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| Title | | Description | Date |
| Adalah - dragging a human body by bulldozer is a war crime | | IMEMC - The Adalah Legal Center sent an urgent letter to Sharon
Afek, head of the IDF legal branch. demanding he immediately open a
criminal investigation into the incident that occurred Sunday
morning near Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, in which an
Israeli military armored bulldozer was filmed dragging a human body
along the ground and repeatedly lifting it up in the air and
dropping it down in the mud. Adalah Attorney Sawsan Zaher detailed a
series of international laws – including the Rome Statute, the UN
Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment, and the Hague Regulations – which classify the Israeli
military actions depicted in the video as war crimes and blatant
violations of international criminal law, and international human
rights and humanitarian law. The Israeli Supreme Court has likewise
recognized in past rulings that harm to the dignity of the deceased
is a violation of Israel’s Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty.[ak]
| 25/2/2020 |
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| American Jewish students in Israel forbidden to go to Palestinian territories | | Allison Kaplan Sommer - Haaretz - Max Antman, 27, arrived in Israel last fall to begin his
rabbinical studies in a year-long program at Hebrew Union College’s
Jerusalem campus, determined to take advantage of living in the city
“to experience everything going on both in Israel and in Palestine.”
But the organizers had other ideas. The Mesa Israel Journey, which
gave him a $3,500 grant for his studies in Jerusalem, informed him
that “entering the [Palestinian] territories A and B independently,
not as part of a trip organized as part of the program, is expressly
prohibited for all Masa participants" and that "any independent
movement of participants in the [Israeli ruled] West Bank Area C
requires the participant/s to inform the organizers in advance and
receive the organizers` authorization and relevant instructions.”
[ak]
| 18/2/2020 |
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| A united Ireland becomes more likely - what is the significance of Palestine? | | Paul Seligman - The Economist, an establishment magazine if
ever there was one, writes that Irish unification is a real
possibility. We often use the example of apartheid South Africa when
talking about Palestine, as an example of how a discriminatory
ethnic supremacy can change. But the example of Northern Ireland is
also instructive.Now in Northern Ireland the descendants of the
English colonists and settlers are increasingly willing to live with
the descendants of the indigenous Irish. (...)Faced with the
constant resistance of the oppressed in South Africa and their
supporters, a broad consensus arose among most of the international
capitalist class that change was necessary to remove an obstacle to
modern capitalist market development in Southern Africa. Similarly,
a United Ireland will be supported by all western Countries, once
Britain allows a border poll. The opposite is true in Palestine.
Here the almost unanimous capitalist consensus is that Zionist
Israel must be supported at all costs. Currently, there is no reason
at all for the Israelis to surrender their supremacy. No price to
pay to continue as is, or worse. To change this is the role of the
international solidarity movement (as well as the Palestinian
resistance). We face enormous odds, but we will not give up.[ak]
| 18/2/2020 |
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| Palestinian civil society welcomes this long-awaited UN list of companies complicit in Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise | | Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) - We thank all human rights
organizations that worked tirelessly for the release of such an
important instrument of transparency and accountability.
Upholding international law is the one appropriate response to
attempts by authoritarian and far-right regimes, led by the Trump
White House and Israel’s extremist government, to undermine human
rights and the rule of law and enforce domination by the most
powerful instead.
Recognizing the important role that the UN played in ending
apartheid in South Africa, we view the release of this database as a
first significant and concrete step by any UN entity towards holding
to account Israeli and international corporations that enable and
profit from Israel’s grave violations of Palestinian rights.[ak] | 18/2/2020 |
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| Journalist Abby Martin Sues State of Georgia Over Israel Loyalty Oath | | Dave DeCamp - AntiWar - Martin lost speaking gig after refusing to sign contract
pledging not to boycott Israel [ry] | 17/2/2020 |
| ... |
| `Do not despair of losing so often` – Lea Tsemel, the Israeli lawyer who defends Palestinians | | Rachel Shabi - The Guardian - She has been called a traitor and the
Israeli government tried to block an award-winning new film about
her work and spirit. "Advocate" by Israeli film-makers Rachel Leah
Jones and Philippe Bellaiche, chronicles the 75-year-old lawyer’s
life and work. The film provides a compelling insight into the
uneasy complexities of representing Palestinians in Israeli courts,
where the occupiers effectively judge the occupied in a system that
can’t escape the bloody conflict raging between the two sides. Early
in the film, as the camera sweeps along the rows of battered files
that crowd Tsemel’s office, we see the nature of her work spelled
out in their headings: possession of a weapon, stone throwing,
accessory to murder, suicide bombings. It’s a life spent losing
inside courtrooms and facing attacks outside them. The film begins
with the footage of an Israeli TV interview with Tsemel. The
presenter says: “It’s as if you identify with them!”, tallies all
things which she had been called: traitor, leftist, devil’s dvocate
and says: “In my view, terrorists are no different to rapists and
murderers.” Tsemel answers: "Some people in the world consider them
as freedom fighters”.[ak]
| 11/2/2020 |
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| Clean energy, dirty dealing: Syrian Druze resist greenwashing of Golan occupation | | Ellie Stern -
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"An Israeli wind farm slated for construction on Syrian Druze
agricultural land in the occupied Golan Heights has been met with
profound resistance from residents." ca | 8/2/2020 |
| ... |
| Tel Aviv rally condemns Trump plan as ‘Apartheid’ and ‘Population Transfer’ | | Jerusalem Post - Peace Now organized the event, which included a
march and a rally. The Israeli Left opposes US President Donald
Trump’s peace plan, in part because it calls for redrawing the map
of sovereign Israel in such a way that the Arab-Israeli communities
in the Triangle area would be excluded from the State of Israel and
included in a Palestinian state. They are also against the plan
because it allows for unilateral annexation and puts forward what
they believe is a nonviable vision of a Palestinian state. “This
isn’t a peace plan – it’s not even a plan,” Meretz MK Tamar Zandberg
told the activists who attended the rally. Rather, she considered it
"a recipe for annexation, population transfer, violence and
apartheid". [ak] | 4/2/2020 |
| ... |
| Emergency march: Yes to real peace, no to the Trump-Netanyahu annexation deal! Tel Aviv, Saturday Feb. 1, gathering at 7pm | | We gather at Dizengov Square. Our demand: negotiations to end the occupation and peace between two free and sovereign states, Israel and Palestine. | 1/2/2020 |
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