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oatmeal , 49 minutes ago to israel group

#Israel / Neo-Zionism’s Dirty Laundry

Regarding the brief comment about demographic engineering in #Israel, this issue is not a secret, though it is rarely discussed so blatantly in Israeli media, albeit Channel 14. One thing is certain: when you become comfortable demonizing Palestinians, it won't take long before you start demonizing other sectors in your society as well.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Original title of this report was: “Everything is kosher for the sake of Netanyahu: The disgusting statement of Channel 14 host against former Soviet Union immigrants”

Content:

Channel 14 host Boaz Golan criticized former minister Avigdor Lieberman: "He is constantly working to bring more and more gentiles here...another Ukrainian. They brought gentiles here and it's screwing up our demographics."

Harsh statements made last week on Channel 14 against immigrants from the former Soviet Union are causing an uproar in the sector, considered the largest in Israel. The comments were made by channel 14 host Boaz Golan, on the "Open Studio" program, referring to criticism of former minister Avigdor Lieberman, one of Prime Minister Netanyahu's fiercest critics.

Golan claimed that Lieberman acted to bring non-Jewish immigrants to Israel because he needed votes.

Among other things, Golan said, "He is constantly working to bring more and more gentiles here...another Ukrainian..." Later Golan said, "They brought gentiles here and it's screwing up our demographics...we need to act so that gentiles don't enter here and this remains a strong Jewish state."​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

🤷🏽‍♂️

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#IsraelOccupation

oatmeal , 1 hour ago to israel group

#Palestine / More mob violence and rioting by Jewish terrorists against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank

@israel
@palestine
#Apartheid #IsraelWarCrimes

oatmeal , 6 hours ago to israel group

#Israel / IDF Data: 44 Soldiers Injured in Fighting Over the Weekend, 8 in Serious Condition

While pressure in mounting on #Netanyahu to end the war and sign a deal with Hamas to return the captives, #Haaretz is reporting that 44 soldiers have been injured since Thursday in fighting in the various sectors, eight of them seriously – according to IDF data. According to the data, 22 of the injured were in the Gaza Strip and 22 outside of it.

@israel
@palestine

oatmeal , 6 hours ago to israel group

#Israel / Smotrich: If Hezbollah Does Not Comply with the Ultimatum We Set, the IDF Must Take Control of Southern Lebanon

During a visit to the North, Smotrich said that Israel should notify #Hezbollah that if it does not completely stop firing into its territory and does not withdraw beyond the Litani River - it must launch an offensive in Lebanon that will include a ground incursion, to take over the south of #Lebanon.

[Hebrew] https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2024-05-19/ty-article/.premium/0000018f-9050-d17a-a9df-91511d3e0000

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oatmeal , 7 hours ago to israel group

#Israel / Unity Now

Think again who benefits from the division between us​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​.

@israel
@palestine
#Israel #Hamas

oatmeal , 7 hours ago to israel group

#Spain / Rallies in Madrid on 18 and 19 May amid political summit by Spain’s Vox party, including Israel's Minister of Diaspora Affairs (Amichai Chikli)

[...] The summit will reportedly be attended by representatives of various right-wing parties across Europe, leading several Spanish left-wing organisations to lead protests condemning the summit. Several thousand people are likely to attend.

Chikli not mentioned, but was reported to be attending.

https://head-post.com/rallies-in-madrid-on-18-and-19-may-amid-political-summit-by-spains-vox-party/

H/t Zoha

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@palestine
#IsraelOccupation #IsraelFascism #Apartheid

oatmeal , 7 hours ago to israel group

#Israel /

Here is an English translation:

Activists from the Faith-Based Left Movement demonstrated yesterday (Friday) in Jerusalem against the desecration and obstruction of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. The protest was joined by members of the Prayerful Jerusalem organization. The protest took place in front of the offices of the "Jewish Truth" NGO, demanding an end to the war in Gaza and allowing the transfer of humanitarian aid, while stopping the violent attacks, desecration and obstruction of aid trucks, escorted by a headquarters supported by the NGO. The protesters held flour sacks and banners that read "Starvation is a war crime" and "Stop bombing Gaza."

It should be noted that at the Faith-Based Left conference held last February at the Heichal Shlomo in Jerusalem, 11 discussion circles were held and only one was held behind closed doors with the participation of 13 religious reserve soldiers who served in Gaza, the North and the West Bank. They provided a detailed report on the extent of killing and destruction across the Strip, including the starvation of the Palestinian population.

In the invitation to yesterday's protest, the organizers wrote that the criminal actions of the settlers who attacked aid convoys to Gaza last week "contradict the Torah." "Therefore, every soul is obligated to cry out and warn against the atrocity being committed in Israel," they emphasized. Large police forces arrived at the protest site and during the event, arrested a young man wearing a shirt depicting the Palestinian flag.

H/t Zoha

About Faith-Based Left Movement also:

There Are No Lights in War: We Need a Different Religious Language (Ariel Schwartz [January 16, 2024]) https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/112457713703662900

Also: Thought to be delivering aid to Gaza: They set a truck on fire, attacked the driver - and wounded two officers and a fighter https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/112454920945008176

@israel
@palestine
#IsraelWarCrimes #Gaza

oatmeal , 20 hours ago to israel group

#Meta / Coalition Criticizes Meta's Lack of Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation Amid Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

A coalition of Palestinian and global digital rights groups has expressed concerns over Meta's response regarding its content moderation practices during the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The coalition claims that Meta's response failed to provide sufficient transparency and concrete steps to identify and mitigate the negative human rights impacts of its policies and actions. Particular concerns were raised about the potential for over-moderation of Palestinian and Arabic content due to temporary safety measures, such as lowered automated moderation thresholds and algorithmic bias against Arabic language content.

Furthermore, the coalition accused Meta of failing to outline specific actions to prevent the spread of incitement to #genocide, especially from Israeli government officials and politicians, despite international orders and the recent provisional measures issued by the #ICJ.

While welcoming Meta's efforts to allow accountability mechanisms to request extended content retention, the coalition criticized the exclusion of civil society organizations and the lack of transparency on retention timeframes, which could hinder investigations and accountability processes.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The coalition’s response concludes:

[…] Meta must demonstrate a genuine commitment to upholding human rights and protecting all voices on its platforms in these precarious times.

https://stopsilencingpalestine.com/our-letter-and-meta-s-response/

H/t @milennialzero

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@israel
#SocialMedia

oatmeal , 1 day ago to israel group

#Paelstine / Israeli abuse of jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti ‘amounts to torture’

Marwan Barghouti is a Palestinian politician and former leader of the al-Mustaqbal (The Future) Party. In April 2002, he was arrested by Israeli authorities on suspicion of involvement in several terrorist attacks. He was accused of ordering and participating in multiple murders, as well as being a member of a terrorist organization (the AMB). After a lengthy trial, he was convicted and sentenced to five life terms plus 40 years. His political philosophy combines Palestinian nationalism, secularism and democratic principles.

Human rights organizations, such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have documented the abuses described in the article, and called for #Israel to take concrete steps to address the situation. However, despite international condemnation, the Israeli government has largely ignored these concerns and continued its policies.

[…] “What Barghouti has endured amounts to torture, but that has become standard across all detention facilities since 7 October,” said Tal Steiner, of the rights group the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel. The Israeli prison service did not respond when contacted for comment. Both PCATI and the International Committee of the Red Cross have been denied formerly routine visits to Israeli prisons since last October.
[…] Steiner added that PCATI collected 19 testimonies from prisoners describing physical assault, sexual or other types of humiliation as well as sleep, food and medical deprivation.
[…] “If this is how they allow themselves to treat high-profile prisoners like Barghouti, imagine what they do to detainees who don’t have the same profile,” she said, describing the overall level of abuse as “unprecedented”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/israeli-abuse-of-jailed-palestinian-leader-marwan-barghouti-amounts-to-torture

@palestine
@israel
#Israel #IsraelWarCrime #IsraelOccupation

oatmeal , 1 day ago to israel group

#UK / Silly anecdotes from populist Israeli news sites that indulge their readership in Zionist indoctrination.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

[…] Even the most beautiful kippah won't help you look less hypocritical. Just saying.

Ynet columnist seems to think Prince William is a hypocrite because… apparently he didn’t stick with the Jewish state during the genocide in Gaza.

She quips: […] When it comes to relations with Israel - the royal family definitely needs to work a little harder. With the outbreak of the [what Israel titles] “Iron Swords” War [which many see as a genocidal revenge attack], and after the horrific atrocities committed by the Hamas terrorist organization on October 7th were exposed, Prince William and Kate Middleton, together with King Charles, rushed to condemn the horrific actions - but very quickly changed their approach.

And how? Well he dared to say this (translated back from Hebrew so probably different form the source):

[…] "I am concerned about the terrible human cost of the conflict in the Middle East since Hamas' attack on October 7th. Too many people have been killed, […] Like many others, I want to see an end to the fighting as soon as possible. There is a need for increased humanitarian aid to Gaza, it is critical that aid gets in and the captives are released."

Horrible person indeed. Funny she stops short of mentioning that the slaughter of thousands of Gazans (mostly women and children) in the hand of the #IDF that followed, might have had something to do with that.

Thought I should share the pain of going through this with someone 🤷🏽‍♂️…

@israel
@palestine

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oatmeal , 1 day ago to israel group

#Israel / On the Jewish State’s absurd policy of the right of “return”, if you’re not a Palestinian that is

[from a column in which the reporter talks to people passing through TLV's airport​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​]

Q: … And we thought we were the “after the wars” generation

A: […] And now we're here, and I feel a strange sense of obligation. In the most basic human sense, I came here from somewhere, the government gave me money, gave my brother a school, essentially funded an entire year of really good living for my family, just because we're Jewish. I always knew I was Jewish, my mother worked in the Jewish education system in Russia and I went to a Jewish kindergarten and school. But it was something on the periphery of my thinking, and now it's more central.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Q: What surprised you the most when you moved here?

A: All the people I ever knew in Russia, everyone I ever met, is here now. I don't think I have a single acquaintance left in St. Petersburg.

Q: Were they all Jewish?
Turns out.

[…]

[Hebrew] https://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/flights/2024-05-15/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/0000018f-7c52-d604-af8f-7f53f1ea0000 or https://archive.is/DuC5q

@israel
@palestine
#JewishState #apartheid #Palestine

oatmeal , 1 day ago to israel group

#Israel / Stop Considering... Recognize!

Peace activists will demonstrate next Friday (5/24) at 10:30 am in front of the Spanish Embassy in Tel Aviv, 3 Daniel Frisch Street, with the slogan "Spain, recognize the State of Palestine for the benefit of both peoples."

The call for the demonstration stated:

"On October 7, the State of Israel experienced a massacre unlike any since its establishment. The massacre proved that occupation does not provide security, nor does any military operation. A political solution is the only thing that will lead to security and stop the loss and suffering among both peoples."

H/t Zoha

@israel
@palestine
#IsraelWarCrimes #Gaza
#Spain #Palestine

oatmeal , 1 day ago to israel group

#Israel / Peace activists will demonstrate next Friday (5/24) at 10:30 am in front of the Spanish Embassy in Tel Aviv, 3 Daniel Frisch Street, with the slogan "Spain, recognize the State of Palestine for the benefit of both peoples."

The call for the demonstration stated:

"On October 7, the State of Israel experienced a massacre unlike any since its establishment. The massacre proved that occupation does not provide security, nor does any military operation. A political solution is the only thing that will lead to security and stop the loss and suffering among both peoples."

H/t Zoha

@israel
@palestine
#IsraelWarCrimes #Gaza
#Spain #Palestine

oatmeal , 1 day ago to AcademicChatter group

#US / Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé Interrogated by U.S. Agents at Detroit Airport

[…] The acclaimed Israeli historian Ilan Pappé has revealed he was interrogated for two hours by federal agents at an airport in Detroit after flying into the United States. The agents questioned him about his Arab and Muslim friends in the U.S., as well as his views on #Hamas and if he thought Israel was committing genocide in #Gaza. Pappé said he was allowed to enter the U.S., but only after agents copied the contents of his phone.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/16/headlines/israeli_historian_ilan_pappe_interrogated_by_us_agents_at_detroit_airport

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oatmeal , 1 day ago to AcademicChatter group

#Israel / Around 900 lecturers and staff at universities and colleges demand an immediate end to the war in Gaza

Around 900 university lecturers and staff have signed a petition calling for an immediate end to the war in Gaza and the return of captives held there. The petition argues that while the benefits of continuing the war are unclear, the damage it is causing is severe and undeniable - to civilians in Gaza, to Israel's economy and international standing, and to the ability to resolve the situation and return displaced persons. It states that the right to self-defense does not justify a war without realistic purpose beyond the political survival of leaders. The petitioners urge the government to prioritize ending the war and returning captives without delay.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

[Hebrew] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVz9NbgySEiKAV962PxVfsXWl3btOR4lTbXVDxUkbiCZsORw/viewform

H/t Zoha

@academicchatter
@israel
@palestine
#Israel #WarCrimes #Gaza

oatmeal , 1 day ago to israel group

#Judaism / There Are No Lights in War: We Need a Different Religious Language (Ariel Schwartz [January 16, 2024])

Ariel Schwartz comes from a right-wing, religious Zionist family, in the political dialing areas of Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich. He studied at the Etzion Yeshiva, in southern Mount Hebron, and during his regular service in the settlements in the West Bank, he asked himself who those stateless Palestinians were, "who live under the daily rule of the IDF." These questions caused him to become a left-wing activist.

He tells #Haaretz […] "They took from me the thing most precious to me, my faith, and directed it against me. As religious people, we believe that our tradition demands a different moral stance, one that can restrain the war instead of fueling it."​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

[…] An example of this can be found in the recent words of R. Amihai Friedman, the rabbi of the Nahal brigade’s training base: “I sit and imagine that in these days there are no casualties, hostages, or injured,” he told his soldiers. “And the second I remove them from the screen, I’m left with what is maybe the happiest month in my life since I was born.”[1]

[…] R. Friedman’s words give rise to a harsh realization: around us is a religious world that is happy, in many respects, about the current war.

[…] Thus, for example, writes R. Yigal Levinstein in the pamphlet He Leaps Up Like a Lion: On the Exaltation of the Spirit and the Special Level of Life During Times of War that saw light in the situation: “The war is not a marginal thing, and we should not view it as a ‘mistake’ or a ‘mishap’ which we would have preferred to avoid. The war is a great thing and, at the end of the day, brings a great message to humanity on its wings.”[2]

[…] According to R. Levinstein, the greatness of the war is rooted in the fact that it is one of those extraordinary moments in which “the inner soul shines in all its vitality.” Indeed, for the individual, the war is a difficult event, but at the national level it calls forth great moments in which the people of Israel “reveals from within itself its mighty heights of life.”

[…] Widening segments of the contemporary religious community are seeking to wrap the war in a halo of enchantment and holiness and turn it pleasant, ideal, and even joyous from an emotional perspective. In furtherance of this aestheticization and idealization, there are those who seek to remove any ethical brakes from the war. They call for us not to differentiate between blood and blood and condone any action done in its framework. These conceptions treat the spirit of battle as the climax of the revelation of the human spirit, but within this, implicitly, it is as though they require war to happen again and again, so that this “spirit of battle” may be revealed. In light of this attempt, we must seek a different religious language―one that remembers that the Jewish horizon is not war but peace, that the goal of the Jewish nation’s existence on this land is not “to shorten the life of man but to lengthen,” and that ethical conduct even in times of war is the soul of our religious tradition.

Translation to Hebrew by https://thelehrhaus.com/commentary/there-are-no-lights-in-war-we-need-a-different-religious-language

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#ReligiousZionism #NeoZionism #IsraelWarCrimes

oatmeal , 2 days ago to israel group

#USA / Jewish Lobby of business men privately urged NYC mayor to use police on Columbia protesters, chats show

A group of wealthy business leaders and donors, mostly, if not all, Jewish or of Jewish descent , formed a private #WhatsApp group called "Israel Current Events" with the stated goal of shaping US public opinion in favor of #Israel after a #Hamas attack in October 2023.

When pro-Palestinian protests erupted at Columbia University in April 2024, some group members privately pushed NYC Mayor Eric Adams on a Zoom call to send police to disperse the protests. Chat logs show discussion of donating to Adams' re-election campaign and potentially hiring private investigators to assist #NYPD with the protests, which Adams seemed amenable to.

[…] The chat group formed shortly after the Oct. 7 attack, and its activism has stretched beyond New York, touching the highest levels of the Israeli government, the U.S. business world and elite universities. Titled “Israel Current Events,” the chat eventually expanded to about 100 members, the chat log shows. More than a dozen members of the group appear on Forbes’s annual list of billionaires; others work in real estate, finance and communications.

Among the members:

Daniel Lubetzky

Daniel Loeb

Len Blavatnik

Joseph Sitt

Joshua Kushner

Bill Ackman -> advocated for Claudine Gay to step down as Harvard University's president

Barry Sternlicht

Michael Dell

Howard Schultz

Ted Deutch

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/16/business-leaders-chat-group-eric-adams-columbia-protesters/ or

@israel
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#Israel #IsraelWarCrimes #Gaza
#IsraelCurrentEvents

oatmeal , 2 days ago to AcademicChatter group

#Belgium / Ghent university severs ties with three Israeli institutions

[…] The university's rector, Rik Van de Walle, said in a statement that ties were being cut with Holon Institute of Technology, MIGAL Galilee Research Institute, and the #Volcani Center, which carries out agricultural research.

[…] "We currently assess these three partners as (very) problematic according to the Ghent University human rights test, in contrast to the positive evaluation we gave these partners at the start of our collaboration", Van de Walle said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/belgiums-ghent-university-severs-ties-with-three-israeli-institutions-2024-05-17/

See also:

Wind, Maya. Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom. Verso, 2024. https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/112455470396815754

@academicchatter
@palestine
@israel
#IsraelWarCrimes

oatmeal , 2 days ago to israel group

#Gaza While Israel's fascists are pushing for full occupation of Gaza and imposing a 'military rule’, Netanyahu is not saying no, and the army warns of dire consequences of such a plan

At the dramatic press conference he held the day before yesterday, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant warned that he will not continue in his position if there is Israeli control over Gaza. Gallant believes that the current conduct has led to a situation where Israel is currently controlling the Strip, but this is a dangerous situation.

"A trend is developing that is promoting military and civilian rule in Gaza. This is dangerous for us, Israel must not have civilian control over the Gaza Strip. Since October I have been raising this issue in the Cabinet without receiving an answer. The end of the military operation is through political action," he warned.

These are the financial and administrative implications of 'martial rule' in Gaza.

• Budget

NIS 20 billion in yearly operational costs

NIS 150 million for building an additional "corridor"

Reconstruction costs not included

• Personnel

400 positions to staff five district governorates

4 offensive divisions and 1 defensive division - forces that will be drawn from the Northern and Central Commands

A dramatic increase in the scope of reserve duty for operational employment will be required

@israel
@palestine
#IsraelOccupation #IsraelWarCrimes
#Israel #IDF

oatmeal , 2 days ago to israel group

#Gaza While Israel's fascists are pushing for full occupation of Gaza and imposing a 'military rule’, Netanyahu is not saying no, and the army warns of dire consequences of such a plan

At the dramatic press conference he held the day before yesterday, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant warned that he will not continue in his position if there is Israeli control over Gaza. Gallant believes that the current conduct has led to a situation where Israel is currently controlling the Strip, but this is a dangerous situation.

"A trend is developing that is promoting military and civilian rule in Gaza. This is dangerous for us, Israel must not have civilian control over the Gaza Strip. Since October I have been raising this issue in the Cabinet without receiving an answer. The end of the military operation is through political action," he warned.

These are the financial and administrative implications of 'martial rule' in Gaza.

• Budget

NIS 20 million in operational costs

NIS 150 million for an additional "corridor"

Reconstruction costs not included

• Personnel

400 positions to staff five district governorates

4 offensive divisions and 1 defensive division - forces that will be drawn from the Northern and Central Commands

A dramatic increase in the scope of reserve duty for operational employment will be required

@israel
@palestine
#IsraelOccupation #IsraelWarCrimes
#Israel #IDF

oatmeal , 2 days ago to israel group

#Palestine / Thought to be delivering aid to Gaza: They set a truck on fire, attacked the driver - and wounded two officers and a fighter

Dozens of Israel settlers attacked a truck driver in Benjamin, assuming it was carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. The driver was moderately injured.

A force that was rushed to the scene tried to separate the assailants from the driver and provide him with medical treatment, but the IDF said they responded with violence and lightly wounded the soldiers.

The attack on the driver and the torching of the truck joins the recent disruption actions by activists of the "Order 9" movement, who last week stopped humanitarian aid trucks arriving from Jordan, spilled their contents and even set some of them on fire.https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/112447165098405044

• The international community considers Israeli settlements to be illegal, but the state of Israel disputes this, and this applies to all communities under the administration of Mateh Binyamin.

@palestine
@israel
#Israel #IsraelOccupation

video/mp4

oatmeal , 2 days ago to israel group

#Palestine / Thought to be delivering aid to Gaza: They set a truck on fire, attacked the driver - and wounded two officers and a fighter

Dozens of Israel settlers attacked a truck driver in Benjamin after mistakenly assuming he was on his way to provide humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. The driver was moderately injured.

A force that was rushed to the scene tried to separate the assailants from the driver and provide him with medical treatment, but the IDF said they responded with violence and lightly wounded the soldiers.

The attack on the driver and the torching of the truck joins the recent disruption actions by activists of the "Order 9" movement, who last week stopped humanitarian aid trucks arriving from Jordan, spilled their contents and even set some of them on fire.https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/112447165098405044

• The international community considers Israeli settlements to be illegal, but the state of Israel disputes this, and this applies to all communities under the administration of Mateh Binyamin.

@palestine
@israel
#Israel #IsraelOccupation

video/mp4

oatmeal , 2 days ago to israel group

#Spain / Museo Reina Sofía renames program titled “from the river to the sea” after backlash from Jewish community and the Israeli embassy

The Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid is organizing a special program from May 8 to September 30, 2024 in solidarity with #Palestine and as a call to end the war and genocide in the region. The program, which was initially titled “from the river to the sea”, includes lectures, conversations, and encounters with Palestinian artists to connect their struggles to international solidarity networks.

https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/activities/international-solidarity-palestine

@palestine
@israel
#Gaza #IsraelWarCrimes

oatmeal , 2 days ago to israel group

#Gaza / Spain denies port call for ship carrying arms to Israel

[…] "We have detected this ship, we have refused to allow it to dock, and I can tell you that this will be a consistent policy with any ship carrying Israeli arms and arms cargo that wants to dock in Spanish ports," Albares told reporters in Brussels.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/spain-denied-port-call-ship-carrying-arms-israel-2024-05-16/

@palestine
@israel
#Israel #israelWarCrimes #Gaza

oatmeal , 2 days ago to israel group

Occupied West Bank / Canada sanctions four Israelis over violence

[…] "The rise in violence by extremist Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank is deeply troubling and poses significant risks to peace and security in the region," Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said in the statement.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-sanctions-four-israelis-over-west-bank-violence-2024-05-16/

@palestine
@israel
#Israel #SettlerViolence #IsraelApartheid

oatmeal , 3 days ago to israel group

#Gaza / ‘Reporting from a horror movie’: Motaz Azaiza and Youmna El Sayed

South Africa is asking the #ICJ last to order Israel to cease its Rafah offensive and allow unimpeded access to #Gaza for U.N. officials, organisations providing humanitarian aid, and journalists and investigators.

As no foreign journalists were allowed into Gaza, the world relied on local reporters. Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza and reporter Youmna El Sayed covered the atrocities occurring in Gaza during Israel's recent attack, affecting their own families and communities.

Motaz's brutal and uncensored photography aimed to show the reality that western media could not capture. Youmna witnessed shocking events as an Al Jazeera journalist in Gaza that will stay with her forever, motivated by the suffering she saw.

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/media-confidential/66219/gaza-reporting-horror-movie

@israel
@palestine
#Israel #WarCrimes #Gaza #Rafah

oatmeal , 3 days ago to israel group

#Israel / Zionism cannot produce a just peace. Only external pressure can end the Israeli apartheid. @raph), May 2021]

#Zionism has created a dominant narrative in Israel that justifies the occupation and human rights violations against Palestinians. This narrative portrays Israel as acting in self-defense, Palestinians as unwilling to compromise for peace, and justifies the occupation, discrimination, and human rights violations against Palestinians.

Only external pressure can meaningfully push Israel to end the occupation and achieve a just peace.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/20/israel-gaza-war-zionism-apartheid-injustice-pressure or https://archive.ph/fB858

@israel
@palestine
#IsraelOccupation #Apartheid

oatmeal , 3 days ago to israel group

#US / Today, I became the first Jewish-American political appointee to resign from the Biden-Harris administration over its policies in Gaza. Here is my resignation letter...

https://kolektiva.social/@raph@social.coop/112449339243288913 (https://kolektiva.social/@raph@social.coop/112449339243288913)

H/t @arh

@israel
@palestine
#Israel #IsraelWarCrimes #Gaza

oatmeal , 3 days ago to AcademicChatter group

#Israel / Mainstream media is mobilized to conceal information from the public, especially the atrocities of the war in Gaza

The sharp spike in the Israeli military censor's intervention in journalists' work in 2023 was mainly due to the war on Gaza. The censor blocked the publication of 613 articles and censored parts of 2,703 additional articles - which even by Israeli standards is a new record.

According to a report in Local Call (Sikha Mekomit) Intervention was especially high during the last quarter of the year. The censor cited security issues for the heightened censorship.

But the most stringent censorship in Israeli mainstream media remains self-censorship by journalists and editors choosing not to cover the impacts of the war on Gaza's civilian population.

Even worse for historians and researchers, in recent years, the censorship has also begun intervening in documents from the State Archives, as part of the digitization of the archives and uploading the documents to the internet. Local Call reporter says that in response to their request, it was reported that the censorship handled 2,962 documents, and that the "absolute majority" were approved for upload to the internet without intervention.

[Hebrew] https://www.mekomit.co.il/שיא-חדש-הצנזורה-הצבאית-מנעה-פרסום-של-613-כ/

@israel
@palestine
@academicchatter #Israel #IDF #IsraelWarCrimes
#PressFreedom
#Nakba #Zionism

oatmeal , 4 days ago to israel group

#Israel / Netanyahu: The Palestinian Authority “supports terrorism, funds terrorism and educates for terrorism”

Nobody did more than #Netanyahu to funnel money to the #Hamas, the PA’s staunch enemy. Most countries in the world see the #PA as a political authority who’s the legitimate representative of Palestinian aspirations for statehood, which in Netanyahu’s vocabulary means “terrorism”.

Netanyahu (who’s indicted for several corruption charges) responded to the statements of Defense Minister Gallant, and said: "After the terrible massacre, I instructed to destroy Hamas. IDF fighters and security forces are fighting for this. As long as Hamas remains, no other entity will govern Gaza - certainly not the Palestinian Authority."

He added that "80% of the Palestinians in the West Bank support the terrible massacre. The Palestinian Authority supports terrorism, funds terrorism and educates for terrorism. The first condition to pave the way for another entity is to eliminate Hamas and do so without excuses."

In his statements, though, he did not address the possibility of establishing a military government in the Strip.

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oatmeal , 4 days ago to histodons group

Israel's attempt to criminalize discussing the #Nakba, the displacement of Palestinians during its establishment in 1948, is deeply concerning. Labeling such discourse as incitement or support for terrorism poses a grave threat to acknowledging historical truths. For lasting peace in the region, there must be an open reckoning with the tragic events surrounding Israel's birth – events that by design led to the dispossession and suffering of the Palestinian people. This was not mere accident, but an ongoing mission that today’s neo-Zionist ideologues have molded into a [quasi-]religious crusade.

The path to reconciliation demands bringing these realities to light, especially among Israelis. Suppressing discussion of the 1948 violence and its enduring impacts will only entrench the injustices and prolong the conflict. True and lasting peace requires earnest dialogue, historical accounting, and a mutual understanding of the disproportionate losses borne by Palestinians. Silencing these narratives through criminalization is antithetical to the justice and healing that both peoples deserve.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-15/ty-article/.premium/israels-education-ministry-calls-in-teacher-after-being-photographed-at-nakba-march/0000018f-7bc4-d808-a9bf-fbd792050000 or https://archive.is/kSWpQ

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oatmeal , 4 days ago to israel group

#Palestine / ‘Instead of a scream’: the Palestinian artist who does a Gaza drawing every day

[…] Drawing and posting online daily became the only way to reassure my friends, after all communication and social media were cut but later partly restored. My drawings, in which I document the war with all its cruel scenes, have become the message through which I inform friends: “I am still alive.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/scream-palestinian-artist-gaza-venice-maisara-baroud

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oatmeal , 4 days ago to israel group

#Gaza / Settlers looted and desecrated food intended for Gaza in front of soldiers, peace activists were attacked, and two trucks were set on fire

Dozens of settlers and far-right Israelis looted yesterday the humanitarian aid trucks making their way to the Strip through the Tarqumiya crossing near Hebron. The humanitarian aid was blocked at two points in the area south and west of Hebron Hill - near the Tarqumiya checkpoint and near the Negohot settlement. After being blocked and looted, two trucks were set on fire near the Tarqumiya checkpoint.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

B'Tselem stated that the looting continued for hours, "in front of soldiers and police officers, as well as security personnel at the crossing, who did not lift a finger to stop the desecration of food. This conduct by the Israeli authorities grossly violates the interim orders of the International Court of Justice, which demanded that Israel allow the supply of humanitarian aid to Gaza."​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

H/t Zoha

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oatmeal , 4 days ago to israel group

#Palestine / Right-wing Israeli ministers call to reoccupy Gaza and push for the transfer of Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip

Thousands of Israelis joined a march on the so called Israeli “Independence Day”, calling for resettling the Gaza Strip and facilitating the transfer of Palestinians from Gaza. Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir spoke at the march advocating resettling Gaza with Israeli forces and settlers.

Ben-Gvir said the "true solution" is for Israel to "return to Gaza now" and to "encourage what he calls “voluntary emigration" of Gazans, concluding "It is moral!" An MK from the Religious Zionism party blamed the 2005 Israeli withdrawal from Gaza for recent violence, stating "The responsibility for the October 7 massacre lies with those who expelled the Jews from Gush Katif."

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-14/ty-article-live/u-s-germany-slam-right-wing-israelis-attack-on-gaza-bound-aid-convoy/0000018f-74c8-dd07-adbf-fffa73560000?liveBlogItemId=1166400525#1166400525

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JapanProf , 5 days ago to palestine group

“Israeli northern city Haifa has long been touted as an Arab-Jewish mixed city. But tours following the lives of Palestinians living there before the establishment of Israel tell a more detailed reality.” Of 70,000 Palestinians, only 4,000 remained. Palestinians were expelled and someone else would just take over their houses and their belongings. Just like that….

A long fascinating article from Haaretz. #palestine @palestine

https://archive.is/OGygh

oatmeal , 5 days ago to AcademicChatter group

#US / Union Theological Seminary trustees endorse divestment from ‘companies profiting from the war in Palestine’

[...] “Our investment policies will continue to adapt, guided by our values, to strengthen the resolve that undergirds our decision today, [...] We do not take this step lightly, and we do so with all humility, recognizing that our work on the global stage is far from finished. Although our investments in the war in Palestine are small because our previous, strong anti-armament screens are robust, we hope that our action today will bring needed pressure to bear to stop the killing and find a peaceful future for all.”

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/05/09/union-theological-seminary-trustees-endorse-divestment-from-companies-profiting-from-the-war-in-palestine/

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oatmeal , 8 days ago to israel group

#Gaza /

With a greenlight from Biden to continue the its invasion into #Rafah, despite evidence of war crimes https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/112421478297802310, #IDF is now calling residents of eastern #Rafah to evacuate to the “humanitarian zone” in the coastal al-Mawasi region in southern #Gaza. Similarly IDF called residents of Jabaliya and Beit Lahiya, two neighborhoods in northern Gaza, to evacuate to western Gaza City.

H/t Jack Khoury

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oatmeal , 4 months ago to Random stuff

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