Activism
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| Title | | Description | Date |
| Why I Will Never Go on Birthright | | Safia Southey - The Palestine Chronicle - Taglit-Birthright Israel’ or
simply ‘Birthright’ is a well-known Jewish heritage experience that
many young Jewish people take part in. In its description, it sounds
like a fantastic cultural experience that is packed with authentic
cultural and historical experiences – and it’s free! But now, down the
rabbit hole we go after all – once and for all I’d like to explain why
I have never, and will never will, go on Birthright – even if it’s
free.-rh | 29/8/2018 |
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| The Israeli peace activist who crossed enemy lines and shaped generations | | Adam Keller - +972 - Going back to 1969, to an article I read by Uri under the table during a very boring class in eighth grade. I still remember it, almost word for word; it was a futuristic article that attempted to imagine what the country would look like in 1990... [bz] | 28/8/2018 |
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| Supreme Court allows entry to Hamas kin for medical care | | AP & Ynet - The court ruling came after a petition filed on July 29 this year by Gisha, Al Mezan, Adalah, and Physicians for Human Rights Israel was unanimously accepted by Supreme Court Justices Uzi Fogelman, Isaac Amit, and Ofer Grosskopf.
Adalah—The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel—released a press statement saying that the justices also ruled that the Israeli Security Cabinet’s 2017 decision to deny Gaza patients access to medical treatment as means of leverage over Hamas was ineffective and illegal.
[bz] | 28/8/2018 |
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| Amana moves its headquarters to east J`lm | | Itamar Eichner -
Ynet News
"As part of reinforcing the territorial contiguity of Jewish
settlements in east Jerusalem, the Jewish settlement movement relocates
its main building to the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood; Amana`s secretary
general stresses its mission to further establish Jewish settlements in
the West Bank." ca | 24/8/2018 |
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| Why we continue to march in Gaza | | Abdalrahim Alfarra -
The Electronic Intifada -
"All of us, together, were demanding the lifting of Israel’s blockade
on Gaza, now in its 11th year. We were united against the US embassy
move to Jerusalem." - id | 22/8/2018 |
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| A statement from the Norwegian ISM volunteer targeted and shot by an Israeli soldier in Kafr Qaddum | | Ramallah team -
International Solidarity Movement -
"One of the soliders shouts something at me in Hebrew, I don’t
understand, but I shout back that the man just wants his car back.
Then he shouts that it is dangerous. I shout back that it is only
dangerous because he is pointing a machine gun at me. Those far
behind me posed no danger to the soldier, nor to me. One shot is
fired as I am shouting, then another shot is directed at me, and hits
me in the abdomen. I would say from approximately 20-30 metres. It is
absolutely no doubt I was targeted and shot deliberately." - id | 22/8/2018 |
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| Uri Avnery - 1923-2018. His opponents will ultimately have to follow in his footsteps | | Gush Shalom - We – the members of Gush Shalom as well as very many other people who were directly and indirectly influenced by him - will continue his mission. [ry] | 20/8/2018 |
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| Israeli navy opens fire at Gaza flotilla | | Ma’an News Agency - "Israeli naval forces opened fire at dozens of Gaza flotilla
boats that set sail on Saturday from the besieged Gaza Strip port in attempt to
break the maritime blockade imposed by Israel" [ry] | 20/8/2018 |
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| For one day, the villagers of Ein Samia beat Israel`s most radical settlers | | Oren Ziv - +972 - Accompanied by Israeli and international activists, the
residents of the rural Palestinian community Ein Samia marched to their grazing
land, located between the West Bank’s most notoriously violent settlement
outposts [ry] | 20/8/2018 |
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| Classical music censored for Israel | | Raymond Deane - EI - “However, when Hoban approached Björn Gottstein,
the director of the legendary Donaueschingen music festival in southwest
Germany, with a proposal for a third work in the cycle he was met not just
with rejection but with the following statement, as paraphrased by Hoban:
‘although [Gottstein] gave composers a free hand in their use of political
content, he would not tolerate any criticism of Israel at the festival and would
prevent the appearance of any piece on the program that contained such
criticism’” [ry] | 20/8/2018 |
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| After Emerging From An Israeli Prison, Freedom Flotilla Captain Accuses Canada’s Government Of Complicity In A “Slow Genocide” | | IMEMC -
"Human rights activist John Turnbull describes how Israel’s navy
hijacked a peaceful vessel in international waters, and kidnapped its
passengers and crew." - id | 15/8/2018 |
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| `My Israel Is Dead`: Dame Vivien Duffield, One of Israel`s Biggest Donors, Is Furious About the Nation-state Law | | Gili Izikovich - Ha`aretz - ““It’s very difficult to defend Israel now in England or
anywhere. It’s still a fantastic place, but I prefer to only
talk about the Weizmann Institute. Do I like Israel at the moment?
No, I hate Israel. I think it’s a strong word, but I disapprove of
everything. The vote in parliament [for the nation-state law] was
appalling, absolutely terrible. It’s apartheid! This is South
Africa! This is one rule for one group and another rule for the
other." Duffield may have sharp criticism of Israel’s policies, but
she cannot be dismissed as an enemy of the state or an arrogant
foreigner. She is, in fact, one of the biggest philanthropists
donating to Israeli institutions over the past fifty years, and far
from a supporter of BDS she had endowed an anti-BDS program. Asked
if the new legislation will affect the foundation’s activities in
Israel, she said “I don’t know, it’s too early to say. But I’m very
angry. I will make absolutely sure that Arabic is still part of
every project we do." [ak]
| 14/8/2018 |
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| I Was Detained At Ben Gurion Airport Because Of My Beliefs | | Peter Beinart - The Forward - The security official asked why I was
in Israel and I told him about my niece`s Bat Mitzvah. I got the
feeling this was not the answer he wanted. He asked if I was
involved in any organization that could provoke violence in Israel.
I said no. Then he told me that on my last trip to Israel I had
participated in a protest, which is true. He asked where it occurred
and I answered “Hebron. He asked its purpose and I answered that we
were protesting the fact that Palestinians in Hebron and across the
West Bank lack basic rights. He asked how I had become involved in
the protest and I mentioned The Center for Jewish Nonviolence. He
asked if the Center had incited violence, and I replied that, as its
name suggests, it practices non-violence. My interrogator then
replied that names could be misleading. The government of North
Korea, he observed, calls itself a democracy but is not. I told him
I didn`t think the Center for Jewish Nonviolence and the North
Korean government have much in common. [ak] | 14/8/2018 |
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| Palestinian flags fly at Arab-led rally in Tel Aviv against nation-state law | | Tamar Pileggi and TOI staff -
Times of Israel
"Thousands of Israelis gathered at Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square on Saturday
night to march in a protest, led by the Arab community, against the
controversial nation-state law. It was the second demonstration against
the legislation in as many weekends, with last week’s gathering, led by
the Druze community, drawing at least 50,000 people. Many of the
protesters at Saturday’s protest carried Palestinian flags, defying a
request by the Arab Higher Monitoring Committee, which organized the
demonstration, not to wave the flags at the event." ca
| 10/8/2018 |
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| Jews and Arabs - Standing Together! | | | 8/8/2018 |
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| Jews and Arabs - Standing Together! | | | 8/8/2018 |
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| What spurred Israel`s Druze to demand equality now? | | Henriette Chacar -
+972 -
"Eman Safady, like many Druze citizens of Israel, felt personally
betrayed by the Jewish Nation-State Law. A journalist from the
village of Abu Snan in the Galilee and an officer at the Union of
Journalists in Israel, she was one of the tens of thousands of
protesters who took to Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square last weekend to oppose
the law." - id | 8/8/2018 |
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| Video: Activists stand in solidarity with Gaza, are arrested by Israeli military and police | | Features -
ISM -
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They raised the Palestinian flag so that demonstrators in besieged
Gaza could see it. They also carried a banner in Arabic reading “Jews
for Return”. The Israeli and international demonstrators were
assaulted and arrested by the Israeli military and police. Hours
later they were released from the Netivot police station." - id | 8/8/2018 |
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| No hope on the political level - which means we have to be more active at the grassroots! | | Combatants for Peace - The recent weeks and months have shown that
there is no hope on the political level, several discriminatory laws
in Israeli parliament have passed shortly before the summer break of
the Knesset. In Palestine, we observe growing frustration and
desperation. What is happening in Gaza, the Bedouin communities and
in the villages of our Palestinian partners is - again - more than
alarming. Which does not mean we have to give up in despair. It
means that we all have to become more involved than ever, to become
change agents ourselves! People may tell you the opposite, but we
know that there is a partner on the other side. We all have the
responsibility to make this little piece of land as a home for both
peoples - without violence, hatred or injustice. [ak]
| 7/8/2018 |
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| Summer of Peace Summit | | | 7/8/2018 |
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| Occupation objector`s Hillel Grami`s statement from military prison | | Refuser Solidarity Network - When I was a young child, the army, for me, was not only an inevitable obligation, but also the pinnacle of my aspirations. I wanted to enlist in the most selective commando unit possible.
But when I grew older and I came to understand the present reality between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, I realized enlisting would be impossible for me.
I cannot enlist, because from a very young age I was educated to believe that all humans are equal. I do not believe in some common denominator which all Jews share and which sets them apart from Arabs. [bz] | 7/8/2018 |
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| Norway Demands Explanation for Israeli Seizure of Gaza-bound Boat | | IMEMC News & Agencies -
"Torstein Dahle, head of the group Ship to Gaza Norway which organized
the shipment, said it was the first Norwegian aid vessel to attempt to
breach the Israeli blockade of Gaza.The captain had been struck on the
head by Israeli soldiers who ordered him to sail for Israel, but no one
was seriously hurt, Dahle said. “This is a peaceful boat; it’s
impossible that it can threaten Israel’s security,” he said." ca
| 2/8/2018 |
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