Category Archives: Israel/Palestine

Why Israel freed Khader Adnan

Adnan’s case, as numerous commentators rightly note, has drawn attention to Israel’s practice of administrative detention. But by promising to release Adnan, the Israeli government headed off what could have been an embarrassing political and legal debacle.

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Visualizing Palestine: Hunger strikes

A graphic outlining the history, and physical effects, of hunger strikes.

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Why young Palestinians chant the word ‘thoura’

I ask a Palestinian student if he has ever been to the sea, which he can see from his home. His answer reflects the widespread desperation among Palestinians and the call for revolutionary change.

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PennBDS still being smeared two weeks after student conference

Though it has been two weeks since the much-discussed PennBDS conference, it seems that some opponents of Palestine solidarity simply cannot let it go.

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, BDS, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Occupation, US Politics | Tagged | 5 Comments

Global march to challenge the ‘Judaization’ of Jerusalem

Hundreds of community organizations in dozens of countries spanning the globe have decided to participate in a massive Global March to Jerusalem on March 30, 2012.

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The Palestinian refugees of Lebanon

In my native Lebanon, where I volunteered last winter in a number of Palestinian refugees camps such as Burj el Barajne, I saw first hand the immense level of deprivation Palestinians face as refugees in Lebanon, where they are prevented from the right to work, from joining any Lebanese trade unions, from owning property and even denied social security.

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Assault on Beinart begins with poll claiming young American Jews love Israel

Beinart is wrong about Zionism, say critics– American Jews heart Israel

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Nakba, Neocons, Occupation, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 11 Comments

Foreign nationals willingly gave passports to Mossad

If you give your English passport to the Mossad for use in overseas operations, aren’t you an Israel firster?

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Video: mob of settlers call Hanin Zoabi a ‘terrorist’

Settlers mob member of Knesset Hanin Zoabi on Sunday as she walks through Hebron with military escort.

Posted in Activism, Flotilla, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists | Tagged | 2 Comments

Police chief Timoney– meet Bahraini mothers

American-made teargas is killing Bahrainis in villages targeted for collective punishment of Arab spring protests

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If Adnan is freed, there will still be 309 prisoners in administrative detention

Physicians for Human Rights calls for an end to administrative detention

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2013 US budget: ‘difficult cuts’ for Americans, jackpot for Israel

As the U.S. makes tough choices on budget cuts for 2013, Obama has pledged to kept aid to Israel at unprecedented levels, climbing over $3 billion next year.

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‘Cruelest demolition’ kills Palestinians’ sheep and signals political tension with Europeans

German government has defied Israeli occupation in supporting solar project in a Palestinian village crowded by settlements

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Khader Adnan ends strike and will be released in April, under reported deal

Israeli officials today offered a deal to hunger striker Khader Adnan, now in his 66th day of protest against his administrative detention.

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Israel Supreme Court to hear Adnan appeal tomorrow

Israel’s Supreme Court has announced it will hold an emergency hearing for an incarcerated Palestinian who is waging a lengthy hunger strike that has put his life in danger.

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Israeli spokesman Mark Regev grilled on CNN International over Khader Adnan

CNN International’s Hala Gorani interviews Mark Regev about Khader Adnan’s case.

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Gaza sit-in, rally back Khader Adnan; general strike set for Tuesday

Every Monday morning the families of 445 Gaza Palestinians detained by Israel occupy the courtyard of Gaza’s International Committee of the Red Cross headquarters to demand that the ICRC fulfill its obligation to protect the rights of their imprisoned relatives. This week’s gathering was infused with fresh energy and a singular focus as Khader Adnan.

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Greenwald: Indefinite detention policies have become normalized legally, politically and culturally in Israel and the US

Glenn Greenwald: “abuses have now been going on for so long in the two countries, are so entrenched, that they have been absorbed into the political landscape as barely noticed accoutrements.”

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Half the story: What @IDFSpokesperson leaves out about Gaza

Regular updates on just about every projectile fired from Gaza is reported by the Israeli military’s official twitter account @IDFSpokesperson as well as from the accounts of other Israeli military figures like that of spokesperson @AvitalLeibovich. But what about projectiles fired by Israel into Gaza?

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Israeli government sending 100 Israelis abroad to ‘defend the state’ during Israel Apartheid Week

Israel’s Public Diplomacy Ministry plans an intensive hasbara campaign to counter Israel Apartheid Week.

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Bassem Tamimi to Israeli military judge: I do not recognize the authority of the Israeli occupation

Yesterday, after nearly a year in Israeli detention, Nabi Saleh’s Bassem Tamimi was finally given a chance to plead his case before an Israeli military court. He denied the charges against him, and upheld Nabi Saleh’s right to struggle against the occupation and theft of the village’s lands.

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The end of the ‘two-state solution’ is the beginning of a more just future

Ever aware that the struggle for liberation must be led by Palestinians, our collective task at the moment, in my view, is to bring about the collapse of the present situation in Palestine in order to exploit its fundamental unsustainabilty.

Posted in Activism, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Occupation, One state/Two states, US Policy in the Middle East | 31 Comments

Media critic calls out pundits for ignoring Khader Adnan, their long awaited ‘Palestinian Gandhi’

Peter Hart, Activism Director for FAIR, criticizes mainstream pundits for ignoring Khader Adnan’s story.

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If Khader Adnan was a Jewish terrorist, he might be free

As I write this, Khader Adnan is near death, on the 63rd day of a hunger strike to protest his detention without charges by Israeli occupation authorities. Unfortunately for Adnan, he was not a Jewish terror suspect.

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Troubled Jeopardy!: Travels through Trebekistan

The Jeopardy! writers, widely respected as masters of fact and trivia, got a simple one wrong on February 8, 2012 when they claimed Gaza was no longer controlled by Israel.

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