When Annie Robbins read this morning that last September the Shin Bet had arrested two youths from the village of Nabi Saleh, and their subsequent interrogations led to the arrest of 19 more people she immediately recalled the video of the Tamimi family fighting an Israeli soldier that made headlines around the world last Fall. She checked the date of that incident and sure enough it was just weeks before the arrests. Coincidence?
Pro-Israel video tailored to Christian Zionists shows a young Mississippian indoctrinated by the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement shooting up his possessions made in Israel till a friend points the gun at a bible and says BDS movement wants to boycott God and the bible
Over the weekend London Palestine Action kicked off Israeli Apartheid Week by pulling off the amazing feat of plastering over 500 Underground trains with posters criticizing British foreign policy and BBC coverage of Israel/Palestine.
Today is the Nevada caucus, an exciting day for people on the edge of their seats following Nevada’s dead heat race between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton for the Democratic primary. On the heels of Sanders ascension in the national polls comes breaking news from the Chicago Tribune archives — photographic evidence of Sanders being arrested as a young civil rights activist.
A British schoolboy was lately questioned by police on “anti-radicalization” grounds because he was wearing a pro-Palestinian badge. The move appears to reflect British government efforts to crack down on the BDS campaign, or boycott, divestment and sanctions
Two horrible videos emerged from Hebron over this past deadly weekend. In one, after a 14-year-old girl was gunned down in the street, an ambulance waits right next to her as she bleeds and writhe on the ground, but soldiers prevent her from being moved. In the other video, a soldier is recorded callously pushing over a disabled Palestinian man in a wheelchair.
Yesterday the Senate passed the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 by a 75-20 veto proof margin. The large trade policy bill includes anti- BDS trade legislation promoted by AIPAC and introduces new U.S. policy language by including all “Israeli-controlled territories” as part of Israel.
Democratic voters are more concerned with economic policy than foreign policy. Witness last night’s debate, in which the candidates clashed on bank policy, and the Sanders campaign promptly fact-checked Clinton assertions with Elizabeth Warren’s book showing Clinton’s obedience to bank interests. When will Clinton’s credibility gap begin to hurt her perceived foreign policy “strength”?
A panel of judges in Saudi Arabia overturned the death sentence of Palestinian artist, curator, and poet Ashraf Fayadh but upheld the verdict of the crime of apostasy and sentenced him to eight years in prison, 800 lashes, and an official public repentance through Saudi Arabia state media.
No evidence, no eye witnesses, and no crime preceded the capture, torture and forced confessions of the Hares Boys, 5 Palestinian youths from the West Bank village of Hares. And yet Ali Shamlawi, Mohammed Kleib, Mohammed Suleiman, Ammar Souf, and Tamer Souf were recent sentenced, after almost 3 years of imprisonment and over 100 hearings, by the Israeli occupation military court to 15 years in prison.