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https://israelpalestinenews.org/levy-quiet-cruel-population-transfer-south-hebron-hills/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily+Updates Demolition of Palestinian homes – last week's excuse was to create Israeli "nature reserves," this week a "firing zone" – causes now-homeless Mahmoud Hamamdi to ask, "Who is the terrorist: the one who builds a house or the one who demolishes a house?"   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

httpsz/ www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-ayman-odeh-with-shin-bet-bodyguards-1.7861973 Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member   …A unity government is bad news, but every cloud has a silver lining: It could challenge Israel. Let's welcome opposition chairman [head of the Joint List]Ayman Odeh. He will speak immediately after the prime minister at every important debate in the Knesset. He will have a security detail, he'll be driven in an official state car — and let Israeli Jews explode with anger.   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://mondoweiss.net/2019/09/education-security-interests/   The U.S. Department of Education has determined the Duke-University of North Carolina Consortium for Middle East Studies misused Title VI funds and they're requiring the program to provide a revised list of activities that will use these funds over the coming year.   In June, the Education Department announced it was investigating the consortium over a conference it held in March called, "Conflict over Gaza: People, Politics, and Possibilities." On September 17,  U.S. Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education Robert King published a letter in The Federal Register  detailing the Departments conclusions.   King's letter accuses the consortium of pushing "narrow, particularized views of American social issues" on students. "Although a conference focused on 'Love and Desire in Modern Iran' and one focused on Middle East film criticism may be relevant in academ

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/17/palestinians-israel-election-occupation-netanyahu?fbclid=IwAR379fWqaRut8q9ywsKpsUVHSRKijtJacpQunwT3ahAXQUbK9HyeOKDvEpY     After 50 years of occupation, our freedom is shrinking every day. But even if Netanyahu loses, little will change.   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/10/world/netanyahu-israel-west-bank-jordan-valley/index.html?utm_source=JP+Morning+Read+List+2018&utm_campaign=f07282d50d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_4_25_2018_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9b20a09eef-f07282d50d-125273249   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Tuesday that he may annex the Jordan Valley and other parts of the occupied West Bank "in coordination" with the United States in an apparent last-ditch effort to attract right-wing voters…A US administration official told CNN: "There is no change in United States policy at this time. We will release our Vision for Peace after the Israeli election and work to determine the best path forward to bring long sought security, opportunity and stability to the region." The US was informed about Netanyahu's announcement before he made it, the official said, adding that the administration does not believe Netanyahu

https://mondoweiss.net/2019/09/adapting-climate-apartheid/   …Will Israel approve the proposals Palestine has put forward under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, aimed at adapting to water scarcity? Will it grant permits for the wells Palestinians want to rehabilitate, the cisterns, tanks, earthen dams, soil water harvesting systems and leak-proof conveyance systems they want to build, from Jenin and Tulkarm in the north, down to Bethlehem and the South Hebron Hills, so that Palestinians can continue to live on their land, whatever Earth's climate delivers over the next fifty years? Or will Israel say no?   Five years into one of the region's worst droughts, water scarcity on the rise, 'water apartheid' amounts to forced transfer. Both are egregious crimes. The 'crime of apartheid' is a crime against humanity. Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/10/world/netanyahu-israel-west-bank-jordan-valley/index.html?utm_source=JP+Morning+Read+List+2018&utm_campaign=f07282d50d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_4_25_2018_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9b20a09eef-f07282d50d-125273249   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Tuesday that he may annex the Jordan Valley and other parts of the occupied West Bank "in coordination" with the United States in an apparent last-ditch effort to attract right-wing voters…A US administration official told CNN: "There is no change in United States policy at this time. We will release our Vision for Peace after the Israeli election and work to determine the best path forward to bring long sought security, opportunity and stability to the region." The US was informed about Netanyahu's announcement before he made it, the official said, adding that the administration does not believe Netanyahu

https://www.juancole.com/2019/08/palestinians-colonialism-washington.html ...The Israeli Occupation of Gaza and the West Bank has deprived 5 million people of the rights of citizenship. As US supreme court chief justice Earl Warren wrote, ""Citizenship is man's basic right, for it is nothing less than the right to have rights."  The Israeli occupation of the 1967 territories of Palestine is no longer really just an occupation, since the law of occupation pertains to ordinary 4-year wars when one side temporarily takes another country's territory. Since 1945 it has been illegal to take that territory and then keep it. What we really have in Palestine is an Israeli colonial enterprise. France no longer has Algeria or Vietnam and Britain no longer has India, but Israel has Palestine, and Israel rules Palestine very much in the way that the old colonial states ruled their overseas subjects. Po

https://theintercept.com/2019/08/25/border-patrol-israel-elbit-surveillance/ In the process of opposing the towers, Tohono O'odham people have developed common cause with other communities struggling against colonization and border walls. David is among numerous activists from the U.S. and Mexican borderlands who joined a delegation to the West Bank in 2017, convened by Stop the Wall, to build relationships and learn about the impacts of Elbit's surveillance systems. "I don't feel safe with them taking over my community, especially if you look at what's going on in Palestine — they're bringing the same thing right over here to this land," she says. "The U.S. government is going to be able to surveil basically anybody on the nation." Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://therealnews.com/stories/israeli-security-tech-on-us-mexican-border-threatens-nations-civil-liberties The ACLU's Jay Stanley says that the Border Patrol's repurposing of surveillance technology and drones could open doors that put our liberty and privacy at risk.   The Border Patrol, which partners with the Israeli military technology company Elbit Systems to build and maintain these intricate monitoring technologies, has jurisdiction within 100 miles from the edges of our nation. That could potentially surveil two-thirds of the American people…   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://www.insider.com/harvard-university-student-visa-denied-granted-entry-to-us-2019-9   Ten days after a Palestinian Harvard University student was denied entry into the United States , immigration officials have reversed course and granted him entry in time for the start of the fall semester.   The student, 17-year-old Ismail B. Ajjawi, was denied entry after nearly eight hours of interrogation in which immigration officers allegedly forced the student to unlock his phone and laptop and asked him about his religion.   Ajjawi alleges the immigration officers looked through his contacts and found friends who wrote posts critical of the United States. A CBP [Customs and Border Protection] spokesperson confirmed to Insider that Ajjawi had "overcame all grounds of inadmissibility."   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

  https://mondoweiss.net/2019/09/zionism-identity-response/   …for Pearl and many Zionists the point isn't to defend Zionism at all.  The point is to structure the public debate so that criticisms of Zionism cannot be aired in the first place.  Pearl wants critics of Zionism to be prohibited from making their arguments on the grounds that doing so would violate the identity-rights of Jews.  But if he admits, as I imagined he would, that identity-rights can't immunize a genuinely-unjust doctrine from public criticism, how do you prohibit criticism of Zionism in the public realm until you've shown that it's not unjust?  And how do you do that if you don't allow those who claim it is unjust to make their case publicly?  It seems as if there's a Catch-22 here.  If it's morally kosher, then Zionism cannot be legitimately criticized because of its role in Jewish identity.  But we can't know if it's m

https://972mag.com/hebron-tlaib-omar-apartheid/143078/ Had Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar been allowed to visit Hebron, they would have seen Israel's official policy of discrimination and segregation for the city's 215,000 Palestinian residents. Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member