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“Palestinian lives are cheap”; so are pro-Palestinian American lives – Day 336

[email protected] September 8, 2024 Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, BDS, global hunger, israel arms embargo, israeli settler violence, Lebanon, Netanyahu, West Bank

Official death toll in Gaza approaches 41,000; Biden-Harris fail to condemn killing of US citizen Aysenur Ezgi Eygi by Israeli forces; poll shows Harris would benefit from arms embargo on Israel; global hunger has doubled in 2024, thanks in great part to Biden-backed Israeli assault; the “Wild West Bank,” where Palestinian lives are cheap; Netanyahu misleading the world about Philadelphi Corridor to avoid ceasefire; Israeli forces mutilate Palestinian child’s body; Israeli settler violence; southern Lebanon; BDS win in Maine; more.

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Israel continues illegal practice of assassination – Day 298

[email protected] August 1, 2024 administrative detention, assassination, BDS, boycott, Fuad Shukr, home demolition, Ismail al-Ghoul, israeli settler violence, Mohammed Deif, Palestinian journalists, Rami al-Rifi, Sde Teiman, targeted killing, torture, us defense budget, Veterans For Peace, West Bank

Israel’s assassinations continue – with two more journalists; Palestinian sexual abuse victim returned to scene of the alleged crime; Hezbollah confirms Israel’s killing of military commander Fuah Shukr; Israeli military confirms its killing of Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif; Israeli soldiers, settlers continue terrorizing Palestinians in West Bank; Blinken, State Dept equivocate; US warships converge on Middle East; US “not ready for global war”; boycotts succeeding; UN report on Israeli abuse of Palestinian prisoners; Veterans For Peace have message for Kamala Harris; more.

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Almost all of Gaza ‘totally and completely uninhabitable’ – Day 264

[email protected] June 27, 2024 AIPAC, BDS, caterpillar, destruction of gaza, home demolition, israel lobby, Jamaal Bowman, Lebanon, netanyahu speech to congress, palestinian prisoners, prisoner deaths

Israel deliberately bombs shelter centres, killing displaced people; 2,000 medical evacuations prevented by Rafah crossing closure; home demolition frenzy in West Bank; Palestinian prisoner deaths highest ever; Israel threatens could take Lebanon “back to the Stone Age”; Israeli VIPs urge Congress to “disinvite” Netanyahu; $25 milion buys an election for Israel; UC Berkeley pledges to expand antisemitism ed to all new students; Norwegian group divests from Caterpillar; more

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The mainstream media distorted our anti-Vietnam War protests 50 years ago. They’re following the same strategy today

[email protected] May 10, 2024 BDS, boycott, CNN, college protests, Dana Bash, divest, podcast, sanctions, Vietnam Veterans Against the War

Fifty years ago, I joined in protests against the Vietnam war. Today the mainstream media is smearing pro-Palestine student protests in ways that are even worse than how we were slandered back then.

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United Methodist Church votes to divest from Israel bonds

[email protected] May 5, 2024 BDS, bonds of Israel, bonds of Morocco, bonds of Turkey, boycott, church legislation, defeated resolution endorsing IHRA definition of antisemitism, Divestment, genocide, global boycott of Israeli settlements, human rights violations, Israeli bonds, prolonged military occupation, sanctions, U.S. military aid to Israel, United Methodist Church

In the first such divestment action by a major Christian denomination, the General Conference of the United Methodist Church has voted to divest from Israel bonds, and those of other countries carrying out prolonged military occupations.

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Israeli cruelty reaches new low; United Methodists divest from Israel – Day 209

[email protected] May 3, 2024 BDS, Biden, booby-trapped food, campus protest, free speech, humanitarian aid, international criminal court, Israel, palestinian authority, prison death, turkey, turkiye, united methodist, world press freedom day

Israel booby-traps food, snipes at aid-seekers (again), withholds bodies of Palestinians who died in inhumane prison conditions, threatens PA over ICC possible arrest warrants; antisemitism bill offers Israel impunity; United Methodists divest; World Press Freedom Day honors Palestinian journalists; Turkey breaks trade relations with Israel; Biden speech throws pro-Palestine protesters under the bus; protests spread across the globe; former CIA officer “welcomes the student rebellion against Israeli atrocities”

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Announcing the Harvard University Liberated Zone

[email protected] April 26, 2024 academic freedom, apartheid, BDS, boycott, Divestment, Gaza, genocide, Harvard University

Harvard students have established a Liberated Zone to call for an end to Harvard’s complicity in the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. It is a demonstration of their love of justice, their hope for a free Palestine, and their dream of a liberated future for all.

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New poll: 44% of Dems say Israel is a ‘similar to apartheid,’ 41% support BDS

[email protected] April 26, 2023 apartheid, BDS, boycott

Poll: American Democrats who follow the news are growing more and more aware of Israel’s apartheid policies, and supportive of the use of boycott to secure justice for Palestinians.

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Sarah Margon can’t get confirmed for State Dept job because…Israel

[email protected] January 26, 2023 BDS, boycott divest sanction, Human Rights Watch, sarah margon

Just weeks after Kenneth Roth lost (and then regained) a post at Harvard over his criticism of Israel, another highly qualified Jewish American is squeezed out of her nomination for a top human rights position in the State Department for the same reason.

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Adidas gives ADL, known for bigotry, $1 million for ‘anti-bigotry’ project

[email protected] November 29, 2022 adidas, ADL, Anti-Defamation League, BDS, boycott, droptheadl, Kanye West, sporrtswashing

Adidas gives ADL, known for bigotry, million for ‘anti-bigotry’ project

Adidas just pledged over $1 million to the ADL for the organization to create “a new anti-bigotry curriculum for student athletes,” despite the ADL’s history of support for discrimination and human rights violations. Adidas previously partnered with Israel, and was pressured to walk away over Israel’s systemic human rights abuses. It’s time for Adidas to walk away again…

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