A Dutch arts school permits students to hang banners in favor of Black Lives Matter and the Je Suis Charlie free-expression campaign. But when students put up a banner accusing Israel of “ethnic cleansing” in Sheikh Jarrah, the dean demands its removal. And the school’s security also seized a watermelon banner, which celebrates the Palestinian colors.
A coalition of Canadian Palestinian rights organizations tells the Trudeau government to stand behind its alleged commitment to human rights and suspend all instances of Zim-operated ships from docking and unloading in Canadian ports.
Pro-Israel advocates are attempting to sanitize new Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s 2013 quote, “I’ve killed many Arabs in my life, and there’s no problem with that.” Jonathan Ofir shows that not only is this campaign lying, but Bennett’s statement is actually even worse than it appears.
The Israel Fellow for Carnegie Mellon Hillel flew into a rage when two Muslim student leaders refused to endorse a propaganda-filled “fact finding” trip to Israel. They say the fellow’s response serves as a microcosm of Zionist behavior and attitudes.
Jane Hirschmann’s parents fled Germany after Hitler came to power. Later Germany gave her father reparations for a lost business and granted Hirschmann and her children and grandchildren citizenship. “I wonder why the 750,000 Palestinians forced from their homes and land in 1948 when Israel was founded are not entitled to the same treatment my family received after WWII ended. But the war on Palestinians was never over. Instead, Israel continues to this day its policy of ethnic cleansing, as evidenced by the current expulsions in Sheikh Jarrah and other parts of East Jerusalem,” she writes.
Several articles by Israel supporters bewail a “surge in anti-Zionism” among Jews because of the latest Gaza attack. They want to remind American Jews of their Jewish identity: that Being Jewish means supporting Israel. That’s an important argument to have.
Members of Congress are working on the shameful discrepancy in aid that the US gives Israel over the Palestinians by fighting for Palestinians to get nothing and Israel to get more.
PETA has praised Israel for becoming the first country to ban the sale of most furs, but Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza have seen Israel target animals during military incursions.
Sixteen year old Palestinian teenager Ahmed Shamsa succumbed to his wounds on Thursday morning, a day after he was shot in the head by Israeli forces in the northern occupied West Bank village of Beita in the Nablus district. According to locals Shamsa is the fifth Palestinian to be killed by Israeli forces in Beita since protests against the establishment of a new Israeli settler outpost in the area began in early May. Shamsa is the ninth Palestinian youth to be killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of the year.
Palestinian Christians are calling on community leadership to reflect on their failure to support the broader Palestinian uprising, and to “stand up for our own dignity and the dignity of those we share our lives and pain with.”