MEMO | April 15, 2022
More than 150 Palestinians were injured at dawn on Friday as the Israeli police stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Anadolu Agency reports.
Over 150 Palestinians injured as Israeli police storm Al-Aqsa
A German EU official claimed Russians don’t value human life and thus aren’t Europeans. The ex NATO researcher was echoing a centuries-old colonialist trope used to justify genocide of Indigenous peoples, US war on Vietnam, and Israeli occupation of Palestine.
German EU official uses racist rhetoric claiming Russians don’t value life
The Ukrainian president’s comparison bolsters Moscow’s claim that Kyiv is intent on a program of violent ‘de-Russification’
Why Zelensky’s Dream of Ukraine Becoming ‘Big Israel’ Makes Moscow Nervous
The coterie of neocons and liberal interventionists who orchestrated two decades of military fiascos in the Middle East and who have never been held to account are now stoking a war with Russia.
The Pimps of War
From the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine Israel has refused to join the West’s economic war against Moscow, maintaining a neutral stance that as positioned it as a possible broker to end the conflict.
Israel, Russia Clash Over Ukraine
Rafael Silver left Israel because he could no longer be a part of a system that practices apartheid against the Palestinian people. “I have seen it in action with my own eyes,” he writes. “I have enforced it during my military service in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip and supported it as an Israeli taxpayer.”
I know Israel practices apartheid because I helped enforce it
British rapper Lowkey vows not to be silenced on Palestine after bid to remove him from Spotify
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Israel pulls the plug on its anti-BDS app — ‘a failure from the start’
“Keeping up with the evolving trends of social media, Act-IL is decommissioning the App, and will continue working with all of our other social medial platforms and community channels,” reads an email to the app’s users. “We are not going anywhere! I invite you to remain active, follow us on Instagram, Facebook and all our other channels where we will continue to share daily calls to action and impactful educational content.”
Congress’s ‘Israel Normalization Act’ normalizes ethnic cleansing and impunity
When we hear the phrases Normalizing and Israel, we should always read Normalizing Israel’s impunity and violence. On top of enabling this violence, H.R. 2748 also includes language that limits free speech in support of Palestinian rights and threatens to censor or defund international organizations that may not support “normalization” (read: Israeli impunity and violence) as defined by this bill and through the intent of the Abraham Accords.
The move followed outreach by a coalition of racial, social and Indigenous justice groups.
Coalition Welcomes Sierra Club Decision to Drop Nature Outings Greenwashing Israeli Apartheid
‘The American population was bombarded the way the Iraqi population was bombarded. It was a war against us, a war of lies and disinformation and omission of history. That kind of war, overwhelming and devastating, waged here in the US while the Gulf War was waged over there.’ (Howard Zinn, ‘Power, History and Warfare’, Open Magazine Pamphlet Series, No. 8, 1991, p.12)
Doubling Down On Double Standards – The Ukraine Propaganda Blitz
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