Israel: A Theater of Horrors: In Israel’s trade catalog, arms and asylum seekers are equal commodities

More at http://bit.ly/arms4africans In Israel’s trade catalog, arms and asylum seekers are equal commodities With arbitrary arrest and detention, forcible transfer, withholding of basic human rights, the imposition of birth control measures and now an arms-for-asylum-seekers deal which amounts to little more than human trafficking, Israel has become a theater of horrors for Africans. By […]

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Detained: Testimonies from Palestinian children imprisoned by Israel ~ by Samar Hazboun

+972Magazine | April 19, 2013 ‘Detained: Testimonies from Palestinian Children Imprisoned by Israel’ uncovers one of the most painful experiences that Palestinian children endure in the ongoing Israeli occupation. Through interviews with ex-detainees and mothers of minors presently in detention, the project documents their stories and aims to lend a voice to those who are […]

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Police ban Israeli activists from West Bank demonstrations ~ by @leehee_r

Thirteen anti-occupation activists were awoken by police officers early Sunday morning to receive closed military zone orders, preventing them from joining Palestinians in weekly demonstrations in the West Bank. By Leehee Rothschild | 972 Magazine | Nov 12, 2012 Israeli police officers distributed closed military zone orders for four West Bank villages early Sunday morning […]

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Twitter reveals JNF’s approach toward Palestinian Bedouin ~ by @nsheizaf

Ethnic Cleansing – Topic | Settlement Construction – Category – Pictures Jan 8, 2012 | +972Magazine | Noam Sheizaf In a tweet that was later deleted, the Jewish National Fund says Bedouins in unrecognized villages are “living on someone’s land illegally.” The JNF has been taking part in evacuations of Palestinians in East Jerusalem and […]

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Netanyahu targets UN and militant Islam in GA speech

Related: Netanyahu Speech at the UN – in pictures (only)   +972 Magazine | Friday, September 23 2011| Mairav Zonszein Couching his speech in what he claims is the ‘truth’ as the representative of the ‘only true democracy’ in the Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a defensive, hostile and unoriginal speech at […]

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#J14: No need to bring up the occupation – it’s the capitalism, stupid!

  Sunday, August 14 2011| Ami Kaufman | +972 Magazine With the growing number of calls for J14 to address the “elephant in the room” that apparently no one is willing to talk about – the occupation (shhh!), it’s important to understand something: there is no elephant Demonstration in Beer Sheva, Aug. 13 (photo: Activestills.org) […]

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IMEU: The blockade on Gaza began long before Hamas came to power

Mya Guarnieri, 972 Magazine, Jul 1, 2011 This article was originally published by the 972 Magazine and is republished with permission. Athens, Greece – The second Freedom Flotilla is slated to set sail by the end of the month in an attempt to challenge the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. The act will call […]

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Top ten myths about Israeli policy

Thursday, June 16 2011| Roi Maor | +972 Magazine In the next few weeks, I will write a separate post about each of the top ten myths about Israeli policy, tackling the obfuscation and confusion that often characterize discussions of official Israeli positions and actions, at home and abroad. My top ten list appears below […]

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‘Our demonstrations are in protest of injustice’ West Bank protest leader tells an Israeli military court

  Monday, June 6 2011| Joseph Dana |  + 972 Magazine   Bassem Tamimi, the popular committee leader of Nabi Saleh, was arrested more than one month ago for his role in organizing unarmed demonstrations against Israeli occupation. His arrest was largely based on evidence illegally obtained from a number of Nabi Saleh youth including 14-year-old Islam Tamimi. Yesterday, […]

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+972 Magazine needs your support!

Thursday, May 26 2011|+972blog | + 972 Magazine From +972 Magazine: To our readers, +972 Magazine was born out of the feeling that there was a need for new perspectives beyond the regular media coverage of events in Israel/Palestine. Since launching +972 in the summer of 2010, we have invested effort, time and energy in […]

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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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“The army crossed another red line:” Report from Beit Ummar

Sunday, April 3 2011|Joseph Dana | 972 Magazine The Israeli army arrested 19 Jewish peace activists who held a demonstration outside of the West Bank village of Beit Ummar on Saturday. One of the activists who was arrested and beaten shares his recollection of the day’s events. An Israeli peace activist in Beit Ummar yesterday. […]

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Boycott: No longer taboo in progressive pro-Israel circles

  Wednesday, March 30 2011| Mairav Zonszein | +972 Magazine Though many American Jews oppose the BDS movement, more and more of them are willing to explore the idea of a targeted boycott against the occupation Dov Waxman & Mairav Zonszein | Originally published on Dissent Magazine TO BOYCOTT or not to boycott? That is […]

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Palestinian protest leader released from Israeli jail; served 16 months

Tuesday, March 15 2011|+972blog | By Libby Lenkinski Friedlander Yesterday, March 14, at about 3:30 PM, Abdallah Abu Rahmah, Coordinator of the Bil’in Popular Committee, was released from Ofer Military Prison after serving his 15-month expanded sentence. Abu Rahmah was arrested on 10 December 2009 and sentenced to 12 months imprisonment including time served, which […]

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