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Tuesday was a very bad day for Palestinians, but so is every other day

[email protected] December 5, 2018 abduction, bedouin, Great March of Return, home demolition, occupation, operation cast lead, salfit, tulkarem, zionism

The events of December 4, 2018 in the occupied Palestinian territories would startle most of the world, but US mainstream US media won’t report them: a grieving father is unable to get Israel to take responsibility for just 4 of the 1,400 deaths from Operation Cast Lead; an Israeli arms testing facility is about to move in on Bedouin land; a mentally disabled man is killed; 24 Palestinians are abducted; and 5 buildings (and livelihoods of 5 families) are demolished.

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How Palestinians in Jerusalem are being targeted in a campaign of ethnic cleansing

[email protected] December 3, 2018 confiscation, east jerusalem, elad, ethnic cleansing, judaization, old city jerusalem, settlement, silwan, zionism

Israel’s takeover of Arab East Jerusalem has continued unabated since the 1967 war, but has grown more brazen since US President Trump’s decision to move the embassy. Evictions of Palestinians and appropriation of their homes by Israeli settlers is more frequent; Israeli police presence has grown more pervasive; Israel’s parliament is devising more new policies – and its supreme court is upholding them – to dispossess Palestinians. Meanwhile the PA is powerless to respond. It all adds up to ethnic cleansing.

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Let’s talk about the lawsuit against Airbnb

[email protected] December 2, 2018 airbnb, BDS, human suffering, international law, lawsuit, robert tolchin, settlement, West Bank, zionism

The lawsuit against Airbnb’s de-listing of Israeli settlement properties sounds pretty flimsy: religious discrimination (illegal settlements are by definition all-Jewish); failure to provide equal access (Palestinians are barred completely – and it’s their land); Airbnb is siding with Palestinians against the occupation (everything about the occupation and settlements is illegal, so, yeah).

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Gideon Levy Tells It Like It Is: “In U.S. Media, Israel Is Untouchable”

[email protected] December 2, 2018 BDS, CNN, double standard, Gideon Levy, Marc Lamont Hill, new anti semitism, zionism

Gideon Levy calls out US media’s cowardice. He highlights the double standard in which Palestinians can only be villainized, but Israel can only be defended, and the misuse of the term “anti-Semitism.” How is it that an Israeli newspaper can publish this, but in the US, CNN is required to fire Marc Lamont Hill?

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Action Alert: tell Booking.com to follow Airbnb in de-listing Israeli settlement properties

[email protected] November 30, 2018 airbnb, BDS, occupation, settlement, zionism

Booking.com needs to take a stand against occupation by de-listing properties located on stolen land in Israeli settlements The popular global tourism company Airbnb recently announced its decision to de-list properties in illegal Israeli settlements, a move which Human Rights Watch (HRW) praised as “a stand against discrimination, displacement, and land theft.” Now it’s time for Booking.com to…

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Increase in settler attacks on Palestinians has Israel worried – about Israelis, not Palestinians

[email protected] November 29, 2018 occupation, price tag, settler, settler violence, vandalism, zionism

Israeli settler violence against Palestinians is increasing, and exasperated Palestinians have begun organizing neighborhood watch groups. Israeli officials worry that these groups may endanger Israeli vandals.

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Israeli settlers, with IDF complicity, have destroyed 800,000 olive trees since 1967

[email protected] November 28, 2018 occupation, olive, settlement, settler, settler violence, zionism

Palestinians who rely on olive harvests for their livelihood have been terrorized by Israeli settlers since the beginning of the occupation in 1967. Settlers – often guarded or assisted by Israeli military – destroy trees and equipment, steal large quantities of olives, kill livestock, and attack Palestinian farmers.

In the ongoing travesty of justice, some olive groves are only accessible to their Palestinian owners for a few days a year; swaths of farmland has been appropriated by Israel for settlement expansion or military use.

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ADL’s letter to Airbnb fails to make a compelling argument

[email protected] November 27, 2018 ADL, airbnb, analysis, BDS, fourth geneva convention, history, occupation, settlement, zionism

Airbnb is doing the right thing by de-listing properties in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The Anti-Defamation League is pushing back – but its arguments fail to hold up to even the mildest scrutiny.

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Palestinian village denied basic human rights, now faces imminent demolition

[email protected] November 26, 2018 bedouin, displacement, history, home demolition, occupation, palestinian state, zionism

Residents of Khan al-Ahmar have been fighting for their existence since 1951, seeking nothing more than basic human rights. Israeli authorities say the village was illegally constructed; the Israeli Supreme Court in May rejected a final appeal against its demolition. Activists are concerned continued Israeli settlement construction in the area could effectively divide the northern and southern West Bank.

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VIDEO: History suppressed: Censorship in Israel’s archives

[email protected] November 23, 2018 1948 war, Censorship, haganah, history, Israel archive, Nakba, occupation, zionism

Troves of looted Palestinian books, documents, photographs and films from as early as the 1930s are sealed in Israel’s archives and libraries. Palestinians see the censorship as part of a wider trend of physical and cultural erasure continues to this day. Concealing the archival record denies Palestinians the tools to communicate their own history.

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