Max Blumenthal was in Gaza during last year’s ferocious Israeli assault, and his book tells truths that are missing from the New York Times. Even those of us who followed Israel’s attack as it happened will still learn plenty from this book.
Over 20 agents for the real estate corporation RE/MAX Israel, working in at least eight offices, are selling many millions of dollars worth of illegal properties in over 15 settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. Mondoweiss has compiled a list of RE/MAX Israel offices and agents engaging in these illegal transactions.
From the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America report on its recent national convention: Delegates upheld the UE tradition of taking courageous stands on foreign policy issues when they adopted the resolution on Palestine and Israel that calls for cutting off U.S. aid to Israel, U.S. support for a peace settlement on the basis of self-determination for Palestinians and the right to return. The resolution also endorses the worldwide BDS movement making UE the first U.S. national union to endorse BDS. Speaking for the resolution were Angaza Laughinghouse, Local 150, Matt Braddon, Local 222; Chris Wolford, Local 170; Autumn Martinez and Elizabeth Jesdale, Local 255. Martinez and Jesdale both said they had met Palestinian trade unionists when they attended the World Social Forum in Tunisia, and Martinez said, “It’s absolutely disgusting what is going on. Free Palestine!”
The fact that Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz didn’t lose her job as chair of the Democratic National Committee for bucking President Obama on the Iran Deal only shows that being feverishly pro-Israel is an important way to raise money in the Democratic Party and Obama must respect that.
The settlement enterprise in the West Bank is an “international problem,” Peace Now says, after Sara Yael Hirschhorn’s figures reveal that 60,000 of 400,000 West Bank settlers are Americans
Israel’s culture minister Miri Regev says Palestinian women protesters who tackled an Israeli soldier beating a boy in occupied Nabi Saleh on Friday should have been fired on. Even as the world is shocked by the Israeli soldier’s conduct.
Ayelet Shaked, Israel’s rightwing Justice Minister, posted a commentary calling Palestinian children “little snakes” that must be rubbed out with many other elements of Palestinian society; now she’s at NY’s Center for Jewish History, along with several other Zionists, Bret Stephens, Seth Siegel and Lawrence Summers. Where’s the opposing view?
Dozens were wounded as weekly protests were dispersed across the occupied West Bank Friday afternoon. In Bil’in Israeli forces detained activist Iyad Burnat, the head of the villages’ popular resistance committee, as well as a photographer, Hamza Yasin.
A radical scene unfolded Friday after Israeli forces intercepted the weekly protest in the West…
Veolia has sold the last of its remaining businesses in the occupied Palestinian territories, becoming the first major BDS target company to fully withdraw from all of its various Occupation enterprises. Barbara Harvey says the successful BDS campaign against Veolia makes a persuasive case that profiteering from legal and human rights violations can be bad for business when the opposition is organized.