Tag: Collective Punishment

Rashid Khalidi: Israel Systematically Targets Palestinian Journalists to Hide Reality of Occupation

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

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.

Rashid Khalidi: Israel Systematically Targets Palestinian Journalists to Hide Reality of Occupation

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Previously:

The State of Palestine condemns in the strongest terms Israel’s assassination of journalist Abu Akleh

Rafael Silver: I know Israel practices apartheid because I helped enforce it

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

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

Escalation Without Consequences on the Op-Ed Page

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Escalation Without Consequences on the Op-Ed Page

The United States implemented two “no-fly zones” over Iraq between 1991 and 2003, at which point the US and its partners moved on to the full-scale devastation of Iraq, killing hundreds of thousands in the process. NATO created “no-fly zones” in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and later over Kosovo, during the period in which NATO was dismantling Yugoslavia. In 2011, NATO imposed a “no-fly zone” in Libya, ostensibly to protect the population from Muammar Gaddafi: The result was ethnic cleansing, the emergence of slave markets, mass civilian casualties and more than a decade of war in the country.

Israel’s ban on Palestinian spouses becomes permanent law– a triumph for ‘Jewish state’

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

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”.

Resolution for 2022: Dare to Build Your Own Opinions and Then Defend Them!

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

BY: ALFRED DE ZAYAS

Anyone who has followed the political culture in the US, Canada, UK, EU over the past twenty years must have realized that a war on epistemology, on truth, on semantics is going on. We witness the hijacking of concepts like democracy, freedom, peace, patriotism, human rights — and their instrumentalization for domestic and geopolitical purposes. We observe a process of language destruction not unlike what Orwell foresaw in his sadly visionary book 1984. “Newspeak” is not the future, it is now, hic et nunc. We recognize it in the jargon of political correctness, the language and practice of the “cancel culture”.

COUNTERPUNCH: Resolution for 2022: Dare to Build Your Own Opinions and Then Defend Them!

Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism ignores Palestinian rights, narrative

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

By Kathryn Shihadah | Israel-Palestine News | August 14, 2021

The Jerusalem Declaration on Anti-Semitism (JDA) was released in March as a progressive variant of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) “working definition” of anti-Semitism – a definition that, despite its wide acceptance, is deeply problematic.

Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism ignores Palestinian rights, narrative

TIME TO UNMASK THE OCCUPATION

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

TIME TO UNMASK THE OCCUPATION

When US Secretary of State Pompeo visited Jerusalem on May 13, Gantz hunched so low in front of him – a picture with terrible symbolism. After Pompeo had met with all important Israeli partners, from the Mossad chief to the designated foreign minister Ashkenazi, also to advance nuclear projects and preparations for war (?), He gave the Zionist friends once again the green light for their preparations for annexation, which are entirely in the “decision of Israel” lie. He also urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday that it was not qualified to investigate possible Israeli crimes against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.