News Items
The following news items have been syndicated by the following sources:
- B'Tselem
- Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)
- Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU)
- The Mondoweiss Blog
- Health and Human Rights Project
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The children whose spirit a siege couldn’t break
Haaretz has the story on the latest record set by the children of Gaza. They've broken their own record from last year's UNRWA Summer Games for the number of kites being flown at one time...
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I felt alone till I heard about the Jewish boat to Gaza
Editor's note: I'm going to be writing a lot about boats these days. Americans are organizing a U.S. boat to Gaza, with a cruise around New York this Wednesday to raise money for the effort, and in the meantime a Jewish boat to Gaza will be sailing from...
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Why did a Democratic congressman’s aide speak of ‘Jewish money’?
This is interesting. Mike McMahon, a first-term Democratic congressman from New York, fired a staffer after she said that McMahon's Republican challenger was getting a lot of out-of-state donors and "Jewish money."...
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Investigating the Freedom Flotilla attack (Stephen Lendman, The Palestine Chronicle)
On June 2, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) approved formation of an international committee (like the Goldstone Commission) to probe the Flotilla attack, saying it will include lawyers and international law and human rights experts, its findings to be presented in September (during the Council...
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‘ADL’ statement rationalizing bigotry draws wide scorn
It's happened: the Anti-Defamation League has overplayed its hand (in this case, neoconservative Islamophobia) in such a glaring manner that it is being condemned at every quarter-- a statement from the group opposing the construction of a mosque near Ground Zero in New York. The...
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A Palestinian’s field of vegetables destroyed by settlers at night, and other news from
Today in Palestine:
Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing
Jerusalem report documents wave of demolitions
Jerusalem – Ma’an – The Jerusalem Center for Social and... -
From Shatila Camp– What does the right of return mean in 2010?
I’ve been spending more time in the camps recently. Two days a week, I leave my apartment on my leafy street in my quiet neighborhood and jump in a taxi heading southwest.
‘Ala mafra’ sou’ Shatila, iza t-reed,’ is what I usually say to the cab driver. He drives west first, past...
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The disconnect
There's a very important piece in Haaretz today:
Pre-state Jewish undergrounds enjoy a renaissance among settlers. In recent years, interest in the pre-state...
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I’m going back to Gaza
The night before my group departed from Gaza in June 2009, I talked about not being ready to leave. And I wasn't.
It took me another two months after I got back to pull out of my "Gaza Haze" and begin to function again. I met with my Congressman's Director of Outreach, and he advised me...
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Some Israelis celebrate what Bernadotte’s murder achieved
Larry Derfner has a great piece in the JPost laying out the hypocrisy of Israel's extolling terrorists while condemning Palestinians when they do the same. It's a wonderful argument, but for me what leaped out was the...
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