Archive | July 28, 2011

The same Islamophobic bloggers and pundits that influenced Norway killer also influence Congress

by Karina Piser on July 28, 2011 | Mondoweiss In light of the Oslo attacks, it is important to pause and contemplate what sparked this event, and indeed where such hatred comes from. One thing is clear: this in no way occurred in isolation. It was a disconcerting coincidence that an article on the front page of Monday’s New York […]

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In Solidarity with @ibnezra “Israel’s ‘anti-boycott’ law hurts the country’s journalists”

Since 600BC (Athens’ democratic ideology of free speech) civilization talks about Free Speech.  Israel killed it on a mondayevening, while free speech is an absolute condition even for a political debate and definitly for any country calling itself a “democracy” The new BDS law in Israel is a violation of Human Rights Art 19 & […]

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Israeli Soldier: “We follow you at Twitter!” (at 2:47 min) – video

So now we know the weak spot of Israel: Truth leaking out of Palestine. For it is the silencing & censoring, than the hasbara that made IOA successful for 63 years to commit ongoing atrocities against Palestinians while the world was wide asleep and kept ignorant. Times are changing!  Finally the truth is out: They […]

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Journey to El Arakib ~ by Rabbi Amita Jarmon

 Amita Jarmon | Rabbis for Human Rights | 26.07.11 nterfaith Vigil for Al-Arakib Last Friday I joined a few other rabbis and least 100 other Israeli and international activists at a solidarity gathering and prayer service with the people of El Arakib whose homes have been demolished at least a dozen times in the past year.  […]

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Behind Norway’s Kristallnacht

by Eric Walberg |  July 28th, 2011 | Dissident Voice The massacre in peaceful Oslo was a replay of this earlier horror in reverse – no longer the Jews as victims but as the inspiration of terror against non-Jews – as Israel extends its wars not only to Greek ports and French airports but to […]

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Operational Update ICRC – Gaza: a never-ending effort to relieve suffering – Contact Details Included

28-07-2011 Operational Update For four years, Gazans have been living in a closed environment, in which the movement of goods and people are subject to severe restrictions. The ICRC is involved in an array of activities intended to ease their hardship. This is an update on its activities. All 1.6 million Gazans, packed in to […]

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Israel uses banned torture methods

  PressTV – Thu Jul 28, 2011 2:9PM GMT A man looks at pictures of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails during a protest in the occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem). (File photo) A Palestinian rights group says the Israeli Supreme Court has allowed Israeli interrogators to use banned methods of torture against Palestinian prisoners. On […]

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Tadamun: Conditions of administrative detainees in Megiddo too bad

[ 28/07/2011 – 09:28 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– International Tadamun society for human rights said the Palestinian administrative detainees in the Israeli Megiddo prison are living under extremely bad conditions and deprived of their rights. This came after the society’s lawyer met with the oldest administrative detainee Ahmed Saqer in Ofer court and listened […]

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Five arrested, child and foreigner assaulted in West Bank attacks

[ 28/07/2011 – 09:24 AM ] WEST BANK, (PIC)– At least five Palestinians were arrested and others, including a small boy were assaulted in Israeli attacks across the West Bank early Thursday. Israeli occupation forces arrested this morning one man from Beit Awa in the southern province of Al-Khalil during an interrogation. Four others, most […]

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Royal #BDS | Jordan’s King Abdullah II refuses to meet Netanyahu

  Thursday, 28 July 2011 14:20| MEMO According to reports by a Kuwaiti daily made on Wednesday, July 27, King Abdullah II of Jordan recently declined a secret meeting with Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu. ‘Well informed’ anonymous sources told Al-Jareeda newspaper that Netanyahu had sent a special emissary to Amman to request a secret […]

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Israeli police detain 150 Palestinian workers

[ 28/07/2011 – 10:18 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Israeli police forces arrested 150 Palestinian workers in cultivated lands in the Galilee north of Palestine occupied in 1948 on Thursday morning. The Israeli radio claimed that the workers were working in the fields without permit. The Israeli security forces daily storm areas where those workers usually […]

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Hundreds of Jewish settlers storm Nabi Yusuf tomb

[ 28/07/2011 – 10:07 AM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Hundreds of Jewish settlers stormed the Nabi Yusuf tomb east of Nablus before dawn Thursday under heavy Israeli troop protection and offered rituals. Eyewitnesses said that the settlers arrived in 16 buses and left after dawn after clashing with Palestinian youths from nearby Askar and Balata refugee […]

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Lieberman wants to eject Turkish workers amid showdown over ties with Turkey

[ 28/07/2011 – 11:25 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman wants to eject some 350 Turkish construction workers as Israel’s relations with Turkey have spiraled after the 2010 flotilla attack. Israeli ministers Ehud Barak and Lieberman have been at odds over whether to meet Turkey’s condition of an apology over the […]

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IOA delivers demolition warning to inhabitants of a building in OJ

[ 28/07/2011 – 11:30 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority-controlled Jerusalem municipality handed a demolition warning to inhabitants of a building in Beit Hanina. One of the inhabitants Mohammed Asfour said that municipality staffers escorted by Israeli policemen handed them evacuation orders in preparation for demolishing the five-story building at the pretext […]

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Jewish settlers confiscate hundreds of dunums in Sa’ir area

[ 28/07/2011 – 10:27 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Jewish settlers have released hounds on Palestinians who stepped foot on land that was taken from them to build the Asfar settlement on the Sa’ir area east of Al-Khalil city, Palestinian sources have said. The settlers have been carrying out excavations there on farmlands owned by the […]

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