After US demands, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reportedly told Rima Khalaf to suppress the report.
Source: UN official resigns after pressure to withdraw Israel apartheid report | The Electronic Intifada
Category: Israel
The myth of the land of Mandate Palestine as an untapped oasis waiting for Jewish habitation is still thriving on both sides of the Green Line. Photographs are a key tool for perpetuating — and challenging — that myth. David Rubinger, Israel’s most famous photographer, died on 1 March at the age of 92. His photograph of three Israeli paratroopers gazing at the Western Wall, taken minutes after Israeli forces seized Jerusalem’s Old City during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, was widely revered as a symbol of Zionism’s triumphant destiny. Rubinger, however, was not particularly fond of the picture: “Part of…
Source: How Israeli photography creates a world without Palestinians | +972 Magazine
A UN agency has accused Israel of imposing an “apartheid regime” of racial discrimination on the Palestinian people, and said it was the first time a UN body had clearly made the charge. Israel’s Foreign Ministry spokesman likened the report, which was published by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) on Wednesday, to Der Sturmer—a Nazi propaganda publication that was strongly anti-Semitic.
Source: Israel is imposing ‘apartheid regime’ on Palestinians, UN agency says | The Independent
Instead of simply announcing that it opposes BDS, which would be a perfectly legitimate stance, the Israeli government is criminalizing the movement and its advocates. The results won’t be pretty. Police near Jerusalem picked up an Israeli citizen who was just standing on the street Monday. He was not doing anything illegal. Someone who lived in the neighborhood reported him on suspicion of carrying material related to BDS; and while it is not illegal for Israelis to carry material about BDS in territory under Israel’s control, the police answered the call. [tmwinpost] Jeff Halper, the director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)…
Source: Supporting BDS is enough to get detained by the cops in Israel these days | +972 Magazine
Women in Gaza face serious societal constrains at home, but also an ongoing siege that limits their freedom of movement and occupation and alarmingly increases the rate of violence against them. The untold price women pay for Israel’s closure policy. By Aya Zinatey Whenever the issue of Palestinian women in Gaza and the impact the closure has on them comes up, Gaza’s traditional societal structure comes up as well, and there’s a dilemma: how can we talk about the impacts of the closure without mentioning the societal injustice these same women suffer from? I suggest looking at the occupation and…
Source: The double oppression of Gaza’s women | +972 Magazine
The Israeli government may be cracking down on human rights NGOs and left-wing activists, but Palestinians citizens of Israel are the ones suffering from concrete persecution — with sometimes fatal results. The recently-passed law prohibiting the entry of boycott supporters into Israel is just the latest in a string of legislation and administrative measures aimed at curtailing freedoms and cracking down on dissent against the occupation. But this broad trend actually obscures two separate phenomena, with distinct dynamics and implications. [tmwinpost] The first one is the ongoing oppression of Palestinian citizens of Israel. Although better off than the non-citizens in the West Bank…
Source: Arab citizens, not Israeli leftists, pay the real price for speaking out | +972 Magazine
Israeli politicians and pundits make sure to talk about Palestinian incitement at every opportunity. Rarely do we ever hear about Israeli incitement that denies both Palestinian history and present reality. By Yoni Mendel In Israeli public discourse, the phrase “Palestinian incitement” makes an appearance time and again. One can hear it in the news by members of both the coalition and the opposition, it is seen as an immutable fact by pundits, and it is highly prioritized by analysts at various think tanks. Suffice it to say that much of this incitement focuses on delegitimizing Israel and rejecting its existence. [tmwinpost]…
Ma’an News Agency | – – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained Palestinian writer Khalida Ghusheh on Saturday morning after …
Source: Israeli forces detain Palestinian writer over new novel | Informed Comment
Israeli police want to question Australian billionaire James Packer in connection with a corruption probe into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, local media reports.
The reality in the West Bank is one that resembles a prison, where the prisoners are held for as long as humanly possible. Their release will carry a price — and Israelis are not willing to pay it. The Knesset passed a law Monday night denying entry visas or residency rights to foreign nationals who call for boycotts against Israel or the settlements. The law won’t have much of an affect on entry into Israel proper, but rather will mostly affect those trying to enter the West Bank — a solid reminder that the ban is yet another example of the way Israel holds Palestinians prisoners. After all,…
Source: New entry law a reminder that Palestinians live in Israel’s prison | +972 Magazine
Instead of attending to protesters wounded by settlers, including an Israeli photographer pushed off a five-foot terrace, a man dressed as a medic assaults another protester. By Oren Ziv / Activestills.org Israeli settlers, including one wearing part of a uniform of Israel’s national emergency and ambulance services, attacked demonstrators and photographers on Friday during a protest in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. Israeli soldiers present did nothing to prevent the violence. [tmwinpost] After several months during which there were no weekly protests in the village, local residents, along with Israeli and international activists, marched toward the village spring,…
Source: Israeli soldiers stand by as settlers attack civilians in West Bank village | +972 Magazine
Health of reporter Muhammad al-Qiq deteriorates after weeks of hunger strike.
Source: Israel detaining journalists without charge or trial | The Electronic Intifada
Family members of a Chilean man disappeared and murdered by the Latin American dictator want Israel to open a criminal investigation into officials who cooperated with the murderous regime. By John Brown* (translated by Tal Haran) Two Israeli women who immigrated from Chile are taking Israel’s attorney general to court, demanding that he open a criminal investigation into Israeli officials who were involved in arms deals with the regime of Augosto Pinochet, for aiding and abetting crimes against humanity. Lily Traubman and her daughter Tamara Santos Traubman moved to Israel in the 1970s after being persecuted by the Pinochet regime,…
Source: ‘Investigate Israeli complicity with Pinochet’s crimes’ | +972 Magazine
After 10 months of administrative detention, it appears the army no longer views Omar Nazzal as a dangerous threat — just like countless other administrative detainees who sit in prison for months, if not years. Palestinian journalist Omar Nazzal was released from Israeli prison on Monday after 10 months in administrative detention. Upon his release, Nazzal, a member of the General Secretariat of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, was welcomed by family members and supporters outside Ofer military prison, near Ramallah. [tmwinpost] Nazzal, 55, was first detained in April at Allenby Bridge while trying to leave the West Bank en route to an…
Source: Israel releases Palestinian journalist after 10 months with no trial | 972 Magazine
Descending east from Jerusalem into the Rift Valley, the landscape turns decidedly hostile, and that’s just the start of it.
Source: The West’s blind support for Israel has done it no favours
Muhammad Jallad’s family was kept in the dark about his condition and not informed when he died in an Israeli hospital.
Source: Palestinian was on way to chemotherapy when shot by soldiers | The Electronic Intifada
Trump’s recent remarks may have sparked a debate on the possibility of the one-state solution, but one thing is for sure: Israeli Jews are not in a position to decide the future of the occupied territories. The world works in strange ways sometimes. Who would have believed that just by mere words it would be President Donald Trump, of all people, who would grant legitimacy to the one-state solution during his joint press conference with Prime Minister Netanyahu this past week. More than any other fictional character, Trump reminds me of Chance the gardener, the simple-minded hero of Jerzy Kosiński’s novel,…
Source: One state? Two states? Israeli Jews aren’t the ones to decide | +972 Magazine
The Electronic Intifada contributor David Sheen discusses how Israel’s leadership weaponizes sex crimes.
Source: Watch: Is rape a political tool in Israel? | The Electronic Intifada
His ideological proximity to the new U.S. president will allow Netanyahu to advance plans for the de facto annexation of the West Bank. Now all he needs is Trump’s approval. By Menachem Klein A slip of the tongue from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month is worthy of attention. In an unprepared response to a Likud Knesset member, Netanyahu said: “What I’m willing to give to the Palestinians is not exactly a state with full authority, but rather a state-minus, which is why the Palestinians don’t agree [to it].” [tmwinpost] This almost never happens to Netanyahu. He is calculated, in contrast to…
Source: Trump is just what Netanyahu needs to annex the West Bank | +972 Magazine
Police are likely to recommend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is indicted following an investigation into bribery allegations, national broadcaster Channel 2 has reported. Multiple investigations into the leader were opened, but Case 1000 – which allegedly involves illegal gifts – was being treated as separate to the other ongoing investigations.
Measure seen as major step towards outright annexation of West Bank.
Source: Israel passes law to legalize theft of private Palestinian land | The Electronic Intifada
Over 5,000 people marched in Tel Aviv in one of the largest Arab-Jewish demonstrations the city has seen in years. Over 5,000 Arab and Jewish demonstrators from across the country marched together on Saturday night in Tel Aviv against home demolitions and in support of equality for all. The demonstrators called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan to step down, after months of incitement against Palestinian citizens of Israel. The demonstration was organized by a large coalition of organizations and political parties, including “Standing Together,” Hadash, Meretz, “Yad B’Yad,” “Sikuy,” and others, was the largest…
Source: Thousands of Palestinians and Jews protest gov’t racism in Tel Aviv | +972 Magazine
Muslims once protected Jews from Nazi persecution. Today, American Jews are standing up for Muslims in the face of President Trump’s draconian ban. These are everyday stories of resistance — even if they are hardly reported. Over one million dollars were collected by Americans who were disgusted by the recent arson attack on a mosque in Victoria, Texas. The only synagogue in town shared its building with the Muslim congregants who had just lost their place of worship. Inspirational stories of people standing up for each other like these are common, even if rarely reported. [tmwinpost] Last week I joined tens of thousands of…
Source: Jews stand up for Muslims, as Muslims once stood up for them | +972 Magazine
Americans and Israelis need to resist not only border walls, but also the sentiments and systems that make them possible. By Nadia Naser-Najjab In promising to build a new wall along the American border with Mexico, U.S. President Donald Trump has openly sought to mine the deep racism and chauvinism that runs through parts of American society. Although it has been justified in practical terms, the wall has a particular symbolic significance: it renders a country increasingly unsure of itself and its place in the world, shaken as much by its own contradictions as by an external threat. [tmwinpost] Given that…
Source: How nationalism takes shape on Israeli and U.S. borders | +972 Magazine
Original Analysis by +972 Magazine’s bloggers and op-ed contributors
Netanyahu’s silence on Trump and anti-Semitism
Police said Yaqub al-Qi’an’s headlights were switched off when police officers shot at his car. A video analysis by Forensic Architecture and Activestills appears to disprove that claim. By John Brown* Israeli police’s official version of the events that led to the death of two people — a Bedouin citizen of Israel and a police officer — in the village of Umm el-Hiran last month continues to be undermined by facts and documentary evidence. [tmwinpost] Almost every element of the story police relayed in the hours after the deadly incident has been repudiated in various media reports and investigations. Now,…
Source: Video contradicts more police claims in Umm el-Hiran killing | +972 Magazine
A new map seeks to provide new information on the Palestinian cities, towns, and villages that were erased and replaced since the inception of the Zionist movement. By Tom Pessah Immigrants coming to Israel are unlikely to know the name “Mlabes,” but Israelis are more acquainted with it. After all, it is the name of a local newspaper, a young singer, a shawarma joint, and a chapter of the Israeli Scouts. [tmwinpost] But all these have one thing in common: they are associated with the city of Petah Tikvah, northeast of Tel Aviv. According to the Petah Tikvah City Archive’s website, Mlabes was the…
Source: Mapping the Palestinian villages erased and replaced with Jewish towns | +972 Magazine
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the American embassy in Israel should move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Netanyahu has announced major new colonization push since inauguration.
Source: Trump administration ducks question on new Israeli settlements | The Electronic Intifada
Israel announces plans for 2,500 more settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, the second such declaration since US President Donald Trump took office.
Ma’an News | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised his far-right government on Sunday that …
Source: Netanyahu vows Israeli squatter settlement expansion in Palestinian E. Jerusalem | Informed Comment
Having set a combative tone in his inauguration address last week, President Trump has wasted no time tackling his biggest bugbears. First up, Obamacare, diminished by executive order on Friday afternoon; then, over the weekend, an astonishing stepping-up of his war against the established media, with any hope of a ceasefire lost in a volley of falsehoods from the Trump press team.
Israel’s training of Latin American death squads is an open secret few discuss.
Source: Israel’s shadowy role in Guatemala’s dirty war | The Electronic Intifada
The heads of Myanmar’s army had a shopping spree with the Israeli security industries, even meeting with the president and the Chief of Staff. Despite ongoing war crimes, Israel continues to maintain extensive security ties with the South East Asian country. By John Brown* (translated by Tal Haran) Israeli human rights activists are petitioning the Israeli Supreme Court, demanding it force the Ministry of Defense to explain why it does not put an end to Israel’s trade agreements with Myanmar’s military, following reports of crimes against citizens and ethnic minorities, including possible crimes against humanity. [tmwinpost] The petition, filed by Attorney Eitay Mack and a list of human…
Source: Despite war crimes, Israel insists on selling arms to Myanmar | +972 Magazine
A visual investigation of footage recorded in Umm el-Hiran during an incident that left a Bedouin man and an Israeli police officer dead shows that, contrary to police claims, Israeli forces opened fire on the vehicle before it sped up. Video by Forensic Architecture / Activestills, text by Natasha Roth A visual and aural investigation of two pieces of footage recorded in Umm el-Hiran on Wednesday, during an incident which left a Bedouin man and an Israeli police officer dead, appears to contradict the official police narrative of a car-ramming attack. The Israeli authorities say that the driver of the…
Source: WATCH: Visual analysis undermines police version of events in Umm el-Hiran | +972 Magazine
Palestinian MK injured ahead of home demolitions: ‘The police are liars’
Settler supremacist embraces rise of white supremacy in US.
Source: “Fire up the bulldozers,” says Trump’s biggest fan in Jerusalem | The Electronic Intifada
The latest revelations throw a glimmer of light on the systemic corruption in Israel, analysts say.
Source: Netanyahu’s media scandal: Who bribed whom? | | Al Jazeera
Jewish Labour activist who was suspended after being accused of anti-Semitism for criticising Israel tells her story.
Source: Opposition to a Jewish state is a legitimate position | UK | Al Jazeera
Israeli forces destroyed 10 homes belonging to Palestinian citizens of Israel.
The Real News talks to The Electronic Intifada about the Israeli embassy’s influence in the UK.
Source: Probe into UK civil servant who plotted “hit list” with Israeli embassy | The Electronic Intifada
Journalists, scientists, human rights activists and even a clown are among the Palestinians currently sitting in Israeli jails. By Yael Marom The vast majority of Israelis are not interested in Palestinian prisoner statistics. After all, for them, Palestinians are not human beings but “terrorists,” and as such it’s perhaps preferable that as many as possible sit behind bars. But for the thousands of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails at any given moment, they are subject to a system of occupation and oppression that pursues, threatens and jails as a matter of daily routine. Journalists, scientists, human rights activists and even a clown are among the prisoners.…
Source: Report: 7,000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails | +972 Magazine
Netanyahu uses ISIS claim as pretext to entrench occupation.
Source: Israel insists attack on soldiers in occupied territory is “terror” | The Electronic Intifada
Israeli activists had hoped to join Palestinians to protest a new settler-only road that would uproot hundreds of olive trees. The Israeli army saw to that. By Ahmad al-Bazz and Haggai Matar, Photos by Ahmad al-Bazz and Keren Manor / Activestills.org The Israeli army prevented dozens of Palestinians and Israelis from protesting together against the expropriation of 25 acres of agricultural land near the West Bank city of Qalqilya on Saturday. At around noon on Saturday, 70 Palestinians left the village of Izbat a-Tabib and marched toward Route 55 in order to protest plans to pave a new settler-only road, which would…
Source: WATCH: Soldiers prevent Palestinians, Israelis from protesting together | +972 Magazine
Eli Ben Dahan believes Israeli soldiers should be allowed to kill Palestinians before, during, or after military operations. Israel’s Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben Dahan is reportedly working on submitting a bill proposal that will grant soldiers a license to kill, according to a Channel 2 news report that aired Saturday evening. [tmwinpost] The bill will allow security forces to “enjoy immunity from actions they carried out or refrained from carrying out, and all before, after, and during an operational activity or terrorist attack that was not part of the day-to-day operational activities of the unit in which he/she works…
Source: Deputy defense minister wants to give IDF soldiers a license to kill | +972 Magazine
TeleSur | – – Three U.S. senators introduced a bill calling for U.S. embassy to be relocated to Jerusalem and …
Source: Muslim Shockwaves as New Congress’ Bill seeks all Jerusalem for Israeli Colonization
Netanyahu backs pardon for army medic who executed injured Palestinian.
Source: Israeli soldier convicted for revenge killing | The Electronic Intifada
Medical teams stopped at checkpoints for average of 47 minutes, says new report.
Source: Babies die as Israel blocks ambulances in Hebron | The Electronic Intifada
Israeli prime minister claimed world should be grateful for Israel’s cruelty toward refugees.
Source: Netanyahu openly boasts of Israel’s war on Africans | The Electronic Intifada
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