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7-26-2021 Where is the price for destroying a Palestinian village? ? - Sarit Michaeli +972

https://www.972mag.com/humsa-demolition-european-union/ Diplomats can see that the new Israeli government is continuing to expel Palestinians. Why are their states still rewarding these crimes with honors   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

7-23-2021 5 states are considering sanctions on Ben & Jerry’s after West Bank pullout - Ron Kampeas Jewish Telegraphic Agency

https://www.jta.org/2021/07/23/politics/5-states-are-considering-sanctions-on-ben-jerrys-after-west-bank-pullout   …Officials in Florida, Texas, New York, New Jersey and Illinois are reviewing whether the move will require divestment from Ben & Jerry's parent company Unilever under their various state laws…   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

7-9-2021 Palestinian American Christians appeal to Biden: Reconsider US policy on Hamas - Jeff Wright Mondoweiss

https://mondoweiss.net/2021/07/palestinian-american-christians-appeal-to-biden-reconsider-us-policy-on-hamas/   …Specifically, PCAP calls on the administration to "reconsider its policy towards Hamas" and "to support fair and transparent elections for Palestinians including Hamas and their candidates, and voters in East Jerusalem."   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

7-14-2021 Israel’s demographic war on Palestine intensifies - Ramzy Baroud Mondoweiss

https://mondoweiss.net/2021/07/israels-demographic-war-on-palestine-intensifies/ For Israel, the future of Jewish majority – read: supremacy – is dependent on the Jewish population remaining larger than that of Palestinian Arabs. For this reason, Israel is likely to delve even deeper into apartheid.   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

5-27-2021 Disputes Over Water and The Jordan - Arab America

https://www.arabamerica.com/disputes-over-water-and-the-jordan-river/     …A major factor contributing to the failure to discuss water-sharing agreements was the continuing hostility between Israel and the Arab states of Jordan, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon from the 1948 war…    Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

7-19-2021 Ben & Jerry’s will end sales of its ice cream in the Occupied Palestinian Territory - Haaretz, Forward

https://forward.com/fast-forward/473175/ben-jerrys-will-end-sales-of-its-ice-cream-occupied-palestinian-territory/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_2522577 Ben & Jerry's announced Monday that it would end sales of ice cream in the Israeli settlements in the West Bank, following "concerns shared with us by our fans and trusted partners….we will stay in Israel through a different arrangement..."   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

6-10-2021 Salt, Sewage and Sinkholes: The Death of the Dead Sea - Foreign Correspondent

https://www.youtube.com/   …nestled on the borders of Israel, Jordan and the West Bank, the Dead Sea has supported life and provided spiritual healing for millennia. But today the Dead Sea is disappearing, its waterline receding year by year. And the fight over this diminishing resource is fueling tensions between Palestinians and Israelis...   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

7-13-2021 Palestinians Find New Unity After War With Israel - Stefanie Glinski Foreign Policy

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/13/palestinian-unity-israel-hamas-war/ The 11-day conflict between Israel and Hamas has unified disparate Palestinian enclaves.   … Palestinians—and even Israelis—say that the Palestinian cause has been galvanized like never before, and disparate groups of Palestinians are discovering a new sense of unity…   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

7/13/2021 Israel ‘Is an Apartheid State,' a Quarter of U.S. Jews Say in New Poll Ron Kampeas JTA Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/a-quarter-of-u-s-jews-agree-that-israel-is-an-apartheid-state-in-new-survey-1.9995986 The findings are striking as mainstream pro-Israel organizations struggle to make the case that Israel is central to Jewish identity and that criticism of it often veers into antisemitism… Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

7-12-2021 Going back to school on Palestinian textbooks-- Nathan J. Brown Middle East Institute

https://www.mei.edu/publications/going-back-school-palestinian-textbooks   The controversy over Palestinian schoolbooks was born before Palestinians actually wrote any and has continued no matter what the textbooks (or studies of them, some by the Institute itself) actually say.     Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

5-21-2021 As Israeli Jews, we demand international intervention against apartheid +972

https://www.972mag.com/apartheid-israel-jewish-open-letter/ Over 500 Israeli Jews sign an open letter calling for liberation for all people between the river and the sea.   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

7-1-2021 Jewish parties ‘compromise’ against Palestinians and call it democracy – Orly Noy +972

https://www.972mag.com/jewish-parties-compromise-palestinian-rights/ Negotiations over a settlement outpost and a racist law show that Zionist parties of all stripes will find common ground to deny Palestinian rights.   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member