In a brutal show of force Tuesday night, Israeli police stormed Al Aqsa mosque, arresting at least 400 worshipers and causing havoc and destruction during the holy month of Ramadan.
The Intercept recently featured an in-depth article describing Israel’s decades-long campaign of discrimination and violence against Palestinians – in a way that begins to capture the magnitude of the injustice. The many forms of mistreatment require a lengthy article. IAK has broken it into four manageable parts which we will release over the next several days.
In Part One, read about the case of the hamlets of Masafer Yatta, where Israeli policy is trying to force Palestinians to leave – either by discriminatory legislation or intimidation and violence.
Sylvain Cypel’s book is a violent indictment of the Jewish homeland & its growing embrace of apartheid. The author is a prominent French newspaper editor & foreign correspondent who lived in Israel for 12 years, trained there to be a youth movement leader & served in a paratroop brigade
Parroting the Israel “history” fantasy that Netanyahu has been peddling, extremist Israeli lawmaker Bezalel Smotrich told an audience, “Palestinian people are an invention…This is the biblical truth.”
Ahmad Manasra’s waking nightmare continues: traumatized, tried as an adult at age 14, convicted of attempted murder in spite of the evidence, and sentenced to 12 years in prison (later reduced to 9 1/2 years). He has been in solitary confinement since November 2021, and Israeli courts just extended his isolation for another 6 months – though he suffers from schizophrenia.
Burley-Sunshine-Ross’s version of “antifascism” involves viciously attacking longtime critics of Israeli apartheid like David Rovics, Norman Finkelstein, Alison Weir, Medea Benjamin, etc The goal: destroy the movement, one victim at a time…
On Sunday, Israeli occupation forces shot dead three more Palestinians, 18, 22, and 24. This brings the death toll this year to 84 Palestinians and 12 Israelis.
This week, Israeli soldiers attacked 6- and 8-year-old children, killed a teenager, and delivered demolition orders to an EU-funded primary school. Israeli occupation forces have killed 15 Palestinian children (80 Palestinians total) since the beginning of 2023.
Israeli special forces killed three Palestinians at point-blank range, while a 14-year-old Palestinian died after he was shot on Tuesday. Israeli forces and settlers have killed 78 Palestinians since the start of 2023, including 14 children and a woman.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken calls for “both sides” to de-escalate tensions in the Palestinian West Bank. Since the start of the year, Israeli forces have killed 72 Palestinians; 12 Israelis have also been killed.