VIDEO – Patient Gaza: water under siege
Oxfam International / August 9, 2019
In Gaza, 97% of all water is undrinkable, leaving almost 2 million Palestinians without any safe water to drink. Even the sea surrounding Gaza is contaminated, as millions of liters of raw sewage spill into it each day.
More than a quarter of all reported...
VIDEO – New Israeli military strategies for annexation and undermining Palestinian identity
The Real News Network / August 8, 2019
Shir Hever discusses two new Israeli military strategies, presented by Israeli chief of staff Aviv Kochavi, who calls for a more deadly invasion of Gaza, and former general Yossi Kuperwasser's plan of “changing the Palestinian narrative” in order to annex Palestinian land
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEbZTfEVNYY
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From heat waves to ‘eco-apartheid’ – Climate change in Israel-Palestine
Matan Kaminer, Basma Fahoum & Edo Konrad
+972 Magazine / August 8, 2019
While Israel's nascent climate justice movement tries to get the public's attention, Palestinians under occupation remain the most vulnerable to the dangerous effects of climate change. Due to the existing power imbalance, however, working together to combat it...
VIDEO – 2020 presidential candidates’ views on Israel
July 16, 2019
The New York Times videotaped 21 presidential candidates’ responses to the question: “Do you think Israel meets international standards of human rights?”
https://youtu.be/UnlXLvFB12s
In East Jerusalem, nightly raids leave Palestinian neighbourhood reeling
Aviv Tatarsky
+972 magazine / August 4, 2019
For the past six weeks, Israel has been sending paramilitary police forces to raid the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Issawiya every evening. The raids, a severe form of collective punishment, have left one young Palestinian dead and hundreds wounded.
It’s 5:30 p.m. and some 10 large...
Plans advanced for more than 2,300 Israeli settlement homes in West Bank
NGO Peace Now condemns the move as designed to 'prevent the possibility of peace and a two-state solution'
Middle East Eye / August 6, 2019
Israel's defence ministry has approved plans for more than 2,300 settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, an NGO said on Tuesday.
The ministry's planning committee issued...
Netanyahu’s party steps up tactics to suppress Palestinian voters before election
Likud is doubling its budget for surveillance of polling stations
Miriam Berger
The National / August 6, 2019
Israel’s ruling party is ramping up its rhetoric and tactics intended to suppress Palestinian voters before the September election, Israeli civil rights groups have said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party is doubling its budget for...
The meaning of Israel’s massive housing demolitions in East Jerusalem
Destruction at this scale and visibility cannot be understood without grasping its political message; in fact, the scale and visibility are the message.
Jeff Halper
The Nation / August 5, 2019
The act itself wasn’t unusual. Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes is a routine, almost daily occurrence. What set it apart was the scale,...
VIDEO – debate: anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=K1VTt_THL4A
Mehdi Hasan of The Intercept and the Israeli historian Ilan Pappé go head to head with Times columnist Melanie Phillips and Israeli former Member of the Knesset Einat Wilf.
Intelligencesquared.com / June 2019
Is there a country in the world that attracts so much criticism as Israel? Studies consistently show Israel...
How BDS became such a big deal in American politics
+972 Magazine / August 2, 2019
Republicans are trying to criminalize boycotts of Israel, part of a broad push to delegitimize any criticism or pressure on Israel. By not unconditionally defending the right to boycott anything or anyone, Democrats are falling into a dangerous trap.
The United States’ approach to...