Israeli forces executed another teenage girl at a checkpoint in Hebron on Sunday. Her name was Dania Ersheid, she was 17 and a student. A witness at the scene, standing in back of Arsheid in line at the checkpoint adjacent the Ibrahimi Mosque, said the teen raised her arms and stated “I don’t have a knife” before she was shot with “eight to 10 bullets” before she fell to the ground.
B’Tselem video showing six Israeli soldiers beating a Palestinian worker who was just minding his own business resulted in the man’s release from five days of detention. The soldiers likely will face no charges.
JK Rowling has staked out territory as a prominent face of the anti-BDS movement. She’s signed on to a heavily publicized open letter in the Guardian, “Israel needs cultural bridges, not boycotts”, encouraging “dialogue about Israel and the Palestinians” in a “wider” cultural and creative community. The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) responds: “Some British cultural figures, including known Israel apologists, seem intent to revive Thatcher’s ‘constructive engagement’, equating the colonisers with the colonised, which in the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa proved to be downright unethical and complicit.”
In London for the opening of a new biopic, Palestinian singer Mohammed Assaf and his fiancee Lina Qishawi both condemned Israeli occupation of Palestine. Assaf deplored efforts to “Judaise” the Old City and deny Palestinian access to Al Aqsa mosque.
A new report summarizing Israel’s Arbitrary Killings and its System of Structural Violence was released by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor at a press conference in Geneva on Friday. The release included the video, “Caught on Camera: Israel’s extrajudicial killings,” illustrating the killings of Palestinian civilians involved in political protests during the last two weeks.
An Israeli civilian shot and killed a Palestinian man in Hebron today. The killer claimed the Palestinian intended to harm him. The aftermath of the murder was released on video by Youth Against Settlements. This video is disturbing. Questions have been raised over an exchange between two of the soldiers who appear to be passing something from one to another at 13 seconds in the video. Are we watching a set up?
Palestine Children’s Relief Fund is working hard to try to heal Post Traumatic Stress among thousands of Palestinian children who have lived through three wars.
State Department spokesperson Admiral John Kirby left Israeli officials outraged yesterday by his remarks during the daily State Department Press Briefing when he suggested Israel was, at a minimum, at least partly to blame for the current eruption of violence in Jerusalem and throughout the Palestinian Territories.
Black-Palestinian Solidarity released a powerful video today unifying resistance against state-sanctioned violence both communities are confronting. “When I see Them I See Us” features more than 60 leading Black and Palestinian artists and activists, including Lauryn Hill, Rasmea Odeh, Danny Glover, Cornel West, Angela Davis, and Alice Walker.
Hillary Clinton doesn’t notice any Palestinian victims of attack in a statement saying the “recent wave of attacks against Israelis” is wrong and must stop. If you want to understand why American politics is busted, and how far we have to go in changing the discourse, you need only read that statement.