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Remembering Operation Cast Lead, 10 years ago today

[email protected] December 27, 2018 chemical weapon, gaza war, history, IDF, israeli defense forces, operation cast lead, white phosphorus

Today we remember the 2008-9 Israeli incursion into Gaza, Operation Cast Lead, which was launched exactly 10 years ago. 1400 Palestinians – including 344 minors – and 9 Israelis were killed in the hostilities.

A UN report found that Israel’s military operation “destroyed a substantial part of the Gaza Strip’s economic infrastructure and its capacity to support decent livelihoods for families.” A decade later, little progress has been made in rebuilding, thanks in part to Israel’s 2 subsequent attacks on Gaza.

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IDF shot a Palestinian Teen, Dragged Him Around, Chased Ambulance Away

[email protected] December 23, 2018 btselem, children, IDF, stone throwing

The coldness of Israel and its soldiers is incomprehensible – shooting a Palestinian minor in the back, shooting at the neighbor who tried to help, threatening to shoot the ambulance driver, while the youth bled to death. This has become a common occurrence, with at least 52 Palestinian children killed in 2018.

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Opinion: Birthrighters can handle the truth. Show them the occupation.

[email protected] December 20, 2018 alternative tourism, birthright, hasbara, occupation, zionism

A former Birthright trip coordinator and leader’s bold opinion: young Jews on Birthright trips are aware of world events, and shouldn’t have to feel like they’re engaging with a sanitized and whitewashed version of Israel. When tour organizers don’t show them realities like the occupation, they are painting an incomplete and dishonest picture of what’s happening on the ground. Showing and telling the truth will make birthrighters more likely to engage and take action.

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Texas: she didn’t sign the “Israel Oath,” so she got fired

[email protected] December 17, 2018 anti-bds bill, BDS, boycott divest sanction, Censorship, first amendment, free speech, israel oath, zionism

A children’s speech pathologist refuses to sign a will-not-boycott-Israel oath: she loses her job, an unknown number of children lose her advocacy. She notes how outlandish it is that she is not required to uphold the interests of the United States, or Texas, or children, but a foreign country.
As The Intercept has repeatedly documented, the most frequent victims of official campus censorship are not conservative polemicists but pro-Palestinian activists, and the greatest and most severe threat posed to free speech throughout the west is aimed at Israel critics.

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Truth is stranger than fiction: 3 days in the West Bank

[email protected] December 17, 2018 collective punishment, fourth geneva convention, humanitarian law, IDF, international law, occupation, zionism

Elderly women, families, children, and of course young men in the occupied Palestinian territories are regularly treated with brutality by Israeli forces. International laws are in place to protect vulnerable populations, but Israel ignores such laws – and gets away with it. Simple, common decency ought to elicit restraint on the part of the occupier, but does not.

These very brief stories are snapshots of Israeli cruelty between December 15 and 17, 3 days out of the 50+ years of violent occupation which the United States endorses and supports to the tune of over $10 million a day.

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AIPAC takes newly elected Congress members, CNN’s Setmayer on propaganda trips to Israel

[email protected] December 13, 2018 AIEF, AIPAC, Alexandria Ocasio-Corte, Dan Crenshaw, David Trone, Denver Riggleman., Elaine Luria, israel lobby, Rashida Tlaib, Susie Lee, Tara Setmayer, Tim Burchett

The Israel lobby is taking newly elected Congressional representatives, CNN-ABC commentator Tara Setmayer, & California “progressive leaders” on propaganda trips to Israel. AIPAC IS using a loophole that violates the spirit of the law… and seems to be functioning as a foreign agent…

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Three Palestinians and three Israelis killed in spate of deadly incidents

[email protected] December 13, 2018 drive-by, extrajudicial killing, IDF, manhunt, occupation, ofra, settlement, zionism

The Israeli military has recently been conducting aggressive operations inside the occupied Palestinian West Bank, including in Area A, where the Palestinian Authority is supposed to be in full control.
Israel continues to prolong and entrench the now 50+-year occupation, citing the need for security; in reality the occupation and its injustice are the cause of Palestinian resistance, not the result of Palestinian violence.

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Israeli press review: New poll shows rampant racism in Israel

[email protected] December 11, 2018 arab israeli, prejudice, racism, zionism

Israeli television channel conducted a poll which found that Israeli Jews have a high level of anti-Palestinian prejudice.

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Israel propaganda trips target ‘Pacific Progressive Leaders’ – no one will say who’s going

[email protected] December 8, 2018 AIEF, AIPAC, American Israel Education Foundation, American Jewish Committee, Andrea Beth Damsky, John Gioia, Joseph Simitian, JPAC, Passages Israel, Paul Singer

An $85 million Israel advocacy organization is taking local American officials identified as “progressive” on propaganda trips to Israel. While no one will divulge the rosters, we have a few names of California participants in these extravagant, influence peddling affairs… and ideas about what to do about them

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CNN fires commentator Marc Lamont Hill for UN speech supporting Palestinian rights

[email protected] November 30, 2018 ADL, CNN, Marc Lamont Hill, Seth Mandel, Simon Wiesenthal Center

CNN has fired commentator Marc Lamont Hill for a speech that he gave at the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People at the UN on Wednesday. Pro-Israel groups and individuals immediately criticized Hill, and CNN quickly fired him. See the speech…

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