Meet the generation of young West Bank Palestinians who came of age witnessing the Gaza genocide — as Israel killed their friends.
International media and political leaders have attempted to explain an the January 27 attack in the Israeli settlement of Neve Yaakov that killed seven Israeli settlers as a religiously-motivated crime because it took place on the eve of Shabbat in an area adjacent to a synagogue. But these same accounts ignore the fact that Neve Yaakov is also home to the Israeli military’s central command center for the occupation of the West Bank, and the settlement has been central to cementing Israeli control over occupied Jerusalem.
When an attack like Khairy Alqam’s in Neve Yaakov occurs, you must understand that this violence does not occur in a vacuum.
Here is the context behind the attack in Neve Yaakov.
The Israeli army claimed its soldiers shot Mohammad Rezq Salah as he was allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at cars on the highway, but his family says he was 300 meters away from the location when he was shot.
Norman Finkelstein responds to B’Tselem’s designation of Israel as an “apartheid regime” saying that the aspect of Israeli rule that most manifests its Jewish supremacist character is the worthlessness it attaches to Palestinian life. And this is the most effective label– insisting on characterizing Israel as a Jewish supremacist state.
“We must remember that George Floyd didn’t die due to a lack of oxygen. He died because of a lack of justice,” Palestinian artist Taqi Spateen tells Mondoweiss.
The Jerusalem Center of Socio and Economic Rights warned of the escalation of Israeli demolitions in occupied Jerusalem, noting it bears the nature of a collective form of punishment. The targeted neighborhoods are Qalandia, Sur Baher, Silwan and al-Bustan, and dozens of houses near Israel’s separation wall.
Following the Israeli military’s recent surge of killings in the occupied territories the refugees of Aida camp…
Palestinian’s in Bil’in protest the construction of Israel’s Apartheid Wall dressed as the Na’vi, the indigenous people from James Cameron’s film, Avatar.