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Israel kills Palestinian kids, then kills funeral attendee, then ransacks Defense of Children office

[email protected] July 29, 2021 dcip, defense for children international palestine, Mohammad Abu Sara, Mohammed al-Alami, occupation, police brutality, Shadi Omar Lutfi Salim, Shaukat Khalid Awad, Shawkat Khalid Awad

On Wednesday, Israeli forces killed Mohammad, the 11th Palestinian child victim of Israel in the West Bank in 2021. A few days before they had killed a 17-year-old. Today, they shot dead a 20-year-old participating in Mohammad’s funeral march. Also today, Israeli soldiers broke into and ransacked the local Defense for Children International office. Tuesday, Israeli forces killed a 41-year-old Palestinian man. In the middle of all this, the House advanced a bill to give Israel billions of Americans’ tax dollars.

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United Church of Christ (UCC) labels Israel an Apartheid state

[email protected] July 29, 2021 apartheid, christianity, ucc, United Church of Christ

“We reject Israel’s apartheid system of laws and legal procedures,” the United Church of Christ (UCC) stated at its general synod, in a resolution approved by 83 percent of members despite an appeal by the American Jewish Committee. (The term ‘apartheid’ for the Israeli system has been used by numerous experts, including South African apartheid leader Bishop Desmond Tutu, a South African report on Israel, and scholars on the region.)

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United Church of Christ (UCC) resolution stands with Palestinian people

[email protected] July 27, 2021 apartheid, christians. in palestine, kairos palestine, mitri raheb, munther isaac, ucc, United Church of Christ

While the words “apartheid” and “sin” caused fear and trembling among some delegates, and were ultimately stricken, the UCC statement in support of justice for Palestinians was met with 83% approval (14% opposed, 3% abstained).

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Israeli troops kill Palestinian teen in West Bank peaceful protest

[email protected] July 26, 2021 nabi saleh, occupation, peaceful protest, police brutality, Tamimi

The village of Nabi Saleh, home to ordinary Palestinian families, has peacefully resisted Israel’s ongoing confiscation of their land for years. On Friday, the community was shattered by the senseless death of yet another of their own at the hands of Israeli forces.

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The Stolen Childhood of Palestinian Kids

[email protected] July 15, 2021 al tuwani, child abuse, occupation, south hebron hills

Sujoud’s story is unique in its details, but many Palestinian children in the West Bank have had similar haunting experiences with Israeli settlers, soldiers, or another form of the inescapable presence of the occupation.

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Israel’s years-long recruitment of African American Christians: A case study

[email protected] June 30, 2021 bishop of israel, Christian TV, Christians and Jews, Church of God in Christ, COGIC, evangelicals, Glenn plummer, Israel-Palestine, pauline plummer

How Israel and its partisans recruited Christian TV entrepreneur Glenn Plummer, a prominent evangelical pastor, to embrace Israel – and raise money for it from Black Christians – despite Israel’s deep ethnic and religious discrimination against Christians and others…

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The Scofield Bible: The Book That Made Zionists of America’s Evangelical Christians

[email protected] June 29, 2021 Christian Zionists, Hal Lindsey, history of Israel-Palestine, Jerry Falwell, john hagee, Pat Robertson, Scofield Bible, Tim LaHaye

The Scofield Bible has induced generations of American evangelicals to believe that God demands their uncritical support for the modern State of Israel. Few readers know that behind Scofield appears to have been Zionist attorney Samuel Untermeyer, who used Scofield to inject Zionist ideas into American Protestantism…

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Israel on the defensive: Congress members demonstrate their true allegiance

[email protected] June 17, 2021

When the occupied and abused Palestinians object and fight back to the best of their ability as they did from Gaza, which they are entitled to under international law, they are massacred and described conveniently as “terrorists.” When any congressperson – eg Ilhan Omar – speaks out against Israel’s human rights violations, they are attacked.

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Thomas Friedman’s Last Gasp: The failure of liberal zionism

[email protected] June 14, 2021 Gaza, israeli apartheid, joe biden, Jonathan Freedland, one democractic state, Palestine, thomas friedman, two-state solution, zionism

Friedman’s fear is that the debate is quietly shifting outside this framework – towards the recognition that Israel is a belligerent apartheid regime and the conclusion that one democratic state for Palestinians and Jews is now the only viable solution.

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Israeli forces shoot dead 16-year-old Palestinian boy

[email protected] June 11, 2021 Beita, human rights, international criminal court, Mohammad Said Mohammad Hamayel, nablus, occupied Palestine terroritories, West Bank

Since 2013, Israeli forces and settlers have killed at least 168 Palestinian children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory with live ammunition and crowd-control weapons, according to documentation collected by Defense for Children International. Israeli forces shot Mohammad Said Mohammad Hamayel, 16, with live ammunition during a protest in the village of Beita in the occupied West Bank.

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