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  Ali Abunimah The Electronic Intifada  /  July 30, 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSi3hqnY2u8 I appeared on Pushback, Aaron Maté’s new show at The Grayzone to talk about the vote in Congress last week to condemn BDS – the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement for Palestinian rights. Many were disappointed that among the 398 representatives who backed the bill were several...

Inspired by the civil rights and anti-apartheid movements, it calls for Palestinian liberation on terms of full equality with Israelis and categorically opposes all forms of racism, including anti-Semitism. Omar Barghouti The Nation  /  July 29, 2019 Last Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed a resolution, H.Res, 246, targeting the grassroots, global Boycott,...

Palestinian president says committee will be formed to end agreements with Israel but does not provide further details . Al-Jazeera  /  July 26, 2019 Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), has announced the suspension of all agreements signed with Israel. The 84-year-old's declaration on Thursday came after an emergency meeting of the Palestine...

Science fiction books A new anthology collects 12 authors’ visions of life in the region in 2048 – providing a liberating change for some Alison Flood The Guardian  /  July 25, 2019 Twelve acclaimed Palestinian writers have imagined what their country might look like in 2048, 100 years after the Nakba saw more than 700,000...

Iran is gambling that Trump is afraid of war Tony Karon The Nation  /  July 25, 2019 What’s the point of having the world’s most powerful military if we never use it, then–Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is said to have shouted at Gen. Colin Powell in 1992, over his reluctance to...

Ilan Pappe The Electronic Intifada  /  July 25, 2019 The attempt to suppress official documentation of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948 is not new. But efforts by teams from the Israeli defense ministry to remove sensitive documents from Israeli archives – as reported by the Haaretz newspaper recently – must be understood in a...

Maureen Clare Murphy The Electronic Intifada  /  July 23, 2019 Thousands of acres of Gaza farmland have been damaged by Israel’s aerial spraying of herbicide. (Forensic Architecture) Israel’s military propagandists are at it again. A video recently tweeted by COGAT, the bureaucratic arm of Israel’s military occupation, celebrates its efforts to teach Palestinian farmers...

Josh Ruebner The Electronic Intifada  /  July 24, 2019 A nonbinding resolution passed by the US House of Representatives on 23 July foreshadows even more brazenly unconstitutional legislation to penalize and criminalize boycotts of Israel. The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a nonbinding resolution Tuesday evening condemning people for exercising their...

https://www.youtube.com/embed/_oRYFSv9shI Yumna Patel Mondoweiss  /  July 23, 2019 Palestinians in Jerusalem, the West Bank, and across the diaspora are reeling after Israel conducted an unprecedented mass demolition of 10 buildings in the occupied East Jerusalem town of Sur Bahir on Monday. The demolitions gained widespread international media attention as videos surfaced of Israeli forces aggressively beating...