Tag: Palestine

Holy Land Principles defends itself against activist critic

December 1, 2015September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

The head of the Holy Land Principles organization demanded in a press release today that Cisco publicly dissociate itself from activist Julie Hammerman’s, accusing her of lying about the group. McManus charges that activist’s lies destroy responsible investment When a corporate entity bills itself as a Socially Responsible Investment organization or firm, yet testifies to…

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Bernie Sanders offers reasoned approach to Middle East peace

November 19, 2015April 13, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

For a long time, I supported the election of Hillary Clinton as President. I supported her against Barack Obama and for a longtime believed we needed to elect her to help restore reason and sanity to dealing with the Middle East. But the Clintons’ views on the Middle East have changed much and I believe…

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Palestinians protest Israeli violence with creative talents

November 18, 2015 Mohammed Asad No Comments

Palestinians protest Israeli violence with creative talents By Mohammed Asad Palestinian youths play music and paint murals during an event to show solidarity with the Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem, in Gaza city on November 18, 2015. The surge in violence across Israel, Jerusalem and the Israeli-occupied West Bank has been fueled in…

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Freedom for Pollard and Vanunu

November 11, 2015June 12, 2019 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

According to a bill proposed in the Knesset on Tuesday, Israel will pay for its agent Jonathan Pollard’s “reasonable living conditions” for the rest of his life following his expected release after 28 years of a 30-year prison sentence on November 20. The conditions for Pollard’s parole have not yet been revealed; but it’s expected…

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Fighting Back: An Answer to the Escalation

November 10, 2015September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

By Dezeray Lyn Since October 1st from Gaza to the OPT, casualties are rising almost daily as are injuries, arrests, raids and the outrageous closure of the Tel Rumeida neighborhood in Hebron along with segregated Shuhada Street by military order. A crisis within a crisis is slowly devouring the Tel Rumeida neighborhood in Israeli military…

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Yitzhak Rabin and The Red House of Zionism

November 6, 2015November 7, 2015 USS_Liberty Info 2 Comments

Twenty years ago Yigal Amir an Orthodox Jewish extremist changed the course of history when he shot Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in the back; But the seeds that fueled his passion for supremacy began germinating on 10 March 1948 in a Tel Aviv house that was painted red. By Eileen Fleming As Israel descends…

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Israel Must Free Mordechai Vanunu in 90 Days

November 1, 2015March 31, 2017 USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment

On Friday Mordechai Vanunu wrote regarding his 8th Supreme Court Appeal, “I had a court hearing on [October 26, 2015]. We appealed all the restrictions. I even spoke to the Judges. They gave to the police 90 days to end their investigation for last arrest, after that they will decide.” Vanunu also wrote, “Without Freedom…

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Hell in Hebron and The NY Times Reports the Obvious

October 30, 2015October 30, 2015 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

On Thursday the headline in The New York Times read “Palestinian Uprising Shifts to West Bank City of Hebron” and reported: This month’s Palestinian uprising that started with a wave of knife attacks in Jerusalem has shifted some 18 miles south to Hebron, another holy city with a stark history of violence and tension… …

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Performing Arab-Jewish standup comedy, first time

October 29, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

I don’t know if humor can change anyone’s minds about standing up to extremism and bringing peace to the Middle East, or if it can really bring different rival religious, ethnic or national groups together. But I do know that after performing my first standup comedy show this week, the Jewish, Christian and Muslim audience…

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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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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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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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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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