Jennifer Rubin’s denunciation of Bernie Sanders’s comments on Israel and Palestine are propaganda for Israel, in the Washington Post, from start to finish and represent a warning to Sanders not to touch the issue or we will smear you.
The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) has adopted a human rights investment screen focusing on conflict zones that includes human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territories. The UUA divested from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP Inc., and Motorola Solutions. The UUA has also divested from Caterpillar Inc., due to concerns over its environmental and social practices. These four companies have been the target of boycott and divestment campaigns due to their complicity in violations of Palestinian human rights.
Jane Eisner of the Forward all-but equates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism because to be Jewish these days is to love Israel.
Anti-Muslim graffiti and vandalism on a half dozen U.S. campuses lately shows growing climate of Islamophobia, which may well be enabled by Donald Trump’s statements
A shift in the US political discourse on Israeli conduct has culminated with Senator Patrick Leahy’s challenge to the dominant narrative of Israel’s military purity and the Palestinians as bad actors. Leahy cited the killing of 18-year-old Hadeel al-Hashlamoun in September at an Israeli checkpoint in occupied territory.
The British Islamophobe Douglas Murray has attacked author Rula Jebreal, saying she poses as a “poor suffering Palestinian.” That’s a lie, and Murray’s thin-skinnedness about his whiteness, when he’s advocated for “white British people,” is also laughable.
Yazan Khalid Naaji, 12, was seriously injured on Monday evening after an Israeli soldier shot him with a rubber-coated steel bullet to the head in the al-‘Issawiya neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem– just two days after a 13-year-old boy was struck in the head in the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan
The UN removed portions of an Israeli exhibition at the international body’s headquarters in New York this week that alleged Israel’s equal treatment of Palestinian citizens and touted Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, claims deemed by the UN as falling out of line with international law. Two panels out of 13 in the display were barred in order that it “conform with the purposes and principles” of the UN, Farhan Haq, spokesman for the UN Secretary-General, told Mondoweiss.
The education journal ‘Rethinking Schools’ endorses BDS: “When the United States was about to invade Afghanistan and again in the lead-up to the war against Iraq, Rethinking Schools argued that these were situations of such magnitude that educators had a moral and an educational responsibility to speak out. We think that Palestine is just such a situation. We’ve had long discussions about what that means for us as educators. One important piece of that responsibility, we believe, is joining the movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel (BDS) for its denial of human rights to Palestinians.”
NY Times coverage of Israel is a travesty. At a time when Haaretz is publishing critiques of repression of Israeli dissidents and cut-offs of power to Palestinians under occupation, New York Times publishes story on the army asking veterans to return old military equipment, which they have kept because of “collective nostalgia.”