Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ireland’s parliament has voted by 78 votes to 45 to ban the importation into Ireland of goods produced by Israeli squatter firms in the militarily Occupied Palestinian West Bank. According to the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention on occupied territories, the occupying authority is forbidden to settle its own population in […]
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Israel/ Palestine
MESA: Israeli Arrests of Palestinian Students and Professors, Israeli Assaults on Palestinian Campuses
The attacks, assaults, and detentions described above are grave violations of basic rights to education and academic freedom.
Israeli Snipers Killed 180, Injured 23,000 Gaza Protesters with Live Fire since March
23,000 Palestinians were injured in 2018 during the March of Return protests including 5183 minor boys, 464 girls and 1437 women
Israel demolished 10% more Palestinian Structures in 2018: OCHA
In December, 39 structures were demolished or seized by the Israeli authorities displacing 56 people and affecting over 270 others.”
Roseanne Barr calls Natalie Portman ‘Repulsive’ over Israeli Prize Refusal
Portman has always been careful to note that her criticism is of the PM’s policies, not Israel itself.
Crimes against Humanity: Israeli Snipers have shot down 45 Child Gaza Protesters
RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCIP) submitted a joint report to United Nations investigators last week detailing Israeli forces’ killing of Palestinian children during mass protests in the Gaza Strip, conduct amounting to war crimes, said DCIP in a press release. The 57-page report, drafted in collaboration with the Human Rights […]
War on BDS: How AIPAC-Israel Agenda became USG Priority
“Israel Anti-Boycott Act” is the most egregious of such interventions, for it strikes down the First Amendment
GOP Rep. Seeks to Block Tlaib Palestine Congressional Delegation
Babin votes with Trump so often he might as well be Trump.
Helping Hamas? Trump’s USAID to End all Projects for Palestinians on Jan. 31st
“Who suffers when USAID leaves schools and water systems unfinished?… The administration just gave Hamas more running room.”
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