Category Archives: Arab Spring

Alterman says BDS shares Ahmadinejad’s agenda, and Hezbollah’s too

Progressives Avishai and Alterman adopt conservative theories to rationalize the status quo in Israel and Palestine

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Resume builders: Be a broken record on Iran, cheer authoritarians in Gulf

Jeffrey Feltman has supported Israel across the board and faulted Iran; he gets big job at the U.N.

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UN Committee: Israeli system ‘tantamount to apartheid’

Ethnic Cleansing / Land Theft & Destruction / Occupation & Apartheid / Exile & Restriction of Movement / Refugees Report: Israel issued 13,000 demolition orders against Palestinian real estate Haaretz newspaper said the Israeli civil administration issued 13,000 demolition warnings … Continue reading

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And we live on…

In spite of the ‘birds of death, hovering two meters from our breath,’ the people of Gaza live on

Posted in Arab Spring, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, On the ground reports | 5 Comments

Senate fight today over the number of Palestinian refugees

Senate fight today over Palestinian ‘refugees’ Thirty U.S. senators will vote today over whether there really are 5 million Palestinian “refugees” or just around 30,000 — a hot-button issue that has already become the subject of a vigorous international debate involving … Continue reading

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Palestinian Authority and Israel on an arresting spree, children and activists detained

Detainees and Other Prisoner News Palestinians arrest 10 Islamic Jihad members Palestinian security forces arrested 10 members of the Islamic Jihad in the Jenin refugee camp on Monday, a local leader of the radical movement said. link to news.yahoo.com Islamic … Continue reading

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South African artists, intellectuals and gov’t ministers take steps to isolate Israel

How long before South Africans are accused of being anti-Semites? South Africa to ban labeling West Bank settlement products as ‘made in Israel’, Amira Hass Minister of Trade and Industry says South Africa recognizes the State of Israel only within … Continue reading

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Daily escalations in Occupied Palestine

Eight Palestinian farmers are injured in an unprovoked attack

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Nakba 64 years later, we will never forget

News and headlines from Nakba Day, 2012.

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Israeli officer threatens to rape Palestinian activists in custody (if this happened in Syria it would be headline news)

Israel faces major West Bank uprising over hunger strikers

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Scorched earth in Bil’in

Settlers are laughing about burning fields in Bil’in

Posted in Activism, Arab Spring, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, Reports/Video, US Policy in the Middle East | 1 Comment

Right of Return key goes on tour

Al Arabiya: A huge key that weighs approximately a ton and symbolizes the right of return for Palestinian refugees was transported from the Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem to the Berlin Biennale in Germany.

Posted in Activism, Arab Spring, Israel/Palestine, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, Reports/Video | Tagged | 52 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.

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New Pew Center poll highlights growing Egyptian revulsion at peace treaty with Israel

61% of Egyptians want to annul the peace treaty with Israel, according to a new Pew Research Center poll. That’s a seven-point increase from last year.

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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.

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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

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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

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Thaer Halahla and Bilal Thiab in serious condition after 63 days on hunger strike

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) – Israel Branch, warned that the health condition of Thaer Halahla and Bilal Thiab, who entered their 63rd day of hunger strike is causing grave concern, adding that both detainees suffer from an acute decrease of muscle tone and are bedridden, which puts them under dual threat; muscle atrophy and Thrombophilia, which can lead to a fatal blood clot.

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Palestine solidarity activists to join Occupy’s May Day of action

A leading Palestine solidarity group in NYC, Adalah, has called for supporters to join them and the OWS Global Justice Working Group to form a “decolonize/antiwar” bloc for a big afternoon march.

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A weekend of violence against Palestinian activists that the UN will never get around to condemning

and other news from Today in Palestine:   Land Theft & Destruction / Ethnic Cleansing / Palestinian History Jordan Valley Resident Forcibly Removed from Home JORDAN VALLEY, April 27, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli soldiers forcibly removed on Friday a Palestinian … Continue reading

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Palestinian prisoner hunger strike grows to 2,000 inmates despite punitive measures to stop it

Guardian: Human rights groups say 2,000 are now on hunger strike against indefinite detention without charge and alleged ill-treatment. The number of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails has grown to 2,000 with more preparing to join the protest next week, according to human rights groups in the West Bank.

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Obama’s selective view of the struggle for human dignity

Obama never mentioned Palestine or Palestinians in his homage to Israel at the Holocaust memorial yesterday

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Video: Israeli soldiers arrest three children in West Bank raid

A video shows heavily-armed Israeli soldiers seizing three children from their home in the middle of the night in the West Bank village of Beit Ommar

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Algeria and Six-Day War led Lanzmann to make Shoah (and to deny the Nakba)

Mustafa Barghouti echoes the late Ben Bella when he says that Arab self-determination means solidarity with Palestinians

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Egypt and Israel, all is not well

There is increasing public pressure in Egypt to boycott companies doing business in Israel

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Occupation, On the ground reports, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 35 Comments