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About Allison Deger

Allison Deger is the Assistant Editor of Mondoweiss.net. Follow her on twitter at @allissoncd.

Netanyahu govt to impose fines on mayors of cities that employ migrant workers

The Netanyahu government will impose fines on mayors who hire migrant workers, pushing a slight tactical difference between him and the mob-riling Knesset members responsible for the violent attacks earlier this week.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government | 25 Comments

Human rights activists will hardnose the highway from Woodstock to Catskill

This weekend activists Laurie Arbeiter and Sarah Wellington, an iconic figures in the Palestine solidarity movement best known for selling their “we will not be silent” t-shirts, are heading upstate to take part in a 22-mile fundraiser trek from Woodstock to Catskill.

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US to differentiate between ‘personally displaced’ Palestinian refugees and their descendants

Today the U.S. government approved the “Kirk amendment,” a resolution to differentiate between Palestinians “personally displaced” in 1948 and their millions of descendants.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Nakba, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 154 Comments

Israel Land Administration charged with race and gender discrimination

The Israel Land Administration (ILA), the powerhouse behind Israeli territorial expansion, is being challenged in Israel’s high court over race and gender discrimination. Currently, all of the council’s 22 members were Jewish men, and 10 are representatives of the Jewish National Fund.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists | 5 Comments

Israeli judge to issue verdict in Rachel Corrie case

Nearly a decade after Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by the Israeli military with a weaponized Caterpillar D9 tractor, an Israeli judge will issue a ruling in August on the civil suit filed by the Corrie family.

Posted in Activism, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, US Politics | 94 Comments

Israelis sling racial epithets to mark 45 years of a Jerusalem ‘unification’

On Sunday Israel celebrated 45 years of occupying East Jerusalem with thousands of jubilant right-wingers hurling racial epithets as they paraded through the Old City and Muslim Quarter during “Jerusalem Day,” a state holiday embracing the 1967 capture of the city.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists | Tagged | 8 Comments

Danish right-wing: ‘Made in settlement’ labels preempt Israel’s expanding borders

Yesterday, Denmark announced that produce from Israeli settlements will no longer carry a “made in Israel” sticker, sparking criticism from the country’s extremist anti-immigration political party, Dansk Folkeparti, or the Danish People’s Party (DPP).

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Neocons, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists | 65 Comments

BDS victory: South Africa strips Ahava’s ‘made in Israel’ label

Earlier this month, South Africa’s Department of Trade and Industry announced that products made in the West Bank but labeled “made in Israel” will no longer be sold in the country.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists | 30 Comments

Censored children’s art show returns to California in San Diego exhibition

After being censored in Oakland’s Museum of Children’s Art, the art exhibit “A Child’s View from Gaza” is scheduled to appear at the World Beat Center in San Diego on May 24, 2012 alongside the local premier of the film “Tears of Gaza”.

Posted in American Jewish Community, Gaza, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Occupation | 1 Comment

‘The Nakba is BS’: Right-wing Israelis protest student-run Nakba commemoration at Tel Aviv U

Tel Aviv University’s student union disavows a Nakba commemoration event at the campus, which is built on the ruins of a Palestinian village. The students were joined by hundreds of right-wing Israelis and extremist members of the Knesset

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba | 60 Comments

Protests on behalf of prisoners sweep the West Bank

Today protests in support of the 2,500 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike reach a new height with demonstrations spreading across the West Bank. Marches were held in Hebron, Kafr Qaddoum, Nablus, Nabi Saleh, Ni’lin, Ramallah, al-Walaja and outside of Ofer prison.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation | 12 Comments

Palestinians shut down a second int’l aid organization to demand action on dying hunger strikers

A day after protesters shut down the U.N. offices in Ramallah, they shut down the Red Cross offices, demanding international action on the rights of 2,500 Palestinian prisoners now on their fourth week of a hunger strike against conditions inside of Israel’s prisons.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation | 15 Comments

Under mounting pressure from hunger-strikers and UN protest, Ban Ki-moon criticizes administrative detention (but weakly)

Following 23 days of open-ended hunger strike by more than 2,500 prisoners, today Palestinians fed up with the lack of support to their cause shut down a United Nations (UN) building in Ramallah.

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

Akiva Tor: Arab Spring at fault for blocking a future Palestinian state

Israeli consul general Akiva Tor (above) addressed the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Monday to explain how the Arab Spring hurts hopes for a Palestinian state, settlements don’t hinder the peace process and why BDS is the answer . . . for Iran.

Posted in American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, Egypt, Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Occupation, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 30 Comments

Al Jazeera’s ‘The Stream’ tackles racism against African refugees in Israel

Al Jazeera covers racism in Israel against Africans, Sudanese and Eritrean refugees, which has swelled over the past five years.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East | 7 Comments

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

Israeli police use new force on Palestinians as protests mount in support of hunger strikers

Today, Israeli police with rubber bullets, tear gas and electric shock confronted protestors outside of prisons in both the West Bank and Israel, arresting 15. Protestors gathered in support of approximately 2,500 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike since April 17, 2012.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation | Tagged | 17 Comments

Mass Palestinian prisoner hunger strike reminiscent of the first Intifada

Now in its second week, a mass hunger strike is spreading across Israeli prisons with some 2,000 Palestinians protesting for their basic rights: an end to solitary confinement and imprisonment without charge, and access to education, media and family visits.

Posted in Activism, Egypt, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation | 2 Comments

Media ignores eight Palestinian hunger strikers as they near death

Palestinians are railing against Israeli administrative detention, imprisonment without charge, with over 2,000 prisoners currently on hunger strike, two of whom are in critical condition now in their 59th day of strike.

Posted in Activism, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Occupation | 5 Comments

Major olive producing village ordered to uproot 1,400 trees by May 1

Earlier this week, Israel ordered Palestinian farmers in Deir Istiya (pictured above in 2009) to uproot 1,400 trees by the end of the month.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists | Tagged | 243 Comments

Jerusalem’s ‘center of life’ policy imprisons Palestinians

Jerusalem’s “center of life” policy places Palestinians in a precarious position, perpetually on the threshold of losing their resident IDs.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation | 14 Comments

Israeli gov’t advises bringing a gun on West Bank picnics

The Israeli government published a book of recommended tourist sites with 40 West Bank locations, including al-Kaws spring, which was confiscated from the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh in 2009. Although Palestinians are barred from visiting the spring, it was visited by a group of Palestinian women in protest over the weekend.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists | 1 Comment

Knesset members celebrate latest E. Jerusalem settlement by posing on evicted Palestinian family’s sofa

Following last week’s eviction of the Palestinian Natcheh family from their Beit Hanina home, Israeli Knesset members Michael Ben-Ari and Aryeh Eldad visited the house now inhabited by some eight settlers. To mark the occasion they took a picture of themselves lounging on the Natcheh’s sofa.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists | Tagged | 89 Comments

‘Strong men wanted to legally evacuate Arab squatters’

Following threats of a vigilante eviction, on Wednesday settlers with Areyh King’s Israel Land Fund, under police protection, move into the Natcheh family home in Beit Hanina, forming a new outpost.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists | 5 Comments

Your tax dollars fund ‘violent crackdowns on dissent’

US manufactured teargas has resulted in many deaths in Bahrain and Palestine

Posted in Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | Tagged | 22 Comments