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Category Archives: Nakba
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.
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.
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
Beinart warns Jews that not talking to Palestinians and anti-Zionists ‘makes us stupid’
Tribal dance on the Upper West Side
Huge Co-op in UK dumps suppliers linked to Israeli settlements
Palestine human rights campaigners today welcomed news that the UK’s fifth biggest food retailer, The Co-operative Group, will “no longer engage with any supplier of produce known to be sourcing from the Israeli settlements”.
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Occupation
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Denver billboards lead to– hold on to your hat– spirited debate!
Billboards in New Mexico and Colorado have allowed Americans to debate aid to Israel
Gurvitz on ‘Israel’s not-so-stellar record on treatment of Christians’
Christian priests have trouble renewing their visas in Israel; and visitors to the country are questioned about their religious beliefs
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, US Politics
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Israel responds to Palestinian call to restart talks by legalizing three West Bank settlement outposts
The outposts, Sansana, Rechelim and Bruchin, were never formally authorized when founded in the 1990s and are still considered illegal under international law.
Israeli police to activist reciting names of destroyed Palestinian villages: If you keep reading you will be arrested
Leehee Rothschild offers an eyewitness account of the Israeli police crackdown on an event held in Tel Aviv to commemorate the Nakba on Israeli Independence Day.
Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Nakba
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Israeli police barricade and arrest activists attempting to commemorate the Nakba
Israeli activists with the organization Zochrot were arrested and barricaded in their office by police when they attempted to publicly read the names of Palestinian villages destroyed in 1948 during the Nakba.
Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Nakba
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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.
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
Power outages lead to the death of three children in Gaza
A family in the central Gaza Strip has suffered an unimaginable tragedy because of a candle lit during one of Gaza’s frequent power outages.
Amira Hass explains why Israel’s U.S. model of ethnic cleansing failed, and why ‘Jewish regime’ will ‘crumble’
Israel had a chance to preserve a Jewish state in an Arab neighborhood. It refused the offer and now faces a slow crumbling — Amira Hass
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Nakba, Occupation, One state/Two states, US Politics
43 Comments
The children of Kufr Qadum: “You arrested our fathers, so we lead the demonstration today”
After Israeli army nightly incursion into Kufr Qadum accompanied by massive arrest of villagers , the children of the village have come out in protest with a message to the occupying army and the world: “You Arrested Our Fathers, So We Lead the Demonstration Today”. The weekly demonstration has again been brutally suppressed by the army, who blacked all entrances to the village, took hold of a home, made use of the “Skunk”, and fired the usual dose of teargas and shock rounds.
The symbol of Nakba: Deir Yassin remembered
Yesterday marked 64 years since the massacre of the Palestinian village Deir Yassin carried out by Zionist para-military forces.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Occupation
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Dear Red Hot Chili Peppers…
I’ve been a huge Red Hot Chili Peppers fan since I was 14 years old. The prospect of a live show in Israel has always been slim-to-non. I saved up some serious cash for their last slated show, way back … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Occupation, US Politics
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‘The Crisis of Zionism’ and the contradictions of Israel as a liberal democratic fantasy
A review of Peter Beinart’s new book, ‘The Crisis of Zionism’. While Beinart styles himself “a partisan of liberal democracy” and skillfully argues against the continued colonization of the West Bank, proponents of universal human rights will inevitably be disappointed by his fundamental analytical failings.
Video: the Gaza onslaught
What does disproportionate and indiscriminate attack mean? And where do these attacks on Gaza originate?
From Gaza to Sakhnin, we are united with Bil’in
In Beit Hanoun, Land Day came early, Palestinian flags flew high, music played over the megaphone, and we unfurled banners in memory of the martyrs of 1976 Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Occupation
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Live updates from the Global March to Jerusalem and Land Day protests
Follow live twitter updates from Global March to Jerusalem actions around the world.
Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, Occupation
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The story of the land
On Land Day, Sarah Ali explains what land has meant to her father, and her family, living in Gaza.
Posted in Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, On the ground reports
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Land Day vs. the ‘Jewish State’: an interview with Haneen Zoabi
Palestinians mark ‘Land Day’ on March 30th to commemorate the first widespread struggle of Palestinian citizens of Israeli against land confiscation and the Israeli policy of Judaization. Elsa Rassbach interviews Haneen Zoabi to discuss the enduring legacy of Land Day and issues currently facing Palestinian citizens of Israel.
Posted in Activism, BDS, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Occupation, One state/Two states
22 Comments
There are two liberation movements
Jewish Voice for Peace does not use the word Zionist in its messaging. Young people don’t know the word. For older Jews, it contains confused and some positive meanings
‘We must expel Arabs and take their place’: Institute for Palestine Studies publishes 1937 Ben-Gurion letter advocating the expulsion of Palestinians
The Institute for Palestine Studies rebuts criticism from CAMERA by publishing a Ben-Gurion letter showing he supported expelling Palestinians.
Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Nakba
191 Comments