Netanyahu's Message to the World: Accept Israel as It Is, Occupier and Settler

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via justforeignpolicy.org (http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/)

The ACLU has written to Congress urging opposition to pending bills that seek to criminalize advocacy of boycotts against Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The ACLU warned (https://theintercept.com/2017/07/19/u-s-lawmakers-seek-to-criminally-outlaw-support-for-boycott-campaign-against-israel/) that proponents of the bills are "seeking additional co-sponsors," and explained that the bills would "punish individuals for no reason other than their political beliefs."
MoveOn has joined (http://forward.com/fast-forward/377452/moveonorg-calls-on-progressives-to-kill-anti-bds-bill/) the ACLU's opposition to the bills. "Regardless how you feel about BDS, Congress must reject action to criminalize free speech and peaceful protest. The Democrats in House and Senate must say no to H.R. 1697/S. 720," MoveOn said. “Free speech and peaceful protest are integral to democracy."
S.720 & H.R.1697 (https://peacenow.org/WP/wp-content/uploads/pending-BDS-Conflation-bills-in-Congress.pdf) would erase the distinction in U.S. law between Israel and Israeli settlements in the West Bank and make it illegal for U.S. companies to boycott or otherwise discriminate against Israeli settlements in the West Bank based on calls by the United Nations or the European Union.
Urge your Senators & Representative to join the ACLU & MoveOn in opposing these unconstitutional bills by signing our petition (https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/hear-aclu-moveon-oppose?r_by=1135580).


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St. Paul, MN - 20 people rallied in here July 21 to demand an end to U.S. aid to Israel. Organized by Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) and the Anti-War Committee (AWC), the protest began with the echo of chants, “From the river to the sea; Palestine will be free,” and “Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Aid to Israel has got to go!”
The rally was held at a busy rush hour intersection and the honks from passing vehicles, especially trucks, demonstrated a high level of support from the community. Speakers detailed both the enormous sums of money that the U.S. government has given Israel, and the results of that aid.
The U.S. has given $234 billion in aid to Israel since 1948 for the occupation of Palestine, with another $38 billion in American aid to Israel in the pipeline for the next ten years. What has been purchased with this aid? As Sara Olson from WAMM noted, “Israel has become a human rights pariah around the world in its effort to eradicate the Palestinian people from their ancient homeland.” She further stated the “Palestinians live under an apartheid system,” which the worldwide Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS) movement is resisting.
Christine Hauschildt from the AWC spoke of her visit to Palestine, emphasizing the militaristic nature of the Israeli occupation saying, “Billions of your hard-earned tax dollars fund military aggression,” and “Young Israeli soldiers strapped with automatic weapons stop Palestinians, question them, search them, and harass them.” She noted that as the protest in Saint Paul was happening, escalating Israeli attempts to impose apartheid control over the Al-Aqsa mosque prompted thousands of Palestinians to protest in Jerusalem and across Palestine.
Simultaneously, in response to a call from Palestinians, thousands more across the world were protesting these brutal encroachments by Israel. This context added a real feeling of solidarity to the protest in Saint Paul and to the demand, “End U.S. aid to Israel!”


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Israeli forces yesterday confiscated two water tanks in Khirbet Tall Al-Himma in the northern occupied Jordan Valley, along with a pump from a spring used as the community's main source of water, B'TSelem reported.


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Terror tourism is all the rage in the occupied West Bank – as Israel turns its vast experience in occupation and war to entertainment propaganda for gung-ho visitors.   Just […]

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's 'Budapest speech,' in which he urged Europe to stop supporting the Palestinians, was the clearest expression yet of his worldview. He arrived as an international rock star and crony of U.S. President Donald Trump; the leaders of Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic flew in to meet him alongside his Hungarian host.


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It has been almost 70 years since the Deir Yassin Massacre. On April 9, 1948, Zionist militias, Irgun and Lehi (a.k.a Stern Gang), attacked the village of Deir Yassin, killing over 100 people including women and children. Reports stated that the residents of the small village were mutilated, decapitated, disemboweled and raped.


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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has come under fire for portraying Baltic Nazi collaborators as anti-communist heroes in a flashy new film.


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Two weeks ago the worst fear of Canadian opponents of neoliberal 'free trade' agreements came true. Surprisingly, there has been almost no reaction from the political parties, unions, and other organizations that warned these agreements would be used to undermine Canadian law, even though this is exactly what happened.


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The Israeli Knesset passed a law in March that prohibits entry into the country for those that have expressed support for the BDS movement.


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Israel's skin-colour scheme has proved unwelcome to many sectors of the population. For Ethiopians, racism has been the name of the game.


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There are very few journalist in the U.S. or Europe who have the courage to report fairly on Israel's seemingly endless illegal occupation of Palestinian lands. Personally, as a Jewish-American, and the grandson of a revered Rabbi, I have been roundly denounced by pro-Israeli representatives and their Zionist lobbyists in the USA.


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Five children killed in Gaza in eight days. The public indifference to their killing – the last three, for example, were accorded only a short item on the margins of page 11 in Yedioth Ahronoth, a sickening matter in itself – cannot blur the fact that the IDF is waging a war against children.


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http://socialistproject.ca/leftstreamed/ls359.jpgThe Jewish National Fund (JNF) has been the key tool used by Israel to dispossess Palestinians of their lands for over a century. It also discriminates against Palestinian citizens of Israel in the provision of land and housing, and appropriates lands in the Occupied Palestinian Territory in violation of international law. Canadian taxpayers subsidize these activities, as the JNF has a fundraising office in Canada that has had charitable status since 1967. Join with Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) in calling on the Minister of National Revenue to revoke JNF Canada's charitable status NOW!

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In 2008 Gaza-based reporter Mohammed Omer won the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism and was able to attend the awards ceremony in London only after Dutch officials intervened to get him an exit permit. On his return, crossing into the West Bank on his way to Gaza, he was separated from his Dutch escort by Israeli security personnel.


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In August of 2014, Palestinian-American scholar Steven Salaita was fired from a tenured position at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after pro-Israel groups contacted the university administration to complain about Salaita's twitter posts.


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Israel’s ultra-nationalists feel emboldened by Trump’s apparent support for Israel as part of his attempt to build a regional alliance against Iran.

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Benjamin Netanyahu is proposing that Palestinian citizens of Israel be stripped of their citizenship under a “peace” deal that would place them in a future Palestinian entity.   The Israeli prime minister […]

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Contrary to Henry Ford's claim, history is certainly not bunk. We cannot change the world we live in without understanding how the world came to be as it is. And yet so much of what is presented to us as history, written or otherwise communicated largely by the right, is not history but propaganda.


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Netanyahu's proposal to revoke citizenship from tens of thousands of Arab citizens is yet another calculated move meant to absolve Israel of responsibility for the fate of its native population.


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Canadians from all walks of life (Muslims, Jews, Christians and other faiths) rallied across the zioninst consulate in Toronto to call on the Canadian government to stand up, end it complicity, speak out, live up to its accountability under international law, as a member state of the UN.


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