The Israeli government minister Nachman Shai says that a “crisis” is coming between the U.S. government and Israel over the Iran deal, and Israel will need American Jews to come to its side. “During many crises… many issues between Israel and the United States, American Jewry has always been there supporting Israel,” he told the Park Avenue Synagogue.
The leadership of the Democratic Socialists of America have participated in one of the most time-tested rituals of those who prioritize cultural clout over political standards: selling out Palestine.
The “Elbit Three”, a group of British activists who defaced the site of an Israeli arms company, have been acquitted.
Salah Hammouri is a Palestinian-French lawyer and human rights advocate from Jerusalem who works with the prisoner’s rights organziation Addameer, which was designated as a ‘terrorist organization’ by Israel. Here, Hammouri describes the arrests and imprisonments he has experiences since he was a teenager, and Israel’s motives in the attacks today against him and other human rights defenders. “The state harassment against Palestinian organizations, my fellow human rights defenders and myself is only the continuation of policies by a regime that seeks to quash our people’s will for freedom at all costs, as well as any resistance to the colonial apartheid regime put in place since 1948, which has pushed colonization relentlessly ever since.” Hammouri writes.
In October, software engineers at Google and Amazon wrote an anonymous open letter objecting to Project Nimbus – a $1.2 billion contract that would provide these companies’ services to the Israeli state – because of the harm it would bring to Palestinians. Yet these companies’ complicity with Israel’s colonial project goes far beyond direct contracts with the Israeli state.
In July 2014, six members of Ismail Ziada’s family were killed in an airstrike during Israeli’s 51-day assault on Gaza. On Tuesday, a judge in The Hague told him he has no right to seek justice from the two Israeli military officers most directly responsible for the horrific death of his family — Benny Gantz and Amir Eshel.
The growing list of those who say Israel practices “apartheid” in occupied territories and west of the Green Line is joined by Michael Benyair, a former Israeli attorney general. But US advocates maintain a taboo on that word in the U.S. discourse, enforced by Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL and Rep. Ted Deutch.
Israel’s threat to attack Iran has been made so many times that it has lost much of its danger to shock — but it would be a huge mistake to dismiss the Israelis’ statements. Even if Bennett is bluffing again, the supercharged atmosphere in the region raises the danger of a terrible accident. What’s more, Israel continues its violent sabotage program against Iran.
According to Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCIP), 15-year-old Mohammad Nidal Younis Mousa from Nablus was shot and killed by a private Israeli security guard in the early hours of Monday morning during an alleged car ramming attack. According to DCIP says Mousa is the 17th Palestinian minor to be killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank and East Jerusalem this year.
Global consumer inflation has caused food prices in Gaza to hike, making staple products in grocery stores unaffordable and worrying shop owners about the cost of restocking.