IOF soldiers ransack village, fire teargas inside homes in Al-Khalil

[ 22/05/2011 – 12:07 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired teargas into citizens homes in the Old City of Al-Khalil on Saturday night and earlier wreaked havoc in a nearby village. Witnesses said that Jewish settlers during a march in the Old City threw stones at Palestinian homes and burnt Palestinian flags […]

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JfJfP condemns killings by Israel of Nakba-day demonstrators | Jews for Justice for Palestinians

The Israeli killing machine Statement by JfJfP Executive 21.5.2011 The Nakba demonstrations on Sunday, 15 May 2011, show us once again that Israel is the equal of Syria, Bahrain and Libya in suppressing demonstrations. Not content with firing tear gas, the IDF fired rubber bullets and in some cases live rounds to disperse the demonstrators […]

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BBC: British Broadcasting Censorship

PressTV | Sun May 22, 2011 12:31PM By: Porya Mohajer Soltani BBC has once more been hit by a wave of criticism in regards to its stance towards Palestine. This is while it claims to be ‘impartial’. And of course, like all the times before this one, Ofcom does not intervene. In a free-market economy, […]

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Netanyahu-Obama saga: A Post-it To American Jewish Friends

Sunday, May 22 2011|  +972blog By Louis FrankenthalerThis is not a letter to an American Jewish friend. Rather it is a post-it note. A letter you can stick in a drawer and forget about it. I want you to put this on your refrigerator, on your computer screen, on your bathroom mirror and look at […]

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Erasing Links to the Land in the Negev

Human Rights Watch by Noga Malkin Published in:Foreign Policy | March 11, 2011 Hiding in the cemetery where her parents are buried, Hakma al-Turi, an Israeli citizen, has watched bulldozers demolish her village — al-Araqib — more than 20 times. The Israel Land Administration first demolished the 45 structures on this patch of land in […]

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Obama’s speech to AIPAC affirms commitment to Israel and US policies that doom it

by Ali Abunimah | Sun, 05/22/2011 | Electronic Intifada Move Over AIPAC activists demonstrate outside the AIPAC 2011 Policy Conference featured President Obama as a keynote speaker. from Flickr (Sam Husseini) Following his speech on Thursday night, and his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday, US President Barack Obama spoke to the 2011 […]

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Salfit women say stoned by settler youth

Published May 22, 2011 21:58 | Ma’an News Agency SALFIT (Ma’an) — Town officials from Salfit reported Sunday that a group of women returning home were assaulted by a group of 15 settlers harassing Palestinians near the Kfar Tappuah settlement. The women, from the village of Iskaka, were on the main road between Za’atara and […]

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Israel: New Laws Marginalize Palestinian Arab Citizens

Measures Threaten Discrimination; Chill Freedom of Expression  | Human Rights Watch March 30, 2011 (Jerusalem) – Two new Israeli laws affecting Israel’s Palestinian Arab residents would promote discrimination and stifle free expression, Human Rights Watch said today. One would authorize rural, Jewish-majority communities to reject Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel and other “unsuitable” applicants for […]

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Fire at field near Kiryat Arba, Hebron

22 May 2011 | International Solidarity Movement On Thursday May 19 a part of the field of Abd al Kareim al Jabari in Western Hebron, where International Solidarity Movement activists have been present for the past ten days, was set on fire. Settler children started to throw stones at the ISM activists as soon as […]

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Christians commemorating Nakba – زينوا الساحة – فرقة صمود التلحمية (ذكرى النكبة 2011 – video

فعاليات ذكرى النكبة 2011 المؤسسات المسيحية فرقة صمود التلحمية SUMUD | AEI- Pax Christi Source

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University of London boycotts Israel

PressTV – Sun May 22, 2011 8:29AM The University of London Union (ULU) has voted 10-1 to institute and campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against the Israeli regime and in support of Palestine. The motion clinched on Wednesday, May 18 called for “thorough research into ULU investments and contracts” with companies guilty of […]

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ACTION ALERT | Family issues appeal for missing Jerusalem teen

█   Please spread the appeal widely ▶ Ma’an News Agency | Published May 22, 2011 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — A 15-year-old Jerusalem girl was reported missing by her family on Sunday, her family said, prompting them to appeal to the public to help locate their daughter. Miral Salem Abdallah, from the Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit […]

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Reactions in Iran to Obama’s Speech: All of Palestine Belongs to the Palestinians

Memri Blog | May 22, 2011 Basij Commander Mohammed Reza Naqdi rejected US President Obama’s call to establish a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, saying that all of Palestine belongs to the Palestinians and that the Israelis should leave it. About Obama’s statement that Iran supports terrorism, he said that if supporting the Palestinians, […]

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UK minister ‘deeply disappointed’ in settlements call

Published 22/05/2011 18:57 UK Minister of the Foreign Office Alistair Burt visits Hebron in January 2011. [MaanImages/Mahmoud Elayan, HO] BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — UK foreign office minister for the Middle East Alistair Burt called on Israel Friday to “cease unhelpful and destabilising activity” of settlement construction, in the wake of a decision to build 1,500 new […]

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Jordan’s monarch warns of new Palestinian intifada

Published May 22, 2011 | 20:20 Jordan’s King Abdullah II, seen here in 2010, has said peace between Israel and the Palestinians will be sealed with US help. The Jordanian monarch made the comments as he urged American businessmen to invest in his country. [AFP/Chris Kleponis] WASHINGTON (AFP) – The prolonged stalemate in the Middle […]

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