businesses in order to express their political beliefs.

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NPR reporter defends one-sided report on Ilhan Omar

[email protected] February 22, 2019 AIPAC, all things considered, Ilhan Omar, israel lobby, NPR, Susan Davis

An “All Things Considered” reporter says the NPR report was “fair,” but in reality it reported only one side of the controversy and omitted significant information. The reporter’s email reveals a skewed perception of events. NPR has a history of such Israel-centric reporting…

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Israel: “father isn’t sick enough” for son to travel from Gaza to West Bank

[email protected] February 20, 2019 gaza blockade, gisha, oordinator of Government Activities in the Territories

Mohammed suffered a stroke, but Israel says he’s not ill enough for his son to get a travel permit to visit him. He needs care, but that is irrelevant. According to Israeli criteria, travel permits are only granted if first-degree relatives are dead or dying.

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