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Can you say "Israeli apartheid"? 200 Jewish-only communities approved From Middle East Monitor. Jewish-only communities, mostly in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. No Palestinians allowed.  Read the rest of this entry

Attending school while Palestinian: brief (horror) stories from the last 6 weeks Compiled by If Americans Knew. Israeli forces prepare to demolish a school in Hebron, West Bank on 11 July 2018 [DonnaBaranski-Walker/Twitter] Children in occupied West Bank schools are attacked and traumatized on a regular basis, as a matter of official policy. These are stories from just November and ten days in December (subsidized by American tax dollars).  Read the rest of this entry

WATCH: Israel Said a Palestinian Was Killed in Clashes. A Video Shows He Was Shot in the Back Ha'aretz reports that a 23-year-old disabled Palestinian man was shot dead in the back as he walked down the street. Israel originally claimed that its troops were confronting "a violent riot" when he was shot, but a video has now surfaced belying the claim. The army is now "investigating."   Read the rest of this entry

Israel propaganda trips target 'Pacific Progressive Leaders' – no one will say who's going By Alison Weir. An $85 million Israel advocacy organization is taking local American officials identified as "progressive" on propaganda trips to Israel. While no one will divulge the rosters, we have a few names of California participants in these extravagant, influence peddling affairs… and ideas about what to do about them. Read the rest of this entry

Israel lobby has helped make US obsolete by enabling Israel to be a top arms exporter By Kathryn Shihadah. An arms deal between Israel and Croatia highlights the US overindulgent military aid policy toward Israel. Today, thanks to our generosity, Israel has developed advanced military products, and is winning arms export contracts out from under us. Read the rest of this entry

Marc Lamont Hill's "anti-Semitism" is a distraction By Kathryn Shihadah. Marc Lamont Hill, in Nazareth 2014. screenshot from Vimeo video. As is often the case with proponents of justice for Palestinians, Marc Lamont Hill was watched closely by Israel partisans as he spoke before the UN last week. They took a phrase – one phrase – from the speech and threw the rest aside, hoping… Read the rest of this entry

Israeli Army Denied Soldiers Threw Gas Canister Into Hebron School. Then a Video Surfaced From Ha'aretz. The Israel Defense Forces said their army doesn't launch stun grenades or tear gas into Palestinian schools, but after a video surfaced it altered its response, blaming "the wind." Read the rest of this entry

When George Bush, Sr. took on the Israel lobby, and paid for it Alison Weir reports that in 1991 President George H.W. Bush held up a $10 billion loan guarantee to Israel. Bush said he was "one lonely little guy" against powerful forces. He won the battle, but eventually lost the war, a lesson that politicians have remembered ever since (contains videos)… Read the rest of this entry

Palestinian-American Congresswoman to take delegation to West Bank From Middle East Monitor. The pendulum begins to swing back: Rep. Rashida Tlaib plans to lead a congressional delegation on a trip to the occupied West Bank – a counterbalance to AIPAC's standard Israel trip for new Congress members. Rights groups have regularly criticized the AIPAC-sponsored trip as propaganda, and hopes to show what is really happening to Palestinians in the region.  Read the rest of this entry

Tuesday was a very bad day for Palestinians, but so is every other day From If Americans Knew. The events of December 4, 2018 in the occupied Palestinian territories would startle most of the world, but US mainstream US media won't report them: a grieving father is unable to get Israel to take responsibility for just 4 of the 1,400 deaths from Operation Cast Lead; an Israeli arms testing facility is about to move in on Bedouin land; a mentally disabled man is killed; 24 Palestinians are abducted; and 5 buildings (and livelihoods of 5 families) are demolished. Read the rest of this entry

How Palestinians in Jerusalem are being targeted in a campaign of ethnic cleansing From The National. Israel's takeover of Arab East Jerusalem has continued unabated since the 1967 war, but has grown more brazen since US President Trump's decision to move the embassy. Evictions of Palestinians and appropriation of their homes by Israeli settlers is more frequent; Israeli police presence has grown more pervasive; Israel's parliament is devising more new policies – and its supreme court is upholding them – to dispossess Palestinians. Meanwhile the PA is powerless to respond. It all adds up to ethnic cleansing.  Read the rest of this entry

BDS victory: 2 U.S. Police Departments Drop Out of Training Program With Israel From Ha'aretz. As a result of public pressure, the Vermont State Police and the police department for Northampton Massachusetts have decided to pull out of the ADL-sponsored, all-expenses-paid "Resiliency and Counterterrorism" program in Israel. The seminar highlights methods Israel uses to "thwart terrorism within its framework of a democratic and multicultural nation."  Read the rest of this entry

Army Invades Al-Quds University, Confiscates Surveillance Recordings And Cause Damage Soldiers Abduct Seven Palestinians, Demolish A Parking Structure, in West Bank Army Abducts Three Palestinians, Confiscates Cars, Near Jenin Soldiers Abduct A Palestinian Near Jerusalem Israeli Soldiers Invade Homes, Abduct A Palestinian Near Hebron Solidarity Campaign Launched In Support Of Wounded Palestinian Detainee Australia to Recognize Jerusalem as Israel's Capital Ahmad Sa'adat: Palestine Will Be Freed By The People, Not The Elites 'The Lobby – USA': Lessons for the Palestine Solidarity Movement Israel Restricts Vaccine Imports to Palestine