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Category Archives: Israeli Government
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
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Thousands march across the West Bank in support of the prisoners’ hunger strike
Thousands took to the streets today in Palestinian cities and villages across the West Bank, in solidarity with over 2,000 Palestinian political prisoners on hunger strike.
Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation
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The Israeli consul is selling ‘brand Israel’, but very few in one upper west side synagogue are buying
On Wednesday evening, May 9, Ido Aharoni, the Israeli consul general in New York, spoke at Ansche Chesed, a Conservative synagogue on New York’s Upper West Side to which Philip Harris’s family belongs. He was pleasantly surprised on several counts.
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
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Rejecting boycott, Tom Rob Smith and Tracy Chevalier prepare for Jerusalem International Writers Festival
The Jerusalem International Writers Festival is sponsored by the Jerusalem Foundation which, together with the Jerusalem municipality and settler organizations, is responsible for projects of ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem.
Posted in BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government
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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
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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
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.
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
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Standing up for equality at the ‘Equality Forum’ celebration of Israel
A report from a protest at the Equality Forum’s celebration of LGBTQ rights in Israel.
Israeli military raids office of human rights organization ‘Stop the Wall’; steals computers and hard drives
Early this morning the Israeli military in ten armored jeeps surrounded and raided the Ramallah office of Stop the Wall, confiscating computers and archival documents.
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation
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Shaul Mofaz, Netanyahu’s new partner, ordered ‘revenge’ op that killed Palestinian police in 2002
Shaul Mofaz’s move to join Netanyahu has led some to hope for a renewed peace process. But Mofaz’s record is anything but peaceful.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Settlers/Colonists
Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Shaul Mofaz
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‘Battle of the Empty Stomachs’: Thaer Halahleh and Bilal Diab surpass 70 days on hunger strike
Addameer: Thaer Halahleh and Bilal Diab’s petitions to the Israeli High Court regarding their administrative detention orders were rejected yesterday, four days following their High Court hearing on 3 May. Thaer and Bilal are on their 71st day of hunger strike and at immediate risk of death.
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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Haaretz’s ‘Palestinian and Arab Affairs correspondent’ will speak at event for US Friends of the Israeli army
Does Haaretz know that its reporters are speaking at events of such a slanted character?
It’s Good to be the King: Netanyahu scraps elections, buys off opposition and cements power with new unity gov’t
In a surprise move, Benjamin Netanyahu has cut a deal with Shaul Mofaz’s Kadima Party to join his coalition government, effectively canceling the Israeli elections he had just announced. Paul Mutter breaks down the deal and what it means for Israeli politics and a possible attack on Iran.
Posted in Iran, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
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High Court refuses Israeli gov’t petition on Ulpana, will the reprecussions be felt in the Israeli elections?
There was a showdown at Israel’s High Court of Justice yesterday over the continuing saga of Ulpana that promises to thrust the settlement issue front and center in Israel’s upcoming election. This time, the rule of law prevailed and today the High Court rejected the State’s request to cancel its September 2011 ruling in the case. The High Court orders illegal Ulpana outpost homes demolished by July 1.
After LGBT forum, Oren will headline for notorious homophobic pastor John Hagee
What does the Equality Forum’s LGBT Summit and a conference hosted by John Hagee have in common? The same headlining speaker.
Settlers poison grapevines belonging to occupied village, Beit Ummar
Beit Ummar is also attacked by soldiers firing tear gas and rubber bullets after a funeral
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 featured
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BDS Scorecard: Methodists recommend sanctions & boycotts; reject divestment
There has been confusion as to what was actually passed at the recent United Methodist Church General Conference. Anna Baltzer, from the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, sets the record clear.
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation
Tagged featured
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As prisoners’ hunger strike grows, solidarity expands in Gaza
As the number of Palestinian detainees on hunger strike in Israeli prisons reaches 2,500, Joe Catron photographs Palestinians in Gaza protesting in a solidarity tent in the Unknown Soldier’s Square (al-Jundi).
Posted in Activism, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation
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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.
Michael Sfard: ‘The Israeli government has declared war against the rule of law’
The government of Israel filed another petition to the high court to appeal the demolition of Ulpana, the illegal outpost previously slated for demolition on Tuesday May 1st. This time the state claimed their appeal was due to new evidence the demolition of the illegal outpost would “have significant ramifications as to the future construction in Beit El”!
Situation for Palestinian Hunger Strikers grows more and more dire– 2 at death’s door
Hunger Strike & Prisoner News Gravely ill Palestinian hunger striker faints in court as Israeli judges sentence him to slow death, Ali Abunimah Two days after doctors warned that hunger strikers Bilal Diab and Thaer Halahleh are at immediate risk … Continue reading