Activism
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Title | | Description | Date |
Act now to free Heba Al-Labadi | | change.org will take care that your statements will get to
congressional offices and presidential campaigns! | 29/10/2019 |
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Virgin Airlines’ Richard Branson – a force for justice for Palestinians? | | Kathryn Shihadah - If Americans Knew - Sir Richard Branson,
billionaire, activist, and philanthropist, has founded together with
Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter and various other VIP`s
the international forum called "The Elders". He co-signed some
statements condemning Israeli bombings in Gaza. Just last year,
Branson`s Virgin Airlines aroused the anger of nationalist Israelis
for serving "Palestinian Couscous". Yet now, Brabson made headlines
when he emerged from his Virgin Atlantic flight and kissed the
ground in the Tel Aviv airport. And the new Virgin Holidays vacation
packages, named “Classic Israel,” includes time in Bethlehem – which
is, significantly, not in Israel, but in Israeli-occupied
Palestinian territory, a fact omitted from publicity for the tours.
It is time to write to Branson, remind him of his own declared
philosophy - "Social Justice is good for business" - and ask him
where he now stands with regard to the cause of justice to
Palestinians. [ak] | 29/10/2019 |
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Medical days in the West Bank | | Prof. Rafi Walden - Physicians for Human Rights Israel - In our
medical days in the West Bank, we treat several hundred patients in
our mobile clinic, but this contact has a ripple effect that reaches
many others - family members, neighbors, residents of nearby
villages. On each of these days, I feel like we touch the hearts of
thousands. This work shows that coexistence between the two nations,
that living together, is possible. For many Palestinians, this is
the only positive contact with Israelis, in a reality where daily
interactions are hostile - soldiers at checkpoints, settlers and
security service personnel.[ak] | 29/10/2019 |
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Tell Microsoft: Drop AnyVision, the surveillance company spying on West Bank Palestinians | | | 29/10/2019 |
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Tell Microsoft: Drop AnyVision, the surveillance company spying on West Bank Palestinians | | | 29/10/2019 |
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Tell Microsoft: Drop AnyVision, the surveillance company spying on West Bank Palestinians | | Jewish Voice for Peace - Microsoft made a multi-million dollar
investment in AnyVision, an Israeli facial recognition company led
by former Israeli military and intelligence personnel, which plans
to cover the West Bank with a sophisticated camera network, in order
"to spot and monitor potential Palestinian assailants.” Presented
with the argument that mass surveillance is being carried out in a
territory that is not governed democratically, AnyVision CEO
Etshtein was rather evasive. Jewish Voice for Peace launched the
petition, calling upon Microsoft to end their investment in
AnyVision - which is what Microsoft should have done by themselves,
under their own clearly formulated Ethical Code. [ak] | 29/10/2019 |
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Puma keeps helping Israel sports-wash its human rights abuses | | Aya Khattab - Al Jazeera - Companies like Puma which back Israeli sport
associations purposefully ignore the oppression of Palestinian athletes [ry] | 28/10/2019 |
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Tell the European Union: Action and not just words! | | | 28/10/2019 |
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Invitation by Jahalin Solidarity for a field visit to Khan al Ahmar | | Angela Godfrey - Jahalin Solidarity - We are extending an invitation
for a field tour, with a briefing at Al Khan al Ahmar, and overviews
from Kfar Adumim and Ma`ale Adumim. Dates this month or early
November are yet to be finalised, depending on preferences and
numbers, so if you or colleagues who may not yet be receiving such
invitations (please forward to them) have preferences, we hope to
meet those requests. [ak] | 22/10/2019 |
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International Criminal Court - Heed the Victims of Israeli War Crimes! Demonstrations at the Hague, Paris | | Olivia Zémor - EuroPalestine - A European initiative,
calling upon the ICC (International Criminal Court) to heed the
complaints lodged by Palestinian victims against Israel war
criminals, is gathering momentum. The number of signatories and
participants has grown. A rally will take place at the Hague on
November 29, International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian
People. French and Belgian supporters have chartered buses, to
depart from from Paris, Lille & Brussels. A preliminary
French rally will take place on November 26 at the Forum des Halles,
Paris. [ak] | 22/10/2019 |
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Tell Congress: No US aid for child torture! | | Alison Weir - If Americans Knew - New legislation in the House has
the simple, humane goal of withholding any aid to Israel that would
be used to detain, prosecute, and torture Palestinian children. This
bill sets the bar extremely low for supporting Palestine: all it
asks is that Palestinian children not be tortured using American aid
money. Isn`t this a no-brainer? Shouldn`t everyone sign on? But in
fact, out of 435 representatives, fewer than two dozen have
committed to supporting `No Way to Treat a Child` (H.R.2407). Now,
activists in California convinced their Congressman to co-sponsor
the bill. If you are an American citizen, you can do the same!
Please spend two minutes to tell your legislator: cosponsor this
bill that protects Palestinian children! [ak] | 22/10/2019 |
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Palestinians cry foul over Facebook pro-Israel bias | | Dima Abumaria - Y-Net/The Media Line - The Sada Social Center
launched a campaign to expose what it considers a discriminatory,
anti-Palestinian policy by Facebook. “Facebook has developed an
algorithm that automatically deletes users` posts and accounts if
they include names of Palestinian political parties, for example
‘Hamas,’ ‘Jihad,’ ‘Popular Front,’ ‘Qassam,’ ‘Saraya’ and ‘Islamic
Jihad,’ or names of martyrs, leaders and others without looking
at the context in which they were posted, which sets a historic
precedent for infringement on media freedom. Palestinian journalists
and media people are unable to carry out their work work as a result
of `Facebook’s unfair policy, which doesn’t pay attention to
professional work standards.” says Eyad Rifai of the Sada Center.
Complaints get the standard answer that “Facebook is an American
company committed to renouncing terrorism as part of an agreement
with the American government". There is no comparable action against
anti-Palestinian incitement extensively placed on Facebook by right-
wing Israelis and their supporters abroad. This Facebook policy seems
influenced by Israeli Minister Gilad Erdan who had said that "Facebook has become a
monster" and that "Facebook facilitates Palestinian terrorism and is
directly responsible for the killing of Israeli citizens
[https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/fr/originals/2016/07/israel-
demands-
zuckerberg-to-monitor-facebook-incitement.amp.html]. [ak] | 15/10/2019 |
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Dr. Hanan Ashrawi: Israel is waging war against everything Palestinian in Jerusalem | | Dr. Hanan Ashrawi - PLO Dept. of Public Diplomacy - The Palestinian
leadership strongly condemns the illegal detention of Jerusalem
Governor Adnan Ghaith in an overnight raid of his home in
Jerusalem’s Isawiyeh neighborhood. This is the second time in less
than a month that Israeli occupation forces target this senior
official as part of its wider and systematic campaign to terrorize
and provoke the residents of occupied Jerusalem, especially
Isawiyeh, which has seen 450 of its residents detained in the past
four months. Governor Ghaith’s detention is an act of political
persecution. It is an illegal abduction that must be roundly and
firmly condemned by all concerned parties. Israel is waging war
against everything Palestinian in Jerusalem. It is targeting
cultural centers, commercial activity, and neighborhoods. It is
persecuting leaders and targeting youths through arbitrary arrests,
daily raids and other crimes such as home demolitions and evictions,
ID revocation and forced transfer.[ak] | 15/10/2019 |
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Administrative Torture: Free Heba al-Labadi, a Jordanian Citizen in Israeli Prison | | Ramzy Baroud - CounterPunch - "On August 20, Heba Ahmed al-Labadi fell into
the dark hole of the Israeli legal system, joining 413 Palestinian prisoners who are
currently held in so-called administrative detention" [ry]
| 14/10/2019 |
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Let`s take on Goliaths! | | Rabbi Alissa Wise - Jewish Voice for Peace -
I want to take on Goliaths. Like Microsoft, which gave $31 million
to AnyVision, a shady Israeli company that uses facial recognition
technology to surveil Palestinians in the West Bank. Like the Anti-
Defamation League, which maintains that Jewish support for
Palestinian human rights is as big a threat to Jews as white
nationalism. Like Christians United for Israel, the largest Zionist
organization in the U.S., which frames the oppression of
Palestinians and Jewish ethnic supremacy in Israel as necessary for
bringing about the “end times” – and whose leaders have the ears of
those in the highest echelons of power in the U.S. [ak] | 8/10/2019 |
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Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me | | Harvey Pekar - The Book Depository - In "Not the Israel My Parents
Promised Me", one of the final graphic memoirs from the man who
defined the genre, Pekar explores what it means to be Jewish and
what Israel means to the Jews. Over the course of a single day in
his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, Pekar and the illustrator JT
Waldman wrestle with the mythologies passed down to them. Combining
his increasing disillusionment with Israel with an account of the
Jewish people since biblical times, Pekar, aided by Waldman`s
protean art, weaves a personal and historical odyssey. Plainspoken
and empathetic, Pekar had no patience for injustice and prejudice,
and he arrives at the firm belief that all peoples should be held to
the same universal standards of decency, fairness, and democracy.
[ak] | 8/10/2019 |
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Hadassah Hospital - do not hand Samer Arbid over to further interrogation! | | Anat Litvin - Physicians for Human Rights / Public Committee Against
Torture - In an unusual move, a group of twenty senior physicians,
members of PHRI’s board of directors and ethics committee, as well
as members of the board of directors of the Public Committee Against
Torture in Israel, has written a letter to the management of
Hadassah Hospital urging the institution not to hand Samer Arbid
over to continued Security Service interrogation, where he might be
subjected to torture. The list of signatories includes senior
physicians from Hadassah Hospital itself, where Arbid is currently
treated, as well as physicians from other hospitals around the
country, among them Prof. Rafi Walden, Prof. Bella Kaufman, Prof.
Micha Eldar, Dr. Mushira Abu-Dia, Prof. Shaul Dollberg, Prof. Ruth
Stalnikowicz, Dr. Bettina Birmanns MD and others. [ak]
| 8/10/2019 |
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Israeli army forcibly evicts nonviolent demonstrators at the Dead Sea | | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee / All That’s Left: Anti-
Occupation Collective - Amidst the deepening Israeli occupation of
the West Bank - specifically, the threat of full annexation made by
Netanyahu - more than a hundred activists, Palestinians from across
the West Bank as well as Israeli and international human rights
defenders - came together at the former Lido Hotel, on the North
Bank of the Dead Sea, with signs calling for a reclamation of
Palestinian sovereignty over its land and resources. Dozens of
Israeli soldiers forcibly evicted the activists. Sahar Vardi from
Jerusalem said, “I am standing here in solidarity with my
Palestinian partners because it is our duty, as Israelis, to resist
these policies of resource theft, which are done in our names. At a
time where Israeli politicians say that they will annex Area C,
even further depriving Palestinians from their lands and resources,
and in places like here, at the Dead Sea, we have no time to waste.
It is our responsibility as Israelis to resist this in our
actions and not just with words." [ak]
| 1/10/2019 |
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