Friday, November 28, 2014
Sukars live exposed to elements in house shelled in Protective Edge, November 2014
Operation
Protective Edge ended in late August 2014, but most residents of the
Gaza Strip are still suffering its consequences. The video shows the
apartment of the Sukar family in a-Shuja’iyeh neighborhood in Gaza City,
which was heavily shelled in the operation. The parents and their five
children now live in an apartment that does not provide them shelter
from the cold and rain: “This apartment had been hit by shells and parts
of it were destroyed. Whenever it rains, the house is flooded. The
children get sick with colds. I hope we’ll be able to go back to our
apartment, with all our belongings and furniture, especially the washing
machine… This war set us forty years back…"
A Zio-fascist settler in the East Jerusalem settlement of Gilo (regarded
as a neighborhood of Jerusalem whose residents haven't the slightest
clue they're on occupied land), tries to "counter" the Muezzin calls for
prayer from the neighboring village of Beit Jala.
Early in the
morning he plays aloud the Jewish Sh'ma Yisrael prayer, but unlike the
Muezzin call, he's not doing so for the sake of prayer or for religious
reasons but rather for ultra-nationalistic ones.
Originally aired on Israeli Channel 1.
On November 23 and 25 Israeli settlers from Havat Ma’on hammered in the
ground three meters high iron pylons at the edge of the wood inside of
which the illegal Israeli outpost is located, keeping on the ongoing
expansion.
Some days before, on November 13, the same settlers
(equipped with a white jeep carrying an electricity generator, a drill
and cement) had already dug 10 cm diameter holes in the surrounding
boundary.
In both occasions South Hebron Hills Popular Committee
members and B’tselem operators called the DCO to denounce the illegal
works, but Israeli forces didn’t show up.
During the last month
in the South Hebron Hills area, Israeli forces carried out several
demolitions in the Palestinian village of Um Al Kher and seized
materials in the Palestinian village of Susiya. In the meanwhile they
have not taken any measure to stop an illegal expansion of an illegal
Israeli outpost.
Nevertheless the Palestinian communities of the
South Hebron Hills area are still strongly committed to nonviolent
popular resistance against the Israeli occupation.
There are countless examples of Hebrew University complicity in
occupation and apartheid. Here is one such reason as explained by Eran,
Hebrew U graduate, while standing in the village of Issawiya which is
being controlled and whose land is being stolen from under their feet,
with the help of Hebrew U and the Jerusalem Municipality.
If you wonder why tensions are rising in Jerusalem, one reason is that settlers have been posting things like this. Hat tip to Richard Silverstein,
Friday, November 21, 2014
This past weekend was a Jewish holiday commemorating the purchase of
Hebron by Abraham for the burial of Sarah. Yesterday, for several hours,
hundreds of illegal settlers, national-religious Jews and a large
accompanying Israeli military force passed through the Old City of
Hebron. As a result many shops had to close early and the freedom of
movement for Palestinians was restricted. As the groups passed through
the Old City, many shouted profanity at Palestinians, yelled chants,
draped Israeli flags over their backs and threatened to hit a volunteer
from the organization Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT). A star of David
was also spray-painted on the ground of the Old City.
Ta'ayush Activists accompanied land owners from 'Sa'ir and 'Shioch to
work on their land located between the settlements 'Asfer' and 'Mezad.
Activists and Palestinian landowners violently attacked by settlers that threw stones at them.
The
settlers attacked with stones, one of them had a brass knuckle on his
hand, they tried to snatch cameras and beat Palestinians and activists.
All that time soldiers who were present prevented the attacks, and did not stop and detain none of the criminals.
After
more than an hour of attacks, the soldiers allowed the Palestinians to
continue the work started, on their own private land.
This is video of two non-violent direct actions that were part of a
campaign entitled #On2Jerusalem organized by local Palestinian popular
resistance committees to show solidarity with the people of Jerusalem.
During
the first action Palestinian and international activists crossed the
apartheid wall and cut a barbed-wire fence directly behind it to pass
from the West Bank into Northern Jerusalem.
The second action involved activists attempting to cross into Jerusalem from Hizme checkpoint.
Months before the #toilettengate affair and ahead of Dr. Gregor Gysi's
visit to Israel/Palestine in an attempt to legitimize the illegitimate,
Boycott from Within had published a letter calling on Gysi and Die Linke
to reconsider their support of apartheid. This call also applies to the
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.
The letter was handed to Gysi in
person at a Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung event in apartheid Tel-Aviv, on June
12th 2014. He refused to comment on the letter or to respond to our
question from the audience.
Friday, November 14, 2014
Top German lawmaker Gregor Gysi endorsed a public campaign accusing Max
Blumenthal and I of anti-Semitism and demanded we be banned from the
Bundestag. After we spoke in the German parliament over his objections,
we requested a meeting with him at his office. He refused, so we
confronted him and demanded answers.
30/10/14: Due to a teachers strike in solidarity with underpaid public workers, school in Hebron finished at 10:00
in the morning. Several young boys threw stones towards the military,
armed at Salaymeh checkpoint, and the soldiers then fired three
canisters of tear gas.
The children threw more stones, and the
soldiers fired approximately ten more tear gas grenades in several
rounds. This continued until 11:00
when an army vehicle drove up from a side street at a high speed. Three
soldiers jumped outside one of the school buildings, before running
into a school yard and arrested the 14-year-old boy.
Israeli police shoot in the back Arab Israeli citizen Khairuddin Hamdan in Nazareth after he attacks their vehicle then flees. More by Richard Silverstein here.
Friday, November 7, 2014
Unremarkable Tweets and Donor Pressure Cost Me My Job
After the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaigne rescinded Steven
Salaita's job over tweets condemning Israel's war on Gaza this summer,
Salaita says he is waiting for a ruling on his case for reinstatement
After the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaigne rescinded Steven
Salaita's job over tweets condemning Israel's war on Gaza this summer,
Salaita says he is waiting for a ruling on his case for reinstatement
Saturday, November 1, 2014
This talk was delivered by Richard Silverstein, author of the Tikun Olam
blog, on October 23, 2014 at Unitarian Universalist Church in Seattle.
He spoke to the group, Unitarian Universalist Humanists. The talk,
Fear, Loathing and Terror in Israel-Palestine, addresses the recent
failures of U.S. brokered peace talks, and the rise in terror on both
sides of the Israel-Palestine divide. It notes the most recent terror
attack by an East Jerusalem Palestinian on the Jerusalem light rail line
in which two Israeli Jews were killed, the settler attempts to pray at
Muslim holy sites, and Israeli police invasions of the mosques on the
Temple Mount. In spite of the bleak outlook, Silverstein outlines a
possible compromise that could resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Silverstein’s
blog exposes the excesses of the Israeli national security state and
tosses a life preserver to the last remaining remnants of Israeli
democracy. It is at http://www.richardsiverstein.com.
A Third Intifada on the Horizon?
Journalist Max Blumenthal discusses the situation in Jerusalem and the reconstruction plans for Gaza
http://youtu.be/PnDuk83fCIo
Journalist Max Blumenthal discusses the situation in Jerusalem and the reconstruction plans for Gaza
http://youtu.be/PnDuk83fCIo
Jerusalem and the Fate of Palestinians
Israeli activist Jeff Halper says the recent tension and violence in Jerusalem is a product of defeated Palestinian political resistance and Israel's policy of Judaization
http://youtu.be/VebUtMsf3x0
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