Palestinians stage hunger strikes against solitary confinement, cruelty
Source: Israeli doctors assist in torture of Palestinian prisoners | The Electronic Intifada
Category: Israel
Israeli forces, on Tuesday night, broke into the home of the videographer who filmed an Israeli soldier executing a wounded Palestinian in cold blood, in Tel Rumeida, central Hebron, last week. The IMEMC is a media collective. We are independent journalists producing and distributing the authentic voices of the people. We are located in Beit Sahour, in the Occupied West Bank, and we welcome new volunteers and contributors. IMEMC is a media center developed in collaboration between Palestinian and International journalists to provide independent media coverage of Israel-Palestine.
Source: Army Raids Home of Man Who Filmed Hebron Execution – International Middle East Media Center
The following is a press release by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistic (PCBS), marking the fortieth anniversary of the Palestinian Land – March 30, 2016. The IMEMC is a media collective. We are independent journalists producing and distributing the authentic voices of the people. We are located in Beit Sahour, in the Occupied West Bank, and we welcome new volunteers and contributors. IMEMC is a media center developed in collaboration between Palestinian and International journalists to provide independent media coverage of Israel-Palestine.
The draft law, which passed the first of three votes on Monday, would allow the expulsion of Arab MKs from the Knesset. It is one of several recent steps by the Netanyahu government to limit…
Source: Israel’s Knesset just voted on a very dangerous law | +972 Magazine
Palestinian workers say they support BDS, even if it costs jobs in the short term.
Source: How Israel makes money from blockading Gaza | The Electronic Intifada
New video shows settler leader congratulating Hebron executioner after killing.
Source: Israelis rally around soldier filmed executing injured Palestinian | The Electronic Intifada
Both the Israeli Right and Left need ‘rotten apples’ like the Hebron shooter in order to justify their Orwellian worldview. I waited and waited. Abed Fatah al-Sharif is his name. Not “the Palestinian” or “the…
Source: Why exposing the Hebron murder benefits Israelis | +972 Magazine
Scenes like that of soldier firing at head of immobilized Palestinian happen on a regular basis.
Source: Netanyahu’s hypocritical condemnation of videotaped Hebron execution | The Electronic Intifada
Some people will defend any violent demagoguery as long it comes from the mouths of Israeli leaders.
Maybe even worse than the murder itself is the fact that no one in the vicinity seems at all moved by it. WARNING: This post contains a highly graphic video and images. An IDF soldier…
Source: VIDEO: Israeli soldier executes unarmed, wounded Palestinian attacker | +972 Magazine
Hebron shooting shows why Breaking the Silence is so crucial
Before he was executed on camera by an Israeli soldier, the wounded Palestinian man in Hebron appears to have been refused treatment by two medical teams. One doctor examines the ethical outrage displayed in the…
Source: When medical personnel stand by and watch a murder | +972 Magazine
A new study by the Coalition Against Racism in Israel reveals that the vast majority of Israelis believe their society has become more racist over the past two years. By Yael Marom Over half of…
Source: One in every four Israelis experienced racism last year, poll finds | +972 Magazine
The Israeli government had in November voted to allow the immigration of some 9,100 Ethiopians known as Falash Mura, descendants of Ethiopian Jews who converted to
Source: Ethiopian Israelis protest immigration plan – Your Middle East
Israel’s campaign against the BDS movement threatens basic freedoms all over the world.
Source: Boycotting Israel is a free speech right | The Electronic Intifada
Occupation forces arrest journalists, forcibly close Palestinian TV station.
Source: Israel intensifies crackdown on media | The Electronic Intifada
When Shefaa was granted permission to leave Gaza for a four-day visit to Israel to meet with a group of Jewish and Palestinian women, it was nothing short of a miracle. There she could tell…
Source: Fleeing the world’s largest prison: A journey from Gaza to Israel | +972 Magazine
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dreams of surrounding Palestinians and Israelis with walls. The IMEMC is a media collective. We are independent journalists producing and distributing the authentic voices of the people. We are located in Beit Sahour, in the Occupied West Bank, and we welcome new volunteers and contributors. IMEMC is a media center developed in collaboration between Palestinian and International journalists to provide independent media coverage of Israel-Palestine.
Source: The Israeli Ghetto – International Middle East Media Center
Israeli security forces have been imprisoning a Palestinian clown without charge or trial for months. Mohammed Abu Sakha is known for working with special needs children in the West Bank, and runs the Palestinian Circus…
Source: WATCH: Israel is imprisoning a Palestinian clown without trial | +972 Magazine
IMEMC is a media center developed in collaboration between Palestinian and International journalists to provide independent media coverage of Israel-Palestine.
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Source: International Middle East Media Center – No Page Layout Set
The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement is making headlines around the world for putting Israeli products in its crosshairs. But Israeli cultural icons and institutions have been boycotted for years. And while Israeli artists feel…
The vast majority of Jewish Israelis don’t want to give up their privilege. But nobody has the right to ‘democratically’ deny rights to another. The most shocking piece of information to come out of a Pew…
Source: Ethnic cleansing poll a dangerous sign for Israel | +972 Magazine
Permits to extract resources from occupied Golan violate international law.
Source: Israel steps up oil drilling in Golan | The Electronic Intifada
A proposal by so-called “left-wing” Israeli politicians to build a fence across Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem, cutting off 200,000 Palestinians, has been compared to South African apartheid.
Source: ‘Apartheid’ fence in Jerusalem would cut off 200,000 Palestinians — RT News
Nearly half of Jewish Israelis agree that Arabs should be expelled or transferred from Israel, a recent survey on religion and politics in the country shows. The poll also shows both Israeli Jews and Arabs are gradually giving up on the two-state solution.
Source: Almost half of Israeli Jews want Arabs expelled – survey — RT News
It is quite rare for a day to pass without one inciting remark or another by politicians against Israel’s minority.
Source: Israel’s war on liberal democracy – Al Jazeera English
Successive Israeli governments since 1948 are responsible for the institutionalised discrimination against Palestinians.
Students Supporting Israel is an astroturf group whose leaders are closely tied to the Israeli government.
Source: Students say pro-Israel group spreads hate at Columbia University | The Electronic Intifada
Defense for Children International (DCI), Palestine Branch, has reported that Israeli soldiers have killed 41 children in the West Bank, Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, since the current uprising began in Palestine, on October 1, 2015. Sixteen of the slain children were killed this year. The IMEMC added the name of the child who was killed, along with her mother, in Gaza. The IMEMC is a media collective. We are independent journalists producing and distributing the authentic voices of the people. We are located in Beit Sahour, in the Occupied West Bank, and we welcome new volunteers and contributors. IMEMC is a media center developed in collaboration between Palestinian and International journalists to provide independent media coverage of Israel-Palestine.
Source: DCI: “Israel Killed 41 Children Since October 1” – International Middle East Media Center
We look at Israel’s crackdown on journalists over alleged media bias; plus, the media landscape in South Africa.
Source: Spinning the occupation: Israel and the media – Al Jazeera English
Thousands of Palestinians who have entry permits, along with residents of East Jerusalem cut off by the separation wall, must pass through the Israeli military’s Qalandiya checkpoint every morning and evening in order to go…
Source: PHOTOS: What it’s like to ‘commute’ through an Israeli army checkpoint | +972 Magazine
Just 31 percent of US Jewish students view Israel as a democracy.
Source: Nazi genocide and “girls in bikinis” failing to sell Israel, experts say | The Electronic Intifada
Over 500 Palestinians have been displaced by the demolitions since the start of 2016, the vast majority of them in the West Bank. Israel demolished 313 Palestinian structures in the West Bank and East Jerusalem…
Source: Israel demolishes 313 Palestinian structures in six weeks | +972 Magazine
Israel may be preparing for the death of Muhammad al-Qiq.
Source: Deadline passes in negotiation to save hunger striker | The Electronic Intifada
The orchestrated onslaught against Israeli anti-occupation groups have led to death threats and physical attacks. But we will not be scared — we are determined to save our country from the same messianic, nationalistic, and…
Source: Political persecution won’t stop us from breaking our silence | +972 Magazine
Occupation is the greatest provocation, says Mustafa Barghouti, a human rights activist, Palestinian presidential candidate and Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
Source: ‘Israel wants to be aggressor while enjoying status of a victim’ — RT Op-Edge
Ma’an News Agency | – – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Authority Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs on Tuesday accused Israel …
Source: PA: Israel concealed prisoner’s hunger strike for 43 days | Informed Comment
From surreal exaggerations to outright lies, Netanyahu dished up another batch of nonsense utterings to a foreign audience in Berlin this week. We picked three of the best and broke them down for you. Prime…
Source: Fact-checking Netanyahu: A week full of truthiness | +972 Magazine
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n its ongoing efforts to save every Jewish soul, anti-assimilation group Yad L’Achim has broadened its offerings and is now extending its marriage-wrecking service to Jewish men in relationships with non-Jewish women. Israeli anti-miscegenation group…
Source: Israel’s ethnic purity police presents: Anti-assimilation for men | 972 Magazine
United Nations investigator calls on Israel to probe its use of deadly force against Palestinians.
Source: Israel’s “excessive force” kills two more children | The Electronic Intifada
How the insurgent challenger for the Democratic nomination went from slamming Israeli violence to excusing it.
Source: Bernie Sanders and the question of Palestine | The Electronic Intifada
Apparently, no ‘P’ means no state.
Were the Palestinians better off under Labor government than under Likud? For many years, much of the Western world understood Israel based on a cluster of myths, from the early fables of the Zioni…
Not only physical settler violence goes largely unpunished — the structural violence of those driving the settlement enterprise, in the form of open land theft and everything it entails, also goes largely unaddressed. What keeps…
Source: Israeli settlements have created a ‘state within a state’ | +972 Magazine
Looking closely at Labor’s plan, the logic behind it becomes clear: since it is difficult to envision a Palestinian state in the foreseeable future, Israel should no longer be ashamed of putting Palestinians in Bantustans.…
Source: Why Herzog’s diplomatic plan looks an awful lot like apartheid | +972 Magazine
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – An Arabic site that aggregates Facebook and other social media postings …
Source: Israel frets about “Iran as Neighbor” if Aleppo falls & al-Assad Regime Wins | Informed Comment
Cleaning services are being promoted to potential clients in north Tel Aviv with a flyer that prices its cleaners according to their ethnic origin. The advert also refers to its employees in the feminine only.…
Source: Tel Aviv service offers cleaners priced by ethnic origin | +972 Magazine
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