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Congratulations AIPAC on 500th air delivery of US weapons to kill Gazans – Day 324

[email protected] August 27, 2024 Amnesty International, false antisemitism, Hezbollah, Human Rights Watch, humanitarian aid, indiscriminate attack, jewish settlers al aqsa, military industrial complex, NYU, torture, weapons to israel, west bank deaths

US averages over one planeload of weapons per day to Israel; another evacuation order, another disruption in aid for Gazans; new statements from Amnesty, Human Rights Watch on Israeli atrocities; Hezbollah ready to stop trading attacks with Israel, while Israel mulls escalation; another journalist killed in Gaza, as global press groups protest; Israel kills six Palestinians in West Bank; Israel to fund Israeli settlers’ illegal intrusions into Al Aqsa mosque compound; anti-Zionism = antisemitism policy at NYU is worrying; Columbia SJP disappeared; more.

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New worries as polio virus detected in Gaza sewage – Day 285

[email protected] July 19, 2024 American Federation of Teachers, Amnesty International, democratic platform, gaza pier, healthcare in gaza, houthis, humanitarian aid, icc arrest warrant, itamar ben gvir, microsoft, mike johnson, Netanyahu, netanyahu speech, oxfam report, palestinian statehood, polio virus, republican national convention, torture

Polio risk added to long list of crises in Gaza; Amnesty speaks out on Israeli torture, Oxfam speaks out on Israeli water weaponization; LA may hire ex-IDF soldiers to patrol streets; 1,000+ attacks on Palestinian healthcare; Ben Gvir’s provocative prayer visit to Al Aqsa; Netanyahu nixes children’s hospital for Gaza kids; ICC arrest warrants expected soon; Republican and Democratic parties scramble to ingratiate with Israel; much more.

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Still no evidence of UNRWA employees’ participation in October 7th – Day 198

[email protected] April 22, 2024 Amnesty International, Columbia, emerson, Gaza, Israel, khan younis, mass grave, mit, netzah yehuda, Rafah, tufts, unrwa, West Bank, yale

Months after allegations, no proof from Israel that UNRWA employees were part of October 7th attacks; baby girl delivered after mom killed in Rafah; mass grave in Khan Younis contains at least 283 bodies; thousands of Gazans missing following Israeli military withdrawal; bread and baby formula at last in northern Gaza; increased drone activity worries Rafah residents; new report from Amnesty; West Bank devastation, death; Netzah Yehuda battalion’s very bad reputation; campuses across US show solidarity with Columbia’s pro-Palestine students, more

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Amnesty International: A Template for Futility

[email protected] November 6, 2023 Amnesty International, Gaza

Israel engages in these attacks every four or five years; it calls them “mowing the lawn operations”. Amnesty issues press releases & reports, then blames “both sides”…. A blatant double standard covers up Israel’s crimes against humanity… Amnesty was founded by an Israel partisan…

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Washington Post, NYT, LA Times are erasing Palestine

[email protected] February 16, 2022 Amnesty International, apartheid South Africa, Associated Press, CAMERA, ihra definition of anti-semitism, israeli apartheid, Los Angeles Times, new york times, washington post

Journalists on major papers are blocked from truth-telling about Palestine and the apartheid practices of Israel. Such censorship in top American newspapers is troubling – and not unprecedented.

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Challenge to Israel’s Supporters: Tell Me What’s Untrue in Amnesty’s Report on Israel

[email protected] February 7, 2022 Amnesty International, antisemitism, apartheid, Gideon Levy

Israel and its partisans want to ignore the new Amnesty Int’l report on Israeli apartheid, claiming it’s “antisemitic.” Gideon Levy insists, “What is written in the report does not stem from antisemitism, but will help strengthen it. Israel is the greatest motivator of antisemitic urges in the world today.”

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ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt: supporters of Palestine = ISIS

[email protected] February 5, 2022 ADL, al qaeda, al qeada, Amnesty International, anti fefamation league, antisemitism, isis, Jonathan Greenblatt

Jonathan Greenblatt insists that Israel is innocent of the crime of apartheid, and that the US should not employ supporters of Palestine in public office.

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Israel, a Vengeful Democracy

[email protected] March 30, 2021 Amnesty International, freedom of movement, Laith Abu Zeyad, shin bet

Israeli journalist Amira Hass calls out Israel’s unjust treatment of a young Palestinian man with an otherwise promising future – false accusations and “secret evidence” keep Laith Abu Zeyad from a position with Amnesty International in London, and also from seeing his mother on her deathbed.

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Israel’s ‘secret evidence’ serves as my chains, lock, and key

[email protected] March 5, 2021 Amnesty International, detention, freedom of movement, Laith Abu Zeyad, secret evidence, travel ban

This Amnesty International worker shares his thoughts about clinging to hope while under the brutal, often indiscriminate and frivolous restrictions Israel imposes on Palestinians like himself.

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Human rights reports on Israel-Palestine (regularly updated)

[email protected] September 5, 2019 Amnesty International, btselem, Christian Aid, Defense for Children International, excessive force, gaza crisis, Great March of Return, Human Rights Watch, humanitarian crisis, Israeli human rights violations, kerem shalom crossing, ocha, Palestine, Physicians for Human Rights, rafah crossing, Red Cross, reporters without borders, unicef, West Bank

Each month, numerous NGOs produce reports on the humanitarian situation in Israel-Palestine, but US media rarely report on them. See this compilation of reports by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, National Lawyers Guild, Red Cross, Christian Aid, B’Tselem, Defense for Children International, and others…

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