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`These deprivations are so severe that they amount to the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution` | | Human Rights Watch - About 6.8 million Jewish Israelis and 6.8
million Palestinians live today between the Mediterranean Sea and
Jordan River, an area encompassing Israel and the Occupied
Palestinian Territory (OPT), the latter made up of the West Bank,
including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. Throughout most of
this area, Israel is the sole governing power; in the remainder, it
exercises primary authority alongside limited Palestinian self-rule.
Across these areas and in most aspects of life, Israeli authorities
methodically privilege Jewish Israelis and discriminate against
Palestinians. Laws, policies, and statements by leading Israeli
officials make plain that the objective of maintaining Jewish
Israeli control over demographics, political power, and land has
long guided government policy. In pursuit of this goal, authorities
have dispossessed, confined, forcibly separated, and subjugated
Palestinians by virtue of their identity to varying degrees of
intensity. In certain areas, as described in this report, these
deprivations are so severe that they amount to the crimes against
humanity of apartheid and persecution. [ak] | 29/4/2021 |
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Land grabs in Israel never ended — they became more sophisticated | | Suha Arraf- +972mag- Palestinian citizens of Israel on Tuesday marked
45 years since the first Land Day — an annual commemoration of the
mass strikes and protests held on March 30, 1976 in response to a plan
by the Israeli government, then led by Yitzhak Rabin, to confiscate
thousands of dunams of land in the Galilee. Israeli security forces
shot dead six demonstrators during those protests. Over the years,
Land Day has turned into a major event for Palestinians around the
world to protest Israel’s discriminatory land regime and policies of
dispossession. Although the methods Israel has used to expropriate
Palestinian land inside its pre-1967 borders have changed over the
decades — particularly after lifting military rule over Palestinian
citizens of Israel in 1966 — the state’s policies are still being
advanced to this day. Salim Wakim, 67, is a leading attorney who has
spent the last 43 years working to protect what is left of
Palestinian land inside Israel.
| 25/4/2021 |
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The Jewish community excommunicates Jews who support Palestinian freedom | | PHILIP WEISS - Mondoweiss - When you are Jewish and come out as an
anti-Zionist, you get excommunicated. That is how the Jewish community
works to support Israel. The Jewish community says directly, You may
choose your community or what you call your sense of ethics. And if
you persist, forget about your community, because Jewish life as we
know it is committed to supporting Israel, the miraculous achievement
of the Jewish people in the 20th century in the wake of the
extermination. As an optimist, I keep declaring that this “herem” — or
ban– is softening. That young Jews who believe in justice are slowly
taking over the community and an apartheid state is becoming
impossible to defend. But I’m inside the anti-Zionist bubble, not the
community, and an interview published last week gives me pause. It is
with a friend, Rabbi Alissa Wise, who lately stepped down as deputy
director of Jewish Voice for Peace. Wise has played a big role in
growing that organization into a political force, as an openly anti-
Zionist organization that supports BDS. In the interview, Wise says in
so many words, I’ve had enough for now. I’ve battled my community for
20 years and now I am going to be a member of that community and take
a less political role, for the sake of my children being Jewish.(rh) | 25/4/2021 |
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The tormented dance of the colonizer: Peter Beinart, liberal Zionism and the battle for Palestine | | MARK BRAVERMAN - Mondoweiss - Earlier this year Jerusalem-based
journalist and analyst Nathan Thrall called out the Zionist left for
promoting the fiction that as long as Israel refrains from annexing
occupied Palestinian land, it does not cross the line into apartheid.
The essay, “The Separate Regimes Delusion: Nathan Thrall on Israel’s
Apartheid,” was published by the London Review of Books on January
21, 2021. “The premise that Israel is a democracy,” he wrote, “rests
on the belief that one can separate the pre-1967 state from the rest
of the territory under its control.” The “separate regimes delusion”
has been a key component of the almost five-decades long political
theater of the peace process to establish a Palestinian state in the
West Bank and Gaza. As Israel has continued to take land and impose a
system of control and fragmentation that has made the creation of a
sovereign Palestinian state impossible, liberal Zionists have clung
desperately to the fiction of the two-state solution as all that
stands in the way of the now undeniable reality that Israel and its
occupied territories comprise a single apartheid state. Accordingly,
a storm of protest erupted in response to the government’s espoused
intent to annex 30% of the West Bank in early summer 2020. It was in
the midst of this controversy that Peter Beinart’s “Yavne: A Jewish
Case for Equality in Israel-Palestine” appeared on July 7, 2020 in
Jewish Currents. Cutting the Gordian knot of a Jewish and democratic
Israel, Beinart endorsed the idea of a single state for Jews and
Palestinians.(rh) | 25/4/2021 |
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Aiding Palestine refugees is not political | | Philippe Lazzarini - Aljazeera - Mohammad is a seven-year-old boy
living in Gaza, which in June will enter its 15th year of a land,
air, and sea blockade. Like the nearly 300,000 students in Gaza who
attend schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for
Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), he has been in and out
of in-person and remote learning since the outbreak of the COVID-19
pandemic a year ago. He battles against electricity cuts every day to
receive online educational materials prepared by UNRWA teachers who
also struggle to get access to electricity and the internet.
Mohammad’s right to education remains inalienable even during a
pandemic and a humanitarian crisis. He is just one of the 5.7 million
Palestine refugees registered with UNRWA today, many of whom have
faced unimaginable suffering since their ancestors were displaced
from their homeland over 70 years ago. The one-year anniversary of
the global lockdown marks 12 months of even greater suffering for
Palestine refugees across the region.(rh) | 25/4/2021 |
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Smotrich threatens to expel Arab MK, other Muslims who don’t accept Jewish rule | | STUART WINER - Times of Israel - MK Bezalel Smotrich, who leads the
far-right Religious Zionism party, on Wednesday warned he would “make
sure” a prominent Arab lawmaker and other Muslims would not remain in
Israel if they did not recognize that the land belongs to the Jews.
MK Ahmad Tibi, a senior member of the Joint List, a predominantly
Arab Israeli party, responded by calling Smotrich a racist in German.
(rh) | 25/4/2021 |
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A Palestinian prayer for Ramadan | | Ramzy Baroud - Mondoweiss - COVID-19 cases in Palestine, especially
in Gaza, reached record highs this month largely due to the arrival
of a highly contagious coronavirus variant first identified in the
UK.
Gaza has always been vulnerable to pandemics. Under a hermetic
blockade since 2006, the densely populated Strip lacks basic services
like clean water, electricity, or equipped hospitals. Therefore, long
before the coronavirus ravaged many parts of the world, Palestinians
in Gaza were dying as a result of easily treatable diseases such as
dysentery, salmonellosis, and typhoid fever.(rh) | 25/4/2021 |
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UN experts warn of rising levels of Israeli settler violence in a climate of impunity | | WAFA.ps - Violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians
in the occupied West Bank has risen markedly in recent months, with
assaults and property destruction occurring in an atmosphere of
impunity, UN human rights experts said today. “We note that, in
2020, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs (OCHA) documented 771 incidents of settler violence causing
injury to 133 Palestinians and damaging 9,646 trees and 184 vehicles
mostly in the areas of Hebron, Jerusalem, Nablus and Ramallah,” the
experts said. “Already, during the first three months of 2021, more
than 210 settler violent incidents were recorded, with one
Palestinian fatality. We call upon the Israeli military and police to
investigate and prosecute these violent acts with vigor and
resolve.”(rh) | 25/4/2021 |
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I write to remember the brutality of Jewish violence I saw in Jerusalem | | Orly Noy +972mag - Since the beginning of Ramadan this month,
Jerusalem Police have banned Palestinians from sitting on the wide
steps at the entrance to Damascus Gate, the main plaza in the Old
City, and holding evening gatherings in honor of the holy month. This
arbitrary decision, for which no plausible explanation was given,
have ignited widespread Palestinian protest. The police, as if just
waiting for the perfect opportunity, has turned the place into a
nightly battlefield. Against the backdrop of this violence, activists
from Jewish supremacist group Lehava called on their supporters to
arrive in droves on Thursday “to restore Jewish dignity,” after
several TikTok videos surfaced showing Palestinians harassing ultra-
Orthodox Jews in the city. Backed by their representatives now
sitting in the Knesset, hundreds of supporters of the Kahanist
organization responded to the call, arriving in the area with the
stated goal of attacking Arabs (or alternatively, leftists).(rh)
| 25/4/2021 |
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Noam Chomsky Without Regrets: Interview With a Libertarian Socialist | | Kelly Candaele - Portside - At 92, Noam Chomsky remains a political
activist. In recent interviews and in a new book, Chomsky for
Activists, he takes stock of his own political involvement going back
to the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s, and offers
lessons and warnings for today’s activists.
Chomsky has always contended that intellectuals should play an
antagonistic role in society. His 1967 essay, “The Responsibility of
Intellectuals,” offered a devastating critique of the complicity of
intellectuals and policy bureaucrats in the Vietnam disaster,
advising that Americans should “follow the path of integrity,
wherever it may lead.” Characterized by many conservatives and some
on the left as cavalier in his criticism of the United States, he has
not wavered from critiquing American moral complacency and misuse of
power. A pioneer in linguistic theory and language development at MIT
for over 60 years, Chomsky has devoted most of his time to writing
and political work. Speaking by phone from his home in Tucson,
Arizona, he told Capital & Main, “If you think there is a serious
problem and you know that you can do something about it, then it
follows on simple ethical grounds that you should do what you can do
— which means become an activist.” The following interview was edited
for length and clarity.(rh) | 18/4/2021 |
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Prof.: Denying Me the Israel Prize Is Delegitimization of Left | | Or Kashti - Haaretz - The researcher whose receipt of this year’s
Israel Prize in mathematics and computer science was countermanded by
the education minister said Yoav Gallant’s decision was “another
small step in the delegitimization of the left in Israel.” Prof. Oded
Goldreich said that Gallant’s move to deny him the prize constituted
“political persecution.” Goldreich made the comment after Thursday’s
High Court of Justice ruling giving Gallant 30 days to justify his
decision. The professor will not receive the prize during this week’s
Independence Day ceremony.(rh) | 18/4/2021 |
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PTSD-afflicted IDF veteran sets himself alight, suffers serious burns | | JUDAH ARI GROSS - Times of Israel - An IDF veteran diagnosed with
post-traumatic stress disorder set himself on fire Monday outside a
Defense Ministry office that handles the rehabilitation of injured
soldiers in central Israel, the ministry said in a statement. The
man, 26, was seriously injured, sustaining burns all over his body.
He was identified by Channel 12 as Itzik Saidyan, who had been
interviewed by the television station two years prior as part of a
story on soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder. The IDF
Veteran’s Association said that the man was frustrated at his
treatment by authorities. He was recognized by the Defense Ministry
as having 25 percent disability from his post-traumatic stress
disorder, but had requested 50 percent recognition. The ministry had
refused, saying at least a portion of his illness was due to
childhood trauma, not his military service.(rh) | 18/4/2021 |
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Increasingly, Jewish Critics of Israeli Policies Are Using The Term “Apartheid” | | ALLAN C. BROWNFELD - Washington Report on Middle East Affairs - In
January 2021, the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem issued a
statement which declared that the Israeli government was an
“apartheid regime.” It stated that, “A regime that uses laws,
practices and organized violence to establish and maintain the
supremacy of one group over another is an apartheid regime.” B’Tselem
argues that the Israeli regime “of apartheid” rests on four pillars:
citizenship, land, freedom of movement and political participation.
Virtually any person of Jewish ancestry anywhere in the world can
claim Israeli citizenship; immigration to Israel is all but
impossible for Palestinians, and only a minority of Palestinians—
about 1.6 million out of seven million—-who live on land controlled
by Israel are citizens of Israel and even their rights are limited
compared with their nearly seven million Jewish counterparts. (rh) | 18/4/2021 |
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Thousands of Palestinians attend Ramadan’s first Friday in Al-Aqsa | | Wafa - JERUSALEM, Friday, April 16, 2021 (WAFA) – Compared with
Ramadan 2020, when the mosque was devoid of any worshipper, thousands
of Palestinians today attended the prayers of the first Friday of
Ramadan at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound. Worshippers anxious
to attend the first prayer of Ramadan in Jerusalem made their way to
the mosque compound, crossing military barriers as Israeli police
beefed up presence around and in the city. Since the early morning
hours, the Israeli occupation authorities sealed off the checkpoints
separating Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank and deployed
police around and across the Old City, obstructing the movement of
Palestinians and their vehicles and forcing them to walk for long
distances to reach the holy site. (rh) | 18/4/2021 |
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Israel stands alone on Iran | | Ben Caspit - Al-Monitor - Guillot’s late February visit reflects the
extent of cooperation between the various Israeli and American
defense and intelligence agencies, which has been experiencing a
golden age in recent years. Israel is the only country in the world
other than the United States in which a prototype of the F-35 Stealth
fighter is being upgraded with additional armaments and fuel tanks.
Israel is the only country permitted to install its own domestically
developed technology on the advanced aircraft, which will allow it to
share the F-35’s sophisticated command and control system with older
fighter planes in the Israeli fleet, such as the F-15 and F-16. These
capabilities, as well as being the only country in the world to
dispatch the Stealth on real time operational missions on a daily
basis, have drawn the attention of many other air forces. The
extensive cooperation with the British, Italian, Greek, German,
Emirati and other air forces is breaking all records. Israel’s two
main defense assets — the absolute control of the skies over the
Middle East and the seemingly inexhaustible information collected by
its intelligence community — have turned Israel into a magnet for
international cooperation, ardent courting and joint drills. However,
the picture is bleak for Israel’s diplomatic posture on the world
stage. Israel is experiencing “withdrawal symptoms” from the high it
enjoyed for four years of the Donald Trump presidency. Unlike the
welcome presence in many countries of Israel Defense Forces (IDF)
Chief Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, Mossad director Yossi Cohen, Norkin and
other top brass, Israel’s foreign affairs arena is under threat of
international boycott from Washington and elsewhere. (rh)
| 18/4/2021 |
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The Palestinians: “We Shall Not Be Moved” | | DANIEL BEAUMONT - Counterpunch - A number of articles about the
upcoming elections have focused on the political divisions among the
Palestinians. Without a doubt, those divisions—foremost, the Fatah-
Hamas divide—have hobbled their cause. Those divisions are real and
complicated. The essay that follows is an attempt to consider recent
events in Israel and the West Bank and Gaza in light of regional and
international events that I think are changing the terms of conflict
and working in favor of the Palestinian cause.(rh) | 18/4/2021 |
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The Jewish Women Who Posed an `Existential Threat` to Israel by Marrying Arab Men | | Ofer Aderet - Haaretz - In 1942, all traces of Bianca Schwartz
disappeared. An orphan who arrived in Palestine as part of the Youth
Aliyah effort to save Jewish refugees from war-torn Europe, she had
lived on Kibbutz Afikim in the north before moving to Jerusalem. A
lengthy search eventually revealed that Schwartz had converted to
Islam, married an Arab man, changed her name to Leila Natshe Ali and
was living in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, which
in 1948 had come under Jordanian control. The couple had five
children. After her husband died, in 1971, she wanted to return to
the fold of Judaism. According to one account, Hanania Dery, the
chief rabbi of Jaffa, was walking in the Old City when he happened to
notice a woman who was dressed in Arab attire but whose facial
features struck him as Jewish. Dery asked her to tell him about
herself, and thanks to his efforts she returned to her Jewish roots
and was recognized as a new immigrant.(rh)
| 18/4/2021 |
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US warns Israel to stop ‘dangerous, detrimental’ chatter on Natanz attack | | TOI STAFF and AGENCIES - Times of Israel - Washington has conveyed to
Israel in no uncertain terms that the “chatter” about its alleged
involvement in the blast at the Natanz nuclear facility early this
week must stop, warning that it is dangerous and detrimental as well
as embarrassing to the Biden administration as it attempts to
negotiate a return to the nuclear deal with Tehran, Channel 12 news
reported Friday. The unsourced report said the message was conveyed
to Jerusalem through several channels in recent days. (rh)
| 18/4/2021 |
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Biden’s Palestinian aid package is a start — but doesn’t go nearly far enough | | Muhammad Shehada - Forward - Last week, U.S. Secretary of State
Antony Blinken declared the U.S. would restore financial assistance
to the Palestinians with a first package totaling $235 million.The
package comes as part of what the Biden administration described in a
press release as its commitment “to advancing prosperity, security,
and freedom for both Israelis and Palestinians in tangible ways in
the immediate term.” A refreshing choice of words, given that the
last administration didn’t believe that Palestinians deserve security
or freedom, let alone genuine prosperity. Symbolically, the
restoration of aid is a refreshing acknowledgement of the basic
humanity of Palestinians and the rights that humanity entails. It
restores recognition of the unsolved issue of Palestinian refugees,
pending a just solution, after the Trump administration defunded the
institutions that keep them alive. But despite the best intentions of
Biden’s team, the aid package includes critical shortcomings.(rh) | 18/4/2021 |
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Noam Chomsky Without Regrets: Interview With a Libertarian Socialist | | Kelly Candaele - Portside - At 92, Noam Chomsky remains a political
activist. In recent interviews and in a new book, Chomsky for
Activists, he takes stock of his own political involvement going back
to the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s, and offers
lessons and warnings for today’s activists. Chomsky has always
contended that intellectuals should play an antagonistic role in
society. His 1967 essay, “The Responsibility of Intellectuals,”
offered a devastating critique of the complicity of intellectuals and
policy bureaucrats in the Vietnam disaster, advising that Americans
should “follow the path of integrity, wherever it may lead.”
Characterized by many conservatives and some on the left as cavalier
in his criticism of the United States, he has not wavered from
critiquing American moral complacency and misuse of power. A pioneer
in linguistic theory and language development at MIT for over 60
years, Chomsky has devoted most of his time to writing and political
work. Speaking by phone from his home in Tucson, Arizona, he told
Capital & Main, “If you think there is a serious problem and you know
that you can do something about it, then it follows on simple ethical
grounds that you should do what you can do — which means become an
activist.” The following interview was edited for length and clarity.
(rh) | 11/4/2021 |
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Smotrich threatens to expel Arab MK, other Muslims who don’t accept Jewish rule | | STUART WINER - Times od Israel - MK Bezalel Smotrich, who leads the
far-right Religious Zionism party, on Wednesday warned he would “make
sure” a prominent Arab lawmaker and other Muslims would not remain in
Israel if they did not recognize that the land belongs to the Jews.
MK Ahmad Tibi, a senior member of the Joint List, a predominantly
Arab Israeli party, responded by calling Smotrich a racist in German.
(rh)
| 11/4/2021 |
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Biden made good start but Palestinians need action as well as aid | | Daoud Kuttab - Ynetnews - The decision by the Biden administration to
contribute $150 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency
for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), is a clear signal of
what the UN agency said is America’s acts as a means of “restoring
its role as a decades-long friend and supporter of the UN agency that
provides lifesaving human development and humanitarian aid assistance
to Palestine refugees across the Middle East.” In addition to aid to
UNRWA, the U.S. has renewed its humanitarian and security aid to
Palestinians.(rh) | 11/4/2021 |
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If the International Criminal Court Lacks Jurisdiction, Is Everything Legal? | | Yehudit Karp - Haaretz - Diplomatic activity has garnered support for
Israel’s position from jurists in Western countries, including some
who fear the ICC in The Hague will set its sights on them too. Anyone
in Israel who doesn’t go along with this position is denounced as a
traitor. The special status held by Palestinian Foreign Minister
Riyad al-Maliki was revoked when he returned from The Hague – as
punishment for the Palestinian Authority’s complaint to the ICC.
Presumably, the government will take further measures to get the PA
to change course and withdraw its complaint. But even if Israel’s
position is legally correct, the ICC’s lack of jurisdiction cannot
obscure the crimes being committed in the territories, and Israel
cannot absolve itself of responsibility. The court’s jurisdiction is
one thing, and the crimes being committed in the territories are
another.(rh) | 11/4/2021 |
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Israelis Might Go to Polls for the 5th Time in Two Years | | NAZLIECE BULGUR - Politics Today - For the fourth time in two years,
legislative elections were held in Israel on March 23, 2021 to elect
the 120 members of the 24th Knesset. Israeli governments have to
secure a majority in the Knesset with each member casting one vote.
Israeli right-wing parties such as the Likud party and their allies
won 52 out of the 120 seats. The southern branch of the Islamic
Movement led by Mansour Abbas won four seats. These results signify
the continuity of the deadlock in Israeli politics with neither Likud
and its allies nor their opponents able to secure a majority.Both
sides would need the support of the United Arab List and the Joint
Arab List to secure a majority, which seems a difficult match. Yamina
Party, which has seven seats in the Knesset announced it would not
support any candidate.To form a government, Benjamin Netanyahu must
unite right-wing parties. Netanyahu stated, “With this majority, we
have to build a stable Israeli government.” He added, “Join us in
this government,” pledging to build “a right-wing government that
will look after all Israeli citizens.” (rh)
| 11/4/2021 |
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Video shows police beating Israeli politician in Jerusalem | | Aljazeera - An Israeli lawmaker has said that police beat him while
he took part in a demonstration against a Jewish settlement in
Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem. Ofer Cassif, a Jewish member of the
mostly Arab Joint List party, was attending a protest against the
expansion of a Jewish settlement in Sheikh Jarrah, a Palestinian
neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem. (rh)
| 11/4/2021 |
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Aiding Palestine refugees is not political | | Philippe Lazzarini - Aljazeera - Mohammad is a seven-year-old boy
living in Gaza, which in June will enter its 15th year of a land,
air, and sea blockade. Like the nearly 300,000 students in Gaza who
attend schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for
Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), he has been in and out
of in-person and remote learning since the outbreak of the COVID-19
pandemic a year ago. He battles against electricity cuts every day to
receive online educational materials prepared by UNRWA teachers who
also struggle to get access to electricity and the internet.
Mohammad’s right to education remains inalienable even during a
pandemic and a humanitarian crisis. (rh) | 11/4/2021 |
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Netanyahu, big business, and the skewing of Israeli media | | David Horowitz - Times of Israel - A truly dismal saga is playing out
in Jerusalem District Court. Not just as regards Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, but also relating to parts of Israel’s media
landscape. And although the cases before the court relate to the
events of several years ago, the concerns they highlight about
Israeli media independence, in the face of a prime minister who has
worked strategically for years to bend media to his will, are all too
current. In the first of the three cases that entered the evidentiary
stage this week, Netanyahu is battling allegations that for several
years he exercised what amounted to editorial control over what was
Israel’s second-largest news website, Walla, in an illicit quid pro
quo deal with its owners that, one way or another, has harmed pretty
much every Israeli. (rh)
| 11/4/2021 |
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Netanyahu Liable to Concoct ‘National Emergency’ to Keep Himself in Power | | Yossi Werter - Haaretz -Two principles are competing with one another
at the moment, in the context of the knottiest coalition talks ever.
The first is known as JNB, Just Not Bibi, and the other is NAE, Not
Another Election. They aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive, but
they produce entirely different negotiation paths. In them, all
methods are kosher and all means are on the table. Any idea, no
matter how hallucinatory, can be discussed. One path will lead to the
sixth Benjamin Netanyahu government, the other to the revolutionary
Naftali Bennett-Yair Lapid government.(rh) | 11/4/2021 |
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Netanyahu`s trial may not be decided in court | | Tova Tsimuky - Ynetnews - As the prime minister`s corruption trial is
getting underway in Jerusalem, the defendant is busy trying to find a
way to persuade the president that he must form the next government —
one that will inoculate him against any unfavorable outcome.(rh) | 11/4/2021 |
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ICC prosecutor opens war crimes probe in Palestinian territories | | Aljazeera - The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
said on Wednesday she launched a formal inquiry into alleged crimes
in the occupied Palestinian territories, a move strongly opposed by
Israel. Fatou Bensouda said in a statement the inquiry will be
conducted “independently, impartially and objectively, without fear
or favour”.(rh)
| 4/4/2021 |
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WHO Wuhan report leaves question of coronavirus origins unresolved | | Emily Rauhala - Washington Post - A joint World Health Organization-
China report on the origins of the coronavirus says it most probably
jumped from animals to humans via an intermediate animal host,
downplays the possibility it leaked from a lab and suggests next
steps in a complex search mired in controversy, according to a copy
obtained by The Washington Post.The report, set to be released
Tuesday, offers the most detailed look yet at what happened in Wuhan,
China, in late 2019 and early 2020. However, the findings are far
from conclusive and will be overshadowed by questions about China’s
lack of transparency — and the WHO’s apparent inability to press for
more. The team recommends further study of the possible path of
transmission between animals and humans and on transmission through
frozen food — a once-fringe theory favored by the Chinese government.
It does not recommend additional research on the lab leak hypothesis.
(rh) | 4/4/2021 |
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Mansour Abbas puts religion before nationalism, breaking up the Arab Joint List | | Hanan Manadreh - Challenge - Knesset member Mansour Abbas, who recently
split off from the Arab Joint List, dropped a powerful bomb when he
said, “Religious principles are no less important than [Arab] national
principles.”(rh) | 4/4/2021 |
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Abbas finds himself up the creek without a paddle ahead of PA polls | | Elior Levy - Ynetnews - Despite warnings from Israel and his own
advisers, Fatah Leader Mahmoud Abbas is racing towards the Palestinian
polls with a broken and divided faction, while terror group Hamas
demonstrates a united front, not unlike its successful 2006 round. (rh) | 4/4/2021 |
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A Palestinian mother called the Israeli police to help her son with a mental illness. They shot him instead. | | YUMNA PATEL - Mondoweiss - Munir Anabtawi was killed by Israeli police
after his mother had called them to help her son get to the hospital.
“They didn’t have to shoot him the way they did," Munir`s aunt, Siham,
tells Mondoweiss. "It was an execution. They executed him.” (rh)
| 4/4/2021 |
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Netanyahu is responsible for his own downfall | | Sever Plocker - Although conditions were perfect for Netanyahu`s bloc to
win enough seats in latest elections, PM`s uncontrollable ego and
excessive self-confidence drove potential voters into the arms of other
parties or made them stay at home.(rh) | 4/4/2021 |
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We are living through a time of fear – not just of the virus, but of each other | | Jonathan Cook - InformationClearingHouse - We are now firmly in a
time of fear – not only of the virus, but of each other. Fear
destroys solidarity. Fear forces us to turn inwards to protect
ourselves and our loved ones. Fear refuses to understand or identify
with the concerns of others. In fear societies, basic rights become a
luxury. They are viewed as a threat, as recklessness, as a
distraction that cannot be afforded in this moment of crisis. Once
fear takes hold, populations risk agreeing to hand back rights, won
over decades or centuries, that were the sole, meagre limit on the
power of elites to ransack the common wealth. In calculations based
on fear, freedoms must make way for other priorities: being
responsible, keeping safe, averting danger.(rh) | 4/4/2021 |
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Why we should critically welcome the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism | | TONY GREENSTEIN - Mondoweiss - Unlike the IHRA which labelled
opposition to Zionism and Israeli racism as antisemitism, the JDA
makes a clear distinction between antisemitism and anti-Zionism. The
JDA states that the following are not antisemitic: Criticizing or
opposing Zionism as a form of nationalism, or arguing for a variety
of constitutional arrangements for Jews and Palestinians in the area
between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean. It is not antisemitic
to support arrangements that accord full equality to all inhabitants
“between the river and the sea,” whether in two states, a binational
state, unitary democratic state, federal state, or in whatever form.
Evidence-based criticism of Israel as a state. (rh) | 4/4/2021 |
... |
Real Challenge in Palestinian Elections: Convince Jerusalem Voters to Cast Their Ballots | | Amira Hass - Haaretz - The unique name of one of the 36 parties
aiming to compete in the May 22 Palestinian parliamentary election
might be translated as We’ve Had Enough. This slate defines itself as
young people from protest movements active mainly in Gaza in recent
years against the internal Palestinian rift and its economic
repercussions.//The multiplicity of party tickets expresses people’s
great thirst to make their voices heard and take part in the
decision-making process in a society split between two authoritarian
regimes and lacking authority and power in the face of Israel’s
control and policies.(rh) | 4/4/2021 |
... |
Why is The Forward afraid of criticizing Israel’s discriminatory vaccine policy? | | Sari Bashi - +972mag - American Jews must recognize that Israel’s
refusal to vaccinate all Palestinians under its rule is part of a
supremacist policy that goes beyond the occupation.(rh)
| 4/4/2021 |
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