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WATCH: Leaked report based on 20 years of monitoring: Israel regularly violates international law
From IMEMC. An international group created 20 years ago to monitor the situation in the West Bank city of Hebron has issued a confidential report based on over 40,000 incident reports that shows a consistent pattern of Israel violating human rights and international law… see videos. Read the rest of this entry

Sheldon Adelson's $82 million+ donation bought U.S. Israel policies
Reposted from The American Conservative. Billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who seems to prefer Israel to the US, runs 'Trump's' policies on Israel-Palestine. Read the rest of this entry

Texas: she didn't sign the "Israel Oath," so she got fired
By Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept. A children's speech pathologist refuses to sign a will-not-boycott-Israel oath: she loses her job, an unknown number of children lose her advocacy. She notes how outlandish it is that she is not required to uphold the interests of the United States, or Texas, or children, but a foreign country. Read the rest of this entry

Truth is stranger than fiction: 3 days in the West Bank
By Kathryn Shihadah. Elderly women, families, children, and of course young men in the occupied Palestinian territories are regularly treated with brutality by Israeli forces. International laws are in place to protect vulnerable populations, but Israel ignores such laws – and gets away with it. Simple, common decency ought to elicit restraint on the part of the occupier, but does not.

These very brief stories are snapshots of Israeli cruelty between December 15 and 17, 3 days out of the 50+ years of violent occupation which the United States endorses and supports to the tune of over $10 million a day. Read the rest of this entry

A cruel, yet very usual Israeli incident that almost nobody knows about
By Kathryn Shihadah. The illegal Israeli occupation continues its illegal collective punishment by demolishing the home of an alleged terrorist's family and terrorizing the entire neighborhood. Read the rest of this entry

Leaked: Pro-Israel Lobby Groups Secretly Admit BDS Is Effective
From IMEMC. Ali Abunimah discusses a leaked report from Creative Community for Peace (CCFP), a front for Israel government-backed lobby group StandWithUs, which admits the cultural boycott is "constantly growing" and "innovative". Read the rest of this entry

AIPAC takes newly elected Congress members, CNN's Setmayer on propaganda trips to Israel
By Alison Weir. The Israel lobby is taking newly elected Congressional representatives, CNN-ABC commentator Tara Setmayer, & California "progressive leaders" on propaganda trips to Israel. AIPAC IS using a loophole that violates the spirit of the law… and seems to be functioning as a foreign agent… Read the rest of this entry

Three Palestinians and three Israelis killed in spate of deadly incidents
By Chloé Benoist, Middle East Eye. The Israeli military has recently been conducting aggressive operations inside the occupied Palestinian West Bank, including in Area A, where the Palestinian Authority is supposed to be in full control. Israel continues to prolong and entrench the now 50+-year occupation, citing the need for security; in reality the occupation and its injustice are the cause of Palestinian resistance, not the result of Palestinian violence. Read the rest of this entry

Israeli press review: New poll shows rampant racism in Israel
From Middle East Eye. Israeli television channel conducted a poll which found that Israeli Jews have a high level of anti-Palestinian prejudice. Read the rest of this entry

Israeli settlers hang posters calling for assassination of Palestinian President
From Ma'an News Agency. Ramallah, the Palestinian Authority's capital, has been subject to raids allegedly in search of the perpetrator of a drive-by shooting of Israeli settlers yesterday. Now some settlers are calling for the PA president's assassination – and Israeli soldiers are staying silent. Read the rest of this entry