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Gaza `Return March` organizer: `We`ll ensure it doesn`t escalate to violence — on our end`Rami Younis - +972 - Palestinians in Gaza are planning 45 days of protests along the border with Israel leading up to the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, and they fear Israeli troops may open fire. One of the organizers speaks to +972 Magazine about why he believes hundreds of thousands of people will show up, and what message he’d like to send to Israelis. [bz]27/3/2018
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Congresswoman McCollum urges end to Israeli abuses of childrenRay Hanania - The Arab Daily News - "McCollum, a Democrat from Minnesota, is the sponsor of House Resolution 4391 which prevents American taxpayer dollars from being used by Israel’s military to abuse, detain, jail and mistreat Palestinian children." - id21/3/2018
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Mass Rally Against the Expulsion of Asylum Seekers 20/3/2018
Mass Rally Against the Expulsion of Asylum SeekersA.S.F. - Refugees` Rights Association - On Saturday night, March 24 at 20:00, a mass rally will be held at the Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, to oppose government plans for the large-scale expulsion of African refuges and asylum seekers. It has been shown that expelled refugees, sent to such countries as Rwanda and Uganda, are highly unwelcome there and would face further expulsion, a highly dangerous and unpredictable fate and the tangible threat of death or slavery . We call for a responsible asylum policy, the rehabilitation of the slum neighborhoods of South Tel Aviv where the mass of Africans are presently located and the integration of refugees and asylum seekers throughout the country.Israelis from all over the political spectrum and from a variety of population groups have made it clear in recent months that they oppose the expulsion of the refugees. [ak]20/3/2018
125 Palestinian Football Clubs to Adidas: End Sponsorship of Israeli Settlement TeamsBDS Movement News - 125 Palestinian football teams and sports associations call on Adidas to end its sponsorship of the Israel Football Association over inclusion of teams based in illegal Israeli settlements. There are six such Israeli football clubs located in such settlements, built on stolen Palestinian land, and Palestinians are not allowed to enter into them. By admitting clubs based in such settlements as full members, the Israel Football Association (IFA) has become deeply complicit in Israel’s violations of international law and Palestinian human rights. As the main international sponsor of the IFA, Adidas is lending its brand to cover up and whitewash Israel’s human rights abuses. Aside from the settlements issue, Palestinian footballers are denied the freedom of movement to attend matches, Palestinian stadiums have been bombed and destroyed, and Palestinian players are attacked and imprisoned, and some of them were killed by the Israeli army. Adidas’ sponsorship of the IFA legitimises and gives international cover to Israel’s illegal settlements and to human rights violations. Adidas already agreed to remove its sponsorship from the "Jerusalem Marathon", used by Israel to bolster the Israeli- ruled "UNited Jerusalem". [ak] 20/3/2018
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Screening “Between Fences” in Jerusalem 20/3/2018
Israel bans Irish activists from entering West BankMEMO - "Israel banned two pro-Palestine Irish activists from entering the occupied West Bank on Friday, claiming that they planned to harass the occupation forces, Quds Press has reported" [ry]19/3/2018
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Weekly Procession Against The Annexation Wall, Colonies, Held In Bil’inIMEMC - "The Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in Bil’in, also denounced the assassination attempt which targeted Palestinian Prime Minister Rami al-Hamdallah, during his visit to Gaza, and called on all national and Islamic factions in Palestine to unite and end all internal divisions, to foil Israeli attempts aims at creating and escalating conflicts among them.It said that only national unity can protect and maintain the legitimate Palestinian struggle for independence and statehood and can counter the illegal Israeli and American policies regarding Palestine, its occupied capital, Jerusalem, and all internationally-guaranteed rights, including the Right of Return of all displaced refugees." ca 17/3/2018
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Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel Receives 50,000 Visitors on its First AnniversaryIMEMC - "The hotel, designed by the British graffiti artist Banksy, contains visual artworks about the occupation and apartheid, and has brought international attention since it overlooks an Israeli military tower and checkpoint south of Bethlehem." - id 14/3/2018
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Pedaling for Palestinian Rights: 20 Cities Around the World demand UCI and Giro d’Italia #RelocateTheRaceIMEMC - "The day of action started in Palestine, with dozens of young Palestinian men and women participating in a “Counter Giro” race in the occupied West Bank from Ramallah to Qalandia, a locality confined by Israel’s apartheid wall and military checkpoints." - id14/3/2018
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Alan Dershowitz demands censorship of Al Jazeera Israel lobby filmAli Abunimah - EI - "But when it comes to the work of Al Jazeera’s investigative unit, Dershowitz does not have a leg to stand on." - id 14/3/2018
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Urgent petition - stop deportation of asylum seekers! 13/3/2018
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While Being Assaulted By Soldiers, Four Medics Rescue Wounded Palestinians – VideoFiras Tanneena - IMEMC - Four Palestinian medics rushed in to help wounded demonstrators, when they themselves came under an intensive barrage of tear gas and pepper-spray. Three of the medics managed to rush one of the wounded Palestinians to a nearby ambulance, while Nisreen Amira - 19 years old volunteer medic - stayed behind to attend to a second wounded demonstrator. When a soldier attempted to drag away her patient Nisreen protected him, firmly holding on to his arm. By then, the three other medics returned to the area, and managed to evacuate the wounded young man to a hospital. After the assault, and the injuries she suffered, Nisreen smiled and placed the gas mask on her face: “This is the third time I get injured by the soldiers, but I will continue to perform my duty.” [ak]13/3/2018
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Danish pension giant divests from Motorola over ties to Israeli settlementsAletho News - Sampension, a DKK290 billion ($43.5 billion) Danish labour market pension fund, made the announcement in an update to its exclusion list, stating that Motorola’s provision of products to Israeli settlements is a violation of UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. [bz]13/3/2018
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How the Palestine movement taught me to confront anti-SemitismTom Pessah - +972 - "On American university campuses, pro-Palestine activists are routinely smeared as anti-Semites seeking to destroy Israel. But contrary to what pro-Israel activists claim, the BDS movement has been instrumental in challenging anti-Semitism on the left." - id 7/3/2018
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After IDF Sniper’s Bullet Rips into Palestinian Boy’s Skull, General Claims He Was Injured in Bike AccidentRichard Silverstein - Tikun Olam - "When an IDF general stoops to shameless lies to discredit an entire Palestinian family engaged in non-violent resistance against Israeli Occupation, something’s up." - id7/3/2018
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Haim Hanegbi Bajayo, the Palestinian Hebronite Jew
--including the film `Hebron in my heart` by Eran Torbiner--
Ahmad Jaradat - AIC/IMEMC - Veteran Israeli activist Haim Hanegbi was buried at the Metropolitan Tel Aviv Cemetary, attended by numerous fellow activists who had known him at various parts of his life. But Palestinians - especially those of Hebron - mourned him not only as "true fighter for justice" but also and especially as a Palestinian Hebronite Jew, one of their own - which was, indeed, how he at various times defined himself. Haim Hanegbi Bajayo was a descendant of the old Jewish community of Hebron, and after 1967 strongly resisted the campaign of extreme-right Israeli settlers - none of them having any connection to that old community - to establish themselves by force in Hebron. He had formed a committee of old Hebronite Jews to oppose the settlers, asking the Hebron Municipality to take full sponsorship of Jewish properties and homes in the city, and emphasizing that the Hebronite Jews would not return to their homes until the Palestinian refugees return to their own lands, cities and homes. Walking the streets of Hebron, he once said: "I am sad - also for myself. The settlers occupied my home like they occupied the homes of the rest of the Palestinians." [ak] 6/3/2018
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One State Foundation launches todayJonathan Ofir - Moondoweiss - We are still in times where speaking about a single democratic and secular state in Israel-Palestine is considered contentious. Just look how former Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg was received at a liberal synagogue in NY, when he spoke about this concept – Rabbi Matalon called him a “troublemaker”, and rabbi Cohen said he “pushed all the buttons”. But today, a new foundation is officially launching – the One State Foundation, which boldly and clearly promotes this concept and goal.-rh 8/3/2018
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New exhibit shows slumping Israeli flag, draws culture minister`s ireItay Blumenthal, Moran Azulay - Ynet -A new controversial art installation of an Israeli flag atop a tilted mast, which appears about to fall, was erected at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv. Sculptor Itai Zlait, who created the exhibit, explained that it signifies the country`s "interim state," between order and disorder, prosperity and austerity, democracy and tyranny. "What I`m trying to do is show the depth of the rift we`re in. We are exposed to a lot of hatred and lack of information, and I`ve tried to show it neutrally." Culture Minister Miri Regev angrily denounced Zlait`s exhibit as "cheap and outrageous political provocation by fringe leftist circles". [ak]6/3/2018
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