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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 ...