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Alison Weir: advocating for Palestine 18 years and counting

[email protected] March 16, 2019 against our better judgment, AIPAC, Alison Weir, eyewitness, Gaza, history, intifada, Nakba

Eighteen years ago this month, Alison Weir returned from her eye-opening, independent trip to Palestine. Many people feel that she may be the Palestinians’ most enduring and relentless advocate.

Her tireless work includes meticulous media analysis, writing, speaking, and educating Americans (and justice-lovers around the world) about the little-known facts of the Nakba (“Catastrophe”), the oppression that Israel has been perpetrating on Palestinians for over seventy years, and how the United States, pressured by the Israel lobby, is complicit.

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WATCH: UN video & report on Israeli forces shooting Gaza protesters

[email protected] March 5, 2019 Gaza, Great March of Return, UN Human Rights Council

Ha’aretz has published the extremely disturbing video evidence that the UN Human Rights Council screened on Feb. 28, 2019 of Israeli forces shooting unarmed Gaza protesters. The report concluded that nations should carry out their duty to arrest persons alleged to have committed, or who ordered to have committed, the international crimes described in the present report…

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Israel sets Gaza up for superbug epidemic

[email protected] March 4, 2019 analysis, Bureau of Investigative Journalism, epidemic, Gaza, gaza blockade, superbug, water shortage, zionism

A recent report exposes the serious threat of a superbug epidemic in Gaza, due to Israeli-blockade shortages of sanitation supplies in hospitals, targeting of medical personnel and facilities, and water shortage and contamination. The epidemic would certainly spread beyond Gaza.

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UN: Israel should face justice for crimes against humanity in Gaza

[email protected] March 1, 2019 Gaza, UN

Israeli forces “have intentionally shot children. They have intentionally shot people with disabilities, they have intentionally shot journalists… We found that one person, a double amputee, was shot and killed as he sat in his wheelchair (see video). On two separate days, two people visibly walking on crutches, were shot in the head…”

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Ten years after the first war on Gaza, Israel still plans endless brute force

[email protected] January 9, 2019 analysis, cast lead, ehud barak, Gaza, goldstone report, hamas, history, khaled mashaal, mowing the lawn, pillar of defense, protective edge, richard goldstone, robert pastor, terrorism, war crime, zionism

Operation Cast Lead (winter 2008-9) is emblematic of everything that is wrong with Israel’s approach to Gaza. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a political conflict to which there is no military solution. Yet Israel persists in shunning diplomacy and relying on brute military force – and not as a last resort but as a first resort.

Operation Cast Lead, the first of several incursions by Israel, killed 1,417 Palestinians and just 13 Israelis. Chillingly, the generals call their repeated bombardments ‘mowing the lawn’

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Israel spraying herbicides inside Gaza violates int’l law, rights groups say

[email protected] January 9, 2019 adalah, agent orange, al medan, environmental modification convention, Gaza, gisha, herbicide, IDF, roundup

For 3 years, Israel has been spraying dangerous herbicides into Gaza to destroy foliage and enable clear viewing of land near the border. (Think Agent Orange.) The destruction of crops and the health risks to farmers infringe on human rights and violate international law. Human rights groups are trying to end this practice.

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NYT investigation concludes Razan Al-Najjar’s death was unnecessary, may be a war crime

[email protected] January 1, 2019 exploding bullet, Gaza, Great March of Return, humanitarian law, IDF, lethal force, sniper, war crime, zionism

Razan Al-Najjar’s death by sniper last June was briefly newsworthy; she was briefly demonized by Israel, then the world forgot about her.

But the NYT chose to investigate, examining 1,000 photos and videos, interviewing experts and over 30 eyewitnesses, and piecing the event together using Israeli 3-D software.

The conclusion: the shooting should never have taken place – no one was endangering Israeli soldiers or the border, and medics were in plain view – and Israel has done little to decrease the frequency of these incidents.

Her death is at best reckless, at worst a war crime.

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Christmas headlines from the Occupied Palestinian territories

[email protected] December 26, 2018 abduction, Bethlehem, Christmas, Gaza, home demolition, occupation, protest, settlement, settler violence, West Bank, zionism

The International Middle East Media Center reports on the ongoing acts of Israeli injustice and violence that most other media don’t bother with. Not a day goes by – including holidays – without abductions, settler brutality, shootings, and often even deaths.

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Naftali Bennett: “the state of Israel stopped winning”

[email protected] November 19, 2018 avigdor lieberman, ayelet shaked, benjamin netanyahu, Gaza, hamas, israeli coalition government, jewish home, Naftali Bennett, zionism

Two right-wing ministers criticize Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for not “acting like a real right-wing government” by being too soft on Gaza, Hamas, and Khan al-Ahmar; but they vow to stay in power rather than resigning as Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman did last week.

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Freedom of Speech takes a hit in Boston as billboard comes down

[email protected] November 16, 2018 billboard, first amendment, first responders, freedom of speech, Gaza, Great March of Return, palestine advocacy project, razan al najjar, zionism

In an aggressive campaign against a billboard company and its staff, Israel supporters threatened boycott and used the label “anti-Semitism” as a weapon to shut down a positive ad celebrating first responders in Gaza. The ad did not mention Israel. No dialogue, no explanation, just suppression of free speech.

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