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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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A cruel, yet very usual Israeli incident that almost nobody knows about

[email protected] December 15, 2018 abu hmeid, collective punishment, home demolition, icrc, occupation, punitive home demolition, resistance, zionism

The illegal Israeli occupation continues its illegal collective punishment by demolishing the home of an alleged terrorist’s family and terrorizing the entire neighborhood.

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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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Marc Lamont Hill’s “anti-Semitism” is a distraction

[email protected] December 6, 2018 analysis, anti-Semitism, apology, BDS, dareen tatour, ethnic cleansing, home demolition, khan al ahmar, Marc Lamont Hill, nation-state law, occupation, open air prison, palestine exception, settlement, solidarity, torture, United Nations, zionism

Marc Lamont Hill, in Nazareth 2014. screenshot from Vimeo video. As is often the case with proponents of justice for Palestinians, Marc Lamont Hill was watched closely by Israel partisans as he spoke before the UN last week. They took a phrase – one phrase – from the speech and threw the rest aside, hoping…

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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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Israeli forces detain 8-year-old Palestinian child near Hebron

[email protected] November 9, 2018 beit ummar, child detention, human rights, human rights abuses, protection of children

According to Defense for Children International, Israel is the only country that automatically prosecutes children in military courts that lack basic fair trial guarantees; 3 out of 4 experience physical violence. The majority of Palestinian child prisoners are charged with throwing stones, an offense that can lead to a sentence of 10 to 20 years…

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FLASHBACK: Making America as ‘secure’ as Israel – Israelis train U.S. police

[email protected] November 5, 2018 ADL, Israeli security experts, police, police training

Every few months local police officers travel to Israel for training in “how to make America more secure.” At the same time, Israeli “experts” are hired in the U.S. to make us “more secure.” The problem is that Israeli “security experts” have perpetrated policies of such cruelty that they’ve made Israelis so insecure that many are leaving Israel…

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NGO calls for Investigation into death of man a few hours after Israeli forces abducted him

[email protected] September 18, 2018 Beit Rima, Mohammed al-Khatib, ramallah, torture

Israeli soldiers sneaked into a West Bank village, abducted a 24-year-old, beat him brutally, took him into custody, and a few hours later he was dead. Israeli authorities have not delivered his body to his family or to Palestinian authorities. This type of thing has happened before…

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Deported Swedish activist: ‘This is how Israel treated us in prison’

[email protected] August 6, 2018 blockade, deportation, detention, divinia levrini, freedom flotilla, zionism

Divinia Levrini describes how flotilla activists were treated in prison: withholding of medical treatment, beatings, “mind games,” strip searching, theft, & death threats.

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Unz Review: “American Pravda: Oddities of the Jewish Religion”

[email protected] July 20, 2018 chomsky, edward said, Israel Shahak, Solzhenitsyn, Talmud, Toaff, zionism

On July 19th Israel passed legislation reaffirming its status as a Jewish state. Jewish American analyst and publisher Ron Unz describes his journey of discovery concerning this subject matter. He discusses Israeli professor Israel Shahak’s information, Solzhenitsyn, and more.

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