Palestinian students arrived at the union’s office to submit their candidacy for elections. The administration slammed the door in their faces.
How Haifa University’s Students’ Union conspired against Palestinians
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Israel was created as a rampart of “Western civilisation” in the barbarous east, but now the rampart is at risk of being overwhelmed.
A wave of censorship – Israel is the last collapsing rampart of ‘Western civilisation’
In addition to billions in weapons, the U.S. military is renovating an air base in the south of Israel, according to a new contract.
A recent investigation by The Intercept disclosed that Site 512 is just one of more than 60 U.S. bases, garrisons, or shared foreign facilities in the Middle East. These sites range from small combat outposts to massive air bases in 13 countries: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen
U.S. Army Is Upgrading an Israeli Base to Make Room for New Boeing Jets
Rosenberg adeptly summarises how Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has sold his soul (if he has one) to a coterie of extreme right wing, Arab-loathing powerbrokers (and their parties) in order to retain office. And to stave off the active prosecution of a set of serious corruption charges he faces.
All States are under an obligation not to recognise as legal the situation arising from the unlawful presence of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. They are also under an obligation not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by Israel’s illegal presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. It is for all States, while respecting the Charter of the United Nations and international law, to ensure that any impediment resulting from the illegal presence of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory to the exercise of the Palestinian people of its right to self-determination is brought to an end. In addition, all the States parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention have the obligation, while respecting the Charter of the United Nations and international law, to ensure compliance by Israel with international humanitarian law as embodied in that Convention.
Israel’s army suspects fabrications published in the Jewish Chronicle were part of a pro-Bibi influence campaign, while the article’s author is not as he claims.
Why did a British Jewish newspaper publish fake Israeli intelligence?
“Everyone came to congratulate us,” said his cousin Sheikh Habis al-Jazi at the funeral of the Jordanian truck driver who fatally shot three Israelis at the Allenby Bridge crossing between Jordan and the occupied West Bank on 8 September, and was himself killed by Israeli guards.
Shooting at Allenby
Maher Thiab Hussein al-Jazi arrived by truck at the goods inspection area on the occupied West Bank side of the Allenby Bridge on Sunday morning and opened fire with a handgun at Israelis operating the crossing.
Yohanan Schuri, Yuri Birenbaum and Adrian Marcelo Podzamczer died of their wounds. All three lived in illegal Jewish-only settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The three settlers were employed as forklift operators by the Israel Airports Authority, a department under the Israeli ministry of transport that manages land crossings.
Israel considers them to be civilians, although they were part and parcel of a military occupation that the International Court of Justice recently declared to be inherently illegal.
Israeli security guards shot and killed al-Jazi on the scene.
Footage circulated on social media, taken by someone from a nearby vehicle behind a fence, shows the lifeless body of al-Jazi. A man with a pistol then approaches the body and shoots al-Jazi in the head at point-blank range, even though he is already incapacitated.
Jordanians hail as hero man who killed settlers at Allenby crossing
Eyewitnesses recount the killing of Turkish-American Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi at a protest in Beita, decrying Israel’s efforts to scare off international activists.
‘She came here out of love’: Palestinians, allies honor activist slain by Israeli army
Ecocide in the West Bank is exactly the same strategy as it was in Gaza. Cutting water power and fuel as well.
As residents trickled back into the destroyed West Bank village following a court ruling, fear of further attacks was outweighed by the joy of being home.
After expulsion by settlers, Palestinians embrace precarious return to Zanuta
Politically the world seems to be moving very much to the right, and with it there is an attack on thinking, especially critical thinking where an issue is questioned, analysed, interpreted and evaluated to make a judgement about the issue.
For much of the world, Palestine is the “line in the sand” to our staggering hypocrisy. We own this genocide. It defines us. It is us.
November 2024, election month, marks one hundred and seven years since Britain issued the Balfour Declaration and seventy-seven years since the United States pushed through UNGA Resolution 181 (Partition). In both cases, it was well understood that the documents’ words were empty, and that we were institutionalizing the ethnic cleansing, and ultimately the genocide, of Palestine’s native population river-to-sea.
America declined to condemn the killing of sailors on the US Liberty even when lied to by Israel trying to blame Egypt. Is their historical connection that scandalous?
Netanyahu is hastening the state’s downward trajectory in pursuit of regional war. Read more about What is Israel’s endgame?
What is Israel’s endgame?
Maureen Clare Murphy 6 September 2024
“Forgive us if we don’t give a shit if everybody there dies. It’s just the way we feel. It’s just the way Israelis feel,” said Two Nice Jewish Boys co-host Eytan Weinstein.
For today Israel,
the U.N. position is a major obstacle in the face of its blatant settler colonial project. And this is why Erdan wants the U.N. “wiped off from the face of the earth.”
UN Once Ratified Israel
Israel’s relationship with the U.N. is particularly odd because Israel was created by a U.N. decision, itself a direct outcome of U.N. political intrigues and Western pressure.
It assigned most of the land, 56 percent, to the Jewish population, then a minority, and the rest to the Palestinian Arab natives.
Shortly after, Jewish Zionist leadership began a military campaign that conquered most of Palestine and ethnically cleansed most of its original population.
Israel was admitted as a full U.N. member on May 11, 1949, while native Palestinians remain stateless.
The Brutal Wish of a Failed Israeli Diplomat
September 4, 2024
The continued violence in Gaza and the renewed violence on the West Bank points to a dark future for the Middle East, particularly for Israel, Lebanon, and the Palestinian community. Israel has become increasingly isolated in the international community, and the ultra nationalism of the right wing is increasingly dominating Israeli politics. For the past thirty years, the Israelis have hidden behind false gestures of support for a two-state solution and now the possibility of a cease fire in Gaza in order to maintain military and economic support from the United States. Sadly, it is working, and Israel shows no interest in pursuing any alternative to an endless war.
Israeli Treatment of Palestinians Remains Unchanged Over 75 Years
With the massive weekend demonstrations in Israel, and Monday’s general strike called for by the Histadrut, the massive collective of trade unions in Israel; the pressure for PM Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu to resign is dramatically escalating. By demanding that Bibi negotiate a deal to release the remaining hostages, they are implicitly demanding his resignation, because he’s made it clear he’ll settle for nothing less than the total destruction of Gaza. That would entail killing the hostages. Bibi has proven willing to sacrifice the lives of Israeli and American hostages to serve his political needs. The Histadrut demands need to be supported by President Joe Biden and all the force the US can muster as Israel’s primary benefactor. Bibi’s hubris and arrogance has him behaving as if Israel is the benefactor and the US is the client state. His address to Congress last month was an act of blasphemy orchestrated by Republicans and AIPAC, which effectively are the “American Likud.”
Why Biden must cut Netanyahu off: His Policies are Destroying Gaza, Killing Hostages, and Widening the War to the West Bank
However the hostages died—Hamas initially indicated they were killed by Israeli gunfire, the Israeli army says they were executed at close range just before an attempt was made to free them—the blame for their deaths has settled firmly on Benjamin Netanyahu and the ultra-right-wing clique that props up his government.
Biden, Harris, and the Brutal Truth of Dead Hostages in Gaza
An estimated 500,000 Israelis have hit the streets in protest throughout the country after the military recovered the bodies of six Israeli captives from a tunnel in southern Gaza.
Palestinian health officials say a “real ceasefire” is needed in the Gaza Strip for a critical polio vaccination campaign to succeed as 72,611 children are vaccinated on the first day.
The United Nations condemns Israel for inflicting “enormous destruction” on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank as the army continues to lay siege, leaving Palestinians without access to food, water, electricity and the internet.
Half a million Israelis demonstrate after captives’ bodies found in Gaza
We write on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) and its Committee on Academic Freedom to express our grave concern about the updated Guidance and Expectations for Student Conduct which the administration of New York University (NYU) circulated to the university community on 22 August 2024. Some of the provisions of this new policy statement impose unacceptable limits on the right of students and faculty to freedom of speech and assembly, and the guidelines also threaten academic freedom. They thereby infringe on the values of open inquiry and freedom of expression that are foundational to higher education and to citizenship in a democracy.
With West Bank apartheid sectioned Israel has prepared the area for wholesale bombing and destruction like Gaza
Israeli Forces Continue Deadly Assault on West Bank’s Jenin, Leave Tulkarm and Tubas in Ruins
“This is not as much about Hamas as it is about the Israeli state’s long-term plan to eliminate, wipe Palestine off the map.”
“Even the elders of the family who have seen it all — lived through ’67, lived through the intifadas, Oslo — they’re like, ‘This is the worst it’s ever been,’” Asi said.
“People who pride themselves on being resilient and not being afraid as part of their Palestinian identity, they are genuinely afraid,” she continued. “To leave one’s house, especially if you have a son, is to have a real material fear of death. … If something happens, there’s not going to be an investigation, there’s not going to be a tribunal: It’s going to just be another statistic.”
Bilal Daher of the Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports on Thursday evening’s knock-down, drag-out fight between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at the cabinet meeting, which ended in a vehement shouting match. The heated discussion was leaked to an Israeli television news channel.
Israeli PM Netanyahu says Recovering Hostages not a Priority, Occupies Philadelphi Corridor Instead
Trump represents chaos and division while Harris represents unification and normality. And in a political landscape where the nephew of a former president can campaign on the evils of vaccination and a 6 times bankrupt, maybe-billionaire can brag of overthrowing the election, and no American citizen is sure whether to vote or not and if they do, will their vote even count – unification and normality is sorely what a fractured, disUnited States of America needs.
The organization which spread the lies used as a pretext for the genocidal war against Gaza is seeking funds from the European Union.
ZAKA – nominally an emergency rescue group – won praise from Benjamin Netanyahu for playing an important role in influencing public opinion as his government sought international backing during the initial stages of the genocide. Israel’s prime minister repeated claims fabricated by the group that Hamas burned and killed dozens of children on 7 October last year.
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