Israel isn’t known for unbiased investigations of its own soldiers’ actions
Biden’s response to the killing of Palestinian-American journalist encourages more of the same
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Live video footage from Al Jazeera showed groups of heavily armed Israeli police officers attacking the large procession, beating people with batons and firing stun grenades into the crowd, and ripping Palestinian flags out of the hands of mourners.
Israeli police attack Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral in Jerusalem
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Shireen Abu Akleh was a U.S. citizen. She worked at Al Jazeera for a quarter of a century. She was one of the best-known television journalists in Palestine and the Arab world. Israel initially claimed she may have been shot by a Palestinian gunman, but later said it was unclear who shot her. Palestinian authorities accused Israel of committing the, quote, “crime of execution” and rejected an offer from Israel to carry out a joint probe into her death. On Wednesday, Ala’ Salameh, the head of the Palestinian Media Association, spoke out against the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh and other Palestinian journalists.
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The move followed outreach by a coalition of racial, social and Indigenous justice groups.
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Israel’s ban on Palestinian spouses becomes permanent law– a triumph for ‘Jewish state’
What Shaked calls “a state of all its citizens” is really what we would normally call a democratic state, where basic rights like family unification are ensured. Whoever is fooled by Israel’s security and “terror” arguments, should read Shaked’s last tweet text again. If you want to summarize it even further, it really just says “A democratic state – 0”.
German State Broadcaster Fires Seven Arab Journalists in Supposed Antisemitism Purge
Journalists working across multiple divisions of DW told Novara Media that the firings formalise an unspoken rule within the organisation: don’t criticise Israel.
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At the outset, the Israeli military decision to revise its open-fire policies in the occupied West Bank seems puzzling. What would be the logic of giving Israeli soldiers the space to shoot more Palestinians when existing army manuals had already granted them near-total immunity and little legal accountability?
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