References to 'cycles of violence' dominate the mainstream media's coverage of Palestine, but this ignores the violence of Palestinians' daily reality living under Israeli colonialism.
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Ron DeSantis and Hakeem Jeffries went to Israel this week to advance their political ambitions. And their horizons could not be more different than that of the imprisoned Palestinian political figure, Khader Adnan.
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Israel is attempting to exploit the conflict in Sudan to push through Sudan-Israel normalization, a symbolic milestone for Israel. It is also against the will of the people of Sudan.
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Wait until we tell you about the IDF and Palestinian kids…
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This Kuwaiti guy saw an Israeli family with CHILDREN in Dubai, flying to Israel. So he started screaming and accosting them.
At CHILDREN.
He’s not only a racist, but a coward!
Deeply grateful though to see condemnations from Emirate friends and public. Thank you! twitter.com/kuwaiti_free1/…
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Isabella Hammad's new novel, "Enter Ghost," uses theater and the lives of Palestinians in the diaspora to uncover the relationship between culture and politics, colonialism and self-determination, and love and freedom.
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41 & counting Palestinian civil society orgs vehemently denounce & reject the shameful statement made by , in which she celebrated Israel’s “Independence” day by using racist anti-Palestinian tropes & thank friends & allies in 🇪🇺for rejecting this overt anti-🇵🇸 racism
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Alice Rothchild talks to Phil Weiss about her new young adult novel, Finding Melody Sullivan.
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Palestine Action is escalating its campaign against Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems by besieging its factory in Leicester, UK. The mission is clear: Palestine Action is not leaving until Elbit does.
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With population density reaching an all-time high in Gaza, people are spending their life savings to secure homes for their families, only to have them wiped out by Israeli airstrikes. In Gaza, no place is safe.
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Georgia's General Assembly failed to pass a bill adopting the IHRA's controversial working definition of antisemitism for the third time, but Israel lobby groups are continuing to push similar laws across the country.
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Democratic voters are much better than most Democratic politicians when it comes to understanding Israeli apartheid.
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Ursula praises Israel for “making the desert bloom”, referencing her trip to the Naqab, where Israel & the JNF are currently promoting “forestation” projects that actively target Palestinian villages, seek to kick Palestinians off their land & replace them w/ Jewish settlements
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Today we celebrate 75 years of Israel's independence and friendship with Europe.
A special message from President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen:
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Khader Adnan's hunger strike protesting his imprisonment by Israel has surpassed 80 days and his life is in danger. "This time is different, he is feeling the toll that previous hunger strikes have had on him," says his wife Randa Moussa.
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Beltway scholar Mark Lynch says even the White House understands Israel practices apartheid, even if it won't say so publicly, because Palestinian intellectuals have led the way in shifting the foreign policy establishment.
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‘Israelis can choose not to be Zionists. How? Decolonizing the self is an educational process. In Israel, it should involve unlearning the country’s history, studying Arabic, refusing to serve in the army, imagining the return of Pal refugees & more’
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At 18, the struggle in Nabi Saleh was my initiation to Palestinian confrontation, and to hope. Now, twelve years later, I am covering a new generation of Palestinians fighting to survive the slaughterhouse.
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A new poll by the University of Maryland shows that 44% of Democrats believe Israel is a "state with segregation similar to apartheid," and 41% of Democrats support the BDS movement.
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Democrats led by just meet and has their photos taken with him. Do they agree that Palestinians “are bathed in the lust of murder”?
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Netanyahu: “we [Jews] are imbued with the mission of life, and they [Palestinians] are bathed in the lust of murder.”
Hard to imagine anything more blatantly racist and dehumanizing. twitter.com/kann_news/stat…
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Strange how I keep hearing that Saudi Arabia and Israel are besieged by Iran, whose defense budget is 7% of theirs.
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Middle East largest Military Spenders:
1- Saudi Arabia, $75 billion (5th globally)
2- Israel, $23.4 billion
3- Qatar, $15.4 billion
4- Turkey, $10.6 billion
5- Algeria, $9.1 billion
6- Kuwait, $8.2 billion
7- Iran, $6.8 billion
8- Oman, $5.8 billion
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What will happen to the Israelis in Palestine after Palestinians are liberated from Zionism? The choices facing the "Pied-Noirs" at the end of colonization in Algeria may give us an idea.
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The twin Israeli offensives on Palestinians in Jerusalem during Ramadan and Easter made one thing clear: the war to assert the Zionist presence over the city has entered a new phase.
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Jonathan Ofir interviews Israeli playwright Einat Weizman about her play "Prisoners of the Occupation" and how theater can become a vehicle for political mobilization and change.
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Many experts have said Israel/Palestine is a one-state reality characterized by apartheid, but the establishment finally seems ready to listen, maybe because the two-state solution is so farcical no one is buying.
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We re-published this excellent piece from courtesy of about the problems at .
mondoweiss.net/2023/04/heres-
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Press release: CJPME is calling on @CIJAinfo to publicly denounce the provocative remarks of their Israel Office Director, who is a public advocate for illegal and dangerous policies which go further than many of the extremist priorities of Israel’s far-right government.
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✅ Success! Last Friday, made an on-air correction to clarify that the Al-Aqsa Mosque is located in East Jerusalem, after an initial report falsely stated that it was "in Israel." Read more: cjpmemap.ca/impact_2023_04 #cdnmedia
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The Texas Senate Committee on Education approved a bill that would prohibit academic boycotts of Israel, but it would allow boycotts of any country considered a state sponsor of terrorism by the US government. (Cuba, North Korea, Iran and Syria)
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At least one prominent representative at CIJA, a Canadian pro-Israel lobbying group, has spoken approvingly of certain elements of the new Israeli government’s agenda.
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Benjamin Netanyahu's appointment of self-described "proud racist" May Golan as Consul General in New York will likely alienate more American Jews from Israel.
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A new article in the establishment journal "Foreign Affairs" bursts the illusions underlying the two-state solution and the “special relationship” between the U.S. and Israel.
bit.ly/41uBuL7
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Robust opposition derailed a deal between Denmark and Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit in 2015, but a revived deal is currently facing little resistance.
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There are way more Christian Zionists than Jewish Zionists.
Some good background: truthout.org/articles/progr
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“Zionists not Welcome.” I guess Jew hatred is alive and well at @nyuniversity!
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"Rice's grounds are home to Palestinian students, organizations and community; what is Rice saying to them when our university hosts men who have massacred Palestinian villages?"
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This is just stupid. Who is the “we”? lol
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Golda Meir: “The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.”
We've decided we'd rather by hated than pitied.
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Say what you will about Benjamin Netanyahu, but there's no doubt he's bolstering the anti-Zionist cause.
bit.ly/43VEul0
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Walid Daqqa has become a prolific writer and astute commenter on the Palestinian condition from inside Israeli prisons. He once said would write until he is freed from prison and “in the hopes of freeing the prison from within me.”
bit.ly/3LiMCF0
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