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A New York Times editorial saying Israel gets too much military aid from the US is pathetic because it never mentions Palestinians, who readers now know are the victims of Israeli actions using US munitions. But happily for the Times, there’s no place for readers to comment on the article.
Ghassan Hage, a Lebanese-Australian anthropologist, politely declines the invitation to be an anti-Zionist speaker at an Israeli conference
A video shot by Ma‘an News Agency videographer Mahmoud Abu Yousef shows an Israeli military sniper wounding 22-year-old Palestinian Muhammad Amassi during a raid on al-Fawwar refugee camp in the southern West Bank city of Hebron in mid-August. Amassi was standing on his roof talking on the telephone when the sniper shot him four times.
An all-female crew has set sail on two vessels headed towards Gaza on Wednesday in attempts of breaking the nine-year Israeli blockade on the coastal Mediterranean strip. The “Women’s Boat to Gaza” is the fourth of its kind, captained by women-only with 30 female activists and high-ranking officials aboard the Arabic-named Zaytouna (“Olive”) and the Amal (“hope”).
Are Germans afraid to hear the truth about Palestine. Activist and high school teacher Christoph Glanz says maybe his views of the conflict are wrong, but there is no way to establish that without free speech; and his recent article endorsing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions was pulped by Germany’s leading trade union under pressure from Zionist groups.
A dark anniversary: Israel invaded Lebanon in June 1982 to drive out the PLO, and in September it handed over control of Palestinian refugee camps Sabra and Shatila in western Beirut to Christian Phalange militias, which carried out a massacre of about 3000 residents over three days in mid-September.
Today the New York Times runs an insultingly stupid bit of pro-Israel propaganda by Jodi Rudoren saying that Israel and the US have “shared values,” based on foundational documents, without stating that the US was founded with white supremacist beliefs and Israel persists in such beliefs to this day.
Like the U.S., Israel is turning into a minority-majority country but its response to that reality is “apartheid,” Tom Friedman says on Israel television. Netanyahu won the debate on one-state, he says, and the New York Times should call him the “Prime Minister of Israel Palestine.”
A campaign against education continues. Professor Rabab Abdulhadi of San Francisco State University says: “The McCarthyist attack by Campus Watch/Middle East Forum, led by Daniel Pipes and David Horowitz, named as leading Islamophobes by the Southern Poverty Law Center, is no more than a witch hunt campaign aimed at silencing me and our commitment to justice-centered knowledge production.”