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Day after pogroms, Likud MK calls for internment camp for African refugees
Last night, a riot broke out in in Tel Aviv’s Hatikva neighborhood following a rally calling for African refugees to be deported from the country. Above, a mob sets garbage on fire while singing “The people want the Africans to be burned.”
Posted in Israel/Palestine
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Munayyer in the ‘NYT’: ‘For all the talk about shared values between Israel and the United States, democracy is sadly not one of them’
The New York Times has published a succinct and devastating Op-Ed from Yousef Munayyer on the systemic inequality at the root of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media, One state/Two states, US Politics
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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.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Reports/Video
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Avigdor Lieberman to Jews worldwide: ‘You must love me’
Haaretz reports on Avigdor Lieberman’s trip to speak at a Jewish National Fund event in London. Lieberman has been taken aback by criticism of his invitation from Zionist activists in the UK: Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Tuesday to a … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government
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WaPo’s Walter Pincus says US is ‘going above and beyond for Israel’
Last year, Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus said the US must reevaluate aid to Israel in light of our country’s economic woes. Yesterday he revisited the issue and is aghast at the largess being thrown Israel’s way.
Rep. Pitts in damage control mode following call for Arafat-Sharon negotiations
Since we published Ian Rhodewalt’s report over the weekend about Representative Joe Pitts (above) call for Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat to restart negotiations, Pitts’s office has been scrambling to explain the error.
Nobel Prize laureate J. M. Coetzee appears to boycott International Writers Festival in Jerusalem
J. M. Coetzee said “he would come [to the International Writers Festival in Jerusalem] when the peace process goes forward.”
Posted in BDS, Israel/Palestine
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Exporting the occupation: Israel markets its drone expertise to the world
Jefferson Morley looks into “Israel’s drone dominance” for Salon.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Occupation
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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
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Peter Berg: Israel attacking Iran is a more important issue than my board game-inspired film ‘Battleship’
Peter Berg to Israel Channel 10 interviewer: “Join the IDF, motherfucker!”
Posted in Iran, Israel/Palestine, Reports/Video
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Report: Palestinian prisoners reach deal to end historic hunger strike
There are reports that Palestinian prisoners have ended their hunger strike as Israel agreed to end solitary confinement and allow family visits. But, long-term strikers Bilal Diab and Thaer Halahla may continue their protest in order to win their immediate release.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Occupation
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CNN’s Amanpour interviews Kopty and Pollak on Palestinian prisoner strike
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Reports/Video
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Oren-Asali photo leads to call for Asali to resign from American Task Force on Palestine
Controversy has surrounded the American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP) since Haaretz’s Natasha Mozgovaya tweeted a photo of the Task Force’s President Ziad Asali at an “Independence Day” party held at the Israeli embassy in Washington DC.
Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Politics
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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.
Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Occupation, Reports/Video
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In ‘Nation’ BDS debate, Barghouti demands rights, Avishai pleads to protect ‘progressive and creative’ Israeli elites
Omar Barghouti and Bernard Avishai face off in a forum on BDS publshed by The Nation.
Posted in BDS, Israel/Palestine, Media
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Ehud Barak looks to revive collective punishment policy in the West Bank
Ehud Barak supports restarting the policy of punitive house demolitions in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation
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ICG: The peace process is a ‘collective addiction that serves all manner of needs, reaching an agreement no longer being the main one’
Welcome to the peace process in 2012. Read excerpts from the International Crisis Group report “The Emperor Has No Clothes: Palestinians and the End of the Peace Process.”
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
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Occupation, Reports/Video
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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
Posted in Reports/Video
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Obama working to postpone UN investigation into settlements until after 2012 elections
Haaretz: The Obama administration is trying to delay the establishment of a panel appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council to investigate the issue of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
United Methodist Church rejects divestment
This afternoon, the United Methodist Church voted against divesting from Caterpillar, Motorola Solutions, and Hewlett-Packard for their involvement in the Israeli occupation. Above is a screenshot of a map one delegate shared as he made a case for divestment.
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Occupation
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Israel closes investigation of those responsible for al Samouni family massacre, no legal action taken
Haaretz: Israel’s military prosecution announced Tuesday that no legal steps will be taken against those responsible for the killing of 21 members of the Samouni family during the 2009 Operation Cast Lead in Gaza.
Posted in Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government
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Video: #Flagwoman protester raises Palestinian flag on Israeli military vehicle outside Ofer prison
Watch a video of #Flagwoman protester Rana Hamadeh climb on top of an Israeli skunk water truck outside Ofer prison. Hanadeh was protesting Israeli administration detention policies in solidarity with the ongoing prisoner hunger strike.
It’s not as good as Netanyahu’s video
Watch Michael Oren’s ad hoc and awkward ode to Israel on it’s 64th birthday.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government
4 Comments
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.
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Reports/Video
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