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| Title | | Description | Date |
| Israel bars UNESCO from Hebron, citing `politicization` of holy site | | TPS/Ynet - The Palestinian Authority submitted a request to list Hebron`s Old City, including the Tomb of the Patriarchs, as a World Heritage Site in 2012—a process that can take years—but is now trying to fast-track the application by claiming that the site is endangered.
Israel`s ambassador to UNESCO, Carmel Shama-Hacohen described the Palestinian request as "tainted by politicization, lies and libel against the State of Israel and against the Jewish people`s connection to the site. … The Palestinians have opened another front in the religious and cultural war they are trying to impose on us."
UNESCO`s World Heritage Committee meets July 2–12 in Krakow, Poland, for its annual assembly. Hebron`s Old City is listed on the agenda as Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town, Palestine. [bz] | 27/6/2017 |
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| ‘Devastating’ survey shows huge loss of Israel support among Jewish college | | Ted Belman - Israpundit - According to Fern Oppenheim of the notorious Brand Israel Group, the current Israel advocacy programs are not working,
and Jewish college students are the leading defectors from Israel
support. The campaign of depicting Israel beyond the
conflict — specifically, highlighting high-tech achievements — is
not effective. In fact, the people
who are the future of America no longer believe that Israel shares
their values. There is no longer nuance in campus conversations
about Israel. Instead, the “atmosphere is oppressor versus
victim.” Despite the plethora
of organizations, campus advocacy does not appear to reach these
students’ hearts. Using a morbid example, she said, “The Nazi “Angel
of Death” Josef Mengele was a brilliant scientist. But still he was a monster. Telling Americans that Israelis are high-tech
geniuses does not help if we can`t show that they share American
values." [AK]
| 27/6/2017 |
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| IDF commander refutes Breaking the Silence testimony | | Attila Somfalvi, Alexandra Lukash - Ynet - Weighing in on an investigation of a spokesman for the left-wing group over testimony in which he claimed to have seriously assaulted a Palestinian during his IDF service in Hebron, Omri Seiner, his commander at the time, insists the incident `never happened. All soldiers under his command also say it didn`t. [bz] | 25/6/2017 |
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| Rabbis Slam Hillel For Taking Funds From Right-Wing Israeli Group | | Daniel J. Solomon -
Forward
"More than 100 rabbis and rabbinical students have signed a letter
calling on Hillel to sever ties with a right-wing Israeli funder and
drop its guidelines on discourse about Israel.In the letter, the
religious leaders - many of them identified as LGBT - denounce
Hillel’s links with Mosaic United, an initiative sponsored by
Israel’s education minister Naftali Bennett. The organization, which
has granted $22 million to Hillel International, has been seen as
pushing a conservative agenda, including reinforcing “the Jewish
foundations of the family unit.” ca
| 23/6/2017 |
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| Israel’s NSO Group Permits Foreign Intelligence Agencies to Spy on Human Rights Activists | | Richard Silverstein —
Tikun Olam
" Perhaps the NSOs of Israel are doing precisely what the government
wishes them to. Perhaps Israeli cyber hacking tools are
instruments of state. If you examine the company’s client list you
will find many of the Arab states Israel is attempting to cultivate
in its efforts to sabotage the Palestinian cause. What getter way
to peel off an authoritarian state from such allegiance than by
doing favors for its intelligence agencies; hoping the favor will be
returned one day when Israel needs it." ca | 23/6/2017 |
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| Israeli Woman Who Sued El Al for Sexism Wins Landmark Ruling | | ISABEL KERSHNER -
NYT
"Israeli airline employees cannot ask women to change seats to spare
a man from having to sit next to them, a Jerusalem court ruled on
Wednesday, handing down a groundbreaking decision in a case brought
by a woman in her 80s." ca | 23/6/2017 |
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| Germany compares Israel`s treatment of NGOs with that of Russia and China | | Haartez/i24NEWS - Further straining relations between Israel and
Germany, the German foreign ministry compared Israel`s policy on
funding of non-governmental organisations to that of Russia and
China - provoking a rebuke from the Israeli embassy in Berlin. This
was included in a German criticism of a new law in Hungary that
would force foreign-funded NGOs to register as "foreign-supported
organisations". With that measure, the Germans stated, “Hungary
joins the ranks of countries like Russia, China and Israel - which
regard the funding of NGO`s and civil society efforts by donors from
abroad as a hostile or at least an unfriendly act." [ak] | 21/6/2017 |
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| Queer Jews should think again before celebrating Israel | | Stephanie Skora -
+972 -
"As a transgender lesbian, a proud anti-Zionist Jew, and a JVP member, I have been particularly troubled by the charges of homophobia. I am used to the unfortunately common accusations of anti-semitism against activists for Palestinian rights, which simply cheapen and distort the meaning of the term while distracting from the human rights issues at stake." - id
| 20/6/2017 |
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| Global Peace Index 2017: Israel Ranked 144 Out of 163 | | Richard Silverstein -
Tikun Olam -
"Among the most alarming findings were that Israel’s “militarization index” was rated 3.9 out of 5 (5 being the worst). For nuclear weapons and arms exports, Israel ranked 5 out of 5. Under “relations with neighboring countries” it ranked 4 out of 5." - id | 20/6/2017 |
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| What Israel fears about Hamas and the Qatar crisis | | Yuval Abraham - Middle East Eye - (...) a desperate Hamas losing financial support, coupled with talk of elections within the tense Israeli governing coalition, could make for a toxic mix. "It could provide fertile grounds for a war. Desperate politicians tend to go to war.” [bz] | 17/6/2017 |
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| Knesset Inquiry Reveals Yemenite Babies Murdered in Medical Experiments | | Richard Silverstein —
Tikun Olam
"The Israeli Knesset has, after sixty years of cover-up, exposed one
of the most lurid scandals in the history of Israeli medicine. In
the late 1940s and early 1950s, inspired by Ben Gurion’s philosophy
that Israel must populate itself via Jewish immigration to compete
with the Arabs, Israel airlifted tens of thousands of Yemenite Jews
and resettled them. It was celebrated as a great humanitarian
operation in which the Yemenites were “saved” from a life of
destitution and anti-Semitic victimhood in their native land... such
outrageous medical practices happened around the world including
here in the U.S." ca | 16/6/2017 |
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| Turkey Holds Naval Drill Off Cyprus in Heated Response to Israeli Commando Exercise on Its Doorstep | | Gili Cohen -
Haaretz
"As the drill comes to a close, another exercise is scheduled to
take place in Cyprus, this one by Turkey. Last week, Turkey
announced that it will hold a military drill with live ammunition
southwest of the Cypriot city of Paphos. The Turks said in a
statement that during one of the days of the drill, Turkish warships
and submarines will operate in the area. The background to this
exercise is the tension caused by the search for natural gas in the
sea off Cyprus’s coast." ca | 16/6/2017 |
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| Birzeit University Ranked Among Top 3% Best Universities | | IMEMC News -
"Birzeit University is the only Palestinian university to enter the QS World University Ranking this year." - id
| 14/6/2017 |
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| Heathrow Airport Shames El Al as Dirtiest and Noisiest Airline | | Haaretz -
"The five worst-performing airlines after El Al were Kuwait Airways,
Middle East Airlines, Pakistan International Airlines, Omar Air and
Jet Airways." ca | 16/6/2017 |
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| Right-Wing Media Assault Against Evergreen College Provokes White Supremacist Mass Murder Threats | | Richard Silverstein -
Tikun Olam -
"Evergreen is known as one of the most progressive campuses in the nation. Rachel Corrie studied at the school and interrupted her studies to travel to Gaza where she was killed by the IDF. The Black Lives Matter movement is heavily supported on campus. The Olympia Food Coop began the movement to boycott Israeli products, which led to a lawsuit sponsored by the Israeli government and Standwithus." - id | 14/6/2017 |
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| Palestinian man donates recovery room to Haifa hospital | | Ilana Messika/TPS - Ynet - “Palestinian, Israeli, Syrian and children from other countries receive treatment in the Haifa Rambam hospital`s oncology department. I decided to contribute as much as I could, both a humanitarian act and a symbol of solidarity,” donating a children’s recovery room. The room provides a relaxing and supportive environment for children before and after chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments. [bz] | 13/6/2017 |
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| Regev calls performance of Darwish poem at Israeli award ceremony a `provocation` | | Ma’an News Agency - “[Israeli Minister of Culture Miri] Regev, who stepped out of
an Israeli movie award ceremony in September over the reading of a Darwish
poem, had previously called the Palestinian writer the ‘leader of the Palestinian
industry of lies,’ and objected to the performance of his works in Israel” [ry]
| 12/6/2017 |
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| 9 teens arrested in police raid of Jerusalem `home` for Hilltop Youth | | Elisha Ben-Kimon - Ynet - Settler Elkana Pickar, who has been barred from
entering the West Bank, is hosting Jewish teens with similar bans at his home;
security establishment worried he`s inciting them to violence against Palestinians
[ry] | 12/6/2017 |
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| Inside the US fight to fix Israel’s global standing | | Jonathan Cook - Al Jazeera - US and Israel lead a campaign of intimidation
against the UN to forcibly rehabilitate Israel`s international standing [ry]
| 12/6/2017 |
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| Fmr. Iranian Diplomat: ISIS Attack on Tehran `Managed by Saudi Arabia` | | Seyed Hossein Mousavian -
The Real News
"during Obama administration, there was a different policy. Obama
was not supporting Saudi Arabia`s terrorist activities all over the
region and all over the world. Obama was blaming Saudi Arabia,
publicly Obama said that they have to distance from this terrorist
activities. But President Trump first trip was to Saudi Arabia. He
did not say a word about human right, he did not criticize or
condemn even by one word, when he was in Saudi Arabia, about human
right and democracy. He said nothing about human right and
democracy, because he knows there is no human right and democracy
there. During the campaign, President Trump said Saudi Arabia is the
source number one of terrorism, but when he was in Saudi Arabia, he
said Iran is everything about terrorism." ca | 10/6/2017 |
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| Israel’s Irrational Rationality | | David Shulman -
NYR
"Israeli human rights activists and what is left of the Israeli
peace groups, including joint Israeli-Palestinian peace
organizations, are under attack. In a sense, this is nothing very
new. But open attacks on the Israeli left have now assumed a far
more sinister and ruthless character; some of them are being played
out in the interrogation rooms of Israeli prisons." ca | 9/6/2017 |
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| Kafr Qasim killing shows police threat to Palestinian citizens | | Yael Marom, with Orly Noy -
+972 -
"As long as police continue to see Palestinian citizens of Israel as ‘the enemy,’ the deadly shootings — and the ever-deepening crisis in relations — will continue." - id
| 7/6/2017 |
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| One Killed as Riots, Clashes With Police Erupt in Israeli Arab City of Kafr Qasem | | Jack Khoury, Yaniv Kubovich and Ido Efrati - Haaretz - The incident began shortly before midnight Monday when police detained a Kafr Qasem resident for initial investigation. “The man resisted arrest, attacked the police and was joined by about 50 other people who managed to free him for a moment from the police. The police managed to subdue the suspect as they began sustaining volleys of stones thrown at them and at the police cruiser.”
Earlier on Monday, Kafr Qasem residents kept their children home from school in protest at what they claimed are insufficient police efforts to curb violence in the town. On Friday, two men from the town were murdered at a gas station at the edge of Kafr Qasem. Police have not arrested suspects in the case.
Residents have organized municipal security committees staffed by young people in an effort to maintain order in Kafr Qasem and to prevent criminals from coming into the town. The committees are functioning in conjunction with city hall but the Israel Police object to their activities. The man who was arrested was a member of one of the committees.
[bz] | 6/6/2017 |
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| Infamy at Sea: Israel’s Attack on the USS Liberty 50 Years Later | | Jeffrey St. Clair - CounterPunch - “Even though the Pentagon knew better, it
gave credence to the Israeli account by saying that perhaps the Liberty’s flag
had lain limp on the flagpole in a windless sea. The Pentagon also suggested
that the attack might have lasted less than 20 minutes. After the initial battery
of misinformation, the Pentagon imposed a news blackout on the Liberty
disaster until after the completion of a Court of Inquiry investigation” [ry] | 5/6/2017 |
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| ‘Last Secret’ of 1967 War: Israel’s Doomsday Plan for Nuclear Display | | WILLIAM J. BROAD and DAVID E. SANGER - NYT - On the eve of the Arab-Israeli war, 50 years ago this week, Israeli officials raced to assemble an atomic device and developed a plan to detonate it atop a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula as a warning to Egyptian and other Arab forces, according to an interview with a key organizer of the effort. The secret contingency plan would have been invoked if Israel feared it was going to lose the 1967 conflict. [bz for dn] | 4/6/2017 |
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