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https://www.972mag.com/palestinian-culture-science-music/ The last months have seen Israel crack down on cultural figures and intellectuals in the occupied territories. Critics say the attacks are part of a larger strategy of suppressing Palestinian civil society.     Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

https://popularresistance.org/global-south-calls-for-sanctions-on-apartheid-israel/ … Reports that Israel is "suspending" formal annexation are a smokescreen for continued colonisation and piecemeal ethnic cleansing of Indigenous Palestinians. Around the world, advocates for justice are pushing back.The Global South response, initiated by South African civil society, brings together notable figures, intellectuals, policy makers, civil society leaders and experts from Africa, Latin America and Asia, in a joint effort to promote lawful sanctions on Israel to end its decades-old oppression of the Palestinian people. Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

ww.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/14/israel-praise-new-peace-accord-palestinians-lose-netanyahu-west-bank-uae   Netanyahu may have agreed to halt annexation of parts of the West Bank, but the UAE has ensured the occupation itself is normalised.   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

The Democratic race for Minnesota's Fifth Congressional District has become the latest proxy war over the future of U.S. policy toward Israel.   Alex Kane   https://www.972mag.com/ilhan-omar-primary-israel-lobby/     Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

  The Hundred Years' War on Palestine--A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi   Review by Elizabeth Axtell   As I think Rashid Khalidi makes clear in this book, the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is a history of colonialism in the creation of present day Israel.  He describes his personal experiences related to the conflict, but also the involvement of members of his family in the history.  While in Jerusalem, Professor Khalidi had access to the private libraries of some of the oldest families in the city, including the Khalidi family.   Yusuf Diya-al-Din Pasha al-Khalidi was Professor Khalidi's great-great-great uncle.  He was a well educated ...

https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-will-annexation-change-legal-landscape-west-bank/30881 If and when it takes place, annexation will… take the form of a law extending Israeli sovereignty to certain areas of occupied territory.   In reality, Israeli law and administration has been implemented throughout the occupied West Bank to varying degrees... since 1967 …The clear conditioning of rights and privileges on whether a person is Jewish or Palestinian, as per Israeli Basic Law , will become a formal legal feature of the landscape…   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

https://mondoweiss.net/2020/07/man-made-israel-and-the-obsessive-erasure-of-palestinian-history/ Hellbent on crafting an umbilical cord between itself and a biblical, mythical 2000-year old past, Israel has erased the ancient history of Palestinians….What do you get when you mix ten decades of biblical studies, the Old Testament, the ideology of Zionism, and a tablespoon of politically motivated archaeology, all mixed in a bowl of historical evidence? Author Keith W. Whitelam undertook this recipe and reports on the results in " The Invention of Ancient Israel: The Silencing of Palestinian History " (of 1997). The short answer to the question is that one is left with a toxic modern state, hell-bent on crafting an umbilical cord between itself and a mythical 2000-year old past. In other words, the State of Israel…   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member ...

  https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox   …In depicting the… agony and pain [of the parents of victims of terrorists], McCann does not appoint himself as judge or arbiter; rather, he is quite clear that the deaths of Abir and Smadar [Peled-Elhanan], and the ensuing agonies of their parents, are products of colonialism…In Rami's words: "One state, two states, it doesn't matter at this stage – just end the Occupation, and then begin the process of rebuilding the possibility of dignity for all of us."   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

  https://mondoweiss.net/2020/08/emboldened-by-promises-of-annexation-israeli-settler-attacks-soared-in-july/   According to data gathered by Mondoweiss, there were at least 25 reported incidents of Israeli settler violence against Palestinians since the unofficial July 1st deadline to annex the West Bank passed.     Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

https://mondoweiss.net/2020/07/palestinians-get-sold-out-in-dem-platform-again/   ...Dems are about to nominate a presidential candidate who finds the very concept of conditioning aid "outrageous." …He'll be presiding over a country with a stronger BDS movement, a two-state solution consensus that's obviously cracking , and population whose support for Israel continues to dwindle...   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/manchester-university-divests-firms-complicit-israeli-occupation The University of Manchester has divested more than $5 million from Caterpillar and the parent company of travel site Booking.com . Activists on Monday said it was "a colossal win for the Palestine solidarity movement in Britain."…Caterpillar supplies bulldozers to the Israeli army which are weaponized to destroy Palestinian homes and carry out extrajudicial killings . Booking Holdings Inc. is in the United Nations database of companies involved in Israel's settlements in the occupied West Bank which was published earlier this year … Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

Snippet: "Peter Beinart, an influential liberal commentator on Israel and Zionism poked a very large stick into a hornets' nest this month by admitting he had finally abandoned his long-cherished commitment to a two-state solution. Variously described as "the pope of liberal Zionism" and a "bellwether for the American Jewish community", Beinart broke ranks in two essays. Writing in the New York Times and the Jewish Currents magazine, he embraced the idea of equality for all - Israelis and Palestinians." https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/07/17/liberal-zionism-begins-make-journey-towards-one-state-solution

https://bdsmovement.net/news/freemahmoud-israeli-occupation-forces-arrest-bds-coordinator-mahmoud-nawajaa-during-night-raid   Tens of Israeli occupation soldiers stormed the home of Mahmoud Nawajaa, the General Coordinator of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), near Ramallah, handcuffing, blindfolding and taking him away from his wife and three young children. Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

https://writingforpeace.org/judith-ferster/#_ftn6   In the time of the Black Lives Matter protests in The United States after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Palestinian resistance against the Israeli occupation vibrates with intersectional relevance… Since mourning for George Floyd spread around the world, we should also not be surprised to find a vigil in front of the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank city of Bethlehem to show solidarity between mourners for George Floyd and for Iyad Hallaq, a Palestinian killed by Israeli police. Their sign said, "Our struggles are one." Struggles for equal rights are coming together all over the world. The struggles are indeed one.   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member