mondoweiss.net —  2+ hour, 36+ min ago

...to the family of Palestinian prisoner Islam Froukh, 26.... ...Froukh is accused of carrying out the Jerusalem twin bus bombing in November 2022. Both Froukh and his family deny the allegations.... ...against him on the grounds that Froukh gave his confession under torture and duress. - Two-year-old Mohammed Tamimi was laid to rest in his village... ...of Nabi Saleh in Ramallah on Tuesday, June 6, a day after he succumbed to head wounds sustained by Israeli army fire....

mondoweiss.net —  1+ hour, 13+ min ago

...From the outside looking in, the 10-day delegation led by the Center for Jewish Non-Violence (CJNV) could easily be mistaken for a Birthright Israel... ...Indeed, on the first day of our delegation, we passed a Birthright trip in the Old City of Jerusalem.... ...While in Masafer Yatta, CJNV delegates heard from Palestinian activists Naser Nawajah, Ali Awad, and Awdah Hathleen.... ...The rest of the trip was spent in Masafer Yatta, a Palestinian community located in the southern edge of the West Bank....

mondoweiss.net —  1+ hour, 16+ min ago

...In the early morning hours of Thursday, June 8, a large convoy of Israeli military vehicles invaded downtown Ramallah, the central West Bank city... ...the family home of Islam Froukh, 26, who is accused of carrying out two bus stop bombings in Jerusalem last November that killed two Israeli settlers... ...The Israeli High Court of Justice, or the Supreme Court, ruled in 2005 that home demolitions would no longer be subject to a hearing or judicial... ...the West Bank, or Israelis inside the Green Line, is subject to having their home demolished by the state....

mondoweiss.net —  1+ day ago

...Roger Waters"s advocacy for Palestine shook the briefing room, as a reporter questioned why a Biden aide, Deborah Lipstadt, has echoed the smear... ...Chaplin"s parody of Hitler as “the great dictator.”... ...Husseini, a reporter at the Institute for Public Accuracy, criticized Lipstadt's comments at the State Department briefing Monday.... ...Lipstadt retweeted the European commission"s comment: “Roger Waters gig in Berlin....

mondoweiss.net —  1+ day ago

...The connections between the Black and Palestinian liberation struggles are more than empty israeli gas canisters and a handful of tweets.... ...That is to say: the Black & Palestinian liberation struggles are connected materially and politically and, in many instances, our peoples have chosen... ...Groups and individuals like Malcolm X, Kwame Ture, the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, Angela Davis, Huey Newton, The Black Panther Party... ...Much to the chagrin of israel and its zionist allies, B"Tselem, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Harvard Law School"s International Human...

mondoweiss.net —  2+ day ago

...Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to a gathering of the America-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on Monday.... ...It was as clear a snapshot of Joe Biden"s administration"s failure, futility, and fatally flawed approach to Israel and Palestine.... ...Blinken made that clear again, laying out the Biden administration"s vision of a Middle East where Israel is in full partnership with Arab autocrats... ...Bank and Gaza by Israel. ...

mondoweiss.net —  2+ day ago

...of the West Bank and Gaza.... ...Service Committee (AFSC) convened a coalition of faith communities in 2022.... ...Makari, Global Relations Minister, Middle East and Europe for the Global Ministries of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and United Church... ...“On our trip, we visited Palestinian communities in the West Bank and inside Israel--in Lyd, Jaffa, Nazareth--and unrecognized Palestinian villages...

mondoweiss.net —  2+ day ago

...Sometimes the name of the martyr is Khader, sometimes Abdulrahman, sometimes Adam, sometimes a name that even I, an Arabic speaker, struggle to pronounce... ...As a reporter and messenger of people's stories and experiences, I always have to credit my quotes and sources and relay the names of the story.... ...His father, Bob, stands beside him, but to little Eric, Bob hovers above his small body.... ...One of them, maybe the tenth or the twentieth, it is impossible to tell, hits Eric....

mondoweiss.net —  3+ day ago

...Tamimi was fatally shot near his village of Nabi Saleh north of Ramallah two days earlier on Saturday and succumbed to his wounds on Monday.... ...The state and its settlers Key Developments (June 1 – 5) - On Monday, June 5, Israeli forces killed Mohammad Tamimi, who was only two years old... ...Tulkarem became more active in armed resistance activities earlier this year with the rise of the “Tulkarem Rapid Response Brigade.... .... - Also on Monday, the body of Hatem Abu Nijmeh, killed almost a month and a half ago by an armed Israeli settler in Jerusalem after allegedly carrying...

mondoweiss.net —  2+ day ago

...the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem, the Syrian Golan Heights, and the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula.... ...The Naksa took place in 1967, just nineteen years after the Nakba, or catastrophe, of 1948, when Israel was established on the lands of Palestine... ...In 1956 Israel, along with France and Britain, invaded Egypt with the goal of toppling Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who had just nationalized... ...the foreign-owned Suez Canal Company, which controlled the operation of the canal....