April 28, 2019 /
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This petition comes from Kairos Palestine and its partner movements, Global Kairos for Justice. In December 2018—inspired by the Kairos Palestine document and representing a broad spectrum of organizations, faith communities and other groups—people from around the world gathered in Bethlehem Palestine to further the Kairos call for an end to the State of Israel’s…
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April 25, 2019 /
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We are more than halfway through this year’s Nakba Tour, and it has been wildly popular, to the extent that we have not been able to honor all requests in all parts of the country, and in one case only via live streaming. 89-year-old Mariam Fathalla (Umm Akram) and 25-year-old Amena Elashkar have brought their…
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April 24, 2019 /
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FPM News, US Israel
The following article, by Jonathan Cook, was originally published at Mondoweiss on 22 April 2019. For decades it was all but taboo to suggest that pro-Israel lobbies in the United States like AIPAC used their money and influence to keep lawmakers firmly in check on Israel-related issues – even if one had to be blind…
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April 20, 2019 /
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The following article, by Grant Smith, was originally published at AntiWar.com. Pollster Gallup admitted on March 28 that three decades of polling data contain fundamental flaws “well beyond what we would attribute to normal sampling error.” Gallup’s admission centers on its high-stakes question of whether Americans have greater sympathy for Israelis or for Palestinians. Gallup…
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April 14, 2019 /
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The following article by Philip Giraldi was originally published at Information Clearing House: How do you take a typical progressive and turn him or her into a fascist? One possible way is to send the poor bastard off on an all expenses paid trip to Israel where a meticulously crafted and sophisticated brainwashing program will…
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April 4, 2019 /
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The following article is reprinted from TeleSUR: On March 30, 1976, thousands of Palestinians demonstrated against the Israeli government’s confiscation of 21,000 dunams (5,189 acres of Palestinian lands). The occupying country responded to the protest by killing six young Palestinians. Since then, Palestinians all over the world commemorate March 30 as Land Day. Now, 43…
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March 24, 2019 /
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The following article, by Chris Hedges, is republished from Information Clearing House: The Israel lobby’s buying off of nearly every senior politician in the United States, facilitated by our system of legalized bribery, is not an anti-Semitic trope. It is a fact. The lobby’s campaign of vicious character assassination, smearing and blacklisting against those who defend…
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March 13, 2019 /
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The following article, by Jaclynn Ashly, was originally published at Al-Jazeera on March 13, 2019: Bethlehem, occupied West Bank – Frantic clamouring disrupts the usual noises at Israel’s Checkpoint 300 in Bethlehem, where thousands of Palestinian workers queue for hours, starting at 3am, to make it on time for their jobs in Israel. Workers chat, bicker, joke,…
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March 13, 2019 /
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FPM News, US Israel
The following program is republished from The Real News: Rabbi David Mivasair, Corey Balsam, and Ismail Zayid discuss their joint efforts to revoke the JNF’s charity status in Canada, but the Canadian authorities have a long history of supporting Israeli colonization in Palestine. www.stopthejnf.ca Download MP3
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March 13, 2019 /
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The following article by Glenn Greenwald was originally published at The Intercept on March 5, 2019: GOP CONGRESSMAN STEVE KING has served in the U.S. House of Representatives for sixteen years, yet Democrats – who controlled the House for four of those years and now control it again – never formally rebuked or condemned him until last month (they did…
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