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Palestinians continue protests against Israeli violence

October 23, 2015February 10, 2017 Mohammed Asad No Comments

Palestinians continue protests against Israeli violence By Mohammed Asad Palestinians continued protests against violence by Israeli soldiers and armed Israeli settlers at the border with Israel at the Gaza Strip on Friday October 23, 2015. Reports continued of Palestinians being wrongfully assaulted by Israeli soldiers and armed Israeli settlers throughout the Occupied West Bank and…

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Portrait with Fire: Khader Adnan

October 23, 2015October 25, 2015 rayhanania 1 Comment

Portrait with Fire: Khader Adnan By Dezeray Lyn “Some people think being jailed is a destiny. I say freedom is a destiny.” In Heather Christle’s stirring poem, Self Portrait with Fire, bending to conceal flaming legs, (s)he sets the grass on fire. On this day, sitting with Khader Adnan, Palestinian freedom fighter, it is hard…

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Netanyahu trivializing the Holocaust for selfish political gain

October 22, 2015October 22, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

Using the Holocaust for politics is disgusting. When Arabs do it it is criticized. When Israelis do it, it undermines the issue of the Holocaust. Israelis like Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exploit the Holocaust all the time because scoring political points to him means more than the unprecedented human suffering that Jews and others suffered…

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Egyptian soccer fans put youth disillusion with elections on public display

October 21, 2015October 22, 2015 James Dorsey No Comments

By James M. Dorsey As Egyptian general-turned-president Abdel Fattah Al Sisi struggled this week to get Egyptians to cast their vote in parliamentary elections, militant soccer fans put widespread youth disillusionment with the president’s autocratic rule on public display. More than 10,000 fans rushed in response to a call by Ultras Ahlawy, the militant support…

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Holy Land Principles Push Cisco On Fair Employment

October 20, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

Holy Land Principles Push Cisco On Fair Employment Holy Land Principles, Inc. intensifies its campaign to get a leading American company to sign an effective, well-proven set of fair employment principles. Cisco, the huge high tech company, is being pressed to sign the Holy Land Principles— an 8-point corporate code of conduct for American companies…

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Iran-Israel Deal and Mordechai Vanunu’s Supreme Court Appeal

October 20, 2015August 20, 2019 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

Sunday marked the official “adoption day” for the “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action” better known as the Iran deal. Mordechai Vanunu returns to Israel’s Supreme Court for the 8th time on Monday, October 26, appealing to end the over eleven years of restrictions denying his right to leave the State. By Eileen Fleming …

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15,000 Chicago protestors demand end to Israeli occupation

October 18, 2015October 19, 2015 rayhanania 23 Comments

An estimated 15,000 people marched demanding that Israel end its brutal military attacks against Palestinians, blasting the mainstream news media for its one-sided, pro-Israel coverage and downplaying the Israeli killing of Palestinians while emphasizing Palestinian killings of Israelis By Ray Hanania Nearly 15,000 people protesting Israeli violence against Palestinian civilians and the failure of the news media…

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بيت لحم مهد المسيح ومهد الانتفاضة ، بقلم د. فايز أبو شمالة

October 18, 2015October 18, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

بيت لحم مهد المسيح ومهد الانتفاضة ، بقلم د. فايز أبو شمالة قبل ألفي عام أخص الله مدينة بيت لحم بالبركة، فاحتضنت ميلاد المسيح، واليوم يخص الله مدينة بيت لحم بالبركة ثانية، لتكون حاضنة الانتفاضة الفلسطينية ضد الصهاينة، وضد عناصر الاجهزة الأمنية الذين أظهروا وحشية وقسوة في قمع الشباب الرافض لتهويد القدس، بشكل لا يختلف…

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OECD holds FIFA responsible for Qatari World Cup-related labour conditions

October 17, 2015September 24, 2018 James Dorsey No Comments

By James M. Dorsey A Swiss government-sponsored unit of the Paris-based Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has defined world soccer body FIFA as a multi-national bound by the group’s guidelines. As a result, the group concluded that FIFA is responsible for the upholding of the human and labour rights of workers employed in…

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Israel suspends Israeli-Palestinian encounters on the pitch

October 17, 2015October 17, 2015 James Dorsey No Comments

By James M. Dorsey The Israel Football Association (IFA) acting on orders of the police has suspended what it calls ‘sensitive’ matches, a reference to professional and amateur games between Israeli Jewish and Israeli Palestinian squads. Police said the suspension on soccer pitches that have long signalled mounting tensions, violence, and racism in Israeli society…

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Palestinians face off with Israeli soldier violence in Gaza

October 16, 2015 Tarek Masood No Comments

Heavily armed Israeli soldiers and settlers continue to harass and provoke Palestinians and Palestinians continue to stand their ground near al-Bureij in the Gaza Strip By Tarek Masood Israeli soldiers fired large canisters of gas and fired live ammunition at Palestinians civilians who gathered at the border of Al-Bureij in the Gaza Strip on Friday….

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A testimony to failed autocracies: Eritrean soccer team defects

October 16, 2015 James Dorsey No Comments

By James M. Dorsey Eritrea’s national team has for all practical purposes defected after 10 of its players this week refused to return home following a World Cup qualifier in Botswana. The defection and effective demise of the squad underscored the failure of autocratic rule in Eritrea already highlighted by the large contingent of Eritreans…

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October 15, 2015July 17, 2020 rayhanania No Comments

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BDS, Intifadas and Calls to Conscience #SolidarityWaveBDS #FreePalestine

October 15, 2015October 15, 2015 USS_Liberty Info 2 Comments

On Friday October 16, an international BDS wave of action kicks off against Israel’s decades of occupation, settler colonialism and apartheid policies under the banner #SolidarityWaveBDS By Eileen Fleming BDS is a strategy that allows people of conscience to play an effective role in the Palestinian struggle for justice. On Wednesday the Palestinian BDS National…

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Eyewitness in Jerusalem: Escalation of Occupation

October 15, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

Dezeray Lyn has been on the ground in Palestine witnessing the increasing violence by Israeli settlers and soldiers in a c lear strategy to provoke a conflict and give Israel more excuses to confiscate land, expel non-Jews and shoot and kill more non-Jews By Dezeray Lynn In what Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has called…

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Israeli journalists, IDF twist facts on social media videos

October 15, 2015September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Israel’s government wants the world to believe that knife-wielding Palestinians are responsible for the current violence, not Israel’s official policy of “provocative brutality” including the expansion of illegal settlements, the stripping land from non-Jews, and stepped-up detentions, assaults and killings of non-Jews by the IDF. But using cell phones to capture video, Palestinian citizen journalists are…

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Jerusalem Post columnist twists the facts

October 14, 2015January 25, 2016 rayhanania 1 Comment

Lahav Harkov, the Knesset reporter for the Jerusalem Post, took to Twitter to publish lies in response to my criticism of her opinion column, published in the New York Post. By Ray Hanania I have been attacked by a lot of fanatics on both sides of the fence. Arab extremists and Israeli extremists, and rightwing…

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No discussion of Israel or Palestine at Democratic debate

October 14, 2015June 12, 2019 rayhanania 1 Comment

Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and two other Democrats went at it in a live debate on CNN Tuesday night. But during the more than two hours of discourse, there was only one mention of Israel and nothing about the escalating violence and oppression of Palestinians. What does that all mean about Middle East…

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