Friday, April 29, 2016
At age 12, Dima al-Wawi is the youngest female to ever be incarcerated
by Israel. She was released Sunday after two and a half months of
imprisonment -- in February, an Israeli military court convicted her of
attempted voluntary manslaughter. That same month, the Israel Prison
Service reported that Israel had 438 minors in detention.
Dima was
interrogated without her parents or a lawyer present, and was shackled
during her court sessions. In this video, her mother describes the
al-Wawi family's struggle during her imprisonment and release.
Friday, April 22, 2016
#AJStream
held a panel discussion aimed at questioning the legitimacy of certain
Knesset legislation, which is mostly concerned with silencing
Palestinian Members of Knesset. The discussion was titled "Is Israel
moving towards a Palestinian-free Knesset?" while the core issues, along
with questioning the very role of such Palestinian Members of Knesset,
was never really discussed.
Instead, the viewers watched an
evasive panel who wouldn't address the key issues. But luckily certain
members of the internet community have submitted their input ahead of
the show and touched on those. Thanks goes to @NotOccupying @Thalwen and
@BenAbyad. I had also submitted a video at AJStream's request but it
was never aired - here it is.
Sanders Vs. Clinton on Israel's 2014 Attacks on Gaza
The Real News gets Ali Abunimah to examine the Democratic candidates responses on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
https://youtu.be/KYlo-iGDKsc
The Real News gets Ali Abunimah to examine the Democratic candidates responses on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
https://youtu.be/KYlo-iGDKsc
Mondoweiss
On Monday, April 11, 2016, Dan Cohen went to Jerusalem's Zion Square to
ask Israelis for their thoughts on Bernie Sanders, the Jewish-American
presidential candidate.
Nearly all of the Israelis he spoke to had strong dislike for Sanders, and many disparaged him, even disqualifying him as a Jew.
Mondoweiss
On Monday, April 11, 2016, Dan Cohen went to Jerusalem’s Zion Square to
ask Israelis for their thoughts on the US presidential race and most
Israelis he spoke to spoke fondly of Donald Trump. Trump’s brash
speaking style resonated with them, and few seemed phased by his
statements that he would be neutral on Israel/Palestine. Those who did
preferred Ted Cruz, the Texas senator who has promised to be more
pro-Israel than any other candidate.
Friday, April 15, 2016
Israel/Palestine News
Palestinian beekeepers aren't just interested in the sweet stuff – the
healing qualities of bee stings are being used to treat a range of
complaints, from cerebral palsy to cancer. The blockade by Egypt and
Israel means Gaza lacks medical equipment and medicine, so some
Palestinians are turning to alternative treatments.
New app tackles traffic at checkpoints in the West Bank
Mondoweiss
Hundreds of military checkpoints scattered around the occupied
Palestinian territory are prone to arbitrarily closure without prior
warning, restricting the freedom of movement for Palestinians whose
daily lives are already defined by a sense of chaos, temporariness and
unpredictability.
However, a new smartphone app Azmeh – which
translates to mean ‘traffic jam’ in Arabic – has been designed to tackle
this very problem.
Friday, April 8, 2016
Netanyahu's Strategy will Undermine Israel's Long-Term Security
Col. Larry Wilkerson discusses the danger inherent in the U.S. aligning
its interests entirely with Israel's, and how American support is
creating an untenable future for the state
https://youtu.be/1ddB_NVOHVY
Col. Larry Wilkerson discusses the danger inherent in the U.S. aligning
its interests entirely with Israel's, and how American support is
creating an untenable future for the state
https://youtu.be/1ddB_NVOHVY
Fellow soldiers of the shooting IDF/ITF soldier claim that this is
practically a daily occurrence. The execution of Abed al-Fattah Yusri
al-Sharif is nothing out of the ordinary but is only treated
differently, according to them, because the shooter was an ordinary
soldier rather than a commander:
"The problem is that him,
specifically, shouldn't have done that. Someone more senior, an officer,
who would have paid attention and I'm telling you, if an officer would
have paid attention - he would have shot him. The problem is that he was
a regular soldier."
Q: Does it happen sometimes that officers act this way ["verify a kill"]?
A: Of course! In tons!
Mondoweiss
Israeli forces have demolished every home in the Bedouin village of
Khirbet Taha in the northern West Bank district of Nablus during three
separate demolitions since the start of the year.
Unlike most
Bedouin villages, the residents in Khirbet Taha own their own land.
However that land falls in Area C, territory in the occupied West Bank
under full Israeli control.
The village's only school was also
destroyed, leaving children to study in a dilapidated 100-year-old
mosque -- the only structure left standing in the village.
According
the United Nations, Israel has demolished half as many Palestinian
buildings in the first few months of 2016, as they had in all of 2015.
In February alone, the UN found that more Palestinians homes were
destroyed than any other month since 2009, when the organization began
its documentation.
It is always sad to see the lengths to which Zionists would go, bend
over backwards, in order to not see the simple reason for being
boycotted: settler-colonialism, brutal military occupation and
entrenched apartheid.
Rather than respecting the most fundamental
rights of all the people of the land - rather than acknowledging that
equality, freedom and justice should be given to all rather then the
select few - they invest tremendous amounts of money and energy in order
to RE-BRAND and SELL the apartheid supremacist state, as if it was a
latte macchiato.
At the Stop BDS conference in occupied Jerusalem, March 28th 2016, Minister of Hasbara [Propaganda] Erdan said the following:
"The BDS organizations will have no rest.
Up
to this day, people who have slandered, threatened or acted against
Israel did not pay any price for doing so. I promise you that this is
about to change.
Also their activists know it, and soon any activist
who uses their influence to de-legitimize the only Jewish state in the
world will know they will pay a price for that!"
On March 28th 2016 in occupied Jerusalem, Israeli Yediot newspaper
(Ynet) hosted a conference which was dedicated to fighting the boycott,
divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against apartheid Israel.
Rather
than discussing the merits of the BDS campaign, which is grounded in
international law and universally recognized human rights, the
participants avoided doing any of that and in turn accused the campaign
of everything ranging from anti-Semitism to outright terror.
Minister
of Interior, Aryeh Deri (currently under fraud investigation), and
Minister of Transport, Intelligence and Atomic Energy, Yisrael Katz,
have discussed their ministries' actions against BDS activists. These
range from the potential denial of citizenship and residency, to what
Minister Katz had termed "targeted civil thwarting".
The new term
"targeted civil thwarting" / "סיכול אזרחי ממוקד", according to Katz,
means the use of intel gathering in order to 'expose illegal activity'
by BDS activists. This term is a word play on the commonly used "סיכול
ממוקד" which would literally translate into "targeted thwarting" but is a
known euphemism meaning targeted assassinations.
It would make
sense to assume that what the future holds would be less targeted
assassinations by the Zionist regime and more attempts to "use intel to
thwart...", meaning to escalate their attempts to frame and discredit
BDS activists who will continue to carry out their activity publicly and
unapologetically.
Friday, April 1, 2016
Roseanne Barr's keynote speech and following discussion in an anti-BDS
conference which was held in occupied Jerusalem, March 2016.
Roseanne
seems to be less than coherent (in speech in politics) while blaming
the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign with anything and
everything. She also attempts several cheap shots at certain
individuals, which ehemmm, makes her stand even weaker.
Watch as #Israeli ambulances drive almost drive over the bodies of
Ramzi Qasrawi (21) and Abed Alshareef (21). The two young Palestinian
men were shot in an extra judicial execution by #IsraeliForces and then
their bodies were left on the ground as though they were not human
beings. #Hebron #TelRumeida
Mondoweiss
Phil Weiss interviews the man who shot the viral video of the killing in
Hebron. During the January 2016 discussion he describes the Israeli
restrictions on Palestinians in his neighborhood.
UN Human Rights Council Will Monitor Corporations Operating in Occupied ...
The U.N. vote to expose corporations profiting from Israeli occupation
demonstrates shifting global opinion on settlements, says the Institute
of Policy Studies' Phyllis Bennis
https://youtu.be/2b-hAVgmsA4
The U.N. vote to expose corporations profiting from Israeli occupation
demonstrates shifting global opinion on settlements, says the Institute
of Policy Studies' Phyllis Bennis
https://youtu.be/2b-hAVgmsA4
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