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Liz Essley Whyte USA Today  /  May 1, 2019 The front lines in a bitter debate between Israel’s defenders and critics lie in an unexpected place: state capitals across America. Palestinian rights activists calling for people to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel have racked up policy victories over the past 14 years across the globe and in the USA, particularly on university campuses. In response, pro-Israel...

 Heinrich Böll Foundation Palestine & Jordan 22 april 2019 Over the past several years, Palestinian and Israeli environmental and human rights organizations have documented the transfer of Israeli solid waste into areas of the occupied West Bank. In December, 2017, B’Tselem an Israeli human rights organization revealed that Israel has supported...

Ali Abunimah The Electronic Intifada  /  April 30, 2019 https://youtu.be/-MFWsMN2dFA In the wake of its recent elections, some of Israel’s liberal backers have been fretting that the self-described Jewish state is becoming ever less democratic. “The general celebratory line in Israel and among its Western supporters since its establishment in 1948 – that the...

Is het tijd voor sancties tegen Israël ? Brecht Neven MO* Magazine  /  23 maart 2019 Honderdnegenentachtig. 189 grotendeels ongewapende demonstranten werden tijdens hoofdzakelijk vreedzame protesten, die deel uitmaakten van de ‘Great March of Return’ gedood door Israëlische veiligheidstroepen. In een rapport van 28 februari 2019 stelt een speciale VN-onderzoekscommissie dat het geweld met...

een van de dieptepunten in de grote campagne van etnische zuivering van Palestina Dit jaar is het 71 jaar geleden dat de massamoord in Deir Yassin plaatsvond. Deze is uitgevoerd door strijders van de joods-zionistische terroristische Irgoen-militie – met medeweten, dan wel indirecte steun van reguliere joods-zionistische gevechtseenheden. In onderstaand artikel...

Haaretz poll: 42% of Israelis back West Bank annexation, including two-state supporters Thirty-four percent support a two-state solution ■ Twenty percent of non-Jews support entire West Bank annexation ■ Only three Israeli parties openly support two-state solution Dina Kraft Haaretz /  March 24, 2019 With just a couple of weeks left until the...

Ali Abunimah The Electronic Intifada /  March 20, 2019 https://youtu.be/NXVQu0IQuQw Two Palestinians in the United States are suing Israeli settlers for profiting from property stolen from their families in the occupied West Bank, by listing them on the home rental website Airbnb. The lawsuit is in the form of a counterclaim against the settlers, who themselves...

In deze mars droegen wij de portretten mee van vier moedige Palestijnse vrouwen die elk op eigen wijze de aandacht weten te vestigen op de strijd van Palestijnen tegen onderdrukking door Israel en voor de politieke recht van de Palestijnen.   Khalida Jarrar is een Palestijnse feministen en mensenrechtenactiviste uit Ramallah...

+972 Magazine , February 28, 2019 Khalida Jarrar is released from Israeli custody following almost two years under administrative detention. Palestinian parliament member Khalida Jarrar was released Thursday morning after nearly two years in Israeli administrative detention. This is not the first time Israel has put Jarrar under administrative detention, a practice in which detainees...

In the present report, submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution S-28/1, the independent international commission of inquiry investigates the demonstrations held in Gaza between 30 March and 31 December 2018, the response of Israeli security forces to the demonstrations and the impact on civilians in Gaza and Israel....