Palestine Is Still The Issue!
Maher Taher, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: “Every possible type of resistance is being employed now in Palestine”
María Torrellas / The Dawn News / September, 2016
In the context of the International Seminar on Capitalism held in Sao Paulo, “The Dawn News” interviewed Maher Taher, Foreign Relations Secretary of the “Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine” who studied in Baghdad, Iraq and obtained his PhD in Political Science in Russia.
What ideology does the Palestinian Popular Liberation Front have?
At the beginning the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine was the Palestine branch of the Arab Nationalist Movement. It was formed in 1951 by Doctor George Habash, and it was a National Pan-Arab Movement. In that context, the People’s Front adopted Marxism as their ideology.
What type of resistance do people currently employ in Palestine?
Every possible type of resistance is being employed now in Palestine. There are different ideas among Palestinians —for example, President Mahmoud Abbas does not believe in the armed struggle against the Israelis. The People’s Liberation Front and other organizations still believe in all types of struggle, including the military struggle because, according to our belief, Israel does not really want peace and they want to control everything in Palestine.
In fact, Israel has a front of struggle against Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, and Israel is responsible for Gaza bombing, right?
Yes of course. There are thousands of members of the People’s Liberation Front in Gaza. The General Secretary of the organization was killed in Ramallah by the Israelis and when the three wars of Gaza occurred, all the organizations were there but Israel wanted to show the world that there was only a conflict between Hamas and Islam on religious bases, they didn’t want the world to know it was a conflict between Palestine and Israel. Israel want to give the world a false picture that they were fighting Islamic fundamentalism by fighting Hamas. But in fact they are fighting against Palestinian people. And the Palestinian people are confronting them.
What will the list for the next elections be like?
For the next elections, which are now postponed, we were planning to form a list of the left: with left-wing groups like the People’s Movement, the Democratic Front and the People’s Party: all of them want to make a unified list for the elections. There is another wing with Hamas and another with Fatah —from Mahmoud Abbas—. There is also another group called the National Initiative, led by Mustafa Barghouti. And there’s the FIDA: the Palestinian Democratic Union, lead by Saleh Ra’fat. Our aim is to introduce a fair direction in Palestine (with Hamas and Fatah and the Left) but the election is postponed, anyways.
How is the situation of the Palestinian prisoners who embarked on a Hunger Strike?
Israel has very dangerous practices: we have 7,000 prisoners and they have judges against them. For example, the General Secretary of the People’s Front, Ahmad Sa’adat, was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Another comrade, Bilal Kayed, who has participated in military actions against the settlers, was sentenced with 14 and a half years in prison. Now Israel made a new law, called the Administrative Detention. When the prisoner has done their time in jail, Israel will not release them, they keep them in prison according to this new law, which is a very strange law… And this is under the responsibility of the Israeli Minister of Defense. This means that Israel has sentenced all the prisoners with a life imprisonment. This administrative detention can be prolonged indefinitely: for example a 6-month detention could be increased to up to 50 years in jail by adding 6-month terms. That’s why prisoners are starting hunger strikes. Our comrade Bilal Kayed started this. He did his 14 years in prison, so he should have been released but Israel refused and they prolonged this detention; so he started the hunger strike and continued it for 70 days, and all the other prisoners joined in solidarity and also started hunger strikes. Now Israel says that his administrative detention will only be in force for 6 months, and he is supposed to be released on December. This is a great victory for the prisoners and now others have also started hunger strikes, so this is a continuous process. The aim is to prevent Israel from using these administrative detentions.
Is there any other method to fight against administrative detentions?
We, as an organization, have to bring this up to the international community, international organizations and human rights organizations. This law in any case was taken from the French who applied this law in Algeria against the revolution. We are trying to struggle by all means against this law. It’s a very discriminative law. There is no fundament nor cause for this law. This is the decision of the Minister of Defense —this man decides who should stay in jail for 20 years, even without a trial.
What’s the situation like in Gaza?
The situation is very bad. The embargo (blockade) continues. All the ways through which people can come to Gaza are closed, from all directions, the borders with Egypt are closed
though sometimes they open them. Patients who want to leave to receive medical treatment, can’t, as well as students who want to go abroad to study. People can’t move. This is an embargo (blockade) on 1,700, 000 people in a very small space, 365 km² —it’s the most crowded place in the world. It’s like a big jail for them.
What’s the role of international solidarity in the Palestinian struggle?
Now, there has been a great campaign to boycott the production from Palestine’s settlers. It has succeeded. The boycott is especially active in Europe. We call upon activists and academics from universities to join the boycott against Israel. This was also successful in many Universities. We received solidarity through demonstrations, through letters sent to the UN, through Human Rights Organizations and through solidarity with our prisoners and also financial support and medical care sent to Gaza.
What ideology does the Palestinian Popular Liberation Front have?
At the beginning the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine was the Palestine branch of the Arab Nationalist Movement. It was formed in 1951 by Doctor George Habash, and it was a National Pan-Arab Movement. In that context, the People’s Front adopted Marxism as their ideology.
What type of resistance do people currently employ in Palestine?
Every possible type of resistance is being employed now in Palestine. There are different ideas among Palestinians —for example, President Mahmoud Abbas does not believe in the armed struggle against the Israelis. The People’s Liberation Front and other organizations still believe in all types of struggle, including the military struggle because, according to our belief, Israel does not really want peace and they want to control everything in Palestine.
In fact, Israel has a front of struggle against Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, and Israel is responsible for Gaza bombing, right?
Yes of course. There are thousands of members of the People’s Liberation Front in Gaza. The General Secretary of the organization was killed in Ramallah by the Israelis and when the three wars of Gaza occurred, all the organizations were there but Israel wanted to show the world that there was only a conflict between Hamas and Islam on religious bases, they didn’t want the world to know it was a conflict between Palestine and Israel. Israel want to give the world a false picture that they were fighting Islamic fundamentalism by fighting Hamas. But in fact they are fighting against Palestinian people. And the Palestinian people are confronting them.
What will the list for the next elections be like?
For the next elections, which are now postponed, we were planning to form a list of the left: with left-wing groups like the People’s Movement, the Democratic Front and the People’s Party: all of them want to make a unified list for the elections. There is another wing with Hamas and another with Fatah —from Mahmoud Abbas—. There is also another group called the National Initiative, led by Mustafa Barghouti. And there’s the FIDA: the Palestinian Democratic Union, lead by Saleh Ra’fat. Our aim is to introduce a fair direction in Palestine (with Hamas and Fatah and the Left) but the election is postponed, anyways.
How is the situation of the Palestinian prisoners who embarked on a Hunger Strike?
Israel has very dangerous practices: we have 7,000 prisoners and they have judges against them. For example, the General Secretary of the People’s Front, Ahmad Sa’adat, was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Another comrade, Bilal Kayed, who has participated in military actions against the settlers, was sentenced with 14 and a half years in prison. Now Israel made a new law, called the Administrative Detention. When the prisoner has done their time in jail, Israel will not release them, they keep them in prison according to this new law, which is a very strange law… And this is under the responsibility of the Israeli Minister of Defense. This means that Israel has sentenced all the prisoners with a life imprisonment. This administrative detention can be prolonged indefinitely: for example a 6-month detention could be increased to up to 50 years in jail by adding 6-month terms. That’s why prisoners are starting hunger strikes. Our comrade Bilal Kayed started this. He did his 14 years in prison, so he should have been released but Israel refused and they prolonged this detention; so he started the hunger strike and continued it for 70 days, and all the other prisoners joined in solidarity and also started hunger strikes. Now Israel says that his administrative detention will only be in force for 6 months, and he is supposed to be released on December. This is a great victory for the prisoners and now others have also started hunger strikes, so this is a continuous process. The aim is to prevent Israel from using these administrative detentions.
Is there any other method to fight against administrative detentions?
We, as an organization, have to bring this up to the international community, international organizations and human rights organizations. This law in any case was taken from the French who applied this law in Algeria against the revolution. We are trying to struggle by all means against this law. It’s a very discriminative law. There is no fundament nor cause for this law. This is the decision of the Minister of Defense —this man decides who should stay in jail for 20 years, even without a trial.
What’s the situation like in Gaza?
The situation is very bad. The embargo (blockade) continues. All the ways through which people can come to Gaza are closed, from all directions, the borders with Egypt are closed
though sometimes they open them. Patients who want to leave to receive medical treatment, can’t, as well as students who want to go abroad to study. People can’t move. This is an embargo (blockade) on 1,700, 000 people in a very small space, 365 km² —it’s the most crowded place in the world. It’s like a big jail for them.
What’s the role of international solidarity in the Palestinian struggle?
Now, there has been a great campaign to boycott the production from Palestine’s settlers. It has succeeded. The boycott is especially active in Europe. We call upon activists and academics from universities to join the boycott against Israel. This was also successful in many Universities. We received solidarity through demonstrations, through letters sent to the UN, through Human Rights Organizations and through solidarity with our prisoners and also financial support and medical care sent to Gaza.
More than Fifty Spanish Cities Pass Motion Supporting Palestinian-led BDS, Declaring Themselves
‘Free of Israeli Apartheid’
By BDS Movement - Global Research
September 09, 2016
Cadiz, provincial capital in the autonomous community of Andalusia in the Spanish state, has become the latest municipality to pass a motion supporting the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights and declaring itself an Israeli “Apartheid Free Zone”.
With a population of 120,000, Cadiz joins more than 50 cities and towns across the Spanish state which have voted to declare themselves spaces free from Israeli apartheid. Other famous Apartheid Free municipalities include Gran Canaria, Santiago de Compostela, Xixón-Gijón, Sevilla, Córdoba and Santa Eulària in Ibiza.
Inspired in part by a similar campaign during the struggle against apartheid in South Africa in the 1980s, the Israeli Apartheid Free Zone campaign, led by the Solidarity Network Against the Occupation of Palestine (RESCOP), seeks to create ‘islands of political consciousness’ and to break local ties with Israel’s regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid, as well as with international corporations and institutions that are complicit in the maintenance of Israel’s violations of international law.
The campaign, which is supported by social movements, businesses, schools, media and public institutions from across the Spanish state, has created a map indicating spaces free from Israeli apartheid.
By declaring themselves Israeli Apartheid Free Zones, local authorities agree to boycott corporations complicit in violations of international law and the rights of Palestinians as well as break ties with the Israeli regime and its complicit institutions.
They will also support local awareness raising efforts and commit to conscientious procurement policies based on the human rights of the Palestinian people.
Riya Hassan, European coordinator for the Palestinians BDS National Committee (BNC), said:
“The Israeli Apartheid Free Zones campaign across the Spanish state is inspiring similar efforts in other countries. The fact that these declarations have been voted by democratically elected municipalities reflect the growing support for the BDS movement for Palestinian rights, not just at the grassroots level but also within governments. This will eventually steer public opinion in favor of comprehensive sanctions on Israel until it end its systematic oppression of Palestinians.“
“Local councils in the Spanish state are leading the way with a powerful model of solidarity with the Palestinian people and our struggle for self-determination. We salute all councillors and activists involved in proposing and defending the motions and those involved in the implementation of the Israeli apartheid-free zones.”
“At a time of a growing democratic deficit across the European continent, it is empowering to witness how citizens are integrating solidarity with Palestinians with domestic agendas that promote social, economic and environmental justice.”
Attacks on a movement for freedom, justice and equalityGrowing public support for the BDS movement for Palestinian human rights has prompted Israel and its allies to launch an unprecedented, well-funded and anti-democratic attack against everyone seeking to hold Israel accountable to international law and UN resolutions, especially through BDS advocacy.
The Israeli-sponsored attacks on the BDS movement aim to put pressure on governments, legislators and officials to curtail BDS civic actions and adopt repressive measures that infringe upon their respective citizens’ civil and political liberties at large.
In the Spanish state, attempts to silence the BDS movement, particularly on an institutional level, have been led by ACOM, a pro-Israeli Madrid-based lobby group.
ACOM has launched a number of legal appeals against local councils that have declared themselves Israeli Apartheid Free Zones.
However, ACOM’s strategy of intimidation has not been successful. Targeted cities have defended the democratic outcome of the votes, and informed courts, such as the First Administrative Court of Gijon, refused to accept ACOM’s complaints.
Similar legal charges were lodged against three local councils in the UK by the so-called Jewish Human Rights Watch, a London based Israel lobby group. Also there, the UK High Court rejected the complaints and ruled in favour of the three local councils which had passed resolutions in support of targeted boycotts of Israel’s occupation.
RESCOP commented in a statement:
“It is intolerable that a foreign entity defending a system of apartheid, such as ACOM, should interfere in the democratic sovereignty of our municipalities, dictating what we can vote for and what not, and preventing our institutions from being committed to human rights.”
This latest decision by the city of Cadiz to join the inspiring wave of other Spanish cities and towns in declaring themselves zones free from Israeli apartheid is a sign that citizens and elected representatives are not intimidated by ACOM’s legal threats.
“By supporting the BDS movement for Palestinian rights and choosing not to engage with institutions and corporations directly involved in Israel’s egregious crimes against the Palestinian people, people of conscience and municipalities across the Spanish state are taking a concrete step to hold Israel accountable for its crimes against the Palestinian people,” Riya Hassan concluded.
LIST OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONS DECLARED ELAI AND / OR ADHERED TO BDS IN THE SPANISH STATE (until August 11, 2016)
Andalucía
Diputación de Sevilla
Ayuntamiento de La Roda
Ayuntamiento Castro del Río
Ayunamiento de Montoro
Ayuntamiento de Mairena del Aljarafe
Ayuntamiento Los Corrales
Ayuntamiento Alhaurín de la Torre
Ayuntamiento de Campillos
Ayuntamiento de Casares
Diputación de Córdoba
Ayuntamiento de Velvez-Málaga
Ayuntamiento de San Roque
Ayuntamiento de San Fernando
Catalunya
Ajuntament de Artés
Ajuntament de Sant Pere de Ruidebitlles
Ajuntament de Molins de Rei
Ajuntament de Sant Cebriá de Vallalta
Ajuntamnet de Badalona
Ajuntament de Sant Celoni
Ajuntament de Ripollet
Ajuntament de Sant Feliu de Llobregat
Ajuntament de Abrera
Ajuntament de Sant Boi de Llobregat
Ajuntament de Terrasa
Ajuntament de Olesa de Montserrat
Ajuntament de Sant Adrià de Besòs
Ajuntament de Sant Quirze del Vallès
Ajuntament de Barberá del Vallès
Ajuntament de Viladamat
Madrid
Ayuntamiento de Navalafuente
Ayuntamiento de Rivas-Vaciamadrid
Asturies
Ayuntamiento de Corvera
Ayuntamiento de Castrillón
Ayuntamiento de Gijón
Ayuntamieno de Llangreu
Galiza
O Concello de Compostela
Concello de Oleiros
Islas Canarias
Cabildo de Gran Canaria
Ayuntamiento de Telde
Aragón
Ayuntamiento de Sabiñánigo
País Valencià
Ajuntament de Alcoi
Ajuntament de Muro
Ajuntament de Onda
Ajuntament de Concentaina
Ajuntament de Catarroja
Ajuntament de Xeraco
Ajuntament de Benlloch
Ajuntament de Petrer
Castilla y León
Ayuntamiento de Viloria del Henar
Illes Balears
Ajuntament de Santa Euràlia
With a population of 120,000, Cadiz joins more than 50 cities and towns across the Spanish state which have voted to declare themselves spaces free from Israeli apartheid. Other famous Apartheid Free municipalities include Gran Canaria, Santiago de Compostela, Xixón-Gijón, Sevilla, Córdoba and Santa Eulària in Ibiza.
Inspired in part by a similar campaign during the struggle against apartheid in South Africa in the 1980s, the Israeli Apartheid Free Zone campaign, led by the Solidarity Network Against the Occupation of Palestine (RESCOP), seeks to create ‘islands of political consciousness’ and to break local ties with Israel’s regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid, as well as with international corporations and institutions that are complicit in the maintenance of Israel’s violations of international law.
The campaign, which is supported by social movements, businesses, schools, media and public institutions from across the Spanish state, has created a map indicating spaces free from Israeli apartheid.
By declaring themselves Israeli Apartheid Free Zones, local authorities agree to boycott corporations complicit in violations of international law and the rights of Palestinians as well as break ties with the Israeli regime and its complicit institutions.
They will also support local awareness raising efforts and commit to conscientious procurement policies based on the human rights of the Palestinian people.
Riya Hassan, European coordinator for the Palestinians BDS National Committee (BNC), said:
“The Israeli Apartheid Free Zones campaign across the Spanish state is inspiring similar efforts in other countries. The fact that these declarations have been voted by democratically elected municipalities reflect the growing support for the BDS movement for Palestinian rights, not just at the grassroots level but also within governments. This will eventually steer public opinion in favor of comprehensive sanctions on Israel until it end its systematic oppression of Palestinians.“
“Local councils in the Spanish state are leading the way with a powerful model of solidarity with the Palestinian people and our struggle for self-determination. We salute all councillors and activists involved in proposing and defending the motions and those involved in the implementation of the Israeli apartheid-free zones.”
“At a time of a growing democratic deficit across the European continent, it is empowering to witness how citizens are integrating solidarity with Palestinians with domestic agendas that promote social, economic and environmental justice.”
Attacks on a movement for freedom, justice and equalityGrowing public support for the BDS movement for Palestinian human rights has prompted Israel and its allies to launch an unprecedented, well-funded and anti-democratic attack against everyone seeking to hold Israel accountable to international law and UN resolutions, especially through BDS advocacy.
The Israeli-sponsored attacks on the BDS movement aim to put pressure on governments, legislators and officials to curtail BDS civic actions and adopt repressive measures that infringe upon their respective citizens’ civil and political liberties at large.
In the Spanish state, attempts to silence the BDS movement, particularly on an institutional level, have been led by ACOM, a pro-Israeli Madrid-based lobby group.
ACOM has launched a number of legal appeals against local councils that have declared themselves Israeli Apartheid Free Zones.
However, ACOM’s strategy of intimidation has not been successful. Targeted cities have defended the democratic outcome of the votes, and informed courts, such as the First Administrative Court of Gijon, refused to accept ACOM’s complaints.
Similar legal charges were lodged against three local councils in the UK by the so-called Jewish Human Rights Watch, a London based Israel lobby group. Also there, the UK High Court rejected the complaints and ruled in favour of the three local councils which had passed resolutions in support of targeted boycotts of Israel’s occupation.
RESCOP commented in a statement:
“It is intolerable that a foreign entity defending a system of apartheid, such as ACOM, should interfere in the democratic sovereignty of our municipalities, dictating what we can vote for and what not, and preventing our institutions from being committed to human rights.”
This latest decision by the city of Cadiz to join the inspiring wave of other Spanish cities and towns in declaring themselves zones free from Israeli apartheid is a sign that citizens and elected representatives are not intimidated by ACOM’s legal threats.
“By supporting the BDS movement for Palestinian rights and choosing not to engage with institutions and corporations directly involved in Israel’s egregious crimes against the Palestinian people, people of conscience and municipalities across the Spanish state are taking a concrete step to hold Israel accountable for its crimes against the Palestinian people,” Riya Hassan concluded.
LIST OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONS DECLARED ELAI AND / OR ADHERED TO BDS IN THE SPANISH STATE (until August 11, 2016)
Andalucía
Diputación de Sevilla
Ayuntamiento de La Roda
Ayuntamiento Castro del Río
Ayunamiento de Montoro
Ayuntamiento de Mairena del Aljarafe
Ayuntamiento Los Corrales
Ayuntamiento Alhaurín de la Torre
Ayuntamiento de Campillos
Ayuntamiento de Casares
Diputación de Córdoba
Ayuntamiento de Velvez-Málaga
Ayuntamiento de San Roque
Ayuntamiento de San Fernando
Catalunya
Ajuntament de Artés
Ajuntament de Sant Pere de Ruidebitlles
Ajuntament de Molins de Rei
Ajuntament de Sant Cebriá de Vallalta
Ajuntamnet de Badalona
Ajuntament de Sant Celoni
Ajuntament de Ripollet
Ajuntament de Sant Feliu de Llobregat
Ajuntament de Abrera
Ajuntament de Sant Boi de Llobregat
Ajuntament de Terrasa
Ajuntament de Olesa de Montserrat
Ajuntament de Sant Adrià de Besòs
Ajuntament de Sant Quirze del Vallès
Ajuntament de Barberá del Vallès
Ajuntament de Viladamat
Madrid
Ayuntamiento de Navalafuente
Ayuntamiento de Rivas-Vaciamadrid
Asturies
Ayuntamiento de Corvera
Ayuntamiento de Castrillón
Ayuntamiento de Gijón
Ayuntamieno de Llangreu
Galiza
O Concello de Compostela
Concello de Oleiros
Islas Canarias
Cabildo de Gran Canaria
Ayuntamiento de Telde
Aragón
Ayuntamiento de Sabiñánigo
País Valencià
Ajuntament de Alcoi
Ajuntament de Muro
Ajuntament de Onda
Ajuntament de Concentaina
Ajuntament de Catarroja
Ajuntament de Xeraco
Ajuntament de Benlloch
Ajuntament de Petrer
Castilla y León
Ayuntamiento de Viloria del Henar
Illes Balears
Ajuntament de Santa Euràlia
Israel arresta a 30 niños palestinos y
tortura a la mayoría
Resumen Latinoamericano/ Hispan TV
6 de Septiembre 2016
El régimen de Israel arrestó durante el pasado mes de agosto a 30 menores de edad palestinos, que en su mayoría fueron objeto de torturas y maltratos.
Así lo informó el lunes el Comité para Asuntos de los Prisioneros Palestinos en un informe en el que denunció que los militares israelíes recibieron cerca de 1800 dólares de multa de las familias de los adolescentes recluidos.
La mayoría de los niños detenidos, según recogió la agencia palestina Maan, fueron objetos de golpes, torturas y negligencia médica durante su detención, custodia, interrogatorio y transporte desde un centro de detención a otro.
La nota que cita a un abogado suyo, Luay Akka, precisó que 17 de los niños fueron retenidos de sus casas en redadas militares, cinco fueron detenidos en las calles, cuatro en los puestos de control militar, y cuatro se entregaron voluntariamente a centros de detención tras recibir citaciones por parte de las autoridades israelíes. Los niños fueron retenidos bajo sospechas de lanzar piedras contra los militares israelíes.
Mousa Khanafsa, un niño de 14 años de edad, relató a Akka que fue violentamente golpeado por militares israelíes cuando fue detenido en la calle cerca de su casa en un poblado en la ocupada Cisjordania.
Entre los retenidos habían niños de incluso 13 años de edad, subrayó el organismo palestino, agregando que tres de los 30 menores fueron sometidos a detención administrativa, figura que permite retener a un sospechoso sin presentar cargos por periodos renovables de hasta seis meses. El resto de los niños detenidos fueron condenados a penas entre 1 y 45 meses de cárcel tras audiencias en los tribunales.
De lo que va del año, los uniformados israelíes han retenido a unos 560 niños en Al-Quds (Jerusalén), de los cuales, 110, incluidas cuatro niñas, siguen encarcelados, de acuerdo con el referido comité palestino.
Las autoridades y fuentes palestinas han denunciado en varias ocasiones los malos tratos y hasta las torturas que el régimen israelí aplica a los casi 7000 palestinos presos.
Así lo informó el lunes el Comité para Asuntos de los Prisioneros Palestinos en un informe en el que denunció que los militares israelíes recibieron cerca de 1800 dólares de multa de las familias de los adolescentes recluidos.
La mayoría de los niños detenidos, según recogió la agencia palestina Maan, fueron objetos de golpes, torturas y negligencia médica durante su detención, custodia, interrogatorio y transporte desde un centro de detención a otro.
La nota que cita a un abogado suyo, Luay Akka, precisó que 17 de los niños fueron retenidos de sus casas en redadas militares, cinco fueron detenidos en las calles, cuatro en los puestos de control militar, y cuatro se entregaron voluntariamente a centros de detención tras recibir citaciones por parte de las autoridades israelíes. Los niños fueron retenidos bajo sospechas de lanzar piedras contra los militares israelíes.
Mousa Khanafsa, un niño de 14 años de edad, relató a Akka que fue violentamente golpeado por militares israelíes cuando fue detenido en la calle cerca de su casa en un poblado en la ocupada Cisjordania.
Entre los retenidos habían niños de incluso 13 años de edad, subrayó el organismo palestino, agregando que tres de los 30 menores fueron sometidos a detención administrativa, figura que permite retener a un sospechoso sin presentar cargos por periodos renovables de hasta seis meses. El resto de los niños detenidos fueron condenados a penas entre 1 y 45 meses de cárcel tras audiencias en los tribunales.
De lo que va del año, los uniformados israelíes han retenido a unos 560 niños en Al-Quds (Jerusalén), de los cuales, 110, incluidas cuatro niñas, siguen encarcelados, de acuerdo con el referido comité palestino.
Las autoridades y fuentes palestinas han denunciado en varias ocasiones los malos tratos y hasta las torturas que el régimen israelí aplica a los casi 7000 palestinos presos.
Sorrow and Grace in Palestine
Counter punch - Alice Bach
August 30, 2016
Ben Ehrenreich, an American journalist with an eye for the ironic an ear for the perfect succinct phrase, has created pictures of both village and town life of Palestine under the occupation, behind the Apartheid Wall, and inner walls.
“The Way to the Spring” begins in 2011, when the author first visited Nabi Saleh to report on the village protests for the New York Times Magazine, and ends in the fall of 2014, following Israel’s Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip that summer.
Ehrenreich lived in the West Bank intermittently between 2011 and 2014, absorbing the world of Palestine, so different from Los Angeles, his home base. He starts small: a village, a surrounded house, a Friday protest.
Since the occupation is about containing people, taking their land, draining their wells, destroying their cultural sites, The Israeli government speaks through different kinds of walls, permanent checkpoints, and flying checks.
Ehrenreich shows his reader the physical walls, but further, the subtleties of verbal walls and the walls of armed IDF soldiers and Border police who keep Palestinians out of reach of hospitals, businesses, cultural centers, and even the holy places in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
First, and most obvious, the Separation Wall, called by Palestinian activists the Apartheid Wall. The average height of the Berlin Wall was 11.8 feet, whereas the current height of Israel’s Wall is more than twice as high: 25 feet.
One of the joys of this book is that the author does not spend his time reviewing readily available material. Copious endnotes will lead the interested reader to the thickness of scholarship they crave.
Clearly anyone attracted to a 400-page book about the occupation in Palestine has heard plenty about the Apartheid Wall and has read in our mainstream media about the struggles, mostly from a Zionist “it’s our right” insistence for years. So the author moves in for tight shots, intimate conversations, small villages that are getting smaller as the illegal settlements swell in size. He is so successful that since finishing this memorable account,...
CONTINUE READING HERE
“The Way to the Spring” begins in 2011, when the author first visited Nabi Saleh to report on the village protests for the New York Times Magazine, and ends in the fall of 2014, following Israel’s Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip that summer.
Ehrenreich lived in the West Bank intermittently between 2011 and 2014, absorbing the world of Palestine, so different from Los Angeles, his home base. He starts small: a village, a surrounded house, a Friday protest.
Since the occupation is about containing people, taking their land, draining their wells, destroying their cultural sites, The Israeli government speaks through different kinds of walls, permanent checkpoints, and flying checks.
Ehrenreich shows his reader the physical walls, but further, the subtleties of verbal walls and the walls of armed IDF soldiers and Border police who keep Palestinians out of reach of hospitals, businesses, cultural centers, and even the holy places in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
First, and most obvious, the Separation Wall, called by Palestinian activists the Apartheid Wall. The average height of the Berlin Wall was 11.8 feet, whereas the current height of Israel’s Wall is more than twice as high: 25 feet.
One of the joys of this book is that the author does not spend his time reviewing readily available material. Copious endnotes will lead the interested reader to the thickness of scholarship they crave.
Clearly anyone attracted to a 400-page book about the occupation in Palestine has heard plenty about the Apartheid Wall and has read in our mainstream media about the struggles, mostly from a Zionist “it’s our right” insistence for years. So the author moves in for tight shots, intimate conversations, small villages that are getting smaller as the illegal settlements swell in size. He is so successful that since finishing this memorable account,...
CONTINUE READING HERE
Israel haría empalidecer al propio Herodes
por Carlos Aznárez - Resumen Latinoamericano
Agosto 17, 2016
La actitud despótica que Israel demuestra a diario contra el pueblo palestino iguala a la que practicara Sudáfrica durante los años del Apartheid, que fuera lógicamente denostado por la comunidad internacional. Sin embargo Israel y el sionismo que controla desde hace años su gobierno parecen tener luz verde para las barbaridades que su política represiva comete en el marco de una ocupación ilegal desde todo punto de vista.
No les basta con mantener en las prisiones del horror a más de 7.000 prisioneros y prisioneras palestinas, o haber enviado a la cárcel en lo que va de 2016 a 560 menores de edad sólo de la zona de Jerusalén, sino que ahora también han vuelto a desafiar (o provocar) a la racionalidad sancionando una ley a nivel parlamentario que permite la detención de niños de 12 años que hayan cometido delitos contra la seguridad israelí. Esto que en cualquier otro país del mundo generaría una oleada de protestas e intervención de organismos defensores de la niñez como UNICEF u otras plataformas de derechos humanos, a Israel le cuesta nada.
Toda esta última algarada represiva comenzó, hay que recordarlo, cuando el año pasado, un grupo de colonos ultrasionistas, acompañados de integrantes del ejército bloquearon las calles de Jerusalén, intentaron entrar a la Mezquita de Al Aqsa y como se les plantó resistencia por parte de los custodios de la misma y numerosos jóvenes palestinos, los atacantes generaron un tumulto y arrojaron bombas al interior del lugar sagrado para los musulmanes. A partir de ese momento se desencadenaron múltiples protestas en toda Cisjordania y también en Gaza, el ejército israelí reprimió brutalmente y desde ese entonces hasta el presente cientos de palestinos han sido asesinados, detenidos y muchos de ellos torturados. De allí, de esa dificultad que el gobierno sionista tiene para someter a quienes todos los días resisten en las calles, surgen ideas descabelladas como la que ahora el Congreso israelí pone en práctica.
“Si hay que encarcelar a los terroristas y sus hijos, lo haremos con gusto para asegurar la paz”, dijo en su momento la ministra de Justicia, Ayelet Shaked, la misma que adquirió notoriedad cuando siendo diputada por el partido Hogar Judío propuso asesinar a todas las madres palestinas que daban a luz “pequeñas serpientes”. Estas propuestas y otras similares tienen indudable peso en importantes sectores de la sociedad israelí, y es por eso que a nadie le resulte disparatado que parlamentarios de un país que tiene legalizada la tortura ahora apunte toda su batería represiva contra niños y niñas palestinas de sólo 12 años. Que en virtud de ello, estas criaturas puedan ser detenidas, interrogadas durante más de un mes (eso marca la oscura “legalidad” sionista), presionadas con todo tipo de torturas psicológicos y no pocos golpes (de esos que no dejan huellas, por las dudas algún organismo internacional osara interesarse en el caso) y finalmente enviados a esas cárceles-tumba por las que han pasado centenares de menores.
La decisión de ese Parlamento del terror estatal no deja dudas sobre lo que ya se está poniendo en marcha, ya que la nueva ley permite detener a menores de 12, 13 y 14 años que hubieran sido acusados de lanzar piedras o “atacar a civiles israelíes y personal militar”. También da libertad a los tribunales israelíes “para aplazar la fecha de la transferencia del menor condenado de una instalación cerrada a una prisión, reducir la sentencia de prisión del menor sentenciado o cancelarla”. Con la nueva norma, los tribunales decidirán si un menor de hasta 12 años puede ser condenado a prisión, pero mientras duren esos “debates” en las Cortes, “el menor debe permanecer encarcelado en una instalación cerrada”. Aquí vale hacer una aclaración que descubre aún más lo tremendo de esta legislación: en la gran mayoría de los casos, son los ciudadanos israelíes los que actúan como improvisados jueces ya que apuntan con su dedo a hombres, mujeres o niños que se les ocurre -dentro de su paranoia belicista habitual- podrían convertirse o se hicieren sospechosos de realizar una agresión. Sin dudarlo, la soldadesca israelí en el mejor de los casos los detiene. En el peor, los asesina sin más miramientos. Allí hay decenas de vídeos mostrando estas ejecuciones sumarias.
Por lo tanto, “la mayor democracia de Medio Oriente”, al decir del carnicero Netanyahu, produce de esta forma un nueva vuelta de tuerca que haría empalidecer al propio Herodes. Apuntan a quienes más temen: la niñez palestina, esos chicos y chicas que por la imposición de la ocupación han reemplazado los juegos y diversiones que son habituales en sus coleguitas del mundo y corren por las calles esgrimiendo el arma más temida: con su pequeños deditos hacen la V de la victoria.
No les basta con mantener en las prisiones del horror a más de 7.000 prisioneros y prisioneras palestinas, o haber enviado a la cárcel en lo que va de 2016 a 560 menores de edad sólo de la zona de Jerusalén, sino que ahora también han vuelto a desafiar (o provocar) a la racionalidad sancionando una ley a nivel parlamentario que permite la detención de niños de 12 años que hayan cometido delitos contra la seguridad israelí. Esto que en cualquier otro país del mundo generaría una oleada de protestas e intervención de organismos defensores de la niñez como UNICEF u otras plataformas de derechos humanos, a Israel le cuesta nada.
Toda esta última algarada represiva comenzó, hay que recordarlo, cuando el año pasado, un grupo de colonos ultrasionistas, acompañados de integrantes del ejército bloquearon las calles de Jerusalén, intentaron entrar a la Mezquita de Al Aqsa y como se les plantó resistencia por parte de los custodios de la misma y numerosos jóvenes palestinos, los atacantes generaron un tumulto y arrojaron bombas al interior del lugar sagrado para los musulmanes. A partir de ese momento se desencadenaron múltiples protestas en toda Cisjordania y también en Gaza, el ejército israelí reprimió brutalmente y desde ese entonces hasta el presente cientos de palestinos han sido asesinados, detenidos y muchos de ellos torturados. De allí, de esa dificultad que el gobierno sionista tiene para someter a quienes todos los días resisten en las calles, surgen ideas descabelladas como la que ahora el Congreso israelí pone en práctica.
“Si hay que encarcelar a los terroristas y sus hijos, lo haremos con gusto para asegurar la paz”, dijo en su momento la ministra de Justicia, Ayelet Shaked, la misma que adquirió notoriedad cuando siendo diputada por el partido Hogar Judío propuso asesinar a todas las madres palestinas que daban a luz “pequeñas serpientes”. Estas propuestas y otras similares tienen indudable peso en importantes sectores de la sociedad israelí, y es por eso que a nadie le resulte disparatado que parlamentarios de un país que tiene legalizada la tortura ahora apunte toda su batería represiva contra niños y niñas palestinas de sólo 12 años. Que en virtud de ello, estas criaturas puedan ser detenidas, interrogadas durante más de un mes (eso marca la oscura “legalidad” sionista), presionadas con todo tipo de torturas psicológicos y no pocos golpes (de esos que no dejan huellas, por las dudas algún organismo internacional osara interesarse en el caso) y finalmente enviados a esas cárceles-tumba por las que han pasado centenares de menores.
La decisión de ese Parlamento del terror estatal no deja dudas sobre lo que ya se está poniendo en marcha, ya que la nueva ley permite detener a menores de 12, 13 y 14 años que hubieran sido acusados de lanzar piedras o “atacar a civiles israelíes y personal militar”. También da libertad a los tribunales israelíes “para aplazar la fecha de la transferencia del menor condenado de una instalación cerrada a una prisión, reducir la sentencia de prisión del menor sentenciado o cancelarla”. Con la nueva norma, los tribunales decidirán si un menor de hasta 12 años puede ser condenado a prisión, pero mientras duren esos “debates” en las Cortes, “el menor debe permanecer encarcelado en una instalación cerrada”. Aquí vale hacer una aclaración que descubre aún más lo tremendo de esta legislación: en la gran mayoría de los casos, son los ciudadanos israelíes los que actúan como improvisados jueces ya que apuntan con su dedo a hombres, mujeres o niños que se les ocurre -dentro de su paranoia belicista habitual- podrían convertirse o se hicieren sospechosos de realizar una agresión. Sin dudarlo, la soldadesca israelí en el mejor de los casos los detiene. En el peor, los asesina sin más miramientos. Allí hay decenas de vídeos mostrando estas ejecuciones sumarias.
Por lo tanto, “la mayor democracia de Medio Oriente”, al decir del carnicero Netanyahu, produce de esta forma un nueva vuelta de tuerca que haría empalidecer al propio Herodes. Apuntan a quienes más temen: la niñez palestina, esos chicos y chicas que por la imposición de la ocupación han reemplazado los juegos y diversiones que son habituales en sus coleguitas del mundo y corren por las calles esgrimiendo el arma más temida: con su pequeños deditos hacen la V de la victoria.
Google borra de su mapa a Palestina
Resumen Latinoamericano/ CubaDebate
6 de Agosto 2016
October Sixteenth Group Protests Israel's Offensive
in Palestine
The Sixteenth October Group in the Gaza Strip, organized a sit-in protest wednesday at Gaza's harbor, marking two years of Israel's deadly offensive against the embattled coastal region in the summer of 2014. The participants urged the international community to boycott Israel, and bring it to justice for the crimes it committed against Palestinians during the deadly war. TeleSurTV's Correspondent, Noor Harazeen with the latest. VIDEO
Israeli soldiers shoot dead Palestinian man
PressTV - July 31, 2016
Israeli soldiers have shot dead a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank. According to the Israeli army, the man was armed with a knife and charged at Israeli soldiers on the outskirts of the city of Nablus. He was killed before harming any soldier.
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Palestinian student Donya Musleh sentenced to 10 months in Israeli prison for posting on Facebook
Samidoun.net / The Dawn News
July 21, 2016
Palestinian student activist Donya Musleh was sentenced to 10 months in Israeli prison and a fine of NIS 2,000 (approximately $500) on charges of “incitement” for posting on Facebook about the Israeli occupation and Palestinian resistance.
Musleh, 19, a Palestinian refugee from Dheisheh camp near Bethlehem, is a student at Palestine National University and an activist with the leftist student organization, the Progressive Student Labor Front. She was arrested in a raid on her home in the camp on 16 November 2015.
Musleh is one of hundreds of Palestinians arrested, charged, or ordered to administrative detention for posting their political opinions and views about their occupied homeland on social media. Just days ago, journalist Samah Dweik was sentenced to six months and one day in prison for posting on Facebook.
Astrophysicist Imad Barghouthiis currently being charged with Facebook “incitement,” after winning an end to his administrative detention with the support of hundreds of international scientists. Poet Dareen Tatour is held in house arrest after three months in prison, for posting her poetry on Youtube.
The PSLF is currently calling for a World Student Day of Solidarity with Bilal Kayed and Palestinian Prisoners on 25 July. Bilal Kayed, 35, is on hunger strike for the 37th day in protest of his administrative detention without charge or trial, imposed upon him after 14.5 years of Israeli imprisonment.
The detention of two more Palestinian women, Banan Mahmoud Mafarjah, 21, a medical student at Al-Quds University in Abu Dis, arrested at an Israeli occupation “flying checkpoint” west of Ramallah on 16 July; andSamaher Abdul Qader Musalma, of Beit Awwa near al-Khalil, arrested on 18 July while visiting her husband Nabil in the Negev desert prison; were extended until Sunday, 24 July. There are approximately 61 Palestinian women currently held in Israeli jails.
Musleh, 19, a Palestinian refugee from Dheisheh camp near Bethlehem, is a student at Palestine National University and an activist with the leftist student organization, the Progressive Student Labor Front. She was arrested in a raid on her home in the camp on 16 November 2015.
Musleh is one of hundreds of Palestinians arrested, charged, or ordered to administrative detention for posting their political opinions and views about their occupied homeland on social media. Just days ago, journalist Samah Dweik was sentenced to six months and one day in prison for posting on Facebook.
Astrophysicist Imad Barghouthiis currently being charged with Facebook “incitement,” after winning an end to his administrative detention with the support of hundreds of international scientists. Poet Dareen Tatour is held in house arrest after three months in prison, for posting her poetry on Youtube.
The PSLF is currently calling for a World Student Day of Solidarity with Bilal Kayed and Palestinian Prisoners on 25 July. Bilal Kayed, 35, is on hunger strike for the 37th day in protest of his administrative detention without charge or trial, imposed upon him after 14.5 years of Israeli imprisonment.
The detention of two more Palestinian women, Banan Mahmoud Mafarjah, 21, a medical student at Al-Quds University in Abu Dis, arrested at an Israeli occupation “flying checkpoint” west of Ramallah on 16 July; andSamaher Abdul Qader Musalma, of Beit Awwa near al-Khalil, arrested on 18 July while visiting her husband Nabil in the Negev desert prison; were extended until Sunday, 24 July. There are approximately 61 Palestinian women currently held in Israeli jails.
The No-State Solution to the Israel-Palestine Conflict
By Jeremy R. Hammond Information Clearinghouse
July 11, 2016
It is time for the citizens of the world to effect the paradigm shift required to bring about a peaceful resolution to the world’s most infamous conflict.
Twelve years ago today, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an advisory opinion at the request of the United Nations General Assembly on the legality of the wall Israel has constructed in the West Bank. The ICJ affirmed that all of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are “occupied Palestinian territory”, and that Israel’s wall, as well as its settlements, violate the Fourth Geneva Convention.
The ICJ’s ruling helps to underscore the prejudicial nature of the discussion about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Western mainstream media—and particularly in the US. The media never fail to elevate Israel’s policy aims to the same level of legitimacy as international law. For example, we can frequently read in the New York Times, the Washington Post, et al, that East Jerusalem or areas where Israeli settlements are located are “disputed” territory—thus placing equal weight to Israel’s position as the entire rest of the planet, which recognizes Israel’s settlements as illegal and East Jerusalem as occupied Palestinian territory.
Needless to say, this is not balanced journalism, but extremely prejudicial to the rights of the Palestinians living under foreign military occupation. When the illegality of the settlements is alluded to by the mainstream media (all too infrequently), they typically obscure it by saying something like: “Most countries do not recognize the legitimacy of Israel’s settlements.” This leaves readers with the impression that the matter is controversial, that there is debate about it within the international community, that there are two legitimate points of view. It affords validity to Israel’s position when it has none. Translated from newspeak, what that means is that every single government on planet Earth other than Israel itself recognizes the settlements as a violation of international law.
The media bend over backwards to accommodate and attempt to legitimize Israel’s criminal policies. How can the media get away with such outrageously biased reporting? Furthermore, why is the US mainstream media so prejudiced against the rights of the Palestinians?
The answer is simple: the policy of the US government is one of unconditionally supporting Israel’s violations of international law and the human rights of the Palestinian people.
The US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
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Twelve years ago today, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an advisory opinion at the request of the United Nations General Assembly on the legality of the wall Israel has constructed in the West Bank. The ICJ affirmed that all of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are “occupied Palestinian territory”, and that Israel’s wall, as well as its settlements, violate the Fourth Geneva Convention.
The ICJ’s ruling helps to underscore the prejudicial nature of the discussion about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Western mainstream media—and particularly in the US. The media never fail to elevate Israel’s policy aims to the same level of legitimacy as international law. For example, we can frequently read in the New York Times, the Washington Post, et al, that East Jerusalem or areas where Israeli settlements are located are “disputed” territory—thus placing equal weight to Israel’s position as the entire rest of the planet, which recognizes Israel’s settlements as illegal and East Jerusalem as occupied Palestinian territory.
Needless to say, this is not balanced journalism, but extremely prejudicial to the rights of the Palestinians living under foreign military occupation. When the illegality of the settlements is alluded to by the mainstream media (all too infrequently), they typically obscure it by saying something like: “Most countries do not recognize the legitimacy of Israel’s settlements.” This leaves readers with the impression that the matter is controversial, that there is debate about it within the international community, that there are two legitimate points of view. It affords validity to Israel’s position when it has none. Translated from newspeak, what that means is that every single government on planet Earth other than Israel itself recognizes the settlements as a violation of international law.
The media bend over backwards to accommodate and attempt to legitimize Israel’s criminal policies. How can the media get away with such outrageously biased reporting? Furthermore, why is the US mainstream media so prejudiced against the rights of the Palestinians?
The answer is simple: the policy of the US government is one of unconditionally supporting Israel’s violations of international law and the human rights of the Palestinian people.
The US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
CONTINUE READING HERE ...
Netanyahu anunció aumentar el terror contra
el pueblo palestino
Resumen Latinoamericano
3 de Julio 2016
El primer ministro israelí, Benjamin Netanyahu, anunció hoy más medidas punitivas en Cisjordania como respuesta a nuevos ataques cometidos por palestinos.
“Nos encontramos en una lucha continua contra el terrorismo”, dijo. “Utilizaremos diferentes medios, entre ellos medidas agresivas que en el pasado no utilizábamos”.
Netanyahu aludió entre otros al bloqueo completo de la región en torno a Hebrón, que afecta a 700 mil personas. Los residentes del pueblo de Bani Naim, del que procedían algunos de los atacantes, perderán sus permisos de trabajo en Israel.
El Ejército desplegará además otras dos brigadas en Cisjordania para vigilar las calles. Y se reforzarán los asentamientos judíos.
Miles de personas participaron en el sepelio de un hombre que resultó muerto el viernes frente a sus hijos después de que presuntos atacantes palestinos dispararan contra su automóvil. La madre resultó gravemente herida en el incidente ocurrido cerca de Hebrón. A su vez, el jueves un adolescente palestino mató a una adolescente israelí mientras dormía cerca de la misma ciudad. El joven palestino resultó también muerto después que varios colonos lo fusilaran.
En los últimos meses han muerto 35 israelíes en una serie de ataques de palestinos, frente a más de 220 palestinos asesinados, la mayoría de ellos acusados de perpetrar la agresiónes con cuchillos, lo que en muchos casos no resultó probado. El detonante de la violencia fue la invasión en octubre pasado por parte de colonos ortodoxos judíos de la Explanada de las Mezquitas y la frustración general por la ocupación israelí que se mantiene sin cambios.
¿Por qué bloquea Israel el acceso a sus archivos?
Jonathan Cook/ Resumen Latinoamericano
Al Jazeera-Rebelión
15 de junio de 2016
Los académicos dicen que Israel está ocultando registros vitales para evitar que los períodos más oscuros de su historia salgan a la luz.
Mientras que los archivos estatales pueden ser accesibles en internet, activistas de derechos civiles y académicos advierten de que Israel está bloqueando el acceso a millones de documentos oficiales para evitar que los episodios más oscuros de su historia salgan a la luz.
Afirman que los funcionarios del gobierno están ocultando registros vitales necesarios para la investigación histórica, a menudo en violación de la ley israelí, en un esfuerzo para evitar dañar la imagen de Israel.
El ejército israelí ha afirmado durante mucho tiempo que es el “más moral” del mundo.
Llegan acusaciones de un creciente secretismo mientras Israel conmemora esta semana el 49 aniversario de la guerra de 1967, cuando tomó y ocupó la península del Sinaí, la Franja de Gaza, Cisjordania y los Altos del Golan.
Muchos de los registros con acceso denegado se refieren a esa guerra y a los primeros años del régimen militar de Israel sobre los palestinos de Jerusalén, Cisjordania y Gaza.
Menachem Klein, un profesor de política en la Universidad de Bar Ilan, cerca de Tel Aviv, dijo que los investigadores necesitan este tipo de documentos para obtener una imagen más clara de los acontecimientos de hace medio siglo, los objetivos de los políticos y las violaciones de los derechos humanos. “Hemos sido capaces gradualmente de exponer algo de lo que ocurrió en 1948 [la guerra que inició Israel] pero todavía hay muy poco disponible que pueda ayudarnos a entender la guerra de 1967”, dijo a Al-Jazeera.
“Toda la historia de la sociedad israelí y su conflicto con los palestinos se encuentran en esos archivos. Es imposible entender y escribir acerca de la historia a la cual no se tiene acceso”. (Yair Lavne, coautor del informe Akevot)
Como parte de las conmemoraciones de esta semana se publicaron archivos estatales con el testimonio de los comandantes militares de 1967. Sin embargo la prensa local señaló que páginas enteras habían sido censuradas por “motivos de seguridad”.
CONTINUE LEYENDO AQUI ....
Mientras que los archivos estatales pueden ser accesibles en internet, activistas de derechos civiles y académicos advierten de que Israel está bloqueando el acceso a millones de documentos oficiales para evitar que los episodios más oscuros de su historia salgan a la luz.
Afirman que los funcionarios del gobierno están ocultando registros vitales necesarios para la investigación histórica, a menudo en violación de la ley israelí, en un esfuerzo para evitar dañar la imagen de Israel.
El ejército israelí ha afirmado durante mucho tiempo que es el “más moral” del mundo.
Llegan acusaciones de un creciente secretismo mientras Israel conmemora esta semana el 49 aniversario de la guerra de 1967, cuando tomó y ocupó la península del Sinaí, la Franja de Gaza, Cisjordania y los Altos del Golan.
Muchos de los registros con acceso denegado se refieren a esa guerra y a los primeros años del régimen militar de Israel sobre los palestinos de Jerusalén, Cisjordania y Gaza.
Menachem Klein, un profesor de política en la Universidad de Bar Ilan, cerca de Tel Aviv, dijo que los investigadores necesitan este tipo de documentos para obtener una imagen más clara de los acontecimientos de hace medio siglo, los objetivos de los políticos y las violaciones de los derechos humanos. “Hemos sido capaces gradualmente de exponer algo de lo que ocurrió en 1948 [la guerra que inició Israel] pero todavía hay muy poco disponible que pueda ayudarnos a entender la guerra de 1967”, dijo a Al-Jazeera.
“Toda la historia de la sociedad israelí y su conflicto con los palestinos se encuentran en esos archivos. Es imposible entender y escribir acerca de la historia a la cual no se tiene acceso”. (Yair Lavne, coautor del informe Akevot)
Como parte de las conmemoraciones de esta semana se publicaron archivos estatales con el testimonio de los comandantes militares de 1967. Sin embargo la prensa local señaló que páginas enteras habían sido censuradas por “motivos de seguridad”.
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Invitación a componer la Brigada Ghassan Kanafani Palestina 2016
São Paulo, 09 de Junio de 2016.
Circular 07/2016
De: Colectivo de Relaciones Internacionales CRI-MST Brasil
Para: Movimientos Sociales del ALBA
Asunto: Invitación a componer la Brigada Ghassan Kanafani – Palestina 2016
Estimados compañeros y compañeras,
En este momento actual de crisis e profundización del modelo del capital, donde la crisis global afecta la clase trabajadora y produce un proceso destrucción de la humanidad, es necesario poner en práctica o nuestro espíritu internacionalista con base en la solidaridad de clase. Ser solidario a la causa Palestina, es defender la legitimidad do su proceso de lucha y de resistencia, por eso es de fundamental importancia os nuestros esfuerzos en la movilización da militancia del MST para que juntos podamos concretizar la brigada de solidaridad este año.
Después del último brutal ataque israelí a Gaza, ocurrido en 2014, y en medio al fortalecimiento das campañas internacionales pela liberación de los presos políticos palestinos e pelo derecho de retorno dos millares de refugiados palestinos en el mundo, el MST-Brasil ha organizado regularmente una Brigada Internacionalista de trabajo y solidaridad con el pueblo Palestino, y siempre invita a los Movimientos Populares del ALBA para que se sumen a esta acción de solidaridad mundial.
En este año de 2016, se está preparando para realizarla en el mes de octubre de 2016, durante o período da cosecha de aceitunas, donde se conformará la III Brigada Internacionalista Ghassan Kanafani. La duración de la Brigada es de 30 días, siendo 15 días conviviendo con comunidades campesinas y contribuyendo en la cosecha de aceitunas, y 15 días conociendo a la realidad política de Palestina, reuniendo con movimientos populares y políticos del país.
Sin acceso a tierra y la agua, aislados de sus labranzas por el muro del apartheid israelí y por centenas de puestos policiales y del ejército, atacados por militares y colonos israelíes cuando intentan cultivar sus tierras, os/as campesinos y campesinas Palestinos son algunos de los que más sufren con la ocupación israelí.
Llevar nuestra militancia a Palestina, para conocer y convivir con el día a día de la lucha dese pueblo, y con nuestras manos e nuestros cuerpos contribuir con os/as campesinos/as palestinos a garantir su principal medio de sustento, es uno de los actos más genuinos de solidaridad e apoyo a la lucha Palestina por el derecho al retorno a sus tierras y contra a brutal ocupación israelí.
Cada movimiento popular debe cubrir los costos de viaje de la persona indicada, incluyendo boletos y algunos recursos para llevar (300 a 500 dólares). Por ello, pedimos que empiecen el proceso de definición del nombre que va a la Brigada ese año y la articulación para cubrir los costos del boleto de su país de origen hasta Sao Paulo, donde habrá una preparación con todos los “brigadistas” y también el boleto Sao Paulo-Tel Aviv.
Cualquier duda, pueden contactar al MST a través del email: cassia@mst.org.br.
Abrazos solidarios,
Colectivo de Relaciones Internacionales – MST
Circular 07/2016
De: Colectivo de Relaciones Internacionales CRI-MST Brasil
Para: Movimientos Sociales del ALBA
Asunto: Invitación a componer la Brigada Ghassan Kanafani – Palestina 2016
Estimados compañeros y compañeras,
En este momento actual de crisis e profundización del modelo del capital, donde la crisis global afecta la clase trabajadora y produce un proceso destrucción de la humanidad, es necesario poner en práctica o nuestro espíritu internacionalista con base en la solidaridad de clase. Ser solidario a la causa Palestina, es defender la legitimidad do su proceso de lucha y de resistencia, por eso es de fundamental importancia os nuestros esfuerzos en la movilización da militancia del MST para que juntos podamos concretizar la brigada de solidaridad este año.
Después del último brutal ataque israelí a Gaza, ocurrido en 2014, y en medio al fortalecimiento das campañas internacionales pela liberación de los presos políticos palestinos e pelo derecho de retorno dos millares de refugiados palestinos en el mundo, el MST-Brasil ha organizado regularmente una Brigada Internacionalista de trabajo y solidaridad con el pueblo Palestino, y siempre invita a los Movimientos Populares del ALBA para que se sumen a esta acción de solidaridad mundial.
En este año de 2016, se está preparando para realizarla en el mes de octubre de 2016, durante o período da cosecha de aceitunas, donde se conformará la III Brigada Internacionalista Ghassan Kanafani. La duración de la Brigada es de 30 días, siendo 15 días conviviendo con comunidades campesinas y contribuyendo en la cosecha de aceitunas, y 15 días conociendo a la realidad política de Palestina, reuniendo con movimientos populares y políticos del país.
Sin acceso a tierra y la agua, aislados de sus labranzas por el muro del apartheid israelí y por centenas de puestos policiales y del ejército, atacados por militares y colonos israelíes cuando intentan cultivar sus tierras, os/as campesinos y campesinas Palestinos son algunos de los que más sufren con la ocupación israelí.
Llevar nuestra militancia a Palestina, para conocer y convivir con el día a día de la lucha dese pueblo, y con nuestras manos e nuestros cuerpos contribuir con os/as campesinos/as palestinos a garantir su principal medio de sustento, es uno de los actos más genuinos de solidaridad e apoyo a la lucha Palestina por el derecho al retorno a sus tierras y contra a brutal ocupación israelí.
Cada movimiento popular debe cubrir los costos de viaje de la persona indicada, incluyendo boletos y algunos recursos para llevar (300 a 500 dólares). Por ello, pedimos que empiecen el proceso de definición del nombre que va a la Brigada ese año y la articulación para cubrir los costos del boleto de su país de origen hasta Sao Paulo, donde habrá una preparación con todos los “brigadistas” y también el boleto Sao Paulo-Tel Aviv.
Cualquier duda, pueden contactar al MST a través del email: cassia@mst.org.br.
Abrazos solidarios,
Colectivo de Relaciones Internacionales – MST
A message from Beit Zatoun!
Toronto, May 23, 2016
Dear friends of Beit Zatoun,
Amazing - what a week it was as Palestinian Solidarity activists battled the clock to defeat the surprise tabling of a private member's bill at Queen's Park on Tuesday afternoon, namely, Bill 202, Standing Up Against Anti-Semitism in Ontario Act, 2016 (click for text).
Having learned about it only on Wednesday morning and heading for a 2nd reading/vote the very next day there was no time to waste. In a packed 36-hour period of intense communication and immediate action the bill was resoundingly defeated 18 to 39 votes.
Please write or call to thank your local MPP who voted against (see contact list).
Congratulations to the many organizations who banded together and self-organized several initiatives including petitions and contacting MPPs under severe timelines to pull off a huge victory. See summary article from Electronic Intifada. Also see article by Ilan Pappe about need to stand up for BDS.
Amazing - what a week it was as Palestinian Solidarity activists battled the clock to defeat the surprise tabling of a private member's bill at Queen's Park on Tuesday afternoon, namely, Bill 202, Standing Up Against Anti-Semitism in Ontario Act, 2016 (click for text).
Having learned about it only on Wednesday morning and heading for a 2nd reading/vote the very next day there was no time to waste. In a packed 36-hour period of intense communication and immediate action the bill was resoundingly defeated 18 to 39 votes.
Please write or call to thank your local MPP who voted against (see contact list).
- CON - 17 FOR; 0 AGAINST (of 28)
- LIB - 1 FOR; 34 AGAINST (of 58)
- NDP - 0 FOR; 5 AGAINST (of 25)
Congratulations to the many organizations who banded together and self-organized several initiatives including petitions and contacting MPPs under severe timelines to pull off a huge victory. See summary article from Electronic Intifada. Also see article by Ilan Pappe about need to stand up for BDS.
Toronto under pressure to cancel speech at
Jerusalem conference
Middle East Eye
May 13, 2016
Toronto is facing criticism both at home and abroad as a city official is slated to give the keynote speech at a conference in Jerusalem that Palestinians say “aims to whitewash” life under Israeli occupation.
Uzma Shakir, director of Toronto’s Office of Equity, Diversity and Human Rights, is scheduled to host the first session at the “Jerusalem as a Culturally Competent City” conference, taking place at the Jerusalem Cinematheque on 17 May.
“It’s appalling that [Toronto] Mayor John Tory has allowed the city of Toronto to participate and, in fact, even more appalling that it’s doing that participation through the Office of Equity, Diversity and Human Rights,” said Mary-Jo Nadeau, a member of the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), a Toronto-based group that is circulating a petition calling on the city to cancel the speech.
By Friday afternoon, the petition had garnered nearly 500 signatures. CAIA organised a small rally on Friday afternoon in front of Toronto city hall. See more here!
Uzma Shakir, director of Toronto’s Office of Equity, Diversity and Human Rights, is scheduled to host the first session at the “Jerusalem as a Culturally Competent City” conference, taking place at the Jerusalem Cinematheque on 17 May.
“It’s appalling that [Toronto] Mayor John Tory has allowed the city of Toronto to participate and, in fact, even more appalling that it’s doing that participation through the Office of Equity, Diversity and Human Rights,” said Mary-Jo Nadeau, a member of the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), a Toronto-based group that is circulating a petition calling on the city to cancel the speech.
By Friday afternoon, the petition had garnered nearly 500 signatures. CAIA organised a small rally on Friday afternoon in front of Toronto city hall. See more here!
From Palestine to Honduras, every day is Land Day
Budour Youssef Hassan - The Electronic Intifada
6 April 2016
On 30 March 1976, Palestinian citizens of Israel declared a general strike and held large demonstrations against land expropriations by Israeli authorities in the Galilee.
Now observed annually as Land Day, these events marked the first organized popular rebellion by Palestinians inside present-day Israel. They had undergone three decades of disenfranchisement and intimidation.
In 1948, Zionist militias, which would later constitute the Israeli army, occupied the majority of historic Palestine.
Using force and the threat of force, some 750,000 Palestinians were expelled.
Those who remained in the territory then unilaterally declared as Israel were granted Israeli citizenship, but the new authorities imposed military rule on them that was not lifted until 1966.
Even after military rule, systematic Israeli attempts to squelch Palestinian dissent and colonize both land and minds continued.
The Zionist project is fixated on controlling as much land as possible with as few Palestinians on it as possible. It has used both naked violence and legal frameworks to gradually reduce Palestinian land ownership in present-day Israel to just a tiny fraction of what it was before 1948.
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Now observed annually as Land Day, these events marked the first organized popular rebellion by Palestinians inside present-day Israel. They had undergone three decades of disenfranchisement and intimidation.
In 1948, Zionist militias, which would later constitute the Israeli army, occupied the majority of historic Palestine.
Using force and the threat of force, some 750,000 Palestinians were expelled.
Those who remained in the territory then unilaterally declared as Israel were granted Israeli citizenship, but the new authorities imposed military rule on them that was not lifted until 1966.
Even after military rule, systematic Israeli attempts to squelch Palestinian dissent and colonize both land and minds continued.
The Zionist project is fixated on controlling as much land as possible with as few Palestinians on it as possible. It has used both naked violence and legal frameworks to gradually reduce Palestinian land ownership in present-day Israel to just a tiny fraction of what it was before 1948.
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Resumen de Medio Oriente Radio – Programa
Resumen Latinoamericano - 06/04/2016
Escuche emisiones aqui:
BLOQUE 1 http://ar.ivoox.com/es/resumen-medio-oriente-5-abril-audios-mp3_rf_11068407_1.html
BLOQUE 2 http://ar.ivoox.com/es/resumen-medio-oriente-5-abril-audios-mp3_rf_11068615_1.html
Israel/Palestine - Map Censorship
By Lawrence Davidson - Information Clearing House
March 21, 2016
What is the difference between a textbook publisher giving into pressure from Christian fundamentalists seeking to censor the teaching of evolution, and a publisher giving in to Zionists seeking to censor awareness of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine? Neither phenomenon is a matter of opinion or perspective. One act of censorship denies facts established by scientific research. The other denies the documented violation of international law (for instance, the Fourth Geneva Convention) and multiple UN resolutions. So the answer to the question just asked is – there is no difference.
In early March 2016 executives at McGraw-Hill took the extreme step of withdrawing from the market a published text, Global Politics: Engaging a Complex World, and then proceeded to destroy all the remaining books held in inventory. (Did they burn them?) Global Politics, which had been on the market since 2012, was a text designed by its authors to “offer students a number of lenses through which to view the world around them.” Why did McGraw-Hill do this?
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Also read:
Manifestantes protestan fuera de la conferencia de AIPAC en Estados Unidos
AIPAC, Israel and the U.S: an Unholy Alliance
In early March 2016 executives at McGraw-Hill took the extreme step of withdrawing from the market a published text, Global Politics: Engaging a Complex World, and then proceeded to destroy all the remaining books held in inventory. (Did they burn them?) Global Politics, which had been on the market since 2012, was a text designed by its authors to “offer students a number of lenses through which to view the world around them.” Why did McGraw-Hill do this?
CONTINUE READING HERE...
Also read:
Manifestantes protestan fuera de la conferencia de AIPAC en Estados Unidos
AIPAC, Israel and the U.S: an Unholy Alliance
La criminalización de la lucha civil contra
el apartheid israelí
Fuente: Mentiras Sionistas - Resumen Latinoamericano
11 marzo, 2016
En los últimos meses estamos asistiendo a una campaña mediática e institucional, cada vez más virulenta, contra el movimiento de Boicot, Desinversiones y Sanciones a Israel (BDS). El movimiento BDS es una iniciativa pacífica surgida en 2005 de gran parte de la sociedad civil palestina como alternativa para luchar de forma activa contra la ocupación, la colonización y el régimen de apartheid que Israel practica desde hace décadas contra el Pueblo Palestino.
Este movimiento está inspirado en el modelo de boicot que contribuyó en gran medida a obligar a Sudáfrica a desmantelar el régimen de apartheid que sometía a la población negra. Sus objetivos son muy sencillos: el cumplimiento de la Resolución 194 de la ONU (derecho al retorno de los refugiados palestinos), de la Resolución 242 (retirada de Israel de los Territorios Ocupados) y el fin de la discriminación que sufren los palestinos que aún viven en Israel.
Instructores del ejército israelí entrenan a niños y niñas para que, como ellos, reivindiquen el culto a la muerte matando palestinos.
Resulta interesante analizar el paralelismo que existe no ya entre el apartheid sudafricano y el israelí, que resulta evidente, sino entre los intentos de criminalizar a los movimientos civiles que, ayer en defensa de la población negra sudafricana, y hoy en defensa de los palestinos, lucharon y luchan contra el racismo y el apartheid. Este paralelismo puede plasmarse de modo muy sintético en dos puntos.
El primero es el apoyo de los gobiernos occidentales a ambos regímenes. En el imaginario colectivo de la opinión pública actual, la lucha contra el apartheid sudafricano siempre fue una historia de “buenos y malos” en la que los países democráticos apoyaron sin reservas desde el principio a la población negra oprimida.
Esto no es en absoluto cierto: el régimen de apartheid sudafricano recibió durante décadas el apoyo de muchos gobiernos occidentales, especialmente desde EEUU y Gran Bretaña. Nelson Mandela, transformado hoy en un símbolo mundial de la lucha contra el racismo, no fue excluido de la lista oficial estadounidense de presuntos terroristas hasta 2008.
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Este movimiento está inspirado en el modelo de boicot que contribuyó en gran medida a obligar a Sudáfrica a desmantelar el régimen de apartheid que sometía a la población negra. Sus objetivos son muy sencillos: el cumplimiento de la Resolución 194 de la ONU (derecho al retorno de los refugiados palestinos), de la Resolución 242 (retirada de Israel de los Territorios Ocupados) y el fin de la discriminación que sufren los palestinos que aún viven en Israel.
Instructores del ejército israelí entrenan a niños y niñas para que, como ellos, reivindiquen el culto a la muerte matando palestinos.
Resulta interesante analizar el paralelismo que existe no ya entre el apartheid sudafricano y el israelí, que resulta evidente, sino entre los intentos de criminalizar a los movimientos civiles que, ayer en defensa de la población negra sudafricana, y hoy en defensa de los palestinos, lucharon y luchan contra el racismo y el apartheid. Este paralelismo puede plasmarse de modo muy sintético en dos puntos.
El primero es el apoyo de los gobiernos occidentales a ambos regímenes. En el imaginario colectivo de la opinión pública actual, la lucha contra el apartheid sudafricano siempre fue una historia de “buenos y malos” en la que los países democráticos apoyaron sin reservas desde el principio a la población negra oprimida.
Esto no es en absoluto cierto: el régimen de apartheid sudafricano recibió durante décadas el apoyo de muchos gobiernos occidentales, especialmente desde EEUU y Gran Bretaña. Nelson Mandela, transformado hoy en un símbolo mundial de la lucha contra el racismo, no fue excluido de la lista oficial estadounidense de presuntos terroristas hasta 2008.
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Agua para Israel pero no para los palestinos
Eugenio García Gascón - Resumen Medio Oriente/Públic
29 de febrero de 2016
En los calurosos veranos, en numerosos lugares de los territorios ocupados, incluida Ramala, los palestinos abren los grifos pero no cae una gota de agua. Los grifos están secos. En otros lugares, hay agua pero es de muy poca calidad. A menudo ni siquiera es potable. Aunque los palestinos disponen de agua, Israel ejerce un férreo control del líquido y les limita el consumo según sus intereses.
La calidad del agua, especialmente en la Franja de Gaza, es pésima. Un reciente informe elaborado por la ONG israelí BTselem señala que el 90% del líquido al que tienen acceso los habitantes de la Franja no es potable y no es apta ni para el consumo ni para cocinar ni para ducharse ni para lavarse los dientes: está demasiado salada y sucia, además de contener un alto porcentaje de nitratos cancerígenos. Los cólicos y las enfermedades de la piel son moneda corriente.
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La calidad del agua, especialmente en la Franja de Gaza, es pésima. Un reciente informe elaborado por la ONG israelí BTselem señala que el 90% del líquido al que tienen acceso los habitantes de la Franja no es potable y no es apta ni para el consumo ni para cocinar ni para ducharse ni para lavarse los dientes: está demasiado salada y sucia, además de contener un alto porcentaje de nitratos cancerígenos. Los cólicos y las enfermedades de la piel son moneda corriente.
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Empresa británica relacionada con Israel pierde contratos en Colombia por campaña de protesta
Resumen Latinoamericano
Feb. 19, 2016
La campaña Boicot, Desinversiones y Sanciones (BDS) contra Israel en Colombia anunció el miércoles pasado una victoria sobre la empresa G4S, multinacional británica que presta equipos y servicios de seguridad a las cárceles israelíes y a los asentamientos ilegales. BDS logró, después de una campaña que sostenía por más de un año, que la empresa colombiana reconocida por su política de responsabilidad social empresarial, Crepes & Waffles, decidiera terminar sus contratos con G4S.
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29 de Noviembre: día mundial de
solidaridad con Palestina
Resumen Latinoamericano, Nov. 29, 2015
En 1977 la Asamblea General de la ONU pidió que el 29 de noviembre se estableciera anualmente como Día Internacional de Solidaridad con el Pueblo Palestino (Resolución 32/401) brindando así a la comunidad internacional la oportunidad de centrar su atención en el hecho de que la “cuestión Palestina” aún no se ha resuelto.
Los palestinos aún no pueden ejercer los derechos inalienables reconocidos por la Asamblea General. Y en el 2012, también ese mismo día, concede al Palestina el estatus de estado observador no miembro de la entidad.
SIGA LEYENDO AQUI ...
Los palestinos aún no pueden ejercer los derechos inalienables reconocidos por la Asamblea General. Y en el 2012, también ese mismo día, concede al Palestina el estatus de estado observador no miembro de la entidad.
SIGA LEYENDO AQUI ...
Letter of solidarity to the Palestinian popular resistance: Boycott Israeli apartheid now! #SolidarityWaveBDS
In response to Israel’s ongoing campaign of violence and aggression, a new wave of Palestinian resistance has erupted. We, the undersigned, affirm our solidarity with this mass popular resistance, in all its creativity, vibrancy, and courage. We are inspired by the new generation of fearless Palestinian youth, marching in the footsteps of previous generations, as it asserts its right to self-determination and freedom from settler colonialism and apartheid.
We wish to express our strongest solidarity with Palestinian students and faculty, who struggle against a system of occupation and apartheid that has systematically targeted and disrupted their access to educational institutions. As students and faculty fighting for accessible higher education and better academic working conditions in Canada/Turtle Island, we stand firmly in support of their right to education. We affirm our solidarity by supporting the call for cultural and academic boycotts against Israeli institutions, and for divestment from companies that are complicit in Israel’s violations of international law.
Since October 1st, Israel has killed 74 Palestinians and injured 2000 more. Over 1300 civilians have been arrested during that time. Despite the brutality of Israel’s actions, the Palestinian people continue their struggle for justice and freedom. We are inspired by their unwavering resistance.
People of conscience in Toronto are joining over 100 cities in a global wave of solidarity with the Palestinian people. We are committed to intensifying our support for their popular resistance through the Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
In Solidarity,
LACSN
Toronto, Nov. 17, 2015
We wish to express our strongest solidarity with Palestinian students and faculty, who struggle against a system of occupation and apartheid that has systematically targeted and disrupted their access to educational institutions. As students and faculty fighting for accessible higher education and better academic working conditions in Canada/Turtle Island, we stand firmly in support of their right to education. We affirm our solidarity by supporting the call for cultural and academic boycotts against Israeli institutions, and for divestment from companies that are complicit in Israel’s violations of international law.
Since October 1st, Israel has killed 74 Palestinians and injured 2000 more. Over 1300 civilians have been arrested during that time. Despite the brutality of Israel’s actions, the Palestinian people continue their struggle for justice and freedom. We are inspired by their unwavering resistance.
People of conscience in Toronto are joining over 100 cities in a global wave of solidarity with the Palestinian people. We are committed to intensifying our support for their popular resistance through the Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
In Solidarity,
LACSN
Toronto, Nov. 17, 2015
El ejército israelí es el más inmoral del mundo, ¿y qué?
Resumen Latinoamericano - Ramón Pedregal Casanova
11 de noviembre de 2015
Entre el 8 de julio de 2014 y el 18 de ese mismo mes, el ejército invasor de Palestina bombardeó la Franja de Gaza y asesinó a 230 palestinos. Y ese 18 de julio, tres niños, -Wesin, de 6 años; Yihad, de 7, y Fulla Sheheibar, de 10-, jugaban en la azotea de su casa cuando fueron asesinados con las bombas que les tiraron los sionistas. Hasta entonces, sólo un mercenario del ejército invasor había muerto. Estamos en el 18 de julio, los niños y niñas palestinos asesinados por Israel suman 45 de esos 230 palestinos asesinados.
El 24 de julio (6 días después) los israelíes ya habían asesinado a 150 niños y niñas palestinos.
El 26 de agosto (22 días más tarde, el día que los invasores se vieron obligados a firmar el alto el fuego) los israelíes llevaban asesinados 501 niños y niñas palestinos, según la ONU.
Ha transcurrido poco más de un año, y ustedes conocen los últimos acontecimientos, lo ocurrido en el mes de octubre pasado, la persecución de los invasores y sus colonos sobre los niños, las niñas, y la adolescencia palestina ha dejado casi un centenar de muertos y muchos heridos con balas reales, casi mil heridos con balas forradas de caucho, y otros casi mil capturados y llevados a prisiones de Israel.
Este pasado 30 de octubre un vehículo de gran tamaño, de color verde oscuro del ejército ocupante, entró en el campo de refugiados de Aida, Betjhlehem, Belén; las calles estaban vacías, no había nadie a la vista, pero lo observamos sin que nos vea, andaba muy despacio mientras por sus altavoces soltaba una amenaza terrorista; raja el aire y golpea los oídos secamente, desde la fortaleza militar israelí se nos advierte: “Os habla el ejército israelí. Si continuáis tirando piedras os arrojaremos gas hasta mataros a todos: niños, jóvenes, mujeres, ancianos, todos moriréis, os mataremos a todos, no dejaremos a nadie con vida”. Ese es el ejército israelí, el ejército de ocupación colonial, el ejército más inmoral del mundo. ¿Y qué?, eso preguntaba públicamente un ministro del gobierno de ocupación colonial. El gobierno israelí quiere una respuesta.
Tras el acuerdo de paz en Gaza, el 26 de agosto de 2014 las gentes de las tiendas y de los puestos en los mercados ofrecían todo lo que tenían a quien lo necesitase; las familias acogían a quienes habían quedado sin familia, las gentes se visitaban o se encontraban y se abrazaban, se preguntaban por unos y otros, se daban el pésame y se ayudaban a enterrar dignamente, a veces en pedazos, a los mártires. La solidaridad, más grande que nunca, se hizo presente en todo Gaza. Ante semejante acción humana el traductor me dijo: “Es como sobrevivir a un diluvio”.
Los hospitales y los ambulatorios, en su mayoría, habían sido echados abajo, se mantenía un hospital en pie, y algún otro centro a medio derruir, que abarrotados de gente herida, con olor a sangre y con escasísimos medios, tenían que disponer de enfermeros y enfermeras en las entradas para no dejar pasar a la multitud que se ofrecía a salvar vidas. Los israelíes habían bombardeado a la población, 1.800.000 de personas, en su mayoría refugiada, el 50% niños, niñas y jóvenes de Palestina. Entre los pueblos del mundo se respiró más solidaridad que nunca con el pueblo palestino. Esa fue la respuesta al ministro asesino israelí.
Hace tan sólo unos días Netanyahu exculpaba a Hitler de sus crímenes; así supimos cómo hacía suyos los crímenes de éste, y es que su ejército de ocupación y su gobierno son el resultado de los intereses del capitalismo sionista por la explotación humana, la deportación y la implantación del racismo como algo normal. Es el nazismo de nuestra época, el nuevo fascismo, que ya tenemos delante.
Últimas noticias: El embajador palestino en Naciones Unidas ha denunciado que el ejército ocupante se lleva los cadáveres de palestinos y palestinas que mata y los devuelve tras robarles las córneas y otros órganos vitales. Los sionistas se dedican al tráfico de órganos.
El 24 de julio (6 días después) los israelíes ya habían asesinado a 150 niños y niñas palestinos.
El 26 de agosto (22 días más tarde, el día que los invasores se vieron obligados a firmar el alto el fuego) los israelíes llevaban asesinados 501 niños y niñas palestinos, según la ONU.
Ha transcurrido poco más de un año, y ustedes conocen los últimos acontecimientos, lo ocurrido en el mes de octubre pasado, la persecución de los invasores y sus colonos sobre los niños, las niñas, y la adolescencia palestina ha dejado casi un centenar de muertos y muchos heridos con balas reales, casi mil heridos con balas forradas de caucho, y otros casi mil capturados y llevados a prisiones de Israel.
Este pasado 30 de octubre un vehículo de gran tamaño, de color verde oscuro del ejército ocupante, entró en el campo de refugiados de Aida, Betjhlehem, Belén; las calles estaban vacías, no había nadie a la vista, pero lo observamos sin que nos vea, andaba muy despacio mientras por sus altavoces soltaba una amenaza terrorista; raja el aire y golpea los oídos secamente, desde la fortaleza militar israelí se nos advierte: “Os habla el ejército israelí. Si continuáis tirando piedras os arrojaremos gas hasta mataros a todos: niños, jóvenes, mujeres, ancianos, todos moriréis, os mataremos a todos, no dejaremos a nadie con vida”. Ese es el ejército israelí, el ejército de ocupación colonial, el ejército más inmoral del mundo. ¿Y qué?, eso preguntaba públicamente un ministro del gobierno de ocupación colonial. El gobierno israelí quiere una respuesta.
Tras el acuerdo de paz en Gaza, el 26 de agosto de 2014 las gentes de las tiendas y de los puestos en los mercados ofrecían todo lo que tenían a quien lo necesitase; las familias acogían a quienes habían quedado sin familia, las gentes se visitaban o se encontraban y se abrazaban, se preguntaban por unos y otros, se daban el pésame y se ayudaban a enterrar dignamente, a veces en pedazos, a los mártires. La solidaridad, más grande que nunca, se hizo presente en todo Gaza. Ante semejante acción humana el traductor me dijo: “Es como sobrevivir a un diluvio”.
Los hospitales y los ambulatorios, en su mayoría, habían sido echados abajo, se mantenía un hospital en pie, y algún otro centro a medio derruir, que abarrotados de gente herida, con olor a sangre y con escasísimos medios, tenían que disponer de enfermeros y enfermeras en las entradas para no dejar pasar a la multitud que se ofrecía a salvar vidas. Los israelíes habían bombardeado a la población, 1.800.000 de personas, en su mayoría refugiada, el 50% niños, niñas y jóvenes de Palestina. Entre los pueblos del mundo se respiró más solidaridad que nunca con el pueblo palestino. Esa fue la respuesta al ministro asesino israelí.
Hace tan sólo unos días Netanyahu exculpaba a Hitler de sus crímenes; así supimos cómo hacía suyos los crímenes de éste, y es que su ejército de ocupación y su gobierno son el resultado de los intereses del capitalismo sionista por la explotación humana, la deportación y la implantación del racismo como algo normal. Es el nazismo de nuestra época, el nuevo fascismo, que ya tenemos delante.
Últimas noticias: El embajador palestino en Naciones Unidas ha denunciado que el ejército ocupante se lleva los cadáveres de palestinos y palestinas que mata y los devuelve tras robarles las córneas y otros órganos vitales. Los sionistas se dedican al tráfico de órganos.
COLD STATS TO REMEMBER!!!
6.6 million refugees,
427,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs),
67 percent of all Palestinians worldwide are refugees or IDPs,
4,766,670 refugees registered with the UNRWA,
UNRWA definition of Palestinian refugees: “People whose normal place of residence was Palestine between June 1946 and May 1948, who lost both their homes and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict.” As a rule, those displaced after 1948 do not qualify for UNRWA assistance
More than one million refugees whose displacement dates back to 1947-1948 are not registered with UNRWA
340,016 Palestinians are registered with UNHCR
4,166 Palestinians killed, including 886 children and 271 women;
554 extra-judicial assassinations, including 253 bystanders;
3,530 Palestinians disabled, maimed, or otherwise horrifically injured;
8,600 imprisoned, including 288 children and 115 women;
576 students killed, including 199 university-level ones and 32 academics;
another 4,713 students injured and 1,389 detained
2,329,659 dunums of land confiscated;
another 73,613 dunums razed plus 1,355,290 uprooted trees; and
7,761 demolished homes plus 93,842 others damaged.
427,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs),
67 percent of all Palestinians worldwide are refugees or IDPs,
4,766,670 refugees registered with the UNRWA,
UNRWA definition of Palestinian refugees: “People whose normal place of residence was Palestine between June 1946 and May 1948, who lost both their homes and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict.” As a rule, those displaced after 1948 do not qualify for UNRWA assistance
More than one million refugees whose displacement dates back to 1947-1948 are not registered with UNRWA
340,016 Palestinians are registered with UNHCR
4,166 Palestinians killed, including 886 children and 271 women;
554 extra-judicial assassinations, including 253 bystanders;
3,530 Palestinians disabled, maimed, or otherwise horrifically injured;
8,600 imprisoned, including 288 children and 115 women;
576 students killed, including 199 university-level ones and 32 academics;
another 4,713 students injured and 1,389 detained
2,329,659 dunums of land confiscated;
another 73,613 dunums razed plus 1,355,290 uprooted trees; and
7,761 demolished homes plus 93,842 others damaged.
Diarios de Urgencia - Resumen Latinoamericano
ESPECIAL PALESTINA: ISRAEL VUELVE A BOMBARDEAR GAZA Y ASESINA A UNA MADRE (EMBARAZADA Y SU HIJITA DE 2 AÑOS) / DECENAS DE HERIDOS / SIGUE LA BRUTAL REPRESION SIONISTA
11 de Octubre 2015
DIARIOS DE URGENCIA - A NUESTROS LECTORES:
Repetimos lo dicho ayer: en Palestina no hay sábados ni domingos, sólo hay agresión brutal y más agresión. Día a día, hora a hora. El ejército israelí asesina impunemente y los muertos palestinos siguen engrosando la lista de mártires.
En las calles los jóvenes luchan con lo que tienen a mano, que no es mucho, pero su dignidad y valentía alcanza para mostrarle al mundo que allí, en ese pequeño territorio (ocupado, usurpado, diezmado, humillado por los invasores) no hay paz ni podrá haberla hasta que no se retiren quienes desde 1948 han querido convertir a Palestina en un cementerio.
Decimos esto, porque más allá de la aparente lejanía desde la que se observa el día a día de este genocidio, Palestina nos está interpelando, esperando desentumecer la comodidad en la que estamos instalados. Nosotros, en ese sentido, creemos que nuestro deber es INFORMAR, mostrar el horror sionista y la resistencia al mismo, dar los nombres de los caídos, y generar conciencia para que nadie se vea tentado a mirar a un costado.
Repetimos lo dicho ayer: en Palestina no hay sábados ni domingos, sólo hay agresión brutal y más agresión. Día a día, hora a hora. El ejército israelí asesina impunemente y los muertos palestinos siguen engrosando la lista de mártires.
En las calles los jóvenes luchan con lo que tienen a mano, que no es mucho, pero su dignidad y valentía alcanza para mostrarle al mundo que allí, en ese pequeño territorio (ocupado, usurpado, diezmado, humillado por los invasores) no hay paz ni podrá haberla hasta que no se retiren quienes desde 1948 han querido convertir a Palestina en un cementerio.
Decimos esto, porque más allá de la aparente lejanía desde la que se observa el día a día de este genocidio, Palestina nos está interpelando, esperando desentumecer la comodidad en la que estamos instalados. Nosotros, en ese sentido, creemos que nuestro deber es INFORMAR, mostrar el horror sionista y la resistencia al mismo, dar los nombres de los caídos, y generar conciencia para que nadie se vea tentado a mirar a un costado.
US taxpayers subsidizing Jewish terrorism in Israel,
complaint alleges
RT - 26 Aug, 2015
Jewish terrorism against Arabs is being subsidized by US tax money, a complaint filed with the New York State Attorney General's Office alleges. It centers on a non-profit organization that provides money to Jews accused of violence against Palestinians.
The Israeli organization Honenu provides financial support to Jews convicted of or on trial for violent acts against Palestinians – including so-called “price tag” attacks in the West Bank.
The complaint centers around the fact that the non-profit is tax-exempt, implying that taxpayers are essentially subsidizing a non-profit that defends those convicted of extreme violence. “Just as we would be furious to learn of tax-exempt money going to Hamas or ISIS, we must not allow US taxpayers to subsidize money that is given strings-free to members of our own people who are accused or convicted of terror,” the executive director of T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, Rabbi Jill Jacobs, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
T'ruah, a Jewish organization which aims to “respect and protect the human rights of all people,” filed the complaint to the charities bureau of New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Monday.
The complaint urges the attorney general to investigate Honenu and its fiscal sponsor, the Central Fund of Israel, both of which are located in New York. Honenu has had a New York-based franchising branch since 2003. In 2010, the last year for which data is listed, the organization raised $233,700 in the US, according to tax filings.
Much of Honenu's money is used for the defense of Jews on trial for violence against Arabs, as well as those who have refused to vacate illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Some of the cash, however, is spent on helping Jewish extremists, The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported, citing a recent Channel 10 expose of Honenu.In 2013, Honenu sent funds to the family of a Israeli convicted of killing seven Palestinians in May 1990; the families of two Jewish-Israelis convicted of attempted murder for trying to plant a bomb at a girls school in eastern Jerusalem in 2002; and the son of a former Israeli Knesset member who kidnapped and abused a Palestinian boy in 2010.
This information has prompted Honenu's critics, including T'ruah, to compare the organization to Hamas. “Honenu is doing exactly what Hamas and the PLO have been criticized for — providing personal support, if not incentives, for those who commit terrorist acts against others,” says the complaint, which was filed Monday.According to documents obtained by Channel 10, Honenu's 2013 budget was approximately $600,000. About one-quarter of the money went to lawyers defending those on trial for actions against Arabs, or for activities in the West Bank. About $50,000 went directly to Jewish prisoners.
However, Honenu maintains that it is doing nothing wrong, and is operating lawfully.The non-profit's website promises that “soldiers and civilians who find themselves in legal entanglements due to defending themselves against Arab aggression, or due to their love for Israel, have an organization that will come to their aid 24 hours a day.”A lawyer for the organization, Zion Amir, told Channel 10 that “they respect the court’s rulings... they don’t decide who is good and who is bad, they don’t determine who is guilty and who is innocent. They operate within the bounds of the law.”
The filing comes just weeks after an arson attack by suspected right-wing Jewish settlers killed an 18-month-old Palestinian child and his father in a house in the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli organization Honenu provides financial support to Jews convicted of or on trial for violent acts against Palestinians – including so-called “price tag” attacks in the West Bank.
The complaint centers around the fact that the non-profit is tax-exempt, implying that taxpayers are essentially subsidizing a non-profit that defends those convicted of extreme violence. “Just as we would be furious to learn of tax-exempt money going to Hamas or ISIS, we must not allow US taxpayers to subsidize money that is given strings-free to members of our own people who are accused or convicted of terror,” the executive director of T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, Rabbi Jill Jacobs, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
T'ruah, a Jewish organization which aims to “respect and protect the human rights of all people,” filed the complaint to the charities bureau of New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Monday.
The complaint urges the attorney general to investigate Honenu and its fiscal sponsor, the Central Fund of Israel, both of which are located in New York. Honenu has had a New York-based franchising branch since 2003. In 2010, the last year for which data is listed, the organization raised $233,700 in the US, according to tax filings.
Much of Honenu's money is used for the defense of Jews on trial for violence against Arabs, as well as those who have refused to vacate illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Some of the cash, however, is spent on helping Jewish extremists, The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported, citing a recent Channel 10 expose of Honenu.In 2013, Honenu sent funds to the family of a Israeli convicted of killing seven Palestinians in May 1990; the families of two Jewish-Israelis convicted of attempted murder for trying to plant a bomb at a girls school in eastern Jerusalem in 2002; and the son of a former Israeli Knesset member who kidnapped and abused a Palestinian boy in 2010.
This information has prompted Honenu's critics, including T'ruah, to compare the organization to Hamas. “Honenu is doing exactly what Hamas and the PLO have been criticized for — providing personal support, if not incentives, for those who commit terrorist acts against others,” says the complaint, which was filed Monday.According to documents obtained by Channel 10, Honenu's 2013 budget was approximately $600,000. About one-quarter of the money went to lawyers defending those on trial for actions against Arabs, or for activities in the West Bank. About $50,000 went directly to Jewish prisoners.
However, Honenu maintains that it is doing nothing wrong, and is operating lawfully.The non-profit's website promises that “soldiers and civilians who find themselves in legal entanglements due to defending themselves against Arab aggression, or due to their love for Israel, have an organization that will come to their aid 24 hours a day.”A lawyer for the organization, Zion Amir, told Channel 10 that “they respect the court’s rulings... they don’t decide who is good and who is bad, they don’t determine who is guilty and who is innocent. They operate within the bounds of the law.”
The filing comes just weeks after an arson attack by suspected right-wing Jewish settlers killed an 18-month-old Palestinian child and his father in a house in the occupied West Bank.
Jewish Voice for Peace's Video
One year ago
today, Israel began its overwhelming 50-day military attack on Gaza while the
world’s governments looked on. Israel was armed—and diplomatically protected—by
my country, the United States. Over 2,200 Palestinians were killed,
the vast majority of them civilians. Seventy-one Israelis were killed, 5
civilians.
You took to the streets, the airwaves, and social media to say the loss of any life was one life too many, and that one of the world’s most technologically advanced armies had to stop bombing people hiding in schools, apartments, and hospitals.
People, we all reminded the world, who had already suffered for years from dispossession, the Israeli military-enforced occupation, and siege.
Today, we are re-releasing the Gaza Names video and website we produced with the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU). Narrated by Wallace Shawn, and featuring many artists and activists you will recognize, this 4 minute video shows the names and some of the faces of those who were killed.
It reminds us that Palestinians in Gaza are still living under siege. Still traumatized. Still resilient. And still fighting for their freedom.
You took to the streets, the airwaves, and social media to say the loss of any life was one life too many, and that one of the world’s most technologically advanced armies had to stop bombing people hiding in schools, apartments, and hospitals.
People, we all reminded the world, who had already suffered for years from dispossession, the Israeli military-enforced occupation, and siege.
Today, we are re-releasing the Gaza Names video and website we produced with the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU). Narrated by Wallace Shawn, and featuring many artists and activists you will recognize, this 4 minute video shows the names and some of the faces of those who were killed.
It reminds us that Palestinians in Gaza are still living under siege. Still traumatized. Still resilient. And still fighting for their freedom.
The Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement is 10 years old this week. Nonviolent BDS campaigns to pressure Israel to abide by international law are making a difference faster than anyone ever imagined. They are uniting diverse people from around the world who believe in justice, equality, and dignity for all peoples of Israel/Palestine.
This movement must and will grow. Please. Join us. Please, recommit to building a movement for justice. Let's lead with actions, not just words.
Cecilie Surasky
Deputy Director
Jewish Voice for Peace
This movement must and will grow. Please. Join us. Please, recommit to building a movement for justice. Let's lead with actions, not just words.
Cecilie Surasky
Deputy Director
Jewish Voice for Peace
Israel seizes Gaza-bound Boat in "act of piracy"
The Electronic Intifada, June 29, 2015
Israeli forces boarded and commandeered the Marianne on Monday, one of four boats that were bound for Gaza in the latest attempt to break the tight Israeli siege of the occupied territory.
At around 2 am Gaza time Marianne was surrounded by three Israeli navy boats while in international waters more than 100 miles off the coast of Gaza, organizers Freedom Flotilla III said in a press release.
“After that we lost contact with the Marianne and at 05:11 am (Gaza time) the IDF [Israeli army] announced that they had ‘visited and searched’ Marianne,” the press release states. “They had captured the boat and detained all on board ‘in international waters’ as they admitted themselves. The only positive content in the IDF announcement was that they still recognize that there is a naval blockade of Gaza, despite the Netanyahu government’s recent denial that one exists.”
Read More here...
At around 2 am Gaza time Marianne was surrounded by three Israeli navy boats while in international waters more than 100 miles off the coast of Gaza, organizers Freedom Flotilla III said in a press release.
“After that we lost contact with the Marianne and at 05:11 am (Gaza time) the IDF [Israeli army] announced that they had ‘visited and searched’ Marianne,” the press release states. “They had captured the boat and detained all on board ‘in international waters’ as they admitted themselves. The only positive content in the IDF announcement was that they still recognize that there is a naval blockade of Gaza, despite the Netanyahu government’s recent denial that one exists.”
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UN Releases Report on Gaza War Crimes
Lizabeth Paulat, June 27, 2015
The United Nations Independent Commission of Inquiry into the 2014 Gaza War has just been made public, and with it, finger pointing on both sides has already begun. However, this time investigators have made it clear that both Israel and Palestine committed war crimes.
The report covers the 2014 Gaza Conflict, also known as Operation Protective Edge. It lasted just over a month from July to August last year, and in that short period of time caused a mass of devastation. According to UN statistics, over 2,000 people were killed during the war with around 500 of those being children.
The reason for the high level of child death is explained by the bombing methods used by Israel. According to the report, homes were targeted specifically during the evening (times when children are traditionally home for dinner or rest). Because of this, the air strikes were far more likely to cause injury and death to children.
The UN report states that, “The fact that Israel did not revise its practice of air-strikes, even after their dire effects on civilians became apparent, raises the question of whether this was part of a broader policy which was at least tacitly approved at the highest level of government.”
Read full United Nations Human Rights Report here ....
The report covers the 2014 Gaza Conflict, also known as Operation Protective Edge. It lasted just over a month from July to August last year, and in that short period of time caused a mass of devastation. According to UN statistics, over 2,000 people were killed during the war with around 500 of those being children.
The reason for the high level of child death is explained by the bombing methods used by Israel. According to the report, homes were targeted specifically during the evening (times when children are traditionally home for dinner or rest). Because of this, the air strikes were far more likely to cause injury and death to children.
The UN report states that, “The fact that Israel did not revise its practice of air-strikes, even after their dire effects on civilians became apparent, raises the question of whether this was part of a broader policy which was at least tacitly approved at the highest level of government.”
Read full United Nations Human Rights Report here ....
Say “No” to the Forced Transfer of the
People of Susiya, Palestine
June 15, 2015
Take Action here:
Support the right of the people of Khirbet Susiya, Palestine, to remain on their land. Their entire village faces the threat of demolition.
The entire Palestinian village of Khirbet Susiya (also known as Susiya) in Area C of the occupied West Bank may soon be demolished to make way for illegal Israeli settlers. Once this happens, the families of Susiya will be left homeless in harsh desert conditions. Of the 450 residents, 120 are children.
This current situation is particularly alarming because the Israeli government has also taken steps to forcibly transfer as many as 7,000 Palestinians from 46 Palestinian communities in other parts of Area C to make way for more illegal settlements.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that, if this plan goes ahead, it will be in violation of international law and represent a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention. The forced transfer of protected persons in an occupied territory is a forbidden act under international law and is defined as a war crime.
Support the right of the people of Khirbet Susiya, Palestine, to remain on their land. Their entire village faces the threat of demolition.
The entire Palestinian village of Khirbet Susiya (also known as Susiya) in Area C of the occupied West Bank may soon be demolished to make way for illegal Israeli settlers. Once this happens, the families of Susiya will be left homeless in harsh desert conditions. Of the 450 residents, 120 are children.
This current situation is particularly alarming because the Israeli government has also taken steps to forcibly transfer as many as 7,000 Palestinians from 46 Palestinian communities in other parts of Area C to make way for more illegal settlements.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that, if this plan goes ahead, it will be in violation of international law and represent a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention. The forced transfer of protected persons in an occupied territory is a forbidden act under international law and is defined as a war crime.
"Juanes: Cancel your concert in Israel"
Dear Juanes,
We ask you to act in the name of justice and cancel your concert in Ra´anana, Israel, on June 30th, 2015. We ask you this because for decades, the state of Israel has violated international law and the rights of the Palestinian people. In 2005, Palestinian civil society took action to confront this oppression and called for a Boycott against the state of Israeli, inspired by the South African struggle against apartheid.
We strongly encourage you to respect the call from Palestinian civil society to boycott Israel until there is justice, and the illegal occupation and the oppression of the Palestinian people by the state of Israel ends.
Israel, ignoring numerous resolutions of the United Nations and violating the principle agreements of International Law, has maintained for 7 decades, a regime of military occupation, colonization with settlements, and legal apartheid. For this reason, playing a concert in this country means making this reality invisible and hiding it under the banner of culture and multiculturalism. There cannot be multiculturalism in a territory where the existing culture is denied, made invisible, and attacked: in 2002 the Israeli army flattened the Khalil Sakakini cultural center in Ramallah and in this operation destroyed the manuscript of the great poet Mahmoud Darwish, which was a irreparable loss to the cultural heritage of the Palestinian people. They also demolished the well-recognized Stone Theater of Jenin, illegalized theater and cultural groups such as the traditional dance group Al-Founoun. In 2012 they destroyed and vandalized two Palestinian television stations and artists and students are persistently repressed and detained, like the folk dancer Lina Khattab or the artist Mohammed Sabaaneh (amongst others).
Important artists and personalities have supported and respected the cultural boycott from Archbishop Desmond Tutu to Carlos Santana, Roger Waters, Elvis Costello, The Pixies, and many others. These artists have committed to not playing in Israeli until the occupation and the oppression to the Palestinian people is ended. We hope that you understand that playing in Israel is the same as having played in South Africa during apartheid. For these reasons, as BDS Colombia and the below signatories, we invite you to show your solidarity with the Palestinian people and cancel the concert that you have planned for June 30th. Finally, we invite you to reject the illegal Israeli occupation and join the boycott against Israel.
Sign petition here
We ask you to act in the name of justice and cancel your concert in Ra´anana, Israel, on June 30th, 2015. We ask you this because for decades, the state of Israel has violated international law and the rights of the Palestinian people. In 2005, Palestinian civil society took action to confront this oppression and called for a Boycott against the state of Israeli, inspired by the South African struggle against apartheid.
We strongly encourage you to respect the call from Palestinian civil society to boycott Israel until there is justice, and the illegal occupation and the oppression of the Palestinian people by the state of Israel ends.
Israel, ignoring numerous resolutions of the United Nations and violating the principle agreements of International Law, has maintained for 7 decades, a regime of military occupation, colonization with settlements, and legal apartheid. For this reason, playing a concert in this country means making this reality invisible and hiding it under the banner of culture and multiculturalism. There cannot be multiculturalism in a territory where the existing culture is denied, made invisible, and attacked: in 2002 the Israeli army flattened the Khalil Sakakini cultural center in Ramallah and in this operation destroyed the manuscript of the great poet Mahmoud Darwish, which was a irreparable loss to the cultural heritage of the Palestinian people. They also demolished the well-recognized Stone Theater of Jenin, illegalized theater and cultural groups such as the traditional dance group Al-Founoun. In 2012 they destroyed and vandalized two Palestinian television stations and artists and students are persistently repressed and detained, like the folk dancer Lina Khattab or the artist Mohammed Sabaaneh (amongst others).
Important artists and personalities have supported and respected the cultural boycott from Archbishop Desmond Tutu to Carlos Santana, Roger Waters, Elvis Costello, The Pixies, and many others. These artists have committed to not playing in Israeli until the occupation and the oppression to the Palestinian people is ended. We hope that you understand that playing in Israel is the same as having played in South Africa during apartheid. For these reasons, as BDS Colombia and the below signatories, we invite you to show your solidarity with the Palestinian people and cancel the concert that you have planned for June 30th. Finally, we invite you to reject the illegal Israeli occupation and join the boycott against Israel.
Sign petition here
Segregated buses are only the tip of the occupation's iceberg
Haaretz Editorial, June 2, 2015
The international community assists the Israeli segregation regime by averting its eyes. Such injustices would not be viewed with understanding if directed at Jews anywhere in the world .....
Read more here
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Walk For Palestine
Saturday, May 30th, 2015 @ 3 PM
Meeting Place: Yonge + Dundas Square
The Walk for Palestine is a day for all people from all walks of life to come together in solidarity for the people of Palestine.
This year the walk will be held at Yonge-Dundas Sq at 3PM and we will walk to the US Consulate (360 University Ave).
More Info here ...
This year the walk will be held at Yonge-Dundas Sq at 3PM and we will walk to the US Consulate (360 University Ave).
More Info here ...
Israeli Apartheid Week 2015
Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is an international series of events that seeks to raise awareness about Israel’s apartheid policies towards the Palestinians and to build support for the growing Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign.
UK: February 23-28
US: Feb 26-March 12
Europe: March 2-9
Palestine: March 1-8
South Africa: March 2-8
Ireland: March 7-14
Canada: March 9-14
South America: March
More Info here .....
UK: February 23-28
US: Feb 26-March 12
Europe: March 2-9
Palestine: March 1-8
South Africa: March 2-8
Ireland: March 7-14
Canada: March 9-14
South America: March
More Info here .....
Sacred Stones
Co-presented with Planet in Focus and the Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network.
Resource extraction in Palestine is creating severe ecological, social and health consequences for residents in villages, towns and refugee camps.
The Toronto Palestine Film Festival is screening the film "Sacred Stones" on Tuesday Oct 2nd, 9pm @ Art Gallery of Ontarioto raise awareness of this issue. Get tickets here: http://tpff.ca/tpff-program-2012/.
Resource extraction in Palestine is creating severe ecological, social and health consequences for residents in villages, towns and refugee camps.
The Toronto Palestine Film Festival is screening the film "Sacred Stones" on Tuesday Oct 2nd, 9pm @ Art Gallery of Ontarioto raise awareness of this issue. Get tickets here: http://tpff.ca/tpff-program-2012/.
The Seventh Annual
Israeli Apartheid Week
The Public Health Social Justice Collective is proud to announce a special panel discussion on the politics of health and disease and its impact on the Palestinian body, nation and land. The Israel-Palestine conflict offers an important site of analysis for the various uses and misuses of public health to legitimize competing ideologies. More importantly, it reveals our tendency to overlook sociopolitical complexities and power differentials when intervening in health systems and their processes. This panel will explore the dangers associated with this approach and highlight those public health efforts which have mobilized to alleviate the social suffering faced by Palestinians living within Israel and the Occupied Territories of West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.
In solidarity with Palestinian struggles for justice, individual health professionals and groups like Physicians for Human Rights-Israel have attempted to articulate and practice a politics of health that confronts the occupation as a social disease in Palestinian society. We invite you to join us and our panelists in a thought-provoking discussion on the type of relationship we must develop as a public health community to the politics of occupation and apartheid.
Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
Time: 6:30-8:30 PM
Location: Room 103, FitzGerald Building (150 College St., University of Toronto)
Please contact us at socialjusticecollective@gmail.com for further information. Alternatively, you can connect with us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130041070401860.
Institutional Complicity and Campus Resistance
March 7 - 13, 2011
Toronto, Ontario
www.apartheidweek.org
Here is a list of events, speakers, times, and locations. A complete list and discriptions of speakers and events is available at:
www.toronto.apartheidweek.org
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MONDAY, March 7: Interrogating Apartheid: Campus as a Site of Resistance
Speakers: Judy Rebick, Abigail Bakan, and SAIA (Students Against Israeli Apartheid)
Location: University of Toronto, Fitzgerald Building, Room 103, 150 College Street, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Hosted by Students Against Israeli Apartheid UofT-- a working group of OPIRG-Toronto
Abigail Bakan is Professor of Political Studies and Chair of Undergraduate Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Judy Rebick is a well-known social justice activist, writer, journalist, educator and speaker. She was also one of eight Jewish women who occupied the Israeli consulate in protest of the attack on Gaza in 2009.
TUESDAY, March 8: Film Screening of "Jaffa, The Orange's Clockwork"
Location: Ryerson University, ENG 103, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Co-Sponsored by the Ryerson Students' Union
Jaffa, The Orange's Clockwork is a political essay unfolding the story of the invention and the visual history of the world's wide famous citrus fruit originated in Palestine and known around the world as "Jaffa oranges".
WEDNESDAY, March 9: Ryerson University Student Centre- Thomas Lounge
Lunch and Learn 12pm-2pm
Free Lunch Provided- ASL interpretation will be provided
This is a panel discussion about the Right to Education at home and abroad and the importance of building links between struggles to ensure that education is not only accessible but equitable for all.
This event is part of Ryerson Students Union's Global Awareness Week. For more information about this event contact Rodney Diverlus at vp.equity@rsuonline.ca or check out http://rsuonline.ca/equity
WEDNESDAY, March 9: The Cultural and Academic Boycott
Speaker: Judith Butler
Location: University of Toronto, Bahen Centre for Information Technology, Room 1160, 40 St. George Street. 7:30 - 9:30 PM
Hosted by Students Against Israeli Apartheid -- a working group of
OPIRG-Toronto, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid and Faculty for Palestine
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and the Co-director of the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley.
THURSDAY, March 10: York's Complicity in Apartheid: Art, Culture and Resistance
Speakers: Paul Kellogg, John Greyson and SAIA
Location: York University, Stedman Lecture Hall A*, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Hosted by Students Against Israeli Apartheid York
Paul Kellogg is an assistant professor in the Master of Arts Integrated Studies program at Athabasca University in Alberta. He received his Ph.D. (in Political Studies) from Queen's University, and his M.A. (in Political Science) from York University.
John Greyson is a Toronto video artist/filmmaker whose features, shorts and installations. As an associate professor in Film at York University, he was awarded the 2007 Bell Canada Award in Video Art.
FRIDAY, March 11: State of the Siege, State of the Struggle: The Case for Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions
Speakers: Riham Barghouti and Ali Abunimah
Location: University of Toronto, OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor Street West, 7:00 -- 9:00 PM
Hosted by Students Against Israeli Apartheid - a working group of OPIRG-Toronto
Riham Barghouti is a founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, which is part of the BDS National Committee in Palestine.
Ali Abunimah, a writer and commentator on Middle East and Arab-American affairs, lives in Chicago. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Financial Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Jordan Times, Lebanon's Daily Star and Ha'aretz, among others.
SUNDAY, March 13: Israeli Apartheid Week features the Great Indian Bus Tour Bus Tour in collaboration with the Native Canadian Center of Toronto
12:00 p.m -- 3:00 p.m
Location: Departing the Native Canadian Center (16 Spadina Rd)
The Bus Tours offers the chance to increase awareness and produce a more thorough history about the Toronto's rich indigenous history, lifestyles, medicines, and forms of government. The duration of the tour is three hours.
Tickets are sliding scale: Requested $10 minimum. Tickets can be purchased in person at Israeli Apartheid Week Events from March 7-13th (6:30-9:00pm) and at The Native Canadian Centre of Toronto during that week as well (9 am-5 pm).
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About IAW 2011
First launched in Toronto in 2005, IAW has grown to become one of the most important global events in the Palestine solidarity calendar. Last year was incredibly successful with over 55 cities worldwide participating in the week's activities. In Toronto, IAW 2010 featured a full week of events celebrating 5 years of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) successes.
IAW 2011 takes place following a year of incredible successes for the BDS movement on the global level. Lectures, films, and actions will highlight some of these successes along with the many injustices that continue to make BDS so crucial in the battle to end Israeli Apartheid.
Partial List of Endorsers of Israeli Apartheid Week 2011:
Barrio Nuevo, BASICS Free Community Newsletter, Canadian Arab Federation, Caribbean Studies Students' Union (UofT), Centre for Women and Trans People at UofT, Centre for Women and Trans People (York), Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid, Educators for Peace and Justice, Environmental Justice Toronto, Equity Studies Students' Union (UofT), Faculty for Palestine, Graduate Geography and Planning Student Society (UofT), Graduate Students' Association (York University), Graduate Students' Union - Social Justice Committee (UofT), Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly, Health Studies Students' Union (UofT), Holy Land Awareness and Action of the United Church of Canada, Independent Jewish Voices-Toronto, International Socialists - Toronto, District Labour for Palestine, Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network, Moyo Wa Africa, New Socialist Group, No One Is Illegal, Not In Our Name: Jewish Voices Opposing Zionism, Ontario Public Interest Research Group - Toronto, Ontario Public Interest Research Group - York, Palestine House, Public Health Social Justice Collective, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, Ryerson Free Press, Salaam: Queer Muslim Community, Science for Peace, Socialist Project, SESE Student Caucus, Sikh Activist Network (York), Toronto Bolivia Solidarity, Toronto Coalition to Stop the War, Teachers for Palestine, Toronto Free School, Toronto Haiti Action Committee, Toronto New Socialists, Ugnayan ng Kabataang Pilipino sa Canada/Filipino Canadian Youth Alliance, United South Asians at York, University of Toronto Students' Union, Upping The Anti, Venezuela We Are With You Coalition, Women and Gender Studies Students' Union (UofT), York University Free Press.
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SPIN was born in Guatemala in the middle of a "civil war". Forced into exile the day after his eleventh birthday, his poetry has been defined by the injustices his own eyes witnessed while living in Guatemala, the absence of his father, the culture of Hip Hop, his mother's early teachings on the oppression of the Palestinian people and US Army atrocities. Most impacting to SPIN's early lessons was the suffering of the Maya indigenous people who make up the majority of the population in Guatemala, just as ethnic people make up the majority of the population in the world.
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NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE: 31 JANUARY & 1 FEBRUARY 2011
On January 27, Holocaust Remembrance Day, leading politicians from the U.S. and Europe will join in honoring the memory of Jews killed in the Nazi genocide. Yet the immensity of that tragedy is dishonored by the hypocrisy of the ceremonies: those who pay homage to the victims of yesterday's silence are silent about today's inhumanity. We say, "Never again!" For anyone. Never again for the people of Gaza. Never again for all those struggling against dehumanization, racism and genocide everywhere, every day.
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Hajo Meyer, who will be sharing the lesson of his experience in Auschwitz: Never Again for Anyone. Dr. Meyer will be on tour in the U.S. and Toronto is his only Canadian stop.
MORE INFO:
http://www.neveragainforanyone.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1275:dr-hajo-meyer-and-dr-hatem-bazian&catid=101:information&Itemid=291
Details
WHO: Dr. Hajo Meyer, Gina Csanyi, Alan Sears, and Dawud Assad
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WHO: Dr. Hajo Meyer, Lee Maracle, and Khaled Mouammar
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Both events are $10 or PWYC
No one will be turned away for lack of funds
Further details and information to come soon,
including a local Toronto Facebook page.
For more information, contact canada@ijsn.net
or info@neveragainforanyone.com
or visit www.neveragainforanyone.com
COMMUNITY OPEN LETTER DENOUNCING THE JEWISH DEFENSE LEAGUE’S RALLY IN SUPPORT OF THE ENGLISH DEFENSE LEAGUE
