The BDS movement responds to the Trump Administration’s attacks: “With our many partners, we shall resist these McCarthyite attempts to intimidate and bully Palestinian, Israeli and international human rights defenders into accepting Israeli apartheid and settler-colonialism as fate.”
Officials at the Department of Education have confirmed that they’re moving forward with an investigation into alleged antisemitism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered today to Israel two parting gifts of inestimable value on his farewell tour of the Middle East, the importance of which go well beyond his visit to the illegal Israeli colony of Psagot in the Palestinian West Bank. His last-minute moves to further legitimatize Israeli annexation, and delegitimatize opposition to Israel’s apartheid rule over the Palestinian people, will be difficult for the incoming Biden administration to reverse.
“I would like to tell Pompeo, and all Americans, that when you drink that wine, you are drinking the blood of the Palestinian people,” Abdel Jawab Saleh, a Palestinian who owns land on this site of the Psagot settlement said.
For weeks we have warned that Trump may be planning an attack on Iran. VP Mike Pence and Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talked Trump out of an atttack lasst week. The press finally informs us.
The focus might currently be on Trump’s attempts at a judicial coup, but eyes are also turning to Georgia’s upcoming Senate runoffs.
According to a report from Nahal Toosi at Politico, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has developed a process to deem certain human rights groups antisemitic. “If Pompeo goes through with it, it’ll be interesting to see if Biden tries to roll it back & how & what blowback he’d get,” Toosi writes.
The export of wines from the Golan Heights to Dubai marks Trump’s legacy in the region: perceived legitimacy for the occupation and expanded markets for settlement businesses.
Trump’s normalization deals have fundamentally altered the political landscape. But Palestinians and their allies can still use grassroots power to strategically counter this new reality.
As the world was engulfed in the unfolding US elections on November 3rd, Israel quietly demolished an entire Bedouin enclave in the northern Jordan Valley, leaving more than 70 Palestinians homeless just as temperatures started to drop in the occupied West Bank.