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https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/palestinians-be-sacrificed-israel-gulf-marriage   As Trump and his allies escalate their assault on Iran, they are also planning to launch the economic component of his administration's so-called Deal of the Century between Israel and the Palestinians at a conference in the Bahraini capital Manama on 25 and 26 June…The Trump administration is evidently trying to co-opt individual Palestinians into the normalization effort…Palestinian businessman Abed Alkarim Ashour said on Facebook that he received an invitation from "the Americans and our brothers in Bahrain" who "seek to sell Palestine for a few dollars."…Opposition is also coming from within the host state…The Bahraini Society Against Normalization with the Zionist Enemy asserted its rejection of the Manama meeting and called "on the Bahraini government to cancel this workshop, whose objectives ...

https://truthout.org/articles/anti-occupation-coalition-grows-stronger-despite-israeli-military-violence/ …When Jews living in the diaspora and those living in Israel come together, we make a formidable force. When groups like All That's Left, the Center for Jewish Nonviolence, and other groups from abroad work in collaboration with each other, both our Judaism and our activism are strengthened. And when we work under the guidance of our Palestinian partners — with whom we have been able to cultivate longstanding relationships — we forge a more powerful and just movement…   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

Judith, Thanks for sending this along. Really good to see what the Israeli left is doing within Israel to challenge Israeli whitewashing and insist it can't be business as usual for an occupying power. Mark On Sun, May 26, 2019, 1:38 PM Judith Ferster < jferster@ncsu.edu > wrote: https://972mag.com/israel-occupation-eurovision/141569 Israel had hoped to use the Eurovision Song Contest to bolster its international image. We were there to remind the world that there is no business as usual with an occupying state…. The largest media outlets in the world reported not only on Eurovision, they also paid attention to our demonstrations. It was a week that proved that in our current reality, an international event of this size in Israel will bring about resistance to the occupation. We showed that even without the enormous budgets of the Foreign Ministry, the Tourism Ministry, or the Tel Aviv municipality, we can reach millions of viewers, readers, and tourists.   ...

https://972mag.com/israel-occupation-eurovision/141569 Israel had hoped to use the Eurovision Song Contest to bolster its international image. We were there to remind the world that there is no business as usual with an occupying state…. The largest media outlets in the world reported not only on Eurovision, they also paid attention to our demonstrations. It was a week that proved that in our current reality, an international event of this size in Israel will bring about resistance to the occupation. We showed that even without the enormous budgets of the Foreign Ministry, the Tourism Ministry, or the Tel Aviv municipality, we can reach millions of viewers, readers, and tourists.   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://ifamericaknew.org/cur_sit/view-the-frontline-documentary-on-gaza-that-pbs-pulled.html   PBS stations around the U.S. were scheduled to show a riveting new Frontline documentary, "One Day in Gaza," but at the last minute PBS pulled it.    The film is missing important context about the issue, but it includes footage that Americans, as Israel's top funders, should see – including a young, unarmed teen being shot in her head… The film also fails to inform American viewers of our connection to Israeli actions – that the U.S. gives Israel over $10 million per day. (The U.S. has given Israel on average 7,000 times more per capita than it has given other people around the world.) .. BBC, the coproducer of the film, broadcast it to British viewers. We are posting it below so that Americans can also view it… Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://forward.com/opinion/424591/its-time-to-end-americas-blank-check-military-aid-to-israel/   Last month, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declared that American aid to Israel is "something that can be discussed" in Washington. Her comments made news precisely because America's policy of giving Israel billions in aid without expecting any policy changes in return hasn't actually been discussed — or at least questioned — in either party in more than a quarter-century. That needs to change…   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://972mag.com/court-overturns-palestinians-incitement-conviction-over-poem/141486/ Dareen Tatour sat in prison and was put under house arrest for a poem she published on Facebook. Now an Israeli court has decide[d] to partially overturn her conviction ."… The court accepted that the poem, "Resist My People, Resist Them," which she published on her personal Facebook page, did not constitute incitement, despite the discomfort it might cause the public... The judges added that it is hard to find similar cases to that of Tatour. "We emphasize that freedom of expression is even more pronounced when it comes to artistic freedom. True, this does not provide legitimacy to cross the bounds of the law, but it certainly has to bend the line to protect the right of freedom to create."   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member