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On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 2:26 AM Judith Ferster < jferster@ncsu.edu > wrote:   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/2021/09/israel-will-be-gone-in-20-years-wilkerson/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-email-mailpoet   Wilkerson's insights include that Israel is a "strategic liability of the first order" for the United States and is "the most likely state in the world to take the United States to Armageddon"   and that Israel won't exist as a state in 20 years because it is delegitimizing itself as an apartheid state…   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-jnf-approves-west-bank-jerusalem-plan-that-could-lead-to-palestinian-evictions-1.10177648 The five-year, 100 million shekel plan includes 530 files about deals for the purchase of West Bank properties and another 2,050 for the Jerusalem area Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

https://jewishcurrents.org/teshuvah-a-jewish-case-for-palestinian-refugee-return/   …Why is dreaming of return laudable for Jews but pathological for Palestinians?...   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

https://www.972mag.com/haifa-republic-book-review-liberal-zionism/   In " Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel , NYU philosopher Omri Boehm calls for re-envisioning Zionism as a binational project in order to shed Jewish historical trauma and salvage democratic values...   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-wants-to-become-a-petroleum-superpower-and-the-climate-crisis-can-wait-1.10068600 A visit to state-owned EAPC facilities in Ashkelon, one of the world's 20 largest oil storage facilities, make the recent cabinet resolution promising a low-carbon future for the Israeli economy seem like science fiction… Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/twilight-zone/.premium.MAGAZINE-mohammed-was-fetching-his-brother-when-idf-troops-shot-him-at-close-range-1.10055430   … Mohammed Munir Tamimi was the fifth person killed in recent years in the village of Nabi Saleh , not far from Ramallah in the West Bank, almost all of whose residents are from the Tamimi clan…Nabi Saleh called off its regular Friday anti-occupation demonstrations in 2016, after six years, when the IDF started to use snipers and live ammunition against the unarmed inhabitants. But more people have been killed there since the demonstrations ended than during the period when they were taking place…   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

https://www.nyrb.com/products/haifa-republic-a-democratic-future-for-israel?variant=13996267896884   …The philosopher Omri Boehm argues for…a single binational state in which Palestinians and Jews both possess human rights and equal citizenship.   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

https://mondoweiss.net/2021/08/israeli-supreme-court-tells-sheikh-jarrah-residents-to-reach-agreement-with-settlers-trying-to-displace-them/ …As protected residents, the Palestinian families would be forced to pay yearly rent to the Israeli settler organization Nahalat Shimon, which claims ownership over Sheikh Jarrah and is seeking to replace its Palestinian residents with Israeli settlers…   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-sheikh-jarrah-eviction-case-court-offers-palestinians-protected-residents-status-1.10071018 Session ends in stalemate after sides clash over question of ownership of the land. According to the compromise, the Palestinian residents will not be evicted in the coming years Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

https://mondoweiss.net/2021/07/israels-attack-on-gaza-diminished-its-support-among-democratic-voters/ Almost 70% of Democratic voters now say that their congressional reps support Israel more than they do.   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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