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Experts: Israeli System Constitutes Apartheid, Crime against Humanity

[email protected] December 11, 2019 1st Global Conference on Israeli Apartheid, AAARDi, analysis, apartheid, BDS, ESCWA, Israeli Apartheid and the Means to Combat it, racism, richard falk, Rima Khalaf, UN, United Nations, Virginia Tilley

Professors Richard Falk and Virginia Tilley provide detailed reports confirming that Israel is perpetrating “apartheid,” a crime against humanity. Those desiring peace must abandon an illusory “two-state solution” with its focus on the occupation, and instead address the fundamental obstacle to peace: Israel’s racist system. The papers were presented at the launch of a new international network, The 1st Global Conference on Israeli Apartheid. (Includes videos of their speeches)

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Why did Microsoft fund an Israeli firm that surveils West Bank Palestinians?

[email protected] October 29, 2019 Amir Kain, AnyVision, Better Tomorrow, Brad Smith, Eylon Etshtein, facial recognition, Google Ayosh, Mossad, SesaMe, Tamir Pardo, Unit 8200

Microsoft committed to protecting democratic freedoms. Then it funded an Israeli facial recognition firm that secretly watches West Bank Palestinians…

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In Israel, religious extremism is pervasive, unchecked

[email protected] September 6, 2019 ashkenazi, avichai rontzki, believers in the police, bentzi gopstein, Bezalel Smotrich, bnei david, chief rabbinate of israel, david batzri, david lau, eliezer kashtiel, giora radler, knesset, menachem schneerson, Naftali Bennett, orthodox judaism, rafi peretz, rami brachyahu, religious education, sephardic, settler extremism, Shmuel Eliyahu, temple movement, yeshiva, yisrael ariel, yitzchak ginsburg, yitzhak batzri, zionism

In Israel, religious extremism has gone unchecked in the educational establishment, in top levels of government, and among prominent religious leaders – radicalizing a growing number of Israeli youth and endangering Palestinians.

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Tulsi Gabbard’s ‘Road to Damascus’ that the media isn’t talking about

[email protected] August 13, 2019 analysis, assad, iraq, jake tapper, Syria, tulsi gabbard

There’s a good reason she met with Assad, but the media doesn’t want to talk about the facts that Gabbard saw in the Iraq regime change war and that she understands about Syria….

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How Israel Systematically Hides Evidence of 1948 Expulsion of Arabs

[email protected] July 15, 2019 Censorship, history, Nakba

Ha’aretz reports that Israeli officials have scoured local archives and removed troves of historic documents to conceal proof of the ethnic cleansing that established Israel, including documents reporting rapes, looting, the demolition of villages, and killing of civilians…. General Peled: “My platoon blew up 20 homes with everything that was there.” Lev Tov: “While people were sleeping there?” Peled: “I suppose so….”

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Israel is selling arms to fellow human rights abusers, including Myanmar

[email protected] June 6, 2019 arms export, arms sales, myanmar, south sudan

Israel continues to supply arms and training to the regime in Myanmar – despite its genocide against the Rohingya people – and other human rights violators.

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State Department to spend $2 million against “anti-Semitism” abroad

[email protected] March 29, 2019 anti-Semitism envoy, Elan Carr, Hannah Rosenthal

State Department to spend million against “anti-Semitism” abroad

The U.S. State Department is offering to fund two projects “that counter the rise of anti-Semitism” in Europe and Central Asia. The State Department uses a new definition of anti-Semitism that includes criticisms of Israel. Among the alleged anti-Semitism will be “hateful or inflammatory speech in public discourse, traditional media and online…”

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Detailed U.N. Report on Israeli Occupation of Golan Heights

[email protected] March 22, 2019

Israel “destroyed 244 villages and built-up areas in the Golan and expelled their population, sparing only five villages (Majdal Shams, Buq’ata, Ain Qunya, Mas’ada and al-Ghajar). Not even places of worship, schools and health centres escaped destruction. The underlying aim of the occupation authorities was to eliminate Arab landmarks and obliterate the Arab identity of the Golan, as a result of which anyone who visits the Golan today is able to identify the locations of the former Arab villages only from their ruins…”

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“He can’t breathe”: a Palestinian Eric Garner

[email protected] February 18, 2019 al khalil, analysis, chokehold, eric garner, Hebron, IDF, occupation, police brutality, temporary international presence in hebron, tiph, zionism

As Palestinians in Hebron navigate life without the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH) observers, it is worth looking back on how oppressive and violent life was even with outsiders watching. Eric Garner would find the city eerily familiar.

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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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