Category Archives: Reports/Video

Video: Israeli mob demands all African refugees be deported from the country (and anyone who disagrees deserves to be raped)

A YouTube video shows an angry mob descending on a lone woman who rejects their call to deport African refugees from Israel.

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Nakba Day 2012: Refugees waiting, 64 years and counting

Sam Bahour, a Palestinian-American based in Al-Bireh/Ramallah, speaking at TEDxRamallah in April 2011.

Posted in Nakba, Reports/Video | 17 Comments

Peter Berg: Israel attacking Iran is a more important issue than my board game-inspired film ‘Battleship’

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Peter Berg to Israel Channel 10 interviewer: “Join the IDF, motherfucker!”

Posted in Iran, Israel/Palestine, Reports/Video | 17 Comments

Scorched earth in Bil’in

Settlers are laughing about burning fields in Bil’in

Posted in Activism, Arab Spring, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, Reports/Video, US Policy in the Middle East | 1 Comment

CNN’s Amanpour interviews Kopty and Pollak on Palestinian prisoner strike

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Right of Return key goes on tour

Al Arabiya: A huge key that weighs approximately a ton and symbolizes the right of return for Palestinian refugees was transported from the Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem to the Berlin Biennale in Germany.

Posted in Activism, Arab Spring, Israel/Palestine, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, Reports/Video | Tagged | 52 Comments

Nowhere to go — Jahalin Bedouin homes slated for destruction outside Jerusalem

‘Forcible transfer’ is the measure Israel has adopted for 27,000 Palestinian Bedouins living in Area C in territory filled with settlements

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, Reports/Video, US Policy in the Middle East | 8 Comments

Report from the Palestinian prisoner hunger strike, and the movement growing to support it

Lia Tarachansky reports on the Palestinian prisoner strike for the Real News.

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Operation Glass Houses: IDF agent provocateurs admit to throwing stones at the IDF in Bilin

Haaretz: Undercover soldiers hurled stones in the “general direction” of IDF soldiers as part of their activity to counter weekly demonstrations in the Palestinian village of Bil’in, the commander of the Israeli Prison Service’s elite “Masada” unit revealed during his recent testimony in the trial of MK Mohammed Barakeh

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Feminist scholar Katherine Franke refuses to be pawn in Oren’s equality game

At this year’s 2012 Equality Forum on advancing the rights of international LGTBQ communities, the “featured nation,” Israel, will pinkwash itself by exploiting Tel Aviv’s gay culture in order to manufacture conference goers into hasbara-ites.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, Reports/Video | Tagged | 32 Comments

RIP MCA: Yauch challenged Islamophobia and US militarism in the Middle East on MTV in 1998

Above is the Beastie Boys receiving a lifetime achievement award from MTV in 1998. Skip to 6:35 to hear what Adam Yauch had to say. Yauch, who was also known as MCA, died today from cancer at age 47. While … Continue reading

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Video: Activists accompany Gazan farmers under Israeli fire

Videos: It’s time to harvest the crop: accompanying farmers in Gaza under Israeli fire 23 April 2012 | il Blog di Oliva by Rosa Schiano — Israeli soldiers have already started shooting onto the land along the border of the … Continue reading

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Video: Blumenthal, Rosenberg, Davis debate BDS on Al Jazeera English

From Al Jazeera English: Do boycott campaigns help or harm attempts to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict? Inside Story discusses with guests: MJ Rosenberg, Max Blumenthal & Reverend Walter Davis.

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Netanyahu goes looney tunes on Israeli Independence Day

Just watch the video.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Reports/Video | 32 Comments

University of New Mexico mock wall highlights human rights issues in Israel/Palestine and the US-Mexico border

Over twenty social justice organizations held the first ever Mock Wall Week at the University of New Mexico.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, Reports/Video, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 4 Comments

Assange’s first guest on RT world premier: Nasrallah says US & Israel seek civil war in Syria

Nasrallah says that Israel and the US want civil war in Syria

Posted in Arab Spring, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Nakba, Neocons, Occupation, Reports/Video, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | 149 Comments

Video: Palestinian prisoners and their families

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) released a short film yesterday profiling former prisoner Hana Shalabi who was recently released from administrative detention following a 43-day hunger strike.

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Israeli military shuts down youth bike tour in the Jordan Valley citing ‘security threat’

On Saturday, a group of Palestinians and internationals went to the Jordan Valley in what they hoped would be a fun-filled day with an event organized by Sharek Youth Forum. Israel army jeeps arrived to block the road. The crime? Riding bikes in the Jordan Valley.

Posted in Activism, Occupation, Reports/Video | 11 Comments

Video: Senior IDF officer smashes peaceful activist in the face with his M-16

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IDF Lt.-Col. Shalom Eisner is caught on tape attacking activists taking part in a protest bike ride through the Jordan Valley on Saturday.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Occupation, Reports/Video | Tagged | 66 Comments

Israeli police attack Palestinian and international activists touring Hebron

Israeli Border Police attacked a group of Palestinian and international activists who were touring Hebron’s Old City as part of the 7th International Bil’in Conference on the Palestinian Popular Struggle.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Occupation, Reports/Video | 20 Comments

Marc Ellis speaks out

Marc Ellis has broken his silence on the disciplinary proceedings he faces at Baylor University.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Reports/Video, US Politics | 4 Comments

‘What do you want from a 5 year old girl? She threatens your state?’: Israel raids a house in Nabi Saleh

A Palestinian woman confronts Israeli soldiers that entered her home in the middle of the night to interrogate her family, including her 5 year old daughter.

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Video: Arizona State’s SJP debka flashmob

On April 3, 2012, Arizona State University’s (ASU) Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) staged a debka flashmob on their campus.

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Israeli Big Brother makes the occupation ‘a reality’ on TV

Last week, as Israel’s hit-show Big Brother approached its seasonal finale, underdog and hunky left-wing darling Saar Szekely, held his own big finish with a groundbreaking reality TV conversation debating the occupation.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Occupation, Reports/Video | 7 Comments

Video: ‘Long range acoustic device’ and other weapons used on Palestinians on Land Day

Video footage of today’s Land Day protest, capturing Israeli forces aggressively using weapons against Palestinian protestors.

Posted in Activism, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, Reports/Video | 19 Comments